nice one trey. front page is updated

Thanks Owl !

Great work (as always) on a challenging scheme Trey. How long did it take you ?

Cheers

Tony

Really nice work there on the tank and the diorama groundwork looks superb!

Waynec, lovly looking build and base, thats sweet.

Extremely realistic looking tank, Wayne.  Well-done!

sweet looking tank, Its now on the front page! :)

The P-38 is almost ready for the paint shop. I don't have the P-47 yet. I'll get it the first of the month.

good start green. Those seams around the nacelles and nose look nasty!

Yea i know, the wings/*** pit aren't glued to the booms yet. There is a nice seam at the top of the gun compartment too. The gun compartment opens to show the guns and ammo inside. I'm hoping it dissapears when it's painted. The anti glare panels are  going to be flat black

it probably wont dissapear without a good session of filling and sanding...one of the most tedious parts of a build! lol

Yeah, worst part about the Monogram kit, which is otherwise nicely detailed is that you'll have to sand away so much of that nice detail getting everything lined up. Good luck with her, I think this was the first 'serious' kit I ever built.

"it probably wont dissapear without a good session of filling and sanding...one of the most tedious parts of a build! lol"

But this would seal up the door of the gun compartment when it should be able open.

I've found a way that doesn't sand away all the detail. I use Squadron putty and I take a q tip dipped in finger nail polish remover and it takes the excess putty off and leaves the putty in the seams. I recently did this to a Freightliner day cab dual drive I cut down from the cab over kit with the sleeper on it and it came out pretty nice. One thing I noticed on it was using too much nail polish remover seemed to leave tiny pits in the plastic though. So you don't want to use too much.

Hi Miss Owl and fellow builders,

I am delighted to say that my Raiden is finally finished! I was very close to done before my UK trip back in November, one of the two antenna wires was defying my bigtime so it had to be left as-is, and when I got back from the UK I had to hit the ground running in a house move that has been the worst we've ever done. Well, we're in the new place and the workshop is set up, I have my first display case, and am starting to get back to things.

The antenna wire was fixed on the first try, the Ezy-Line is painted, ceramic insulators simulated, and all touchups are done, so tonight I'll take the gallery shots and hopefully get them posted -- and claim my badge at last!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Hi all, as promised here are the gallery photos of the Arii 1:48 J2M3 Raiden:

It was a fun experience bringing modern techniques and materials to bear on a 1970s kit, and I look forward to building some more of these golden oldies, as well as tackling the subject matter in a more up to date form.

Thanks, Owl, it was a great build and I'm delighted to have taken part.

Cheers, Mike/Thunderbolt379

awesome plane. Ill get the front page updated shortly

That's a sleek looking plane, in a stubby sort of way.  Nice work on the build, Mike.

updated!

Thanks, Owl and all! I see there are 13 completions now, that's an excellent rate for any GB!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Hi, since we have a little time left sign me up for another P-47 Thunderbold. 1/48 Otaki P-47 D razor top. Not sure about the colors yet, might even do a what if sceeme.   :-)

My 1/48 Mirage will also be completed hopefully within the next few months.

Theuns

Sprue shot of the P-47

.............if I have time left I might even chuck in this Otaki 1/48 Shinden (lightning);-)

Theuns

sweet, I got the front page updated for ya!

Schweet like a lemmon I say!

These will be very simple out the box builds, nothing special.

Theuns

Theuns -- those Otakis are FUN builds, simple, though they can fight you here and there, the cowling of my Raiden was a PITA to line up. But I expect you'll have great building pleasure and they are a wonderful canvas for finishing techniques, engraved lines and all. I have the Shinden and in fact prepainted the cockpit, the prop and so forth at the same time as the Raiden, I figured if I had the paint mixed I might as well!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Mike, sorry i missed this one. So many GB's to keep track of. Thats a really nice looking build. It does look a bit stubby doesn't it.

Yep, she was a high performance type with loads of climb, and the streamlining must have been very critical to get so much power into a relatively small package. Reminds me oddly of the Gee Bee...

How did I miss her??? She came out great Mike!!!

Thanks! I did the work a fair while back and had one tiny detail left to go that was defying me, before I headed off overseas in November, then there was a house move that kept me off the bench until the last week or two, so basically I just needed to finish up and post the pics -- so the project was conspicuous by it absence in the last ten weeks or so.

Mike/TB379