Shiv, I went and a look at some WWII photos. The wing invasion stripes should start immediately outboard of the engine nacelles.

Shiv: Went back and looked at some of your earlier posts I missed on your P-38- excellent work, love how she's coming out!

Thanks guys. Going to redo a bit of the white on one wing and get the landing gears on later today. Hope I put enough weight in the nose

Very nice work on the stripes there Shiv.

Shiv, neat work with stripes, and looks like you successfully tackled the contours over the boom.

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Gamera and Shiv, thanks for the comments on the Sherman Vc.  Yes, I've used the four long sections of Tamyia track to speed up the build.  I  also would of been short in links had I relied just on the resin ones.

regards,

Jack

Pretty good result Shiv, well done. A P-38 is harder than a Tiffie, for sure, so I got it easy.

Cheers

Tony

And after all the masking is removed

Only have a bit of touch up to do on the striping in the wing and one of the booms

I commented on the excellent Sherman elsewhere. Shiv, good luck with the masking. It looks ok so far. My preshading is always sloppy, you get plenty of opportunity to fix it later one.

Cheers

Tony

nice work there Jack. Are you combining the Tamiya links and resin links?

quick update on my P-38. Have the base white and invasion stripes masked off over a very sloppy pre-shading. The stripes on the booms are 9mm and the wings are 8.5mm in width. Here's hoping that I measured properly.

Again great work there Jack, the colour modulation/streaking/ weathering on the tracks and the hull look perfect.

This weekend was spent on the tracks.  To expedite things, I utilized Tamiya's longer length track sections (green plastic).   The different tread pattern is not really that noticeable under the hull sponsons, and those touching the ground can only be seen if the vehicle is flipped upside down.  The front spockets themselves were used as a jig for the individual links, and after the crazy glue had dried, there was no problem removing the assembly, though it is a tight fit.  Same premise on the idler end.

Painting begin first with a grey primer, followed with a full coating of AK acrylic chipping colour, applied with an airbrush.  Flory Sand wash was applied liberally over all.  Tread highlights from regular wear, were picked out with Tamiya's metallic grey.  Another thicker wash was applied by adding some raw umber powder to Flory's Sand wash.  Again, once the track's are in place, some lighter weathering powders will be applied.

regards,

Jack

Cliff, I was trying to remember the last time I painted invasion stripes, I was just a kid because it was sometime prior to 1983. They weren't as bad as I had spent the last 30 years avoiding. :)

Cheers

Tony

BlackSheep: That sounds pretty nasty, good luck with your surgery!

Tony: That is some sharp work! Wish I could get my invasion stripes to turn out half as well!

Thanks Black Sheep, and good luck with the carpal. I had tingling down my arm and hand for three months once, eventually they worked out that I had two long term wedge compression fractures in my neck.

Long story short, I was lucky to get a good physiotherapist sort out some muscular issues, and the tingling went away, and ten years down the line, no more trouble from my neck.

I hope you get as lucky, or find some relief and put it behind you.

Cheers

Tony

That doesn't sound very nice BlackSheep. Hopefully it will all get sorted.

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!!!

Beautiful Work there Tony! A superb little Tiffie 

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

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.

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

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 Tuffie Tax. It came out very nicely

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!

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

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

That's one gorgeous looking Tiffy, Tony!

Tony: your Typhoon's coming along nicely!

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

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

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

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!