(A)SW GBII - CLOSING

Big and beautiful Ken,nice work!!!!!

Here are more updates,had knee surgery last thursday so I have time on my hands......

de havilland canada

Big and beautiful Ken,nice work!!!!!

really a good giant!

Dehavilland wishing good healing about your surgery

The Firefly comes perfect!! the paint is the same scheme as the gannet and more correct than mine i wrong the grey 

Thanks for well wishes Yamato.

Here are the latest ......I think done.The Firefly kinda frustrated me a bit.

These are not totally authentic RCN builds but I like them just fine and am pleased to have them both in my collection.

De havilland they may not be authentic RCN builds but they are darn close enough to my eye and are sweet well done builds Yes you should be proud to have them, I know I would be. Very very nice work indeed.

really good finished firefly Dehavlland to me paint scheme seems correct. 

Not noticed before the boa holes on the tracker engines back .

Imho just try to get more white light on the pictures or try some outdoor picture, the ones you posted are too yellowed.

deHavilland- excellent work- they look great. I just love that main fuselage colour- what is it?

I'll have a pic up soon- been spending time replacing the welds and only a few rivets on the starboard side(the side with the cut outs for the interior), then adding the supports that can be seen through the flood holes. Slow, time consuming work, especially when I only do 30 min per day.

Rob

That tracker is AWESOME!

great job!

Maxfax the fuse color is RAF Sky Type S,not correct for RCN but I jumped the gun so there it is ,hence my comment about not totally authentic(my bad)

Thanks for compliments all!

Yamato I will try to get them out in natural light if we get a sunny day soon!

Cheers

Martin

Hello everyone, if anyone is watching!

It has been awhile since my last update- but it has been slow going. I have added all the internal ribs with holes that can be seen from the flood/drainage holes. Added the saddle tank extension piece on the port side, and will add the starboard side soon. There will be further vertical supports added here, then I will re-attach the part of the hull above the slot(I had a knot in my stomach when I removed that part). I also added a small part of the saddle tank visible through the three drainage holes above the rear saddle tanks, including vertical supports. I had to rework the torpedo insert- I added some spare PE and rod to somewhat create part of the mechanism used to open the inner torpedo doors. The door itself is hidden when the outer torpedo door is open, so I did not create one. I also added a "roof" to the torpedo section.  Next is to add the saddle tank extension piece to the hull, then fit the three interior sections and glue the hull together. That will be the next update.

Rob

WOW Maxfax all that attention to detail is going to pay off BIG TIME in the end Your sub looks like it will be going for sea trials one day, outstanding work !

What the .. !!!!

this is an high class detail touch

Finally got the hull together. I made part of the hull visible through the lower stern drainage slots out of a pie plate and the baffle out of stock styrene. I also added stock stryene to cover the spaces between the modules to simulate a pressure hull- hell. you can barely see it anyways through the slots. I will have some trouble placing the front deck- the hull halves are too far apart and I really have to squeeze the sides together. So much for dry fitting before I glued the halves together!. Up next- place the rest of the supports seen through the slots, glue to front deck down. glue the removed parts from above the main drainage slot and create supports visible through the slot, add some piping -mainly for the exhaust- again can hardly bee seen, then the rest of the deck.

Rob

huge and fantastic

i suppose you finished your plastic sheets stock  

I have been eating up my extra stock, that is for sure. After I get the deck on, that should be it for any scratch work- it will just be assembly, and hopefully will progress quickly- I have too many things to build- although I may add an aftermarket deck gun....still thinking about it!

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone. I haven't touched it recently, but i plan on picking it back up again today. There's not much left to do, maybe I can wrap it this weekend.

BTW what is everyones view of Lindberg's 1 72 scale Japanese Sub I 20 & I 53 ? I got all excited to think I could do a US, a German, and a Japanese WW2 sub; all in the same scale. I'm planning on the German sub anyway.Yea, i read a couple of reviews on the Lindberg kit.

never see these kits but when think to lindberg kits i don't expect great things 

my ridicolous update here

A red was used on another kit and take advantage to paint the relative seabat red parts .... enamels costs

not founf actually a correct color for the high visible red but i have the impression that another thinned layer on the same red (under color was white) can approach to the definitive acceptable color

heres the real from airliners.net

ps the red in my picture is not so glow from real , was a camera flash artifact

I forgot one thing when doing the USS Cobia SS 245, the part lines. Since I have everything on the deck glued down (except for the conning tower) it makes it harder to sand down the putty. Here is the devolopment on this so far.

Nice save on the deck

here i am!!

too few updats about seabat, i planned bad this project and comes really slow even withouth significant mods on

Main colors on

the yellow stripe on and started to paint gears and minor pieces. Also cleared some paint mistake on clear parts with a toothpick

Corrected also the paint on the nose... i extended too much the red area

First clear layer on, after a strike of weathering shading

Bsyamato: Nice work. Looks like you will be done this GB soon! I almost have the deck on the VIIc, lots of fiddling with the supports seen through the main drainage slot. Maybe another week or so I'll get a pic up.

Thanx  Maxfax, the seabat was a little careless and it's time to finally bring out the workbench

some update

Then... i lost the finished blades control disc of main rotor  unexpected scratchbuild needed

tail rotor will also receive metal rods to replace original parts.

painting some missed detail from italeri as external tubes with brass rods and the tail light scratched from clear sprue

Hope not need to replace other parts

Bsyamato,

Great work on your Seabat my friend and nice save She looks gorgeous sofar and everytime i see her it makes me think about doing a helo model of my own... Maybe a chinook or AH64 in dutch markings...

Maxfax,

Looking very much forward to your next update! I soooo want to build another 1/72 one myself now that i know they are in production again... I also read that by the end of the year revell is going to reissue the snowberry again too. Yay!!

Guys,

I must apologize for not being active on the forum for ages now... I am currently enjoying a long vacation in the US and the place i am staying at only has dial up internet making a forum like FSM with all the pictures a very daunting task to update and follow.... I will be back in about two weeks

Richard

Thanx Kermit, have a nice vacation there

if you build a copter my opinion is about chinook  

more updates here

compass cutter work

first fitting test

and the two rotors fixed!

just waiting the CA glue dry and refine after

Metal rods painted and fixed on fuselage

this is the bottom pieces from the kit someone knows where's the correct position to glue it? i found few and not clear picurer of this helicopter for a correct fix

just to show seabat with rotors

few pieces left to finish

Bsyamato your chopper is really looking great man. Your extra work you do on all that detail really pays off in the end result. Keep the pictures coming !!!!

Kermit ya came out of hibernation early !!!!!!!! Hope you are having a blast, we been missing you around here ya know.

Thanx Vetterman really happy to score another finished model before the end for my first GB of ever.

so... more updates and more wall head hitting this afternoon painted and added other details included the rescue hook. This night returned on the workbench after billiards session i picked the seabat and the hook was not here where i glued it! the only scientific explain is an alien abduction so tomorrow another scratched piece is needed

then pictures with wheels , rescue hook lifter and other details painted

At the end glued also the bottom tubes. Some italian seabat shows more details added on the fuselage but not found clear pictures to perfect complete these pieces, so i leave the copter withouth for the moment.

I hope this weekend to finish the good copter

I feel like want a third version in future of the 58 kits

BSY, your Sikorsky is looking real good there! Definitely some classic lines on that bird.

I realized that my work here had been sidelined for too long last weekend so I pulled out my two Type VII U-Boats. Everything was there for the VIIA, but I seem to have lost the directions and decals for the VIIC in last summers move. The instructions are no big deal, as I was able to download a new set from Revell Germany, but the decals... I emailed them early in the week about replacements but have not yet heard back from them. So based on the instructions I do have and off the information in this article http://www.artitec.nl/downloads/instructions/uboat/uboat_colours.pdf I began painting of my U-Boats earlier this week. On the VIIA, which I am planning on finishing as U-29, I am going with the early war scheme of Dunkelgrau 51 over Schiffsbodefarbe III Grau. The VIIC will be the U-81 and in a two tone camo scheme of Hellgrau 50/Dunkelgrau 53 over Schiffsbodenfarbe III Grau. In both cases I have airbrushed on only the lighter color using MM Acryls over Humbrol primer. On my days off this week I plan to mask off for the darker hull and deck color.

anyways a few pics...

the VIIA

the VIIC

and both boats,,, unfortuantely due to lighting any camerathe contrst between the colors does not appear as well as it does to the naked eye.