Thanks Anthony !

Awesome! Love how she turned out. Now you just need a little Mel to sit in the driver's seat.

The car looks awesome.I gots ta add that one to the stash!

thanks guys... !

Cpl Kruger is making progress...

Very cool Stikpusher!

BTW: My apologies for the lack of progress guys. Trying to get some other stuff polished off, hopefully will be able to get the Whitestar soon......

Gamera

SP: Very nice work, and she's molded in colour so you don't have to paint her

Nah,it needs the paint I cant believe that I forgot to post updates on my Panther build here. For nearly six months at that. I have been working on it...

Well lets see now, since we left off in April... I masked off the canopy frame and painted a Flat Black base color for the interior of the framing:

Then it was the base coat of Gloss Sea Blue:

And base colors on the fiddly bits- OD bombs, Gloss Sea Blue Landing Gear, Insignia Red Speed Brake inner faces and actuator arms:

Then it was masking and Flat Aluminum for the wing roots, leading edges, and tip tank tips (say that three times fast):

Afterwords was more masking and painting Insignia White on the tips of the Vertical and Horizontal Stabilizers, then more masking and touch up of Gloss Sea Blue to correct all overspray (I reached that point yesterday):

This morning I applied a coat of Future and this afternoon after it dried I applied the decals:

a closeup of the "Toko Ri" Lt Brubaker markings

and thats where it is as of now...

Stikpusher: Great work on the Panther! I love the golden dragon nose art on Holden's plane.

Looking forward to an update on Kruger too!

Wish I had some progress to report, picked up all the stuff I need but haven't had the Whitestar out of the box in months.

don't pay the ransom I have escaped!

digging out my work bench and finally have my spray booth available so I should be building the SONG BIRD cannot decide if it is going to be on the ground or airborne, anybody got an idea for a  seated cowboy figure?

Gamera

Stikpusher: Great work on the Panther! I love the golden dragon nose art on Holden's plane.

Looking forward to an update on Kruger too! 

Well no updates on Kruger currently. But Lt Brubaker is starting to take form.

The tough part will be the Rams horns on the flight helmet

Dos, isn't there an AM figure set for the Sky King? I though Squadron was selling them...

sort of, his arms are molded with the body so making him seated also cuts his arms he is really, REALLY meant to stand and I have an idea for mounting on the wall in a flying position....

I see what you mean. I just looked at them on Squadron. One of Monogram's seated mechanic figures might work with a little modification. The guy who comes with a few of their 1/48 WWII kits.

More work on the Panther today. I attached the landing gear struts, wheels, outer wing bomb racks,and pitot tube. Now it can finally sit on its wheels...

I also did some work on the pilot figure...

and since I was working on figure painting, I did some work on Kruger...

Very nice SP!

Thanks Gamera!

Well Brubaker is near being ready to man his plane...

and his Panther is almost ready to launch...

Today's update: A wash applied to selected areas....

and then a custom mix top coat. Since the Panthers in "Toko Ri" appeared toned down in the film, I mixed up cross between Satin (2 parts) and Semi Gloss (1 part) for my top coat. I think it came out good. It still has a slight sheen with some reflectivity in daylight.

That's a great looking aircraft,the paint job looks perfect.Is that from "Bridges at Toko-Ree, ? Im not sure if I got the title right,that Korean War movie with Mickey Rooney.

Thank you! And yes it is from The Bridges at Toko Ri MikyRooney, William Holden, and Grace Kelly were the lead roles. Along with several other superb actors. An excellent movie

p38jl

i'm a big fan of max, well done.good to see you got the black on black scheme in there.

looks like you had a bit of trouble with the headlight decal.

OctaneOrange

p38jl:

 

i'm a big fan of max, well done.good to see you got the black on black scheme in there.

looks like you had a bit of trouble with the headlight decal.

I have resin kits of the Interceptor, Yellow Interceptor, and Night Riders car to.. all completed..

I did the final airbrushing this morning- White on the canopy frame. Now some final touch ups and done. 

Nice little bird ya got there stik.

With the completion today of painting "Lt Brubaker", and then installing him in my Monogram F9F-5, I am calling this one done for this GB.

"Launch Jets!"

looks great Stik !! Roll credits..

credits rolling

if you listen closely.. u can hear that noise the catapults made in the movie..

I didn't include this one when I applied for this GB, but I just got it and thought I'd put it together NOW! I promise I'll still build what i committed to do and this is just extra frosting. Hope you like it.

Holy smokes Batman!!!

Very Sweet Kenji!

stikpusher

Holy smokes Batman!!!

Very Sweet Kenji!

Ken: Fantastic finish on the Batmobile! Looks like Robin has been busy with the Turtle Wax.