Well the next coat on the decks is drying now. We shall see how it came out... I am thinking just one more...

SP: Again, looks good! The stain on the decks is working great, the second should do the trick.

Wayne: Very cool photos, kinda desolate for me but beautiful. And hope you find that missing road wheel, been there about a zillion times.

Thanks Wayne. The flash from the camera makes them look far more translucent than to the Mk.I eyeball. The wash is quite a bit darker under lamps and daylight. I figure one or at most two more coats will give a moderately weathered look that I want.

the washes really sharpened the deck.

was working on roadwheels and dropped one in the rug. an hour later still haven't found it. plan A is to keep looking, plan B  is have my friend cast one. plan C is minefield. plan D is wait for aoshima JGSDF tank transporter with TYPE 74 and load damaged TYPE 61. plan E is doing a bas eand hiding the missing roadwheel behind something. at least i can silly putty and camo everything  and, with luck, i will find it.

I'll be in for Japanese Pt. IV

A bit of progress on I-19 over the past few days. Fist I painted the wood parts of the deck with Humbrol Oak

and then today I added a black wash of Testors pre mixed acrylic wash over the wood deck areas

I still need to do another coat or two on the wood decks to darken it up some more.

and thank you for the kind words about my builds 

TYPE 82 plan B. the armor screens can't be closed w/o cutting the hinges off. had to repair bottom frame of front windshield and lost a couple of PE wipers so i made something from stryene that looks good enough painted black. got the upper hull on lower hull. may have to nose this one into a crater which was already a plan for a vignette.

TYPE 61 is basecoated. JGSDF GREEN is kinda blah as is the BROWN.  working on the road wheels now.

went  to GREAT SAND DUNES in Colorado for 2 days. hiked up to the top of the star dune Monday morning and we hiked to a waterfall in the afternoon before heading home. got some good pics AND typical modeler also took close up shots of different color rocks, mud, different sand textures and assorted non holiday photos for my base building efforts.

MUD

CRATER

START OF HIKE

TOP

Lol, I think we all do Wayne, too much in my stash already and  I just saw two Finemolds Japanese tanks I don't have at a really good price at HobbyLink Japan so well what the heck I went ahead and ordered them...

i would do a 4.

hell i have enough JGSDF to do my own GB with just me in it. update TYPE 61 is basecoated JGSDF green. working on TYPE 82 . think i will button this one up to finish as i have a second w/ AM in the stash. and i'm not as sore as i thought i would be from hiking sand dunes monday morning.

MC: Thanks, I'll toss out a feeler to see how much interest is there sometime around the middle of November.

Bsyamato: Sounds good!

For sure i'll finish the Kurogane :)

Would definitely be interested in another Japanese GB. I have a lot of Japanese kits to choose from.

Sounds pretty cool Bsyamato, as I said to Model Crazy I'll probably be running a Japanese GB IV if there's enough interest. If you want to start the Kate late this year and finish her in that it's fine.

Great updates here guys 

Not sure about.. probably starting a mini Kate GB in an italian forum i used to write.. if we start soon will put the kate here too :)

Yep, saw it. SP does a great job on whatever he builds. Rick did a sweet job on one too. I only hope I can achieve a fraction of their expertise with my build.

Steve

That's a great kit, I have a half-assembled one lying around somewhere. Stikpusher built one for the last Japanese GB, you should be able to find it over on the armour forum if you want to see it.

Here is what I got done today. I'm going to have to put it aside for the moment though. I ordered a Eureka XXL metal barrel and tow cable AM kit. The kits tow cable was so terrible I just had to. Everything else on the kit is very nice, very detailed.

Steve

I'll finish no problem.  In fact I'll upload some pics tonight.  I also have a Japanese mobile artillery piece coming from Tower Hobbies which will go perfect for the next Japanese GB.

Hey MC, would love to have you, if you don't finish in time you can always roll over the kit into Japanese Group Buiild IV next year.

I'll go put you down now.

Wayne: Sounds fun, have a nice vacation!

silentbob33

I'm out of it for a week and I miss all the awesome work going on.  The sub looks great so far SP. And I'll second Gamera's comment, I had to go back and check the scale on the box for that tank

i agree. the sub is looking quite menacing. 1/72 has some interesting possibilities for dioramas too. change of plans. my frau and i are heading to GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK for a couple of hikes and i have a lecture on the russia/ukraine situation tuesday morning so no bemch time for a couple of days. have a local contest in october so i best be about it eh?

I know you are getting close to the end, however I'm starting a 1/35 Tamiya type 97 Chi Ha for the World at War GB, Can I join up with it?

I'm out of it for a week and I miss all the awesome work going on.  The sub looks great so far SP. And I'll second Gamera's comment, I had to go back and check the scale on the box for that tank

Hey Wayne, looking good so far! Amazing they can squeeze that much detail into 1/72nd!

TYPE 61 is primed and ready to basecoat JGSDF GREEN. i will finish getting TYPE 82 ready and primed hopefully on Sunday and basecoat both at the same time. 6 wheels are finished so it's upper and lower hull. haven't decided how open this will be. i may have it completely buttoned up as i have a second one in the stash and my friend is going to cast a couple of driver figures from the JGSDF LAV for me.

Gamera

Wayne: That Type 61 sounds pretty cool too, did you want me to put that down as well?

hey GAMERA i'm sure to get the TYPE 82 6x6 and 1/72 TYPE 61 done. on the SPAA as soon as i get focused on indy track i will work on that. just annoying. OTOH ww1 presentation is done and club newsletter is going well.

as some of you know i have gotten into 1/72. here is latest.

didn't like open fenders so blanked them in.

She looks good in black SP, seems like all WWII subs would have been painted like that for a little extra stealth at night.

And really wow, I knew they were large boats but not almost as big as a modern attack sub!

I am glad that you guys are liking this. This is how it is looking so far with a base coat of Tamiya Flat Black on the upper hull

and placed on the lower hull

just for you guys to get an idea of the size of this thing, here it is compared with a 1/350 Type VIIC U-Boat

and compared with a 1/350 Flight II 688/Los Angeles Class SSN Attack Sub

She is a big boat, especially by WWII standards...

Bsyamato: Sorry it took me a little bit there but you're now up on the finished page. I liked the dawn/twilight photo though you can't see as much so I used it, if you'd rather have another let me know and I'll swap it out.

Wayne: That Type 61 sounds pretty cool too, did you want me to put that down as well?

Thanx for comments guys 

Stik cool sub you're building, wishing to get an I-400 in future

Good paint Job John

Waynec wishing to see soon the type 61 pictures , i love 1/72 armour 

while i'm working on the JGSDF Type 87 (indy tracks) and the Type 82 6x6 i started goofing with a 1/72 TYPE 61. will post pictures later.

Sounds pretty cool SP, looking forward to seeing her in black on black.