tigerman................... thanks for making me take a cold shower.

bsyamato, that Zeke is looks great.  I love how you got the green to look worn.

Bsyamato your brush skills are amazing,looks awesome!

Little office work done,nothing to intense and I took some artistic license with the colors on the controls.

Nice Kate pic btw !

Top notch work as always Trey.

Thanx guys last night passed 10 minutes of terror because i lost the tail gear , fortunately founed after a drastic search

Trey the cockpit have a great finish on

no more pictures of the kate's? some judy

tigerman

 

That's one Kate I'd like to fly.

 

till we don't change page of the post we will have even a goodmorning when check the page

So, i fail to complete the zero for today, lots of minor things again to do, i started to paint metal chipping on the whole plane but not yet finished, will continue tomorrow 

i have a strange feeling now that che engine cover is on like the airfix zero is too long on the nose ,but could be only my impression

bsyamato

dunno why .. but the zero intake reminds me arale

lol, cute!

Wish I could find Dr. Slump episodes to watch. ;)

m@

Bsyamato & Trey: Great job guys! You're making weathering look easy.

And thanks to everyone for keeping things moving while I'm still waiting to get my camera back.

Cliff

Cliff i feel like the GB needs a round two after finished this

bsyamato

Cliff i feel like the GB needs a round two after finished this

Yep, I got enough Jap planes in the stash to fill an aircraft carrier!  At least one that hadn't been sunk.

Well guys, we still have till September- six months to go

I'm hoping to throw in at least one more aircraft or maybe one of Finemolds IJA tanks before we're done.

Gamera

Well guys, we still have till September- six months to go

I'm hoping to throw in at least one more aircraft or maybe one of Finemolds IJA tanks before we're done.

I've got a pretty full-ish slate right now, but I'm hoping to maybe put in a 1/32 bird before this GB wraps. Maybe the Tony, or maybe the 40mm Tojo I scored at ModelFiesta:

I want to do the box markings, but I want to mask and paint them. LOL...WTF and I thinking?

Doogs: That Tojo looks awesome, I triple dog dare you to paint her in that scheme!!!

Both the Tojo and the Tony should be great kits. And not all that big even in 1/32nd scale. Congads!

Gamera

Doogs: That Tojo looks awesome, I triple dog dare you to paint her in that scheme!!!

Both the Tojo and the Tony should be great kits. And not all that big even in 1/32nd scale. Congads!

Oh I'll do it! I'm actually thinking of getting masks made off of the decal sheet (it's got decals for the big reg swoosh, the white home defense areas, even for the anti-glare panels). Most of it doesn't really bother me, but that friggin' swoosh...curve like that isn't an easy thing to grapple with!

40mm cannon?  That's getting hit with a sledge hammer, cool looking plane Doogs, go for it.

Trey, bsyamoto,  The extreme weathering looks great.  I too would like to come up with another Japanese bird before September.  I've kept up on my trolling of this thread to inspire that wish.  Great work guys.   Rick.

Bsyamato thanks,the Zekes real close and looking great. Still amazed that it was brush painted!

Doogs that would be a treat to see ya gotta do it Man!

Rick thanks,plenty of time left wip it out and get it started!

I was able to get the fuse halves joined ,panel lines and rivets rescribed and the office installed. I also got the wings and tail feathers mounted. The only snag was the port wing Dihedral was off so getting it right created a small gap. This was filled with some good ole green putty and smoothed with acetone. Next we'll tackle the floaty things.

Doogs: Yeah I'll admit to a bit of swooshaphobia too, those odd sharps are such a friggin' pain to mask.

Trey: Looks like you've got another winner on your hands there

kits paid .. waithing mode... 

Trey this time no fliyng mode allowed LOL

Wabashwheels

Trey, bsyamoto,  The extreme weathering looks great.  I too would like to come up with another Japanese bird before September.  I've kept up on my trolling of this thread to inspire that wish.  Great work guys.   Rick.

Thanx Rick i hope in some not enlisted subject till now

..but..

here yamoto (i found!! something exist )

and here the correct Yamato

LOL

This afternoon\night hope get the zero out of workbench and will go for a while on the Veltro for Tigerman's italian GB before to fail

Watchmann

 

bsyamato:

 

dunno why .. but the zero intake reminds me arale

 

 

lol, cute!

Wish I could find Dr. Slump episodes to watch. ;)

m@

LOL unfortunately 1° season was not totally dubbed in italian

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So the Zero is done!

final picture for wip, last scratches with silver and used a 10/0 brush to paint

i tried to show the differences between matt paint and shiny silver with pictures but failed from real the result is really good!!

so light, and propeller glued and done. Again bad weather don't allow outdoor pictures for now

(  missed to place two metal wires to simulate the out gear indicator on top of wings )

Bsyamato: Fantastic!!! Love how you did the paint fading with a brush. And the chipping looks great!  

Do you want to wait till you get the outside photos to post one to the front page?

Nice job Bsyamato!

Thanx guys really appreciated

Yes Cliff, the picture is just to show i've finished to work on it. Also outdoor will allow the contrast between the matt finish and the glossy chipping also will do some comparative picture with my old matchbox zero from 1994

Now waiting for the Tokyo shipping , want to place at least another two planes out of the mary before the end of the GB

For the Tenzan (jill) i get recently an italian modelling magazine with a good article about an hasegawa one in 1/48 that really inspired me

Gamera

Bsyamato: Fantastic!!! Love how you did the paint fading with a brush. And the chipping looks great!  

Beautiful job bsyamato. I really like that distressed paint job.

Thanx guys

take some kitchen pictures but really my camera perfeorm better pictures outdoor

i hope not exagerated with paint chipping, but incidentally this was a trainer plane in war time!!

that's all for indoor, hoping for tomorrow (rising) sun

Now comes a big problem!!! i finished my shelves space ... the zero (and the others coming) have no place to put on. Last three years i builded more kits than in usual 10 years and lots of larger kits are again to build .

Time to get more shelves ( ) and packing oldest finished kits

bsyamato-  Very nice my friend...  Still hard to believe you did all that with a brush...

Bsyamato:

She looks even nicer with the better photos

Heh, running out of room for finished models- that's a problem I'd like to have. I'm closer to running out of room for my stash.

many thanx friend

now it's time to reveal my secret, i have an airbrush

but he don't need air to work.

Cliff real problem are the old finished kits, between have some giant like the victor and two 48 as f-111 and f-14. Also in the past i mostly build moden jets (ok not so modern, my builds stopped to the su-27, news planes as f-22-35 pak fa-50 etc really don't meets my intrest) but in the stash have again the b-17 he-111 and 177 etc.

WW2 monoengine in 1/72 really don't occupy so much space, will try to re-arrange the shelves this afternoon

this actual arrangment of main shelves

this above actually don't have the mig 25 but replaced with the ac chinook

and this the new with latest builds, all wipped in the forum

And are not all ...sigh

Also will package some brother things that i don't need in my room. 

Today the wind seems that rules, if i just try to put the zero out he could reach the japan in few times .. sadly LOL

Need input on which bird to do (BTW, Wings Palette is an excellent reference), I'm at the painting stage for my PH Val and thought I was going to do from the box (the first subject):

but now thinking of

or

The third i like for markings, the camo don't change so much between the 3 subjects