A desert camo Typhon... wow those were pretty rare....

Clemens, I was indeed referring to Gamera with my flying turtle comment. As a youngster I was raised on a steady diet of Toho Studios Japanese monster movies on the local TV stations, so sometimes I  think that everybody else knows them too.

Bitbite loving the sherman. I try to do that colour variation and can't get it right. Two thumbs up for you. You pulled it off magnificently.

Hey Taxtp here is the academy Tiffy that I built in 1/72. I did mine in the dessert camo

I like yours with the other exhaust a lot better though

I think SP was referring to me.

The P-47 was no turtle, I believe it was the fastest fighter operated by the USAAF - a smidgen faster than the P-51.  

Flying turtle? Are you referring to my avatar?

Agreed with the Flying Turtle! That paint job is looking real good so far BB.

She looks great Bitbite, I think you've got the whole pre-shading/ colour modulation thing down!

Base was Tamiya NATO Black (I would have used flat black but I was running low), this coat is straight Tamiya OD, and next will be Tamiya OD lightened with Tamiya Dark Yellow.

At least that's my plan.  If I end up changing it, I'll let you know.  Haven't tried mixing them yet, but I have it on good authority that it should make a good combo for the light OD coat . . . 

Done for today.  Good light in the work area is gone.  Cheers! 

Looking really nice, my friend! What color are you using for this one?

Now it's OD . . .

Grrr.  Looking at the picture I can see I need to fill that seem in the armor plate on the hull.

Just to show you I've actually been doing something for this other than posting here and havin fun . . . I give you, THE BLACK TANK OF THE POTOMAC!  Tamiya NATO Black, actually.  This is the primer and will be my first attempt at "panel shading."  A coat of OD then lighter OD to follow.  We'll see what happens.  Looks a lot darker "in person." *shrug*

Did a lot of tying down of stowage with foil and string today, drilled holes in MG bores (all this as as per Stik).  But now I've got a slight "airbrush high" and am going to lie down for a while. 

SchattenSpartan

Ken: Lol! Sorry about that one! it was kinda late already and I only had 4 hours of sleep the night before...

Not a problem. Joking aside. There is an element of truth there. Well, there is in my book anyway.

Tony: Really nice work on that Tiffy!

Stik: Uhmmm, let me try... Thunderbolt? Nice pics BTW! I absolutely love the 2nd one!

Ken: Lol! Sorry about that one! it was kinda late already and I only had 4 hours of sleep the night before...

Ohhhh, that's awesome! I love the Tiffy, you have to respect any plane with four 20mm cannons, what a beast!!!

I reckon on broke them 5 times between midnight and 3am Sunday. Serves me right ! I broke one of the exhaust outlets too, but fixed it easily enough. Would have been difficult if I lost the part though. There was some inelegant language in use for a while there.

Cheers

Tony

I've built that academy Tiffy and it was a good kit. I think I broke each cannon at least once trying to get the wings on. Tight fit but they fit nice once I got them in. I used the kit exhaust on mine but I like the ones you used a lot better. Looks good.

Not many aircraft say Normandy more than a Tiffy ;-) Especially during the breakout phase...

Looking good there Tony. I can kust imagine those barrels being a bit of  pain.

Bit more progress on the Academy 1/72 Tiffie, it's ready for a wash and some paint now. I cut out the kit exhausts, which were ordinary, and inserted some Quickboost ones. You can see how I had to add some plastic strip to fix where I butchered it in the close up.

It's got a CMK cockpit set. It's didn't fit to owell, as it was too bulky to fit between the wheel wells and prevented the wing from joining to the fuselage. I used my Dremel to grind quite abit of resin of the set, and some plastic off the inside of the  wheel wells.

I've lost count of the number of times I've broken the cannon, maybe 5 or 6....

Cheers

Tony

SchattenSpartan

Please help me out and tell me how I should write it. Confused Austrian here!!! I have some problems with English grammar occasionally (especially when I'm tired...)

The correct way is "There are not enough P 47 Thunderbolts in this GB" LOL

Please help me out and tell me how I should write it. Confused Austrian here!!! I have some problems with English grammar occasionally (especially when I'm tired...)

SchattenSpartan

Ooh, another Tamiya Jug! A GB can't have too many Thunderbolts in it!

I agree 100 percent. But just make sure you use correct wording in front of "too many Thunderbolts" Other wise, the sentence won't be a true statement.

I have a BA in English. So I know about these things LOL

Ooh, another Tamiya Jug! There were not enough Jugs in this GB...

My mistake - the Spit is Hasegawa 1/48th scale - not Tamiya.

1/48th scale Both Spitfire Mk.IXc and Thunderbolt are Tamiya kits

No worries, which kit and scale is it.

Bish -

I have decided I'm not going to do the B-26 Marauder as originally thought for this build. Instead I want to do the P-47 Thunderbolt "Bubbletop" since I currently have the kit on deck. Yes, I'm still doing the Spitfire as well. Thanks.

Oh yeah - this 'Bolt will be based on the 'Bridge Busters' image I came across awhile back.

Thanks buddy! I think I found a filesharing site that allows me to upload all the pics!

Added you shiv.

Some cracking photo's there Clemens. Nice shots of the Strumtiger. But I have no idea how to load all those photo's other than doing a few at a time.

You can start a thread in the reference section and put them all there as I am sure a lot of guys would love to see them.