Weekend Madness IV - Nov 19/20th

lewbud

Stik, nice work sir, keep it up.  You might want to park it in a better neighborhood though, at least they left you your rims!

for you Lew

Well I got a custom mix Vietnam OD coat on now... (Tamiya colors-10 parts OD, 7 parts semi gloss black, Future cut in for a satin/semi gloss sheen)

and yes it actually does have tires

Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time...the AMT/Round 2 kit, that is.  After getting the body painted and the chrome removed, I started on the chassis.  All was going well (as well as can be expected with a very old kit), I discovered the rear axle was missing.....or I can't find it.  Either way, not good.  On that note, I'm throwing in the towel and just going to sit back and enjoy everyone's builds.  All is not lost....this kit has a decent Lincoln hot rod motor and a couple of nice bodies.  Might even attempt to build the stock 1925 T one of these days....just not today.

Cheers

Starting on the detail colors...

Though it doesn't show up well here, there's a second shade of gray on there and not just the red.  The base color is the aforementioned Camo Gray and I used Lichtgrau for the slightly different gray depicted on the flaps, verticals, etc. in the anime.  After this has a chance to dry, I'll be adding the same with a smaller brush to the insignia and start adding cockpit colors and the black stripes.

Next will be pics of the battloid subassemblies.

Hi Guys:

Well, i started at 11 PM  last night (Saturday) and made some great progress ...

Here are WIP photos taken earlier this morning  (Sunday)... I've now assembled everything and have sprayed the gloss color coat on the airframe and the 4 little fiddly parts ... as all of that is in the process of drying and I have to go grocery shopping for my wife, pictures of that will have to wait ... I do believe I'm going to finish well within the time limit and have certainly enjoyed seeing the work that everyone here has done/is doing ...

pepper

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hey everyone.. I scanned the pages real quick.. been a busy weekend.. all day EMS training on Sat.. Control Burn for the Town sat night.. I didn't start my build till 10 pm Sat night.. so.. here I am ...

box shot..:550:0]

sprue shot...:550:0]

lil gixmology in the office...:550:0]

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What is it with cats when we're building?  One of ours usually hangs out during these things, but she's been in a bad mood and elsewhere in the house this time around.

Needbeer, nice job on the Hun!

Andrew, great job on the Big Tailed Beast.  Hope mine turns out as good.

Owl, nice job as usual. 

Kugai, looking forward to more.

With approximately nine hours to go, the color coat is on.  Got to tell you, it was real fun shooting light ghost gray over the Tamiya gray primer.  LGG is about a shade and a half off of Tamiya gray, making it difficult to tell where one ended and the other began.  Pic of the pretty gray lawn dart.

Need beer - nice plane, but you made a huge mistake. What you meant to say was Aussies beat South Africa.

Owl - your brushing skills are amazing well done, waiting for more…

Everyone else - keep the great work up!! I'll be following your tactics most likely for when my turn comes.

ok,, it is the Academy PV-1 Ventura... started it 10 pm Sat night.. pics soon..

Looking good gang - I'm grabbing some free wifi access while waiting to pick up my daughter, I'll have to go back & catch the pages I've skipped over, see what I've missed.

Needbeer - I don't usually go for "pointy silver things", but those red+white stripes look awesome on that bird.

Dupes, I see you are being monitored as well, making sure you don't extend past the weekend - I've got one checking up on me as well...

The box & decals - a quick test from the RAF sheet & I think I'll be able to used the OOB decals for the Swiss machine.

The plastic is black. And very hard, it's almost like working with black ABS plumbing pipe. Takes FOREVER to sand down, and as I found out later, takes forever for Tamiya cement to settle down. I woke up this morning to find one of the drop-tank pylons had dropped enough you could see through the gap it left behind! I assume this type of plastic was chosen for two reasons: no painting needed for the kiddies that wanted it to look like the 111 Squadron birds on the front; Hard as nails so said kiddies could chase their sister around the house without fear of breaking the plane!

(Somebody asked me "how old" - my boxing is only one year younger than I am!

Wing halves together...

Yep, this is the sidewall detail!

The ejection seat, I'll set that aside for some other project...

Fuselage halves together...

Well the good news - the ailerons are actually separate pieces, so I'll deflect them a little. Bad news, uhh, one is obviously thicker that the other! And a slight gap at the wing/fuselage joint, and several dimples on the fuselage where the locating pins are.

Oh yeah, the underside. Remember how I said I'd be going gear-up on this? Well, I forgot!  Should have blanked off those areas before closing up the wings etc. Sooooooo I put the wheels to work, giving me something for those little black slabs to rest on as the glue set up! I added some sprue scraps to the nose from the cockpit opening.

Putty? What putty?!....

OK, there is a fair amount of putty! As tempting as it was to hang 8 stacks of rockets on this thing, I couldn't find a pic of a Swiss Hunter with rocket rails, so that accounts for the putty dots on the outer wings.

Krylon flat white primer - not sure I'm convinced it'll be my new primer, it lays on really thick. No harm on this kit.

The official time judge checking in on my progress...

I actually have the underside light gray on as of an hour ago. Using Tamiya acrylics (over the Krylon - crossing my fingers!) so I should have no problems adding the topside gray & green this afternoon/evening.

Great job, NeedBeer!  Maybe I'll try to get something up to that standard in the 48 hours next year.

Okay, as promised, here's a pic of the main sub-assemblies after the base color has been added:

The parts on the block in front are going to get another shot of white spray paint.  There were a few spots on some parts that didn't get enough coverage in the first coat, and when I rescribed the lines on a shoulder the magic tape pulled off the white ( I forgot to rescribe before painting ).  The good news on that last bit is that there's no other color going on that part and I half expected the peel-off from previous experience trying to add panel effects to another model that I used Tamiya spray on, so I was able to factor the possibility into planning with the time left.

More coming up as I get some detailing on when this paint dries.

Great work so far everyone. I have too busy to do anything this weekend. The Boss has been doing things with my sister in law so I have been playing single dad pretty much every day. I'm going to do mine next weekend when Bill does his.

I have also changed my mind and will be building the 1/48 Hasegawa A6M3 Type 22. It's a kit I grabbed off a vendor table way back when for like 5 bucks so I really don't care how it turns out.

Keep at it fellas. Y'all are doing a bang up job!

Regards,

Jeff

Here's where I ended this little bird last night (hand painted of course!) :

decals and final bits are going on today...IM cuttin' it close!!!!

Now had a chance to look at all the other builds ......

Great stuff & impressive standards for such a tight time frame, well done all of you!

I'm going to have good nights sleep 

Phew! Thanks goodness thats over!

No I can settle down on the couch & watch South Africa beat the Aussies in cricket

here's my effort, still haven't found the broken pilot tube!

Decals as suspected weren't easy, still want to do a wash to hide some of the mistakes

Thanks for the info Stik!  Wow Razor, two excellent builds, and in 48 hours too, good stuff!  Dupes, looking good dude!

I've not had a chance to work on mine.  Still have to finish the masking, etc. and it's time to call a halt, so, going to be late over the finish line.

Konigwolf13

Kugai - MORE MORE MORE

Okay, I have a solution that will make the use of the Camo Gray I have without running out for the project...

Since it'll take less spray to paint the fighter, I'll do that in the 2-tone gray scheme I'd originally planned.  The Battloid ( the humanoid robot form, for you non-Macross fans out there ) will be done in one mostly-white scheme used for most of the VF-11s in the Macross 7 series that appears on the box art, since I have plenty of white spray paint.

To eventually have one of each with the matching schemes, I'll just use one of the spare kits to make the match for each of this pair some other time.

I'll have the pics up once the base coats are dry, Koenigwolf.

Razor - Love your builds.

Kugai - MORE MORE MORE

Lewbud - Looking good so far

Owl - Nice, very nice

Dupes - Love the weathered look you have on the cat model, 1-1 scale? The Cyclon Raider look tops as well.

Stik - Looking forward to the finished product

Andrew

Okay, now I'm in trouble.

One of the reasons I chose the paint scheme I had in mind was because I knew I had the FS Camouflage Gray for the base color in spray, which would leave only the details to worry about brush-painting.  I just found out the can is nearly empty, and there's no hobby shop that'll be open today.

Now I've got to figure whether I want to brush paint the Camo Gray and try to even it out with the little spray I have left, or quickly decide on another color.

DONE! (47hours 20min)

Here she was last night before painting

Had a choice of tamiya acrylic or mr hobby for colour. Chose the tamiya, bad move as I have been having trouble with it of late when not using primer and still had it. So this morning stripped the tamiya and on went the mr hobby lacquer.

End result below. Skipped the bombs and only did the main decals as ran out time (my turn to cook tea then missus computer had a melt down)

Andrew

Thanx Lew Your Rafale is looking pretty sharp there Tigermeet markings I think you said? Looking forward to those!

Buffle, you have made great progress on your Patton! IIRC, if the canvas mantlet cover is in place, the lifting lugs on the mantlet should be covered as the kit was molded. But... I am certainly no expert and my best book on that is buried right now... I will try to park the jeep away from the homeboy shopping club tomorrow once I get the paint on... I think for the next Monogram GB I may have to do one of those Pattons. It's like the Centurion and T-55 in its' looks, a solid no nonsense Cold Warrior. Last time that I built that kit I was under 21...

Stik, nice work sir, keep it up.  You might want to park it in a better neighborhood though, at least they left you your rims!

Randy, the Ryan is looking good.  Hope the pooch didn't eat the stacks.

Kugai, cool build.  I still have an original box Regult pod in the stash (been carrying that one around for too long, maybe it's time I built it.)

Buffle, that old Patton is cool.  Too bad the Monogram Mafia build is finito.

It's 0230 CST and I'm calling it a night.  At least it looks like a lawn dart now. 

dupes

Ernest - can you figure out any reason why they would have molded the hull in two halves?

Hey dupes! The only reason I can think of is the molds date back to 1966!!  The turret bottom actually has the date on it...I had to sand it off!  I new the kit was an oldy, but that's almost as old as I am!!  I guess slide mold technology wasn't around back then!  BTW, the Cylon Raider is looking SWEEEEEEEET!!!

stikpusher - I'm working on getting it done sir!!  Expect completed pics on Monday!

After 15 long hours of hard work (well maybe a bit less than 15 hrs.....OK, a LOT less! ) :

The split hull was a bear to deal with.  Parts fit was terrible causing hours of filling and sanding, but there were quite a bit of sink marks to deal with as well.  Fortunately the upper hull is practically complete.  The downside to that is all the details (tools, tow cable, etc) are molded on!

While putty was drying I took the time to work on the turret, which had much better fit.  Still work on it required lots of trimming, sanding and adjusting parts fit.  The biggest problem was the 90mm gun....although it is molded in one piece, the molding was pretty bad and I spent the better part of a couple of hours carefully cleaning it up.  I was VERY tempted to scratchbuild a replacement, but decided to keep it OOB as much as possible. 

The mantlet was OK, but I ruined the MG port (at least that's what I THINK it is) and had to replace it with some brass tubing.  The kit has decent "D" rings for the turret and hull, but only molded on "lumps" for the mantlet.  It was an easy task to cut them off and replace with .30 sytrene rod shaped to fit.  The joint between the gun and the mantlet is also pretty bad...more puttying and sanding tomorrow morning!!

All in all, I''m about where I expected to be at this time.  Tomorrow I'll finish assembly and it will hit the paint booth....I hope I have some Tamiya OD left 

Taking a break from sanding and restoring panel lines to post a few pics.

Here are the parts with the interior painted black like I mentioned earlier...

And the major sub-assemblies with putty...

The parts for the outside aft fuselage are just test-fitted to confirm how much of the seam I'll need to sand, so the gaps there will be gone next time you see this.  Also, I didn't include the single parts ( hands, nozzles on the boosters ) that will be added in final assembly in this one.

Centhot

Good luck with the Patton!  US or foreign colors?  Israeli colors mean removing the commanders cupola though.

Not if it's built as during the June 1967 "Six Day War". They still had the American Cupola and the 90mm gun at that time.

Some fascinating work guys.  Sorry I don't have time to go through and comment on everything but I am enjoying the show as always.

Red Baron, I'll add you to the front page.

I've managed to find some time to finish up my two builds.  I'm catching a plane tomorrow am and after ignoring everything and everyone for two days while I did my builds I had a lot of errands to run today.  I'll be gone for three weeks but I hope to be able to put everyone's builds on the front page at some point.  If not we'll figure something out.

I didn't get a chance to do any weathering on my builds.  Just didn't have the time.

1/72 Italeri La 5

1/72 Italeri M20

After dinner I resumed my build. I sanded smooth the seam on the barrel of the 106, added the breech and handle, sighting rifle, sight, and completed building the Traverse & Elevation  (T&E) unit. Afterwards I built the tripod and set it aside to dry. Although I was a TOW gunner myself, I have a soft spot in my heart for the 106, the weapon that preceeded the TOW as the Infantry's Tank Killer and bunker buster. After all, there is no beehive TOW round... I got to fondle the 106 but never fired one during the course of my career...

so here is my 1/35 M40 106mm Recoilless Rifle

and placed (not yet glued) in the Jeep (The US Army does not use MUTTs... the M151 was called a 1/4 ton or a Jeep by the troops... never a MUTT... it's like calling a 113  a Gavin... no such animal in the Motor Pool)

That is the build up to this point after 7 hours of work with a 40 minute or so break to eat and upload photos.

I had considered making this a "two fer" build doing a second M151A1 standard jeep.

But not wanting to push the building to the point of being no fun I decided against it for now. I may start the second jeep tomorrow just for fun, but not as part of the 48 hours get it done here.

What the heck! I'll give this a shot! 

Hobbyboss 1:72 P-40N Warhawk. I can't garuntee I'll finish but im going to start hopefully next weekend, 24th -26th. In US timezone. But in my timezone 25th - 27th. 

Wish me luck!

Cool! Color applied!!! Love those old Hawk kits.

Picking up where I left off... I began installing the upper components

At this point after roughly 5+ hours of non stop building, taking breaks at the endof each step to photgraph the progress I was here. Done with the jeep except for the glass and tires and ready for painting. I then began to build the gun. (For thoe who do not know- a gun is a crew served weapon)

After raching this point I decided to take a breather for three reasons:

1) I could not sand the seam on the RR barrel until it dried...

2) after a gorgeous sunny day with warm sushine on my in my work area, the marine layer began to come in, the temperature  cooled noticibly, and I lost my excellent light source behind the clouds...

and 3) I was hungry, so it was time for dinner and to give the parts time for the glue to dry..