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Howard: That looks fantastic!!! **** straight that makes me want to do a racer too!!! What a beautiful aircraft. Great plane and I find that whole period interesting.
Casper: Looks very cool, love the date, same year I was born. To the young whipper-snappers like Owl and the RRB yes I am that ancient, NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Howard.. , Nice bulldog !! very Sweet !
Owl.. cool that your mom supports you.. ! specialy where this is not normaly a "female" hobby... very nice !
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daddy1: WOW...that's awesome. Love it. But now I have to chose which pic to go on the front page, and it will be difficult, let me tell you!
Gamera: You aint that old, only a few years older then my parents.
P38jl: I guess mom is happy that my interest in models now makes me the easiest person to shop for. Any kit or supplies and Im happy!
Casper:
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Now that I'm here, where am I??
Ahhh thanks Owl, you tell me your parents are younger than me, gee that makes me feel so much younger.
Well, as I always say: 'You can't stay young forever but you can act immature your entire life!'
Gamera Ahhh thanks Owl, you tell me your parents are younger than me, gee that makes me feel so much younger.
you're welcome! :P
Gamera Ahhh thanks Owl, you tell me your parents are younger than me, gee that makes me feel so much younger. Well, as I always say: 'You can't stay young forever but you can act immature your entire life!'
Gamera you and I are about the same age so stop already, as you are both makin me feel older than dirt and no more mature than 4 day old dirt geeze Even ,my baby sister is callin me an old............... ( as in passing wind ) an shes 41
Randy So many to build.......So little time
Gamera - I'm 14, my parents were born in 1965. How's that make you feel now?
Sorry guys, just grousing.
And I'm waaaaay off subject here, back to the regular forum!
Let me say again Howard that's some awesome work there!
the real red baron Gamera - I'm 14, my parents were born in 1965. How's that make you feel now?
Makes me feel old. Guess who's the "geezer" or old f-rt in this group. Got Gamera and Vetteman beat by 11 or 12 years. Sometimes I wonder what the heck I'm doing raising an 8 almost 9 yr old. Can sure be hard to keep up with her sometimes. But that helps keep me young at heart.
BTW - thanks for the kind words on my build. Sorry it took so long to complete, along with some lapses between posts. Got a lot on my plate anymore. All the more reason to keep at the modeling , it's a good way of putting the world aside from time to time.
Howard
http://whlswngsthngs.shutterfly.com/
hey.. whats the Geezer cut off ??.. lol. I'm 47...
P38, Howard: Frankly I think there is some truth in you're as old as you feel. I swear I know some kids half my age so gloomy and down with life they act older than me.
Howard: Really that is some beautiful work. Military aircraft are expected to be somewhat dirty and grungy so you can get away with some rough spots. I don't do cars because the finish has to be perfect, air racers seem to be pretty much the same.
Ok, got some work done on the Wildcat. This is a pretty old kit, ejector pin marks and flash everywhere!
Cockpit's nothing too special, has some detail on the side walls but it's all gotta go!
Ok lots of scraping and cutting. Some truly nasty bits had to be cut out including the seat. Note my blood on the plastic on the rear cockpit wall near the headrest.
Lots of Eduard PE, I mean lots!
A coat of primer...
...and finally that lovely Tamiya XF-71. I love the colour of this cockpit paint, so nice to work with it again after a series of gray cockpits.
Ok, next is detailing the instruments and the IP.
Cheers
On the bench: A-4F 1/32 Hasegawa
Just deployed: F6F-5N Hellcat Nightfighter 1/48 Eduard
Up next: A6-E Intruder 1/48 Revell
Really sharp work there Casper. And since you've made the blood sacrifice to the great modeling god Tamigawa she's gotta turn out great!
Got some more work done on the cockpit. Also the engine came up well. It will be visible through open panels on the side of the fuselage so I wanted to make sure it looked good enough to display.
lookin' good Casper!
Got the fuselage and wings glued together. The fit wasn't that great on the fuselage. The cockpit shifted a bit but nothing could be done about that. It should still look fine when completed. I also plan to have the starboard wing folded but the port wing straight. Not sure if wings were abler to be folded independently of one another but it will look good like this.
Very pleased with the paint job on the propeller. I used Alclad Chrome for the middle section.
Got this thing together. Some nasty gaps underneath where the fuselage didn't quite meet owing to the poor fit of the cockpit. Wings fit very well BTW.
glad to see some progress Casper!
Ok, I've stalled a bit on the Cat. Awaiting the Eduard masks in the post. They are taking an awfully long time.....
So all sanding is complete, when the canopies are masked it will be painting time. The instructions call for a matt white underneath with an ocean grey top, patches of gloss white between the two shades. I am not sure how effective that will be so I am going to use the FS17875 slightly off white to help.
Mean while anyone interested may want to check out the Dornier 335A Pfiel I am doing in the Way Too Many Props build
So my masks for my Wildcat (OA GB) and my Dornier (WTMP GB) seem to be held up in the Xmas post! So I am now cracking open my 3rd kit on the go! Never done this before
I'm doing the Mustang "Snoot Snipers" P-51B with a Legendary Productions cockpit set in resin. I'm also going to do the metal finish in Alclad chrome. I have some left and I think it'll look pretty sweet.
I have seen your Dornier build, Casper, and that is some insane detailing going on over there!!
Sorry to hear of your shipping woes, but adding another Mustang to the roster is a pleasure. The kit is 1/48, correct?
CallSignOWL I have seen your Dornier build, Casper, and that is some insane detailing going on over there!! Sorry to hear of your shipping woes, but adding another Mustang to the roster is a pleasure. The kit is 1/48, correct?
Hi MissOwl, my Mustang is already on the roster
Casper the Chihuahua CallSignOWL: I have seen your Dornier build, Casper, and that is some insane detailing going on over there!! Sorry to hear of your shipping woes, but adding another Mustang to the roster is a pleasure. The kit is 1/48, correct? Hi MissOwl, my Mustang is already on the roster Cheers
CallSignOWL: I have seen your Dornier build, Casper, and that is some insane detailing going on over there!! Sorry to hear of your shipping woes, but adding another Mustang to the roster is a pleasure. The kit is 1/48, correct?
haha, yeah, I noticed that. So I added the Wildcat instead. Oops!
Some more work on the P-51B
Had to replace the sidewalls with the new resin ones. lots of nice detail...
Cockpit painted ans test fit;
Just need to wait for the decals to dry on the IP and then I can get the cockpit in and sew the bird up.
Ok, so got the little bird together and all masked and ready for painting.
...interior canopy colour;
...prime coat;
...the "Blue nose";
I decided early on not to use the decals of the black and whit stripes.
These invariably do not quite match up or overlap properly no matter how good they are designed. I have decided to paint them on;
So these white bands on the wings and the rear fuselage will be taped off ready for the black gloss prime coat. Then the black parts of the stripe will be masked when the Alclad chrome goes on. If it all goes to plan then there should be lovely black and white stripes on a chrome finish with a blue nose.
Love blue nose mustangs!
Looks great Casper!
Some more progress on the paint job...
Masking off the white to lay down the black stripes;
...black gloss coat for the black stripes and Alclad primer;
...masking off the black stripes;
...and finally the coat of Alclad Chrome. I decided to go for chrome instead of aluminum to give the plane a bit of a wow factor!
...all will be revealed tomorrow...
Ok, so I couldn't wait!!
Alclad dries pretty quickly so I was able to remove the masks and check out the result. Despite a small bit of bleeding of the black into the white in some of the panel lines on the port wing, it turned out very well. Some remasking and extra white should help with that.
I'm so glad I decided to paint on those stripes instead of using the decals!
Ok, this little build is OVAH! Was a nice little kit to work with. The blue on the nose turned out a little lighter than I'd hoped for but otherwise I', really happy with the colour scheme. Very striking with the zebra stripes.
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