Canadian GB

thus demonstrating why i don't do 1/700 ships anymore. might be tough to get another one in given my current GB load.

Since I've been home, I've been working at finishing construction on my Spit.  The other day, I had a small mail order arrive, and I figured since I now had a Perforated Steel Plate base, it was time to get something prepared for the aircraft when it's finished. 

I'd also figured in honor of this being a Canadian theme, I should work that in.

So, here's where my finished Spitfire will rest.

Well been absent for a bit but got some bench time and finally got my little CF-5 finished.

AndrewW - love that 3-colour topside camo on the Freedom Fighter, prefer it to the gray-over-gray that is often seen on them!

As usual.... after the pics are taken, I realized there are a few touchups to be made, the anti-glare black is running up the windscreen framing, and it's bugging me now. And the base, obviously, is far too white, I'll be doing something else with that when I have a chance. Calling it 98% finished! A "summer-quality, oob" build, but a long-overdue addition to the cabinet for sure.









And with photos taken, the fibreglass area on the nose... isn't even, but good enough in-person...

That is some nice looking work, Vance.

Seeing all these photos up, I realized I should put up some of my progress.  It's still a working piece, no where near as finished as the others.  I'm just starting into dry brushing the engine bay, and still have a few markings to paint in.  Then onto painting the gun bays.

So, first off, a few prior to paint.

And now, the painting progress I've made thus far.

I'm not too thrilled with my shading on the port wing top roundel, but I figure with the gun bays there, it should break things up visually and maybe draw the eye away from my poor shading. 

I still have a ways to go, so I'm hoping some time in October I may be finished.  I keep having to remind myself to slow it down and do things right.

the camera will point out mistakes. i use it all the time, usually it's a shiny spot i missed though once i didn't realize i had forgotten to weather one entire side of a KV-2 turret. the trick, like zooming in too far in photoshop, is recognizing what will be seen and what will not be seen with the naked eye. closeups of cars seem to look worse than the actual build.

nice work on the F-86 and the F-5.

Outstanding results on your planes, shivinigh and Vance.  They both look great.  Nice work!

Thanks guys! One note for the rivet-counters - and I really haven't noticed any in here ;) ...

That mark of F-86 was supposedly Sidewinder-capable, the missiles looked decent oob, so I painted them up & mounted them. Since then, going back through my limited resources I really couldn't find any RCAF machines carrying these?

Shivinigh and Vance great work on both.

I updated the front page, but if you want a different photo just let me know.

There is a special canadian category. i put my GRIZZLY in.

Cougar is done.  Though the pictures show areas that need some touching up.

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Along with a partner in crime.

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And my Canadian armour collection so far.

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nice pack. i have an LAV-III and COUGAR in UN white and the GRIZZLY in IFOR camo. late COUGAR and HUSKY in the stash.

Great looking vehicles, CC.  Good work!

Nice work on the Sabre Vance...when are you starting your next highly interesting GB ?

Nice set of vehicles Wayne.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks for the compliments.  The 3rd is a LAV III.  I think it was unofficially called a Kodiak (bigger than a Grizzly).

My contribution to the GB is to be a Hurricane piloted by Johnny Kent, during the later stages of the Battle of Britain.

Here he is.

And his plane, photo and an artist's profile.

And the kit box.

I plan to use after-market wheels, since the kit wheels aren't overly good.

I've decided to also do my HMCS Huron in 1/700 from Trumpeter, too. It will be my first ship since elementary school!

Shiv, Wayne and Vance - sweet builds, all great works representing facets of Canada's military hardware. past and present.

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Due to the looming deadline, I don't think six weeks is enough time (for me anyways), to do justice to the Typhoon fighter I had planned.  I will replace with a Sherman Firefly, based on Tamiya's 1/48 Ic.   Tankworkshop's resin M4A4 resin set will be used to convert to the Vc type.

regards,

Jack

thanks. was thinking about adding another build but just saw the date. so i'ts only 5 GBs in progress for now.

Progress on Johnny Kent's Hurricane.

Landing gear:

Horizontal stabilizers attached to fuselage:

Seat belt with harness made from painted masking tape and decorated with metallic ink:

Metallic ink; what an awesome idea!

Cdn Colin

Metallic ink; what an awesome idea!

A few "in-progress" photos, but not many since we had computer issues and I don't know what happened to the rest of them.

The masked canopy:

The prop backing plate masked:

The undersurfaces painted WEM's Sky Type S:

Final photos of the finished product.  The camouflage is all WEM's versions of Dark Earth, Dark Green and Sky.  I used thin acrylic washes from cheap craft paint sourced from Michaels around the raised panel lines. 

Decals came from Techmod, and were kind of tricky.  If they folded over on themselves, they were impossible to untangle.  They didn't work well with MicroSet, so I settled them with plain water first, then applied MicroSet.  After an hour, I used MicroSol, and pressed them down into place with a damp q-tip (or, do you say "cotton bud"?).  The decals also tended to break off little pieces after they were applied, so I had to do more touch up than usual with acrylic craft paints (which matched reasonably well).  Anyway, I lost a few in the process, including both of the black wingwalks next to the fuselage.

Flt. Lt. J.A. "Johnny" Kent flew this plane with 303 (Polish) Squadron in September, 1940.  His autobiography One of the Few makes interesting reading.

I was glad to have the opportunity to build something Canadian.  Thanks very much.

cmking02 - nice one, eh?

A really fine job on this Hurri, everything looks spot on for this representative of the BoB period.

Any info on what the diagonal red slash was for?

regards,

Jack

Thank you, Jack.  According to Osprey's Hurricane Aces 1939-40 (pp. 126-27), the red stripe signified that the aircraft was assigned to the flight commander--J.A. Kent himself.

Johnny's Hurricane was one of five received by 303 Squadron on 7 September, 1940, to replace losses incurred during the unit's first week of intense fighting.

Johnny was flying V6665 when he scored his first victory on 9 September (a Bf 110C).

V6665 was lost on 27 September, while flown by Sgt. Tadeusz Andruszko, victim of some Bf 109E's over, ironically, Kent.  

That's an awesome job on the Hurricane!  Here's my next submission:  Trumpeter's HMCS Huron in 1/700.  It's the first ship I've done since before I was in high school.  It was a bit tedious at times, but I'm happy with it overall.

Colin: nice job on the Huron.  Well done!