Vietnam Air War GB - Extended!

small update as it seems quiet in here.

foil looks ace but looked "too good". so it was out with the scalpel to cut along panel lines and detail to accept an oil wash, and fine emery paper to give it a well scrubbed look.

what the real thing looked like.

SEADaNang1 by omgpainful, on Flickr

not quite the same but as near as i dare go before going too far. realised its hard to take a good pic of foil in bad light too so they aint great i am afraid. the pics are live so clicking them will take you to my flickr if you want to take a look at the full res pics.

DSC02442 by omgpainful, on Flickr

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Wow. That looks gorgeous! A really nice NMF! It was definitely worth the effort.

Cheers, Clemens

foiling finished...yay, i'd say never again but id be lying.. i think,  God it took ages. started off a bit ropey but improved. No "weathering " applied as im not sure what i am going to to in that regard yet.

DSC02424 by omgpainful, on Flickr

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IMG_1294 by omgpainful, on Flickr

higher res available if you click them (if you really have to see the faults close up :-( )

You can use modeling clay and small lead fishing weights ( Both found in Wal Mart) or any equivalent.

can anyone help, i am building the academy 1/72nd scale bronco which needs weight in the nose to help it sit properly,it is going to need a lot of weight but there is litteraly no space to put any and the nosecone is the size of my thumbnail,

help me please

i built the italeri kit of the ac130, a hard kit to find but my girlfriend bought it for me off ebay for £25.

Cool, what kit did you build?  I have the Airfix one waiting to get built.

and now pics of my next build. the academy bronco

here are some more pics of the hercules

Well, I guess I've started the Navy F-4G and painted the True Details seats with a black base coat to sea what I'm working with.  Now I have to figure out what to use for the face curtain handles.  The True Details seats don't come with the loops.

tcepilot

 

 I am planning on extending the build so there will be time to finish your build.

Thanks, tcepilot. Unfortunately, I already committed my C-130E project to another GB. However, I may be able to join later with a different aircraft - probably an F-111 out of Nellis AFB. Have to finish another project first.

Cheers,

Russ

A lot of nice work here! I still have to order the CMK sets for my UH-1D...

progress so far on the herculesthe above shows me dry fitting the wings and the engines and fuel tanks built.

more to come

 I am 15 and have been building steadily for 3 years now. @ Spartan 

   Here's my updated Patton for all of you "Land Lovers"...

And now for an F-8 up to date... 

... hope you enjoyed, I will start masking tommorow

I am too dumb to handle a brush properly. That's why I spray everything except those tiny things I can't mask Seriously now, I try to avoid brush-painting as much as possible, as I'm new to the hobby and I have more control with an airbrush IMO. I think i get better at painting small stuff with every model I build though. That's also one of the reasons why I like to use the pre-painted Eduard PE sets for my aircraft cockpits....

Cheers, Clemens

Yep, all of that is brush painted so far. I like to brush the interior but airbrush the exterior. Some time I airbrush both.

Really nice work! Is all of it brush-painted?

Here is the first showing of my Crusader... (Ignore the crappy pic quality)

thanks for the help most appreciated

the previous pics are the interior of the hercules, i need to get a lot better at taking pictures . lol

i have now glued both halves together with the interior and sannded the join lines on the wings and the body. i should have checked the fit of the wings first as i will have to open up the holes for them.

more to follow

success

now to upload another one or two

Pick the second line down which is for a direct link. 

 If you are looking at the photos in the album mode then you actually have to highlight and copy the line.  If you have clicked on your photo in photobucket you will see a larger image and the same menu to the right of the photo.  In this mode you just have to click on it and it will automaticly be copied.

Then with the link copied you click on the icon for insert image above and paste it into the URL box.

well that did not work

i need a little help to upload my pics from photobucket

cheers

hi

now for some photos of the hercules(hopefully) lol

i hope this has worked

thanks for that. now to get the camera out and try and post some pics on here. that should b a laugh

thank heavens for that :-0

Striker8241

Ahh whoops - I just saw this build ends in August. That wouldn't give me enough time to finish. So disregard my request

Russ

hannibalsmith

hi, i was wondering if it is ok to join you guys. i am currently trying to build one of every kind of aircraft used in vietnam. i already have 20 finished models and i am starting to build an ac 130a hercules gunship, a bronco and the new canberra from italeri.  

Ok guys. Even I cant make the August date, I will extend this GB from the continued interest. There will be plenty of time to build for everyone.

I'd like to join this one with a Huey in 1/35! It is the model from Dragon (reboxed Panda kit). I'll add CMK's cockpit and cargo room sets (the interior of the Dragon kit is really poor...)

You won't see anything from me 'till early July though. I have some projects to do first.

Cheers, Clemens