Weekend Madness IV - Nov 19/20th

Wow Razor, good work, nice builds, two even!

The Helldiver should be interesting.  I'm guessing that's not the PE special edition?  Interesting scheme on the Sabre, looking forward to seeing how it turns out.  An older Airfix kit can be a good choice, being simpler, or a bad choice, if you need a pint of filler!  Still, the Hunter is such a beautiful aircraft, and still in front line service today (Lebanon).  Good luck with the Macross, don't know much about it.

Good progress Konig!

So far Owl, the fit is reasonable.  Not used any glue yet.  The larboard tail plane has a slight gap, but, I can live with that.  The underside isn't a perfect join, but I'm not going to fill and scribe it.

In one hour, I sprayed the cockpit, joined the bits, sprayed the underside, and cleaned it up a bit.  The rear of the underside was rough, needed some sanding, whilst someone in China left a great lump of sprue gate on the cowling, which needed to be removed.

After that, and a 6 hour break, I sprayed the props yellow, and have dipped the clear parts in Future/Klear.  Not sure yet how to mask the underside windows, due to their tiny shapes.  Maybe Micromask?

Ooops - I forgot to say that I'm not going to build the Lockheed Electra ... as the paint scheme calls for 6 different shades of enamel, I'm concerned about the humidty and its effect on the paint ...

The Bearcat can be painted with acrylics and I've yet to experience any 'weather' issues using them ...

pepper

Centhot

Here I go!

The obligatory initial shots.  I've worked out which paints I'm going to use, so, dive right in!

Isn't there a rule that says a kit has to have more than 12 parts to qualify?  Just kidding Centhot.  A hint from personal experience, if you enlarge the holes where the locating pins go into the wings, you'll reduce an ugly gap.

Yes there is, it's called the Frank rule.  It's okay though.  I count over a dozen parts in this kit. 

18 parts if you use the closed canopy (which I am), or 19 parts open or two part canopy (windshield separate).

lewbud

 A hint from personal experience, if you enlarge the holes where the locating pins go into the wings, you'll reduce an ugly gap.

Alrighty folks - I'm off to the bunker to start my weekend madness. Not sure if I'll be able to post any in-progress pics or not, I may show them all to you on Monday AM.

Centhol - Looking like a nice relaxed build, almost as complicated as my egg plane last year 

Kugai - Love the  veritech, hope it doesn't come with Minmay's singing

Pepper - I remember my first bearcat as teen, I can still smell the humbrol enamel's I used when ever I think about it.

Vance - Come on you know you want to post a piece by peice account.

Finally went to bed at 1am this morning

At the risk of them falling off decided to put on all the bits except the wheels before painting

Primed the Sabre here,only to reveal lots of seams that need sanding (might not have the time)

Now for the metal coat

here is the Mossie I will be building, the Mark II night fighter all black if possible I want to do a buff overall then silver before the black. From what I have read after the plane was build the painted in a silver color before the finish color so I would hope I can do some paint flaking of the silver and then down to the cloth covered wood. we will see.

I will MOSTLY be finished, but the nice boxes with the no step X are not on the decals which I have ordered and will add when they arrive

oh yeah, let the record reflect on doctor's orders I must be lying down 12 hours a day so.... I plan on adding a couple hours if needed

Not done much work on the Wildcat, except to research the color of the undercarriage, and boy that's tough!  I've seen light grey, black, blue, metal, and white!  In the end went for white, with the inserts in lower fuselage color, same as the wheel hubs.  Final bits added to the cockpit, and painted.  Now for that lovely task - masking.  Yuck, then, blu-tak, top coat, decal, and done!  Oh, and paint the tires.  Another fun job...

Sweet looking Sabre that Needbeer!

A Mossie?  Cool, great looking aircraft!  Good luck!

Well one and all its time to see if I can keep up with the big dawgs, my first Weekend Madness group build is underway. I have to say though that the builds going so far are amazing, just don't know how you all build so fast and well. And some tricky builds at that

So without further pageantry my build has started at 7:30 PST and here are the box art and sprue pictures.

Good builds goin on here guys and gals.  Centhot, the landing gear on the Wildcat was usually painted whatever color the undersides were.  If you're doing the intermediate blue over white, then the white would be the way to go.  Guess I'll toss my hat into the ring.  Start time 2300 CST 11/18/11.  Obligatory start pic.

I don't think the Rafale B is a particularly pretty aircraft, but from certain angles she is a stunner and can be down right intimidating.

Well, deadline is here and I'm not quite done.    I wanted to push myself and see if I could get two done, maybe next time.

I'm very close though.  A couple more hours tomorrow ought to do it.

The M20 is pretty much done except for the detail painting on the tools, lights etc.  I had to replace the kits light guards with a PE set from the spares box as the kit ones crumbled when I was trying to clean the flash off.  The kit decals seemed like they were too big for some reason so I had to improvise with the markings a bit.  Other than that I think it looks pretty cool.  It is a lot bigger than I thought it would be for some reason.

The La 5 just needs it's landing gear assembled, a few paint touch ups and a clear coat.  I need to let the tail decals settle overnight before I can do the clear coat.  They weren't settling into the gap between the tail and rudder so I cut it and it curled up on me.  We'll see what it looks like in the morning.  Considering how old the decals are I think they did great.

Way to go Dave!  If you're that close, it counts in my book.  Here's where I was at approximately 0200 CST 11/19/11.  2x 2000l drop tanks assembled.  Main and nose gear bays installed in lower fuselage, rails for drop tanks and actuators for the flaps installed on the wings.  Vertical tail and avionics hump assembled on upper fuselage half.  The hump has two vents which must be glued in before attaching it to the fuselage, major PITA.  Fortunately, the carpet monster was asleep or goofing off somewhere and I was able to find them when dropped.  Painted the gear bays with Tamiya fine white primer, and I remembered why I prefer the gray.  Anyways, here's some pics.  I'm hitting the sack.  See ya'll later this morning.

Dave,

First off: My apologies for not participating this weekend.... It has been a very nasty week at work and i havent done any modeling whatsoever all week..

But if you would allow me i am going to allocate time towards the hobby next weekend and would like to participate this year with an armor build: Trumpeter's KV1S "Ehkranami" in 1:72 scale

BTW, i love what i am seeing sofar and....and.... are my eyes deceiving me...? Vetteman?? You too?? Great to see you taking the challenge too my friend You will find it is alot of fun to speedbuild!

Richard

Oh, I don't know about this one? 

I have the right plane hobbyboss 1:72 P-40N, but I won't finish. If I can find a weekend with absolutely nothing on… I think I can do it? 

Needbeer - Not bad, for a sand grouper anyways :P

Dostacos - cant wait to see the final product

vetteman - Interesting trainer, enjoy the mayhem

razor - looking tops, any plans on weathering?

Well here I am at 24.5 hours. Getting there, the only real issue I can see is this thing has a heap of decals...

Andrew

Painting done - enough for today!

Hope the masking is not going to rip off the fresh paint?

Tried some preshading/ weathering , not sure its going to look right, also pilot tube has just snapped off, where is it ?

Gloss, decals & wash tomorrow

Looking good there, guys!

Okay, official start time for me will be 12:00 pm.  I realized I was too tired last night to get a good start going before I'd be going to bed, so I decided to take advantage of the fact that I don't have work Monday to postpone tings a little.

I'm going to start with painting the interior bits before getting sub-assemblies together to minimize visible bare plastic at the joints etc.  While the paint's drying from that, I'll be running a few errands including a quick stop at the LHS with my son ( a chance to watch for gift ideas, Xmas coming up and his birthday this week ).  I'll have pics up later today while the putty's drying.

Wow, such good progress!  That Sabre looks stunning.  I must admit, first, I don't like masking, but, I've still not worked out how to mask curves, like the windshield of the WIldcat.  Something that still confounds me....  Anyyway, 18 hours in, here's the progress

Lookng good everyone! 

Richard, Bill isn't going until next week either so you'll have some company.

razordws

Earnest:  that's exactly what these weekend builds are all about.  Grab a kit and join the madness. 

Sorry all for reporting in so late....work/life is a bear!!  Anyway, THANKS razor for letting me join the GB!!  Everyone is doing a great job so far!

Here's my entry:  Monogram's 1/35 M48A2 Patton that I grabbed last week at Michael's with their 50% off coupon!!  Its an oldy, but with the relatively small parts count and limited detail, I'm pretty sure I can get this done in 48 hrs! 

My official start time is 9:00 AM today (Sat - California time) when I cut off the two bottom hull halves off to take pics:

First time I've buillt a tank kit with two bottom halves....I'll assemble them and probably have to fill gaps and sand later today! 

Its going to be a fun filled 2 days!!  Fortunately I'm off on Monday so today's late start time won't affect me much!!

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

oops, I know I said Id post pix in the evening, but it turns out i went to bed instead! Anywho, here's what I got done yesterday:

Here's the kit. An old Minicraft/Hasegawa with a resin uprade

With the additional cockpit detail, I'm gonna want to show it off, but whats this?? Closed canopies?! That will have to bi fixed....luckily the kit came with two of em.

success!

while I had my saw out, I cleaned up the resin pieces:

heres what the kit gave me in the way of detail....lets scrape it off!

here is the cockpit all detailed up, Its hard to get pictures of something so small, but I tried anyway!

glued into the fuselage sides, here's the IP

then, To glue the fuselage sides together!

I added strips to the wheel wells

while the glue was drying, I went ahead and built these:

that's all for my first day. Today will bring final assembly, a bit of sanding, and some paint!!

OWL

Great work! 

Owl - ill be cheering on you until the end of this 48 hour build.

Centhot

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

Just basic U.S. OD Centhot!  Didn't realize that about the commander's cupola on Israeli Pattons...thanks for the info!  Should come in handy if I build another!

Hey all-great work here....even more impressive given the time constraints.  Especially those of you who are building multiple projects....

I'm going to start tonight-going to prime the parts tonight and put the chrome items in a bath of either bleach or Simple Green to remove the plating-way too heavy.  Guess I'd better declare a build...

I'm going with the lower one, the chopped top T...not sure if I'm going the street or drag route...we'll see.

Cheers