Going to stick a fork in this one and call it done.

Andrew: The mottling looks great, it's just a matter of a little precision and a lot of patience.  

And Merry Christmas guys! 

Thanks, Bish.  My last few days have seen a fair bit of paint going down.  I'm getting ahead of myself a bit, but at the same time I'm working on those tiddly bits such as the main landing gear. 

The mottle went down better than I thought it might.  I basically turned my Aztek airbrush into something of a single action, by lowering trigger resistance, and just worked my way around slowly picking on certain areas over and over again.

Up next is the starboard wing, a bit of mottle the starboard side and then both engine nacelles. 

Then a finish on the tiddly bits and she's ready for gloss. 

I'm hoping you all have a very good Christmas, stockings full of styrene, resin and paints, all the best of the season to you and yours and a very good New Year to all.

Me to guys, I would like to add a 234 to the built collection, but I am hoping I can catch up. Just nice to not have so much pressure.

Nice work on the 262 Andrew.

Bish: Ouch, sorry to see you drop out - was looking forward to seeing what you did with the Arado. Oh well I know what you mean about picking up too much stuff.

Andrew: Looks pretty darn good to me, took me a number of times to get my first NM finish to look 'right'.

Sorry to see you out of this one, Bish, but so many models to build and only so much time. 

I've spent my week working on the port Jumo, pictured below.

And started in on a bit of paint.  I've decided to take my reference from Squadron's walkaround book, for which White 3 is the subject matter, and paint the aircraft as it originally was prior to its' existence in the Duetches Museum.  This means a mostly NMF between the jets and forward of the Riech Defence band.  This is my first go at a bare metal finish, so of course I'm using a bit of Alclad.  I decided on airframe aluminum with light touches of steel and white aluminum in spots to break up the monotony.  Then a a thin and sporatic touching with RLM 76 to represent the original finish.  I'm not feeling too badly about this for my first go at an NMF.

I have also started in with my Montex masks, doing the non-standard Balkancruz.  I'm hoping tomorrow is a little more paint on the other wing.

aj  am afraid I am going to have to drop out of this. I have been looking at my commitments for next year and realised I have really over stretched myself so need to trim back on at least a couple of GB's to give myself some slack. I don't like simply not completely my committed builds or over running the end dates so would rather drop out. Its ben real tough to decide which ones to drop out on, but I have had to be strict with myself.

Sorry for dropping out on you and I will defiantly be watching in. I don't have much hair as it is, and the stress of trying to meet deadlines isn't helping

Thanks guys!

Sharp looking work there Andrew and good idea on painting the Reich Defense Bands- I probably should have painted those blasted yellow stripes but chickened out.

Looking good guys.

That is some nice looking work there, Gamera.

Before I left for work, I got a few control surfaces removed from the kit, got my stabilizers mounted and the rudder into place.  I painted on my Reich defense band bar marking.  When I got home from the months work, I got more control surfaces removed from the wings, and set in the slat mounts.  I've also set in the control surface mounts, though you can't see that in these photos.  I had to do a little fairing in for the slat mounts, and where I bungled the wing root join.  I've got most of my canopy fixed down.  I'm spending most of today building up CMK's Jumo 004 for the port wing.  I hope to have that painted up by the weekend.

68GT: Looks great, the partly folded wing is a nice touch.

Here's where I'm standing, not in much shape to get much done right now but I did spray a gloss overcoat. When I feel better I'm going to try to spray over the yellow stripes. It's hard to see in the photos but there are gaps in the decals.

Well, the site isn't putting up the photo link so I can't post the photo- oh well............ shheeeesssshhhhhhhhhh................

EDIT: Ok, it's working now on the office computer with Chrome but didn't on my laptop with Pale Moon, so I guess posting is a browser issue instead of a site issue.... 

Really like those action shots. Coming along nicely 68.

Looks great there 68.

Got some decals on the Panther and a coat of Future.

So we are going with Bish's badge as the official one then?

One badge  is enough.  I just couldn't find the badge you picked.

I can reuse the photos at  later date if needed.

Ajd

No worries. We have moved a few times in the past 7 years and may move out of State again in the very near future so I know how it feels.

Mc

Thanks for posting Bish's badge which I apparently skipped right over, my bad! They are all very good looking badges.

Thanks Steve. I have added that to my post on the front page to make it easier to find.

Hey guys, here's Bish's patch, not that GT's aren't sweet, y'all just seem to be having problems finding it.

Junkie, 3rd if I'm not mistaking. The whole home buying/moving thing has really put me behind the curve when it comes to keeping this up to date. And for that, I apologize!

Thanks Trey!

plasticjunkie

Trey

Got a Black Friday sale email from Freetime Hobbies and was able to grab the 1/32 CMK resin pit, engine and nose gear sets on sale for the Salamander all for about or less than half price so I got them this time. Last time I sat on it and they went out of stock fast.

Nice score PJ and nice job on the Cutlass!

Thanks Gamera!

AJD

Please  use the first picture of the last post for the completed build posting. I guess I'm the first to turn in a build in this GB?

Hey PJ, she looks terrific, big congrads!

I'll message him and get it posted up! Thanks!

AJD

Thanks. I went back thru all the thread and couldn't find the Badge you said Bish made.

68GT, actually bish had formulated abadge a month or two ago, and I can't get the photobucket link to work for it. That said, I do like the F9F/Corsair one!

Junkie, that thing is SWEET! Great job!!

Thanks bob!

Great work PJ!