Weekend Madness 2013- Completed!!!

gunner_chris wrote the following post at Sun, Nov 24 2013 11:03 PM:                                 

"here is this mornings shot of the greasy auto satellites in space :)"

Had good LOL on that one

Pyr - wow that sucks, sorry to hear that.

here is this mornings shot of the greasy auto satellites in space :)

Love the Hurricane Stik, shame about the last one.

Bad luck on the 223 Greg, we all feel your pain.

I used filler and CA to fill the seams, that paint was just a quick prime to see if they were up to standard.

I'm at T+26.30, 11pm Sunday night. It's bed time. I wanted to get it painted tonight, as I've had to use enamels and I wanted overnight for it to harden a bit before the rest of it. I'm pleased to say I made it.

Preshading, then paint.

Cheers

Tony

Konigwolf13

Had to triple check that pic, first two looks it looked like greasy car parts on the garage floor.

stikpusher

Pyr, that definitely sucks bigtime! May I ask how that happened?

Stik: you may - I went to set it on the box and it slid off, crashing to a tiled floor.  I was planning on taking a few pics before the final paint job.  Maybe, before Thanksgiving, I'll make a stop at HobbyLobby and get a Tamiya 251/C or Panzer IIF and try again next weekend.

BTW, your Hurricane's coming along nicely - the decals looks great.

Had to triple check that pic, first two looks it looked like greasy car parts on the garage floor. Finally figured it out I think to subsections of a towed arty. Looking good, keep it coming.

I couldn't post the picture and type.  Either a it's my phone or that its 5am.  Or both.

Either way above was the initial black coat.

Thank you sir, I cropped one of the photos of your T-80 and added it to the front page. Very well done sir!

Looking good Stik

Pyr, that definitely sucks bigtime! May I ask how that happened?

Tony, I built LK A several years back from the 1/48 Airfix Mk.I. But it was in the colors of I.R. Gleed's Battle of France/Battle of Britain mount . Unfortunately it did not survive the move I made in 2011, when something fell on it and damged it beyond repair. "TWO SECTION SCRAMBLE!!!!"

Your 190 is looking real good there! Are you using paint to fill seams?

I am done for today- final touches tomorrow morning.

pyrman, sorry to hear :(

Stik take your choice of any of the uploaded pics.

Tax, coming along well

Eagle looking good, you look to be in good position to finish soon even with the delays.

As stated here's the other pics

UPDATE:    the 223 took a header of the work bench....heavy front end damage....GAME OVER!

Konig: Excellent job of that T-80! I'm still surprised you got it finished.

Stik, Eagle & Tony: looking forward to seeing all the a/c completed.

Great work Konigwolf, looks like an excellent result.

Stik, I've always intended to do LK-A, love your work.

Great progress guys.

I've got one more photo, it's ready for some pain once I get the canopy on and masked. I've got my daughters birthday party coming up, so need a few hours off. It's not her birthday, but its close to the end of the school year so we have it a couple of weeks early before all her friends go on holidays.

This is quite a nice kit.

Cheers

Tony

Sounds like all the distractions that I had today. I lost about 3-4 hours here, but at least I am near the finish line. Very nicely done Eagle.

Alright!  Here are some update pics for you.  Would have had them sooner, but I have a 10 year old that has been bugging me to out up Christmas lights!  Do I get extra credit fir that?  Anyway, her she is.  The bottom is Medium grey.  The top, well, that will be a surprise.  Letting the canopy get settle on and the tail is drying.  Then I'll mask and do the top!

Allright!!!! Once you get some more photos posted I will select one or use the one you prefer for the front page.

DONE!!! with 5 hours to spare

Decided to leave with post shading and lightening then a quick spray of mud, no wash. Most of the pics I saw while looking for reference image they may of had surface mud but very little grime around bolts etc (looked like many repaints was the case).

Only one pick at the moment. Sunlight from behind the subject making for bad photos will post some more pics after I get some jobs done for the missus.

Joseph, Welcome Aboard!!1 Tahnk you for joining us. I do really like your kit selection.

Pyr, your armored car is progressing nicely. That skunk stripe is all gone now and my Hurricane is looking positively wicked in all black.

Konig, I am looking forward to your finished target (all Cold War Soviet tanks are targets to me )

ajd, I have quite a few Hobbycraft kits in my stash as well, probably somewhere between a dozen and a score. You are dead on about them.

Chris, I cant wait to see your photos... PB has pissed me off more and more in the past year since they changed their format...

and now back to our regualarly scheduled Hurricane build....

Well last night I did an image search regarding some detail work on my Hurricane. (In case any of you missed it)  Low and behold I found a beautiful WWII genuine color photo of the aircraft that I am building



If you look closely, you will see that she has small projections between the canopy and the exhausts- these were strips to block exhaust flames from blinding the pilot at night, so I added some from strip styrene awhile ago.





then I added the wing guns- whose bores I had drilled out yeterday







afterwards I did a quick primer of Tamiya Flat Black in the areas needing it followed by the touch up coat of Tamiya Semi Gloss Black





All ready for decals now. I am just gonna let the paint dry for a few houirs and add those later tonite....

Welcome aboard Joseph.

Everyone's making great progress, keep it up!

I can't get my photobucket album to work right now so I don't have a picture to show you.

I finished last night assembly.

I decided to try a method I read about to paint it all black to act as a pre shade, so I did that, then I got 3 coats of German grey on before I had to come in for work tonight.

When I get home I hope to do the detail painting assuming I can still see straight after nights.  Then when I get up hopefully I can do a white wash for the winter cam before I have to go in again for work.

I agree with you stick. Once you accept a Hobbycraft kit for what it is, and realize its no Tamiya or Hasegawa, you can do some good things with it (well MOST Hobbycraft kits. The decals on some of the older ones are really really really bad.) And if you search alittle, you can get some really bargin prices on them. I personally love them. I have literally almost 20 sitting in my stash. It seriously looks like I'm a door-to-door Hobbycraft salesman when you look in my coat closet.

I appreciate you all making him feel welcome. He'll be on here sometime this evening.I'll make sure that when Joseph is posting it'll be in italics. He's really looking forward to this!

Looks like things are coming along well guys and welcome to the younger builders just starting.

I figure I have nearly 7 hours left, see ya's next update.

Stik: your Hurricane looks interesting with that SKUNK stripe on it!

Joseph: welcome to the GB!

Tony: Nice start on Pips' FW.

UPDATE.....Hour 18:

The upper hull mated to the lower  

Prior to my slumber, it looked like this  

Now I'm off to get de-funked and then watch the Michigan-Iowa game I DVR'd while sleeping.  I'll add the assorted doo-dads (lights, antennae mounts/framecurb feelers, etc) after taking nourishment from Raising Cane's.

I'll update after the game.....see ya!

I'm going to have him tag along with me for the time being unless he takes off after this and then I'll consider giving him his own identity under supervised  posting.

Looks like its off to a good start stikpusher! Hey guys my son was hitting me up about building a model kit for a Group Build. This is as near perfect as I can find for him to start. He is 9 years old and wants to build so why not? We are figuring out which weekend we want to start this. This weekend is half over because I was working today and next weekend we are working on his science project. We'll figure it out pretty quick.  Without further ado (and he will be typing after I give the que here) I introduce Joseph:

Hello everybody! I will be building a Revell Snap-Tite STAR WARS V-19 Torrent starfighter. I look forward to building with you guys!

Here is a picture of the kit:

Thanks guys. I just completed my "honey do" work detail, and am now getting set to go back to the bench.

tax, your 190 is takinbg shape fast now. I love that cockpit! Great work there!

ajd, I personally think that Hobbycraft kits are underrated and underappreciated. I am sure your I-16 will come out nicely in no time. I have one in my stash and will watch how yours progresses. I have not done any Red Air Force WWII birds in several year and am overdue to do another.

Great work on the Hurricane Stik.

At T+12.45, I've got the cockpit done, and the main assembly complete. I added Extratech P/E harnesses to the cockpit, and used the kit decals for the panels. Now for the seams.

Very nice stick. I hope I can do my Hobbycraft I-16 half as good, half as fast.

Eagle, I look forward to those photos.

Well here is where my Hurricane was last night at Midnite before I called it quits and went to bed- assembly about 85% done.

This morning after sanding the wing and stabilizer seams (minimal on both areas- this is a VERY well fitting kit) I added the oil cooler and carburator scoops to the lower fuselage

Alsolast night before bed, I had puttied the gap between the cockpit rear bulkhead and fuselage halves, probably the worst fitting area of the kit, but an easy remedy had this not been such a rush build- I know better for my Hobbycraft Desert Hurricane IID. This morning I sanded the seams, and touch up painted that area. A qiock enamel wash over that after the MM Acryl paint had dried..

then I moved on to masking the canopy and propeller hub & tips, and glued the canopy in place...

It is all drying now and after some badly thought up and scheduled "honey do" chores, I can get the airbrush back out, touch up the black and be ready for decals later in the evening...