Duck Hunter GB

Looking great, Tony!

Greg: Nice work!

Taxtp!  Dude!  That rocks!  What an awesome build!  I love the weathering you did.  It's spot on!  Great job!

Let me know or shot me the pic you'd like posted and I'll get her on for you.  Again, awesome work my friend!

Eagle90

Thanks Clemens and Eagle.

Please use the first photo Eagle.

Cheers

Tony

Tony, you're updated!  Again, great job!  That's three......you know you want to do 5!!!  

Eagle90

tony that turned out really nice. i suspect these didn't get ad beat up and weathered as tanks which is nice to see. guess i best be about it to get caught up.

got some work done on FLAK 36 88mm. should be able to prime all the subassys on sunday, think i;m going pz gray at ploesti so a definite AA emplacement. not sure about the crew but may do them for the practice

Tony: you did a great job on the Modelwagen!

Tony, awesome job on the Mobelwagen. Love it. Ye, I think a little break from Flak Wagons is a good idea. Still plenty of time for 2 more.

By the way, are you still working on the Jag for the Gift GB.

sorry that I haven't posted anything lately but work decided to put us on a 6 day week schedule. I have been following the post though and I have to say that everyones builds look amazing. Deffinatel raising the bar for me to do better on my builds.

I have got some work done on my SA-2 trailer. nothing is glued together yet so the missile, the rail it is sitting on and the trailer are just sitting there.

LOL yes I was drinking a beer while I was working

No problem Shiv, life has a habit of doing that. That thing looks pretty big, but it doesn't look like the Black Stuff has had any adverse effects.

Unless of course that's meant to be the Momsen.

Shiv....looking great man!  That is a good size missile too!  You're doing a smashing job!

Eagle90

Great work, Shiv!

Impressive missile Shiv,  I wish I had one that big :)

Cheers

Tony

Bish

Tony, awesome job on the Mobelwagen. Love it. Ye, I think a little break from Flak Wagons is a good idea. Still plenty of time for 2 more.

By the way, are you still working on the Jag for the Gift GB.

Thanks Bish. Yes, I'll pick it up soon and finish it prior to the deadline. If I can I'll spray the next colour this week or next.

Cheers

Tony

worked on DANA for a bit and painting was going well so i basecoated my 88 with pz gray. have some clean up on the gunshield as some sink poles are still visible. this is the early '80s kit and i pulled out the instructions for the DRAGON kit to compare.

Looking good Wayne!  

Eagle90

Sorry wayne, missed your up date. Always nice to see some paint getting added. Nice work.

Ok, I wanted to do something fairly easy for here- thought about my Tamiya Flakvierling... but somebody is doing one of those here.... then I thought about doing my Tamiya Flakpanzer Gepard... but somebody here is doing one of those too... then I thought of something else, but it was abit more involved and I wanted to do something quick to get on here. So a couple of weeks ago at my storage unit I found this...

so I pulled it out of storage and today I started work on it earlier today. First I built the Dshk. Dragon did a very nice job on it, although the cradle mount is not a good fitting assembly...

Then I began work on the  crew...  gunner (who needs work on his hands to fit the spade grips

and the team leader

Yankee Air Pirates!

Nice one Stik, something different.

That is what I wanted for here- something different.

well this is what I wanted- a quick build. I finished the assistant gunner today. These Chicoms are easy 

so my A-gunner was done quickly... although I did cheat a bit and use my Dremel to open up the sleeve cuff a bit...

after that I filed the fingers on the hands of the gunner enough until they would fit over the spade grips... and here is the completed gun and crew...

I have also added some stretched sprue into the sight rings of the Dshk but need to get a photo of that later... all ready for paint now....

Nice work stik, like what you did with those cuffs.

Thank you sir. Painting on these guys should not be too hard... pretty monotone actually...

I am goingg to guess they are very similar to Soviet uniforms.

Pretty much so. I have not done any color image searches, but in B&W photos they look very similar to the Soviet quilted unifrms of the same type. Except that the Chinese wore rubber soled cavas shoes a lot like Converse sneakers insead of felt boots.

no worries. i have been off the grid for a bit. FLAK 36 is coming along nicely for an older 1st edition (instructions are in japanese but i have a second and also a dragon kit. besides that's what pictures are for). will be starting a JGSDF TYPE 87 SPAA (2-35mm) first of jan and picked up an SDKFZ 7/1 20mm(4) anf an AFV CLUB SDKFZ 251/17 20mm.

the 88mm has an oil wash of raw umber with some yellow most of which is hidden by the dust. which is a mix of light gray, golden ochre, and nougat. it is a lot dirtier than planned but that is ok. getting towed behind a halftrack will do that and they certainly didn't have water to spare. as this is primarily an AA role it isn't beat up with chipping or rust. i may keep the shield off but i have to but a shim in the left accumulator to push it out a tad.

wayne, nice work on that. Seeing as that kit is a tad over 40 years old, its still a really nice kit. Are you doing the 36 or 37 version. I know eagle is having fun with his.

Stik, ye, those uniforms defiantly bear a striking resemblance to the Soviet ones, I think its the hat's which really do it.

Wayne really nice looking 88, I don't think it's too dark at all. I think the oil wash and the dusting really works. Nice..

36. think i am leaving the shield off and building a wood sided emplacement with the 2 trailers parked to the side. building the base is going to be fun

well that was annoying as hell. i did shim the left accumulator so it looks ok but, in doing so, i noticed some hollows and sink wells on the inside of the left and right trunion mounts. with the shield and direct fire mode they wouldn't be seen but i am leaving the shield off and having the gun at 70 drgrees so there they were. i cut some styrene and glued over the holes. between gray paint washed with raw umber and dirtied up they will look fine. everytime i fix one of these problems i learn something for  the next build and gain more confidence in my ability to fix things. i had to build a 3 piece part for my DANA.

even though this isn't on my list and i have to build a base i'm calling it done. the base will  have concrete or wood interior walls. ammo bunker in the rear and access paths to hook up thr gun for transport.haven't decided on a crew as yet.