Bockscar

Russ:

that Monogram kit is very different form my Revell kit. There were no bomb bay bulkheads, or 'double door' features in my kit, Nd Mono's plastic is a few thou thicker.....made to be dropped.....

I got to jump up and slap the inside doors of the BUFF at Dayton. When I walked away one of the attendants was rushing towards my location, and I just smiled.....he realized and turned back....lol....

did that fuselage come with the nose cut out like that?

As for the nose, I cut out the chin radome so I could show the nav antenna being worked on. Looks kinda wierd with the radome off, doesn't it? . On the real plane, the radome unlatches and slides forward about 2 feet on a track so you can get up inside and work on the equipment mounted on the front pressure bulkhead. If you need to get to the antenna, you have to slide the radome all the way out and set it down on the ground. Takes at least two people to handle it. There is another smaller radome above it in front of the cockpit that held the antenna drive motor and some additional nav stuff, ECM warning sensors and some other whatnot.

Bockscar

Ken you figured out a big challenge on those handles...please forward to me as well....

many thanks for the diligence.....

Will do friend!

Ken

Ken you figured out a big challenge on those handles...please forward to me as well....

many thanks for the diligence.....

Russ:

that Monogram kit is very different form my Revell kit. There were no bomb bay bulkheads, or 'double door' features in my kit, Nd Mono's plastic is a few thou thicker.....made to be dropped.....

I got to jump up and slap the inside doors of the BUFF at Dayton. When I walked away one of the attendants was rushing towards my location, and I just smiled.....he realized and turned back....lol....

did that fuselage come with the nose cut out like that?

Son Of Medicine Man

Very nice work Russ!  That looks real nice!      And by the way, I like your new avatar!  Very cool!   

Ken

Thanks, and thanks again, Ken .

Sparrowhyperion

Ken.  Could you shoot me over a copy too?  I found a couple of resin MB7s I had gotten for my black bunny last year, but the loops were damaged in shipping so I have to replace them.

Son Of Medicine Man

Scorpiomikey

Hey Ken. can you PM me instructions on how you finally made those ejector handles? Ive picked up a couple of skyhawks (free from my dads stash, he didnt want them) and i thought your handles might be a nice addition.

Hi Mikey,

No problem!  I will put together the instructions and send them to you tomorrow.  I have company stopping by in a few minutes so I won't be able to work on it now.

Ken

No problem Rich.

Ken

Ken.  Could you shoot me over a copy too?  I found a couple of resin MB7s I had gotten for my black bunny last year, but the loops were damaged in shipping so I have to replace them.

Son Of Medicine Man

Scorpiomikey

Hey Ken. can you PM me instructions on how you finally made those ejector handles? Ive picked up a couple of skyhawks (free from my dads stash, he didnt want them) and i thought your handles might be a nice addition.

Hi Mikey,

No problem!  I will put together the instructions and send them to you tomorrow.  I have company stopping by in a few minutes so I won't be able to work on it now.

Ken

Scorpiomikey

Hey Ken. can you PM me instructions on how you finally made those ejector handles? Ive picked up a couple of skyhawks (free from my dads stash, he didnt want them) and i thought your handles might be a nice addition.

Hi Mikey,

No problem!  I will put together the instructions and send them to you tomorrow.  I have company stopping by in a few minutes so I won't be able to work on it now.

Ken

Hey Ken. can you PM me instructions on how you finally made those ejector handles? Ive picked up a couple of skyhawks (free from my dads stash, he didnt want them) and i thought your handles might be a nice addition.

Striker8241

Here's the flat bed semitrailer assembled. I still need to add the bomb runners and the 750-lb bombs. The detail is excellent. Now I'm waiting for the tractor.

 

Very nice work Russ!  That looks real nice!      And by the way, I like your new avatar!  Very cool!   

Ken

Hey Guys,

Here is a preliminary look at the bomb bay doors configured in load position. The detail on the door is only suggestive, not authentic. The only bomb bay detail I'm adding is the catwalk structure along the sides, since that's about all you will be able to see with the plane sitting on the ground

Russ

Bockscar

Russ,

I can almost smell diesel,,,the wood runners looking realistic with the slight warpage and colours,,,,are you planning to put some air brake hardware and harnesses on that...?

How do you know when to stop detailing:

Russ,

I can almost smell diesel,,,the wood runners looking realistic with the slight warpage and colours,,,,are you planning to put some air brake hardware and harnesses on that...?

How do you know when to stop detailing:

Here's the flat bed semitrailer assembled. I still need to add the bomb runners and the 750-lb bombs. Now I'm waiting for the tractor.

Dom, you will always be an artist, if you have ever created art, you will be an artist until the end of your days.

Christchurch. The shaky city, woo. lol.

Was driving back from the doctors before and someones tagged the old science alive building (A place where kids could experience science first hand) In big white letters across the front of the building it says (Spelled just like this) "God must hate sciens" all i can think is, but hang-on, every church in town was damaged to point of destruction, what does that say? (not intending this as inflamitory, just thought it was funny)

Scorpiomikey

NNNOOO!!!! i dont live in Australia (Blech too hot, too poisonous) I live in New Zealand.

I sports i support 2 teams. New Zealand and anyone playing Australia lol

Ack!!  Sorry!   Ok, where in New Zealand.

Gents;

many thanks for kind words,,,almost felt like an artist again.....

Mikey;

that's looking good, I can't see any colour issues from here....The Apache is a fairly sleek outline

when it's not all loaded up with flight gear and ordnance.....

Dom

Thanks for the comments. As for the canopy, the hardest part was sealing it up so it didnt leak. The masking was easy enough since its mostly square edges.

As for the panel fit. What you cant see is ive puttied over the styrene filling on the rear portion of that belly panel. Almost all the way along i had to squeeze strips of styrene in to have something to glue it to.

NNNOOO!!!! i dont live in Australia (Blech too hot, too poisonous) I live in New Zealand.

I sports i support 2 teams. New Zealand and anyone playing Australia lol

Bockscar

Here''s the wax before casting, Achilles:

You prawley saw these ones:

Yeah, I made belt buckles.....

And another demon, posted him a ways back, sorry for the replays:

Dusty.....

Hundreds of these....35 years worth.....I have a bone yard.....they wait....

I really like this art Dom!  It is very cool.  And with your graphic art capabilities that is just awesome!  My wife wouldn't go for this but I sure do!

Ken

Scorpiomikey

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Looking good, Mikey! Looks like you had one heck of a job correcting the fit on those panels. BTW, you live in Australia? Wherebouts?

Russ

Bockscar

Hundreds of these....35 years worth.....I have a bone yard.....they wait....

Scorpiomikey

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Nice work once again there Mikey!  Colors look good from what I can tell.     

Ken

Bockscar

Son Of Medicine Man

Bockscar

I hear you Ken:

I would like to give the local guys the business for sure.....but asking me to look up the part number?

I looked it up, I Part # $65US...lol....

-Dom

I am totally in full support of the locally owned business.  I just recently moved my prescriptions from a national chain to a new locally owned pharmacy for that very reason!

Ken

I'll call tomorrow, maybe someone will have the sense to sell me something. Otherwise, I'm back to Ebay.

Dom

Hi Dom,

I totally mis-read your earlier post!  Yeah, with service like that, why bother with them.  They have to earn your business.  If they expect you to go the extra mile to give them business, forget it!  Sorry about that, I re-read your post and now I understand what you are saying.

Ken

Dom: You're one heck of a sculptor. I tried sculpting a shark once and it was so bad I balled it up and threw it away, I can't imagine how hard it is to do a human. Thanks for sharing them with us, fantastic work there!

Mike: The weird problem I'm having with Gothic II and Win7 is on doing a web-search I found instructions from many people on how to get it to work, but what they're telling me doesn't seem to have any effect. Oh well, I'm going to keep working at it.

Nice work on the AH-64, the OD green looks pretty close to me. Looks like it was a job in itself masking off that massive canopy.  

Laid some gray for the cockpit interior.

Poor fit of the belly panel.

Winter Camo (White Primer)

First Coat of OD. Put a white paper towel in the background to so you guys can see if theres any colour issues.

Should also mention, the apache has its winter camouflage on (White primer) Waiting for it to dry so i can lay down the OD.

Thats pretty awesome.

How much do you charge for commissions?

Here''s the wax before casting, Achilles:

You prawley saw these ones:

Yeah, I made belt buckles.....

And another demon, posted him a ways back, sorry for the replays:

Dusty.....

Hundreds of these....35 years worth.....I have a bone yard.....they wait....