Nice Job Herc !

Trey, Casper and P38:

Thanks for the commments fellas...means alot.

Satch and Herc: Wow! Great stuff guys!

And some fantastic progress from everyone else. I really need to get some work done on mine

Great job, guys!

Manstein's revenge

Great job, guys!

  I've not forgotten about this GB; life has just been busy lately, and there are other commitments I'm working on. I cant wait to break out my Me-262, though! Its such a neat little plane.

Greg, i just realised that my name is still down for this GB. I am afraid there is no way i can build anything for this. There are only 3 builds i am commiting myself to this year, and i will be lucky to finish then. And two of them are for GB's i am hosting. And next year is going to be even worse for me.

Its a pity because i have a whole stack of German nightfighters in the stash.

On a whim, I took Schnaufer's Bf 110G-4 to Scalefest in Dallas yesterday.  I won a second place medal!  Bish you can now call this GB the "Award Winning" Hunting After Dark GB!  

Thanks to all the NC Texas club guys for putting on a great show.

Satch

Satch,

Congratulations on the award.  Glad you had a great time, sorry we didn't get to meet.

congrats Satch ! I took my HO to Downeast Con back in March.. although I didn't place.. a few who followed the thread commented on the seeing one of the legendary HO's from this build.. lol

Congrats Satch!  A well deserved medal.  I wish I could have gone too.

Cheers,

Greg

Hi everyone ,

The workmanship and finished builds are just awesome

I dropped out of a number of group Builds a few months back because of family commitments , however this week I have a little extra time on my model builds and after checking with the Hunting After Dark , Squadron Leader...gregbbear ; I would like to join in with Testors 1/72 B-57G Night Intruder Canberra.

I've wanted to build one of these birds for a long time now and after paying a small fortune from a second hand dealer , I finally got one . I also decided to use Cobra Company's B-57 resin cockpit tub and seats.

I started by cutting the lower wing flaps from the wings and mask the wheel wells and gear doors for a few coats of chromate ;

The resin tub fits nicely into the fuselage halves with just a little filing on the sides for a good fit ;

I remebered to add plenty of nose weight ;

With the wing sections glued together , I then decided to cut the flaps from the rear tail planes to pose those in the lowered position ;

The fuselage halves are ready to glue together along with the wings ;

Everything fits without any major issue's ;

Underside view ;

I'm really pleased with how the B-57 has come together it has been a quite enjoyable build so far .

I'll sand the seams next and add putty where it's needed , then add some of the smaller parts and get ready to mask her for airbrushing .

Thanks for looking and everbody's work is really top notch .

                                   John .

Satch thats awesome congrats!

John lookin' great, good to see a unique off the beaten path subject.

Awesome John, the B-57 looks great!  The Cobra company parts look nice.  I was wondering how they would work out, and now I know.

Great stuff here.  You guys are top notch in subject material and build quality.  An award winning GB now!

I really will finish a NF!  I have some 1/72 stuff lined up, for when I finish my P-70.  The smaller scale stuff is easy for me to take to work and back, and can make lots more progress.

Cheers,

Greg

Hi,

Catalina is looking great.  I'm building a 1/144 version and very interested in what markings you're going to use.  I've been looking for "Black Cat" nose art to apply to my little 1/144 Catalina.

Can you share references used for your markings?  All assistance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Alex

Hi all!

Well after a looooooooong break from this build and the Me-110, I have started back up. I had to put it aside as I had so many seams to fill and sand my frustration level was rising. I also have found the Italeri has forgot to add the Clear piece for the landing light. I am making my own fromt he clear sprue. I primed it just to find some of the areas that still need work. I hope to have some pics up in the next couple days.

The other builds are looking very good and I am totally impressed with the completed kits. Great work!.

Travis

Well I've had a bit of issue with the Bf 110. The Nose section (part L1) appears to be missing. The sprue contains 2 external branchings, the L1 branch has been cleanly snapped off at the junction on the sprue. I have searched through the rubbish and my whole work area but not found. I am going to have to take stock of the situation so I decided to pull the newly acquired Venom out of the stash;

Not the greatest kit around but a Venom nonetheless. Not a very good cockpit so I bought 2x Aires Martin Baker Mk.4 ejection seats. That and a bit of scratch should get the cockpit looking a million bucks!

This kit is a bit of memory lane for me. When I was 15 a friend of mine (quite a good modeller) was building one of the 1/32 multicoloured matchbox kits. I had to have one so I saved for 6 months my paper delivery money, had it on laybay at my LHS, visited every Saturday to admire and stroke the kit through the plastic bags.

Got it home as soon as I could pay it off and then botched it! I was only 15 and not very patient in those days. So I was very excited to hear of the Revell issue of the same kit though it has been molded in an annoying gloss white plastic. I'm going to build this as a nightfighter the NF.3 variation, extra parts included in the kit.

Cheers

Got the painting done on the engine parts. I'll display the model with the engine showing.

If you notice the circular fan part on the bottom right, I used the Flory Pro-modeller wash for this. I have been using oils up until now but received some Flory in the post last week. I gotta say I love this product! It's easy to use and clean and leaves no residue where you don't want it.

A comparison between the Aires MB Mk.IV Ejector seats and what comes in the kit.

I think these seats alone significantly raise the level of the cockpit.

Cheers

There is virtually no detail in the cockpit. Except the IP there is nothing apart from a hint at some cabling and a wheel or two on the side walls. There are no instruments at all on the side consoles. I raided my impending Trumpeter Lightning 1/32 kit as I bought the Aires resin cockpit set for that build. With Trumpeter parts spare I cut and adapted some panels for the Venom. No attempt at accuracy at all but I think it will add a lot and busy up an otherwise very dull offering.

Cheers

Primed the cockpit with the base colour and when dry will be ready for super detailing!

Also engine painted and assembled prior to dry brushing and weathering;

Cheers

Caspar, sorry to hear about the trouble with your 110.  Great progress on the Sea Venom.  The resin seat and added detail really look good.  The engine is sharp too.  The Sea Venom is a good looking plane, and I look forward to seeing yours take shape.

Cheers,

Greg

Well, ive nearly finished the nighthawk. went to put the hud in last night...carpet monster suck mega balls. ill find it tonight when i get home. the only painting i have left to do is the tail planes (screwed up the paint over the weekend, had to sand it right back) and touch up the belly. gonna be some interesting masking to do there as ive already done most of the decals on the belly. photos at some point this week.

yay photos.

Not finished yet, still got some bits to put of and some decals to finish, but you get the idea.

Looking good Mike!  That is the coolest looking F-117.

Cheers,

Greg

Mike, I love the scheme you went for on your F-117. The tri-tone camo is a nice changeup and looks good, and the Skunk Works logo is really cool.

Cockpit starting to come together slowly. The decals on the IP worked well but are a bit too clean. Will try some weathering on them soon.

Cheers

Those goblin engines are ugly arent they? theres a certain charm to them though.

Thanks for the comments guys, i figured if anyone was gonna have an unusual paint scheme it would be the skunk works themselves.

Scorpiomikey

Those goblin engines are ugly arent they? theres a certain charm to them though.

I don't mind the Goblin actually, Mikey. What tested me were the struts to attach the front of the engine to an inner wall in front on the turbine. Badly designed fit and I just barely got it to work. A little bit of plastic scraping will be required to fit the two halves of the fuselage together.

Cheers

I know I'll probably get shown up by the others in the GB, but Ive started construction on my ME-262. Here is the sprue-shot. This looks like a nice little kit, so I'll just be building it OOB.

The cockpits went together nicely, and are detailed for the scale:

front

rear

more soon to follow. This kits builds up nice and quick!

Looking good Ms. Owl!

Olive: From what I've seen, your builds are just fine... good start on this one.