shivinigh

looking good so far Gamera. I have yet to get the nerve to try a dot filter. tried it on a couple pieces of scrap and couldn't get it to come out right.

I tried it once, I couldn't really see any difference. I am going to try some ready made filters soon.

Finescale screwed up and double-posted my reply. Just ignore this post...

I'm interested in the results of your filter as well, Cliff! Your Churchill looks awesome even without the filter!

looking good so far Gamera. I have yet to get the nerve to try a dot filter. tried it on a couple pieces of scrap and couldn't get it to come out right.

Now that looks sweet. Looking forward to seeing your filter comes out.

Ken: yikes, that's a lot of putty but everything does look nice and straight. 

Here is the Churchill with decals, glossy for the dot filter: 

And here goes the dot filter on, I'm kinda a wuss at this, using earth tones instead of stark contrast like bright red or blue. 

No problem. Let me now what you decide and I can add it on.

shiv, I couldn't find anything on the J, but I found some reviews on a couple of other Dragon P-38 kits, so I should imagine they will be similar.

modelingmadness.com/.../rf38m.htm

www.ipmsusa3.org/.../dragon_72_p38l.htm

Not sure how old your kit is compared to this two. The first one seems to be an older kit.

I have Dragon's 1/72 P-38 J. Anyone else done that kit and is there anything I should keep watch for?

Bish

What ever the problems, you seem to have not to grips with them. What was the issue, I am guessing getting the boom lined up correctly.

Tonight, when i had it laying upside, i could tell it was off just tiny little bit. Then I put in the horizontal stabilizer, and that seemed to straighten things out. 

Excellent work, everyone.  As far as I go, my M4 arrived yesterday.  As soon as I finish the SAS jeep I'm working on (which is almost done), I'll start the M4!

What ever the problems, you seem to have not to grips with them. What was the issue, I am guessing getting the boom lined up correctly.

That's not me, that eagle. I do rather like black, and crack on.

I will let you know where you can send the copy right fee.

Bish - yesterday, I was wondering why you had all black space for one or 2 GB Badges, now I see why, Hope you don't mind if I copy your idea. I have always liked the color black. cool idea

Gamera

Ken: I've heard grousing about the wing fit on all three brands of 1/48th P-38. I've built the Monogram and Hasegawa kits and found them to turn out fine with just some fiddling with the parts. After some of the limited run POS kits I've built frankly it wasn't too big a deal!

You seem to be coming along pretty well with both of them though, good work!

Cliff

Well, it had to be an hour and a half that I fiddled with the one boom last, I was too busy messing with it to watch the clock LOL But, I have it pretty well. There are a few tiny spots that will need putty, So i'm not messing with it anymore I think the putty will go on tonight. Too bad there not as good as Tamiya's P 47 wings LOL

Thanks everyone for the compliments. Everyone else's builds look great. Can't wait to see them all finished

Ken: I've heard grousing about the wing fit on all three brands of 1/48th P-38. I've built the Monogram and Hasegawa kits and found them to turn out fine with just some fiddling with the parts. After some of the limited run POS kits I've built frankly it wasn't too big a deal!

You seem to be coming along pretty well with both of them though, good work!

Cliff

I think every Lightning kit has problems with the wings in certain areas.

I had a lot more problems with the wings: One wing had a noticeable gap at the upper surface and the other one had one at the lower part of the wing/fuselage joint. Most of the wing panels didn't fit as well. I'm building the Tamiya kit as well. I have none of the issues with their Razorback kit though, which uses the same sprues for the wings. Maybe It's just a bad mold... I managed to sort all the problems on the upper surfaces out, but I still need to tackle the ugly spots on the lower surfaces. I'll try to spray some layers of microfiller over the problem-areas to partially fill in those large gaps and make panel lines out of them.

And here is the P 38 The Wing Booms were a real bear to get right tonight. especially the left wing

A few people here said the monogram P 38 was a difficult kit. Does this go for all P 38's?

Actually the wings arent really attached (glued) yet

This is the Tamiya kit

Here you can see where the spars slide into in the wings where the yellow circles are. Sorry the right wing is blocked by the P 38 I was working on tonight. but the right is the same as the left. Sorry the circles are so small; I just changed the circles and put in arrows too. I don't know how old you are, but if you're like me the eyesight is getting worse  with age LOL

Nice Ken, you're moving right along there!

Really nice work, Ken! May I ask you how you get those wings on the Jug to fit so nice? I had a lot of problems with mine... (which is strange, because some dryfitting on my Raorback reveals that they fit way better than on the Bubbletop...)

Thanks for the links, Stik! Some really nice information!

Nice progress on both those Ken.

Great links Stik, thanks for those.

Nice progress on the P-47 there Green.

I just came across this website relating to D-Day... tons of great info there

http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/en_index.html

and this section on the US Airborne assault is simply a treasure trove of information...

http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/aeropus/en_index.php

And Now we have the P 38 Cockpit the first pic I tried to get a close up shot

This one isnt blurry,

I finally got some pics of the P 47 Bubbletop. hope you like them, even if there isnt much done on it I hope I'm not getting in way over my head LOL

The Churchill is looking great.

Bloody hell, it has been two months hasn't it.

Thanks!

Gee I was thinking I'm making pretty good progress but it's been what... two months so far...  time flies when you're having fun.

Great work, Cliff!

Awesome Darren, the Spit Mark IX is one of my favorite fighters and going to look fantastic with all the cool stuff added!

Well, added the colour modulation Friday to the Churchill:

Added decals yesterday and hopefully will get to the dot filtering sometime before the middle of the week.