Thanks for the encouragement. The 'George' is finished, and I've proven to myself what I can do in a week, albeit past midnight on every night

I tried to show some disrepair in the paintwork, without it yet being in a fully dilapidated state.

Hope you like it.

Cheers

Tony

Tony: She looks great! Congrads! Nice work on the chipping without being over-done with it.

I'll get you posted ASAP!

Thanks Cliff.

Cheers

Tony

Tony... You really packed alot into your 72nd scale George.  Very nice!

Dougt (RR)

My first group build, and my Ki-84 gets first place at my local IPMS end of year competition. Surprisingly, it was the only 1/48 scale build there, so I was a bit sheepish about it but my name will be immoratlised on the trophy so I'm happy as a pig in mud.

Oh wow! Well, if the other guy doesn't show up it's still a win for you! 

Congrads!!! 

Congrats Blitzwing. You can only beat the models that are on the table, so no discredit there.

Cheers

Tony

Excellent george tony  really like it

Blitzwing

..I'm happy as a pig in mud.

LOL !! congratulation for the 1st place 

Cliff i think soon put on the first judy as a speed built, will built as gift for a friend then will not use so much plastic sheets adds 

What's news about the round two?

Bsyamato: The post for part II is up for sign-ups- I think it's still on the front page of the GB forum here.

Looking forward to the Judy- did you want me to sign you up here or on part II?

I wish to built it in few time, then probably finish in two or three weeks ,the sign here and remove the tenzan, will put the tenzan for round two 

On the judy already glued wings parts, here the sprues and box

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After posting the last picture just noticed that no decals for the IP is avaible.. at least an IP scratchbuild is needed 

Bsyamato: no problem will swap out the Tenzen for the Judy. And if you for some reason can't get the Judy done of course you're welcome to move her over to part 2.

Rigidrider

Hey Len...

Thats my "hobby room" too, I set up an area in the garage, and told my wife that I have an attack spider guarding it! She freaks if she sees a spider, and if I don't keep an eye on it she will try to "straighten up" my area for me... (ahem...) we know where that leads. I have a small space heater for the colder days... Glad to hear your doing OK.  

Len nice to hear you back in workbench business 

Works on judy:

Wings glued and sanded

Holed some intake and machine gun , also modified the engine fitting to allow gluing after the nose is closed

Added structures on the cockpit and removed original seats

At the next

Good work BSY. It's not an aircraft I know much about so I'm looking forward to this. Hope it goes a little more smoothly for you Len.

Cheers

Tony

Yeah, nice work Bsyamato- love the cockpit ribbing you're putting in there.

Again on bench 

holed the radiator intake

last adds on the cockpit, seats , gun chargers maded from sprues and oxigen (?) cans, now left to scratch only the gun support

At the next for first paints

Wow, I love those ammo drums- good idea!

bsyamato

Len nice to hear you back in workbench business 

Works on judy:

Wings glued and sanded

Holed some intake and machine gun , also modified the engine fitting to allow gluing after the nose is closed

Added structures on the cockpit and removed original seats

At the next

Thanx friends, soon some more progress, just primed all inner parts in black, modified thr gun (too long for the scale) and scratched the missing gun support with brass beam

I'm sorry, I see that I forgot to put up my final product.

Wow, did I miss you somewhere in there David???

Beautiful work! Love the weathered green wings and the red and yellow tail!

Updating the front page now.

No, you didn't miss me, I just forgot to post it when I finished way back when.  I think I got distracted with other model projects and forgot to take any pictures of it.

Ah, ok, well, you're on the front page now, again- sharp work!

Yes indeed great looking build David!

Bsyamato love that scratch work Amigo!

David Maddog

I'm sorry, I see that I forgot to put up my final product.

Excellent Val David 

Lots of update on the judy, i used the NOS!

After a priming of lots of pieces in matt black used the usual mix of 78 green with a pale yellow for the inner cockpit, also other pieces painted

the finished IP and the gun

after the only white and gunmetal drybrushing gluing and closing all!!

scratchbuilded last(?) piece, the structure between the two cockpits

engine.. just silver drybrush

all main peces on

actually canopy glued too but not take picture, now just waiting to sand'n'putty 

Nice Bsyamato, she's coming right along! At this rate you won't have any problems being done by the end of the year. 

i hope  just sanding hard to prepare for paints !

Looking good BSY... To cut way down on sanding time, I like take some acetone (finger nail polish remover) and dip a Q-tip into it and work the fresh putty with it. Careful though, too much acetone will soften and damage plastic and panel lines and rivets. It will smooth the putty really nicely and leave just a minimum ammount of sanding to do. I also like to use a scotch brite cloth to do the required buffing and clean up of any putty.

Hey guys,  I've been a drop out since early June.  I have kept in touch with some trolling, but sadly not any thing to contribute.  I had started a Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Dinah, but my wife pushed hard for a chicken coup, changing my building plans for the summer.  I would have procrastinated the coup idea, but she all of a sudden set up a brooder house in our dining room with 7 chicks.  Well, I got to work and built a home for the soon to be egg layers.  We're starting to get a few eggs now, and my wife is very happy.  So, here's my 1 to 1 scale model.  It really was fun.

Well the good news is that I was able to get moving on the Dinah around Thanksgiving.  I didn't get many wip photos, but I'd like to share some pics of the finished product.

Before I affixed the landing gear, I took some in flight shots.  I Photoshopped out the stand, but couldn't spin the props. 

Gamera, I'm happy to sneak this one in under the wire.  I can't give you a specific, but I'm looking forward to joining in on the 2013 version of this thread.  This has been a great group to watch and participate with.  Thanks,  Rick.

Rick: Wow, that's like the Chicken Hilton! One of my uncles used to have a chicken coop and it was just an old wooden shack with a chicken wire yard out in front - that's nice!

And the Dinah looks great too, really nice work! Love the in flight shots! I'd love to have you in Part II if you can make it, remember it's a whole year this time, no extensions or that jazz, so you've got plenty of time.

Just posted her to the roster. Seems I missed it somewhere but what scale and company is the Dinah if you would please?