got some work done this week end on my P-38. Finished the gear bays and doors. Painted with chromate yellow and washed with MiG earth wash and than a dusting of graphite.

Gamera

Looking good Ken!

And that's hilarious about using a model and not removing the plastic prop rod.  

Thanks Gamera

Yea I agree. It's also showing their stupidity

Looking good Shiv.

Two nice looking P-38's there guys. Nice work.

Picked up a walnut base plaque over the weekend and have been sanding and varnishing it. I think it's almost done now. The Churchill is almost done, the figures are pretty close, I really need to take some friggin' photos but I don't seem to think about it till the sun is down and the light is terrible...

I haven't been able to work on my kit the last couple days. Need to step back for a couple to recharge my concentrations. A day of fishing is just the ticket I need. LOL!

Bish, my LCVP is completed and I'll have some pics posted today if I can figure out how to attach them. I'm also going to send some of the Tiger thats on the bench right now.  

jibber, you need a hosting site, such as photobucket, for your pics. Once you have them loaded there, then use the Use rich formatting link and you see the button there for linking your photo's. If you can post some progress pics of the Tiger, that would be great.

Blacksheep, no worries. Sometimes it pays to take a couple of days away from the bench.

Gamera, will be awaiting those photo's.

Earlier this year I opened a Flikr account because they offered one tera byte free.  

Linking photos is easy with the firefox browser.  Just choose the image size, then right click anywhere on the photo and a drop down menu will appear.  Click 'view image info' and then save the highlighted text.  Copy and paste that info into the hyper link provided by finescale.

regards,

Jack

My Sherman is all done except I have to paint the tank commander's goggles.  Unfortunately, I don't have the correct color to do it with.  So I'll have to order it online. And, oh damn!  I'll probably have to order a new kit too to make the shipping cost worth my while.  

bitbite

My Sherman is all done except I have to paint the tank commander's goggles.  Unfortunately, I don't have the correct color to do it with.  So I'll have to order it online. And, oh damn!  I'll probably have to order a new kit too to make the shipping cost worth my while.  

Don't you just hate it when that happens. I need to get some resin exhausts for my Me 109, and it seems rather silly just to order those on there own.

I do hate that, but it's done.  Should have my paint here by Monday and pictures up hopefully the same day.

http://i1346.photobucket.com/albums/p681/kingtiger11/LCVP/IMG_0553_zps3acdd161.jpg

Here are some pics of my LCVP in 1/35

Great job Jibber. Love the mud affects. Those bumpers, they after market or scratch built?

like the mud too. you could add some puddles of puke too sonce everyone was seasick. just joshing but ??? you can add more than 1 picture per post. the bumpers are from the kit

finally started my LCVP on saturday. ready for primong. will be doing british tri-color. may finish up my 1/35 VOSPER for this GB too.

Thanks Shiv, they were OOB.

I rig tall sailing ships so I thought this wouldn't be too bad to tie them myself, so I took some line and started working but I just couldn't get it right. They were lopsided and just didn't look believable  so I used the provided parts.  I painted them and added some weathering.

One other thing, the kit came with two figures that were supposed to man the guns, but there was no way of getting them in without looking completely wrong. I tried everything, even using just the torso but that didn't work either so I chose not to include them.

I really liked the kit and after looking at as many pics as I could find, a lot of the landing crafts were grungy and had scrape marks along the sides. I tried to copy that look as you can see in one of the quartering shots. The rest of the craft looks very  similar so I think I came close to what I was trying to accomplish. I've had a thought for a diorama, maybe...

Sorry about the camera, it didn't bring everything out I wanted.  

Waynec, I thought the kit was a lot of fun and I had given a thought to using some fuel stain and add some small chunks for that effect. Just couldn't do it. I had a little fit problem attaching to top. I think there may have been a little warpage so I had to form it off and use a little persuasion but finally I got it right.

I checked out that site you gave us that carries similar rope and fittings, I'll definitely keep that one for later, thanks.

I had to do a double take, it looks like my bench.

Jibber: Very nice work, I love the mud on the ramps. The Tiger looks really cool too!

Waynec: Sharp work there on your landing craft too, the tri-colour sounds complex but will look great!

Here's the base and the figures, I took several photos but the others didn't turn out very well at all...

jibber, nice work on that. Do you have a pic of the whole boat that I can put on the front page. By the way, you can put all your pics into one post, just to save you some time.

I built that Tiger kit a few years back, its a really nice build. Which marking option are you using.

Oh things are coming along nicely in here!

just got my LCVP primed. lots of rain here and flash flooding and serious flooding and evacuations by the burn areas and north in boulder. safe here. they have called in coast guard rescue helos as rescuers can't get up the canyons west of boulder.