Longest Day GB

Nice looking P-38 Shiv. Here's some more progress on my 1/72 Tiffie.

Thanks tax. You Tiffie looks really nice. How wide are your stripes and would that be the same as for my P-38?

Hi Shiv,

For 1/72 fighters, I believe they should be 1/4 inch. I guess that would apply to a P-38.

This is a pretty good thread.

cs.finescale.com/.../148513.aspx

Regards

Tony

The pre shading is great and the striping looks awesome. Nice...

Shiv, nice work. Dragon aircraft have a bad rap but I rather like them.

Tony, that's looking great, awesome work.

I'll try to do ship-tank-plane cycle for this GB: all allied, and about time. First will be a 1/350 DML Laffey which will serve as USS Murphy (one of the key DDs on bombardment duty during the first weeks at Normandy). Then a Tamiya 1/48 "Razorback" jug with stripes. And we'll bring aboard a Tamiya Cromwell tank for Monty to deploy.

Eric

Some time ago, I mentioned I suffered a pinched nerve on my right hand on Halloween morning and have not been able to resume modelling. Last Monday I had an EMG test done (not fun LOL!) and it appears I have carpal tunnel. I'm still having tingling and numbness on my middle finger and ring finger and have returned to work Monday. (The doc put me out of work for 6 days last week). I have yet got the results of my EMG tests on the severity of nerve damage on my right hand. There is no doubt in my mind, I'll probably will have surgery - most likely in January at the latest.

I have managed to work on my T-Bolt a little as much as I could for this GB. But dammit! I hate being idle and not doing my models. LOL!

Of course the plus side of all this is staying home and spending tons of time online shopping for future kits. Top of my list are:

1/72 Avro Lancaster "Dambusters" - most likely Airfix or Revell

1/48 FW 190 - Hasegawa or Tamiya

1/48 De Havilland Mosquito - Hasegawa

1/48 Stuka - Hasegawa

1/48 Spitfire Mk.IXc - Eduard

1/48 Spitfire Mk.i - Eduard or Hasegawa

1/48 Henschel HS129B-2  - Hasegawa

1/48 Il-2 Sturmovik - Tamiya

I have been eyeing a few tanks kits as well -  in particular of interest are WW2 Russian tanks.

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

Some time ago, I mentioned I suffered a pinched nerve on my right hand on Halloween morning and have not been able to resume modelling. Last Monday I had an EMG test done (not fun LOL!) and it appears I have carpal tunnel. I'm still having tingling and numbness on my middle finger and ring finger and have returned to work Monday. (The doc put me out of work for 6 days last week). I have yet got the results of my EMG tests on the severity of nerve damage on my right hand. There is no doubt in my mind, I'll probably will have surgery - most likely in January at the latest.

I have managed to work on my T-Bolt a little as much as I could for this GB. But dammit! I hate being idle and not doing my models. LOL!

Of course the plus side of all this is staying home and spending tons of time online shopping for future kits.

 

Sorry to hear Black Sheep I have yet  to be diagnosed with CT, I'm having feelings inside of my hands  and fingers that feels  like it is scratchy along with major numbness. Is this like yours? My appt with the Doc is on Dec 4th. We'll see what she says then.

Thanks

Mine are more in lines of pins and needles stabbing pain. Not fun. Not fun this morning for I forgot to put on my wrist brace. Gonna be a real biatch before the day is over. LOL!!

stripes turned out nice.

I had Cubital Tunnel syndrome from late summer 2012 until mid summer this year. Not much fun. It has the same symptoms except that it is from the nerve that runs along the out edge of your arm and primarily effects the pinky, ring finger and middle finger. That nerve test is no fun at all. had me sweating buckets. The only saving grace about the situation was that mine was on my left arm an I am right handed.

The stowage, for the most part, is now done.  Still need some touch-ups, likely add  washes to alter some colour.  Once the tracks are on,  weathering powders will be applied.  Also worked on the streaking of the hull sides.

The items in the front required some scratch building in order to copy what could be discerned from the period photo.   The wrapped rods (possibly the gun cleaning rods) was pretty straight forward to make.  After cutting a section of facial tissue, a mixture of water, paint and white glue was applied.  While still wet, six rods were placed at one end, rolled up,  and placed in position.  

One of the fuel cans looked to be the allied style, so a conversion of a jerrycan was on order, first by puttying in the unwanted details and then sanding smooth.  Intention was to scribe in the new detail, but proved difficult over a combined resin and putty surface.  So I just painted some highlights and shadows to give the illusion of the "X" stamped on the side as well as the seam running the circumference of the top portion.   Stereo wire also provided the lip around the base.  One last detail was removing the off-centered spout and replacing this with a disc punched out of .010 sheet plastic, centrally located.

regards,

Jack

all this talk of carpal tunnel sounds bad.. fortunately, even though i have been doing computer graphics since 1989, i have never had a serious issue with this probably because doing graphics isn't repetitive; break times to think and not the same continuous movement all the time. at my advanced age i am grateful my only "serious" issue is some hearting loss and tinitus.

jack. looking good. how were the tracks secured on the front slope on the real tank? i remember a discussion or reading about stowed equipment on models wiyth no means of attachment as if the crew had a full size bottle of cya. that stuck in my head so now i make sure there is some type of bracket for spare tracks.

Thanks Wayne.

There is a pair of racks on the glacis, each one is holding 4 links.  The remaining tracks look to be joined to the racked ones, via the connectors (or couplings as I may erroneously referred to earlier).   Not certain at this stage of the campaign, but later it was known for the crews to have the tracks directly welded in place.

regards,

Jack

Loving the stripes taxtp. I think I finally figured out how to do the stripes with silver spaces on my T-Bolt I'm doing for this GB. Gotta measure twice, three times and then paint it. LOL!

To clarify what I mean by silver spaces, look here and enlarge the painting.

kiekebusch.com/.../bridge-busters-detail

Thats looks like tough work BSTOF. Thanks for the compliments. Here's some photos  after a gloss coat (Future) and decalling. It's since had the panel line wash, flat coat and the rockets painted, but I'm not game to touch either yet. I also fixed the broken cannons by drilling and pinning them, should have done that the first time I broke them instead of the tenth :)

The squadron codes and serial decals are from a Brengun kit I bought , as it had the full invasion stripe scheme that I sought. The roundels are from the Academy kit, as the yellow ring on the fuselage roundel was slightly better centred on them.

Cheers

Tony

Tony: your Typhoon's coming along nicely!

That's one gorgeous looking Tiffy, Tony!

I'm loving it, the stripes, the decals, the camo, the guns, everything. Nice build Tax.

Thanks guys. I got the job done on it today. I haven't added any wear and tear to the invasion stripes, as I wanted to depict it as on 6 June 1944. I hope you like it.

Cheers

Tony

stikpusher

I had Cubital Tunnel syndrome from late summer 2012 until mid summer this year. Not much fun. It has the same symptoms except that it is from the nerve that runs along the out edge of your arm and primarily effects the pinky, ring finger and middle finger. That nerve test is no fun at all. had me sweating buckets. The only saving grace about the situation was that mine was on my left arm an I am right handed.

The past few days, I've noticed my right hamd is hurting  quite a bit and I'm losing all all my strength in that hand. And yes, I'm right handed

Tax - Very nice. looks great!

Good looking Tuffie Tax. It came out very nicely

shivinigh

Good looking Tuffie Tax. It came out very nicely

What is a tuffie? Googling it did me no good. It gave me everything but an airplane

I just looked at the front page. Helps when you type the right words in LOL. Thanks anyway. Why was it called tuffie? Is there a particular story behind it?

Good looking Tiffie there, Tony.

Also seen it spelled Tiffy - I think it's just a condensed version of Typhoon, and a more affectionate name given to her by it's pilots.  I'm not aware of there being anything more to it's origin.

regards,

Jack

Tony, great looking build. Really nice to see it on the front page. I know your busy with other GB's, but I hope to see you popping in now and again.

Sorry I meant Tiffy but my thumbs went faster than my I did

Beautiful Work there Tony! A superb little Tiffie 

Loving the Typhoon. Makes me wanna build one. LOL!

Off topic update: December 13th is my date to meet with the specialist/surgeon for my next plan of action regarding my carpal tunnel. My feeling I'm going to end up getting the surgery anyway sometime in January at the latest since I'm still having tingling and numbness on my fingers. I've had good and bad days dealing with the constant tinglings. Oh well - I could use another couple weeks sick time "vacation" after my 2 weeks Christmas vacation. LOL!!!