Astral: Looks good to me! Maybe you could add a little weathering but it looks fine as is.

Doug: Oh don't sweat it!

I haven't gotten much done over the last month, mostly distracted and been working on two P-47s and drug a P-51 I'd started over five years ago and messed up out and have been trying to finish her. I was hoping the two kits I tossed in would be quick simple builds to get me back up and running I still end getting pulled of of them. I did finish the faces of the mortar crew and got most of their uniforms done last night- hopefully I'll get some photos up this weekend. And that egg plane, only about a dozen pieces but the fit leaves a bit to be desired...

Looks great! Tamiya most always does such a good job on detail for a moderately priced kit.

And Cliff... Haven't forgot my commitment to your GB! Its just been a hectic start to the New Year and previous commitments. Both of your Japanese GBs (last years and this one) have and are producing some very nice builds!

Take care...

Doug

I picked my model up and just completed the cockpit. had some difficulty with the cockpit decals otherwise I think it looks alright.

Hey Astral welcome aboard!!!

This is a pretty informal GB just have fun and post a few photos every now and then!

Putting you down with a Tamiya Zero.

This will be my first group build so I am looking forward to it. I decided on a Tamiya zero unsure of the exact kit but I will keep you posted. So can you count me in.

Lol, yes it does at that!

Looks more like a Raiden than a Zero...

Hey Mark, sounds great, I'm looking forward to that giant Yamato.

I decided this weekend I ended to build something quick, cheap, and dirty so I yanked this egg plane out. Less than a dozen parts, hopefully it will recharge my batteries and get me back up and running.

I love the Top Badge. That looks great. Zui almost done so Yamato will be on the Slipway soon.....Cheers mark

I'm lovin that pit. Nice work on the seat and belts. Whats with the Japs thinking they only need 1 shoulder harness?

Nice work Freddie! Like the seat-belts and the colours of the knobs.

Hey Guys and Gals,

Started on 'George' last weekend and make pretty progress during the week getting ready for painting.  I have a few pictures I will attach, a couple of earlier ones and some of the later shots. 

Scheme will be Kawanishi Navy Green over NMF, I just haven't decided which particular aircraft to do. 

Anyway, here are a few shots and hopefully I will be painting this week!  YAY!!

Regards,

Freddie from LI

Waynec: Other than the badge at the top we didn't get a clear winner in the voting so I'll put it in as the official badge but anyone is welcome to use the other three as well. I went with two badges- an aircraft and the samurai before so I figured I'd give everyone a choice this time as well.

Official Badge:

Optional Badges:

what is the badge for this? started JGSDF type 96B 8x8

bsyamato

Nice Jack Winetanker 

Thanks yamato...I think your Judy is better though...

bsyamato

seems have a pe-2 near  

Good eyes!

Yeah, built it a coupla months back. Didn't turn out too bad considering all the putty I had to use on it,.

BSY: Again really nice work on the Judy, and I love the carrier base!

Well I've gotten the figures for the mortar cleaned up, primed, the skin tones done, and put down the undercoat for their uniforms. Rainy and overcast here every day so I haven't had good light for photos. Hopefully we'll get a little break or I'll try to get some photos taken anyway and hope they look ok.  

Excellent job! 

Excellent painting on the frank Lawdog 

Nice Jack Winetanker  seems have a pe-2 near  

Just to complete the judy with the base Cliff, the actual finished judy picture you chosen is fine

Asap will put the 108 on the table 

WT: Again nice work! I can see all the subtle power and exhaust stains you added better now. The chips turned out great, updated your photo to the roster.

Gamera

WT: Nice work! Do you want me to go ahead and post her or would you like to try for better photos?

Yeah the Raiden did look sorta like a real life 'egg' plane.

Here's a better 'money pic'...

Yeah, the Raiden doesn't look like it's lanky brothers, but it was one of the few single engine fighters that was effective against B-29's.

indy tracks is/are why i do warwheels though i have a couple of tricks that make rubberband tracks easier to put on. i swapped the nwe ASU-85 for an M-198 towed gun because it had indy tracks. have a PZ-IIC and an SU-76 i will still build but may be it.

i have build trumpeter, afv club, and hobbyboss warwheels and all of them do this. i think even my tamiya SDKFZ-222 had this problem. i mask off the holes and axles before priming and painting and still have fit issues. finally got all 8 on my EBR-10; cya, patience to hold it and more patience to let it sit overnight.

Funny they'd do the axle mounts like that. I need to do some more vehicles like this, the part of armour modeling I hate the most is fussing with individual thread links- wheeled AFVs are much more fun.

yep rubber tires. i have the PLA 8x8 SNOW LEOPARD and 6x6 TD as well as 20+ other modern wheels of various types and countries. it has all the windows and frame so that isn't the problem i just don't like the way it looks.

just finished putting tires on EBR-10. another set of problems. seems they have big "axle mounts" when mounting little road wheels on tanks but tiny "axle mounts" for big tires.

Looks fantastic Joe!

Sweet. That seat is just killer! Makes me want to break out the Ki-100.

Waynec: Looks like a really nice kit there, I assume it comes with rubber tires? I started on a PLA wheeled IFV with large windows in the front and just stuck a piece of clear plastic in there I'd painted gloss black on the back to disguise the fact that there's no interior and then put liquid mask over the thing to paint the vehicle.

Joe: Wow, that cockpit looks fantastic, I love it! I've got one of those around here somewhere and yeah, it's a great kit right outta the box. Looking forward to seeing you build her.

Thanks for having me aboard.  I decided to take a "coffee break" on my Academy P-47N for a short while and switched over to the Hasegawa 1/48 Ki-84 Hayate.  I've had this in my stash for quite a while and hae been itching to build it for quite some time. I bought some Sky decals for it now I just have to  pick out a scheme. 

I started with the cockpit.  Its probably the second best I've seen so far out of the box (behind the Tamiya Jug series of course).  I did utilize an Ultracast seat though.  I decided to add all the levers and such before painting so they wouldn't get damaged or lost.  I preshaded the cockpit XF-1 Flat Black then mixed a custom shade of XF-71 Cockpit Green and a tad of XF-49 Khaki to come up with my interpretation of Nakajima Green.  I've read that sometimes the cockpit was left in natural metal too, so I opted to paint the seat in Alclad Aluminum to add contrast.   Once detail painted with a brush and a drybrushing with silver was done, it was Testor's gloss coated.  It then got a detailer wash and some minor postshading.   I used the kit decal for the instrument panel.  It worked well with Micro Sol. 

More to follow.  Thanks for looking.

Joe

WT: Nice work! Do you want me to go ahead and post her or would you like to try for better photos?

Yeah the Raiden did look sorta like a real life 'egg' plane.

Nice Jack Winetanker. It's a rotund little thing isn't it. This GB is off to a good start.

Cheers

Tony