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I'm totally speechless, That Engine is an excellant peice of work WOW

Thanks my friend for the kind words.

Doug

Thank you guys

Agreed, that engine is fantastic.  I love the exhausts.

Now that is how you detail up an engine! Exquisite work Jorge. Just excellent.

Yup, excellent engine Jorge...

Nice work on the engine Jorge.

Be interested to see how you tackle that dio Bob.

Very realistic looking engine, Jorge!  I like the rusted effect on whatever those things are.

Slow going for mine too.  I have the figures for the diorama, but I still need to buy something for the water, and my wife was planning on building a frame for the display.  But all of that is on hold until we get our basement finished.  I'm still hoping I'll be able to get it done before the end of the year.

Hi everyone,

Small update, I am still putting the engine together, installed exhausts and "ring", I may give the exhausts another treatment of black pigments and a black wash to the ring after I install all the small bits that go with it. Almost done with it, just two more PE parts per cylinder and I think three sets of wiring in the back lol.

Yesterday I thought it was a good idea to fit the engine where it is suppose to go, well it didn't go, I had glued in place the to side covers and after looking again at the instruction it does call for engine install first so I had to remove one of the sides to fit the engine in place! Fun! So now I am thinking about completing and gluing the engine in place, then the various covers except the two that are suppose to stay open, mask and paint fuselage. Going to think about it for a few days (my brain works slow).

Here is a photo of the engine.

Like always comments and suggestions are welcome and thank you for looking.

Jorge

No worries ajd, I still haven't started my build yet. I should hopefully be able to start in Oct, just got to finish the Marder first.

I haven't forgot about you guys! I am should be finishing up with my Stuka and Airacobra around the same time, and then my P-51 should be in my next "wave" (I somehow tend to do 2 or 3 different builds at the same time.) So expect to be seeing a blue nosed Pony sooner rather than later.

lostagain

Okay Jorge after your great engine, you have to look away now.

It was only going to be OOB weekend job, but I keep noticing things on the kit that I can fix  up easily...

So I made up a cockpit and added a few things to my sad powerplant.

Fuselage is now closed up, and other things I have noticed  and could not leave alone are the football sized wing lights, the exhausts, the formation lights on the spine a camel would be proud of, the cooler intakes under the wings, trim tab actuators... I need to stop noticing things.

Eagle, well done on the splinter, I always found it harder than the curvy stuff.

Nomad, ditto the temperature dropping on seeing the Tiger, looks great.

Piers

Thank you so much!  You aren't kidding about the curvy stuff! 

Awesome work on the Wildcat!  She looks great!

Eagle90

Nomad!  Dude!  That Tiger rocks!  Excellent job!

Eagle90

checkmateking02

Very nice work, Eagle.   That camouflage is quite catchy and appealing!  You did a good job with it.

Thank you sir!  It was the trickiest so far.  But a very unique one for sure!

Eagle90

Thanks all for the comments on the King Tiger. I was worried how the snow would turn out. I found out how to use baby powder and table salt on the internet. They said to use thinned white glue but I thought of the hair spray. Turned out great to me. Now it time to work on the dio and see if it turns out great too.

Doug

Thanks Jay.

SchattenSpartan

Doug: I love how your King Tiger turned out! It looks like it's driven through a snowstorm! Which one of the pics would you prefer to see on the front page?

Thanks SS. Please use this one.

Doug

Jay: Nice work on that engine! It really looks oily and used!

Doug: I love how your King Tiger turned out! It looks like it's driven through a snowstorm! Which one of the pics would you prefer to see on the front page?

Eagle: I thought I asked you the same question already, but it looks like I never did...

Piers: I just had a look at the Academy kit (I didn't know anything about it because I don't build 1/72 models) and damn, you did a fantastic job on improving it!

Nice scratch building Piers. You have certainly enhanced that Wildcat immensely. Great work.

Hi everyone

Nomad: that snow effect looks great! I was going to ask how you did that but you already answered.

Piers: I cannot look away from all the excellent builds I see here, I will be following yours with interest! 

Jorge

Nice start piers.

Nice work, Piers!  It's hard to recognize this as an Academy Wildcat, your improvements have enhanced it so much.  Well done.

Okay Jorge after your great engine, you have to look away now.

It was only going to be OOB weekend job, but I keep noticing things on the kit that I can fix  up easily...

So I made up a cockpit and added a few things to my sad powerplant.

Fuselage is now closed up, and other things I have noticed  and could not leave alone are the football sized wing lights, the exhausts, the formation lights on the spine a camel would be proud of, the cooler intakes under the wings, trim tab actuators... I need to stop noticing things.

Eagle, well done on the splinter, I always found it harder than the curvy stuff.

Nomad, ditto the temperature dropping on seeing the Tiger, looks great.

Piers

Doug

I was going to recommend looking into the model railroad stuff. There are some great options from Scenic Factory. Look at some images of winter railroad layouts to maybe spark an idea.

Thanks all,

Now it's on to the diorama. Not sure on what I am going to do but it wil be set in the Ardene's. Need to get the materials to make the pine trees and ground cover. I would love to get Precession Ice and Snow but that may have to wait. There is a great web site that has pine tree kits and ground cover material. it is The Scenic Factory. http://scenicfactorydio.com  they have a bunch of things that will make a great dio.

Doug

Excellent winter effects there Nomad. Well done!!

Nice work there Nomad.

That is an awesome snow effect....very lifelike.  Excellent job.  I like.

Nomad

The Tiger looks great!! I'm freezing just looking at it. I can't even imagine what they went through on both sides. I was in a cold weather infantry unit when I was in the Marine Corp and was cold with good gear.