Eric, great work on the Stang. Nice to see it in those markings. I have added one to the front page.

Ken, the 47 is coming along nicely, great work.

Green, your P-47 is coming along great! Very nice work on the stripes!

EB, I like your Mustang Mk.III. You captured the look just right there. You may want to remove that antenna mast though- those were not on Malcolm hood equipped birds as that blocked the travel of the sliding hood. Those Mustangs used a different antenna wire configuration.

I did mask the stripes with tape - certainly don't trust my hand. But the texture of the Golden is very different than an airbrushed Tamiya (note the spinner is off-white, and doesn't look at all like the stripes) and when hand painted left just about what I wanted - something that was applied after the base with a different type of paint. Actually the plane looked pretty good without the stripes - but anything for history. I find I do a lot more hand painting than I used to. Probably because I use paints that work well with it - Vallejo Model Color and Golden Fluids mostly. That effect would not have looked good with Tamiya hand painted I think. I'm seriously thinking of hand painting a German tank because according to one of my ref books that was done in the field when you wanted a quick change of camo. Some of the best ship builders hand paint the superstructure - and some even the whole thing. I didn't have an airbrush when I was 12 and liked models anyway.

Eric

Eric: Fantastic work! I love the well weathered look of your Mustang! Those invasions stripes look really impressive - they look like a sloppy paint job without ruining the look of the model. I always spray my stripes on because I can't brush paint them without them looking horrible...

Ken: Nice progress on your Jug!

Ok. I've been working on both the V-1 amd the P-47 tonight

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Tamiya 1/48 P-51 MKIII (RAF)

Paints: Tamiya acrylics for base; stripes and interior Golden Fluid Acrylics

Weathering: Iwata Com.Art acrylics

I have yet to see a Jug I don't love!

I agree Gamera,I have yet to see a "Jug" i don't like

Thanks everyone

I didn't build one as a kid, I really missed out on that one. Oh well I'm making up for that now

Glad you got that sorted out Ken, nice work on the Jug.

Looks good Ken, though I have to admit I've never seen a Jug I didn't like!!!

Okay we're in business here, the batteries are working fine

Here are two views of the Bubble Top Jug. I messed the Stripes up, So I fixed them and had to tape them off

Looks like you made some nice progress, Ken!

Bish

B-17, looks like you have that ladder about right. I think I have been bitten by the scratch building bug, I am finding it very satisfying replacing parts or completely building bits that are not there.

Ken, not good news on the camera, but they look to be coming along nicely.

I guess I worded that wrong. The batteries in the camera died. I put them in the charger before I went to bed, so, they should be good to now. 

B-17, looks like you have that ladder about right. I think I have been bitten by the scratch building bug, I am finding it very satisfying replacing parts or completely building bits that are not there.

Ken, not good news on the camera, but they look to be coming along nicely.

Hi everyone,

i was going to take a few pics, but my camera died after one.

The P-38 is waiting for propellers to come in.

The V-1 Rocket is waiting to get into the paint shop.

The Bubble top Jug is waiting to touch up a few places in the paint shop

The Razorback Jug is ,,,,,,Uhhhh just sitting there. LOL

B-17: Looks good, looking forward to seeing how the ladder works out.

BS214: Yeah, good luck with the surgery. Bit under the weather here so I hope you're over it and healing soon.

Trabi, that's coming on nicely.

BlackSheep, best of luck with your surgery. If you want to swap your build, that's no problem. And don't worry about the deadline. While I tend not to extends GB's, I am happy for anyone who has started before the end date to carry on within the GB even after the official end date, so theres no rush.

While I'm awaiting for my surgery next month, I've been doing a bit of digging around on the net looking for something unique for this GB. Alas, I may have found something and might substitute the Spitfire as  my second Longest Day GB build kit. (Although I haven't made my final decision yet. LOL!) Yes, I am getting extremely bonkers knowing I can't do my P-47 model without aggravating my hand again.  

I actually sat in the cockpit of one. Being a WWII reenactor portraying Able Co, 502nd PIR, 101st, it was pretty awesome when there were a couple of us in the back dressed in period jump suits in a vintage C-47!

Raven728

B17Pilot: Looks great so far. All those seatbelts! Are they photoetched?

I had an opportunity once to climb inside a C-47, which was a really cool experience. Imagine sitting in those unpadded seats while getting bounced all over the sky by flak, then having to jump out over enemy territory. Wow.

bitbite

"Actually being shot at would probably be one of the few things to get me to bail out of a perfectly good plane"

Another would be stik pushing you out. 

There's aproblem of some sort now. I don'#t really know what is scarier. The Flak or Stik?

Some awesome looking work going on here!

"Actually being shot at would probably be one of the few things to get me to bail out of a perfectly good plane"

Another would be stik pushing you out. 

Looks, that people have had some nice progress here!

For me just minor update with AVRE. Some paint work done.

Yeah, she looks good B-17 esp all those seatbelts for the paratroopers.

Actually being shot at would probably be one of the few things to get me to bail out of a perfectly good plane...  

B-17, that's looking really nice. I was lucky enough to get inside a C-47 as well, the one at the BBMF. I certainly would not want to be in one while being peppered by Flak.

B17Pilot: Looks great so far. All those seatbelts! Are they photoetched?

I had an opportunity once to climb inside a C-47, which was a really cool experience. Imagine sitting in those unpadded seats while getting bounced all over the sky by flak, then having to jump out over enemy territory. Wow.

B17pilot> She's coming along nicely!  I need to get some more work done on my C-47 (though it's in 1/72nd scale).  Luckily, I don't have to paint 18 paratroopers! 

Trabi>  You know, when I think of D-Day, 'bridge layer' is not something that comes to mind.  Nice off-the-beaten-path subject there.

Gary

I think I joined up on most of them pretty quickly, and I've had to work pretty hard to catch up.

Now that I think I've caught up, there are suddenly several more GBs that have come up. I probably enter 80-90% of the GBs, they always seem to interest me, and I like to support the guys who pout themselves out to run them.

Cheers

Tony