Bish

Sound slike a good idea. I have the Dragon 72nd 234's. One of those comes with a 381 which does underneath. But another carries a V-1 which was carried on top, so that could be another option.

 

Ohh neat, maybe that will be a good option, a top load payload. I just love the look of it.
I can already see a whole shelf of mistel aircraft from both sides in my office, possibly the den. 

lostagain,

Looking forward to seeing your work in progress on your MB5. I've never seen a vacuum form kit built. I'm very interested.

Hey Bish,

The Arado looks great, cool camo scheme. The diorama and vehicles have come up really well.  Like the look of the 381 - do one of them!

Dan the T34 is a great build. I like the restrained colour variation and weathering. And yes, the painted number does look good.

The MB5 is coming along slowly - so far all I am doing is scribing back all the raised panel lines. It gives me something to do in the motel room at night...

Looking forward to all the builds...

Sound slike a good idea. I have the Dragon 72nd 234's. One of those comes with a 381 which does underneath. But another carries a V-1 which was carried on top, so that could be another option.

Excellent!
I was leaning more towards the ar-381 as well or something of the like. The kit doesn't come with one. I was looking at the Anteres resin cast but it's $40 alone for that tiny guy so the thought had crossed my mind to scratch build one. It's a pretty simple setup so I don't see it being that hard. I might make a mockup and cast one of my own or rather call in a favour from a buddy who has a casting setup. I reloaded his pc a few weeks ago and he said let him know when I need something cast.

I do like the idea of something mounted on top of the ar-234, the ground clearance is pretty low on the 234. Something like this image but with a smaller payload instead of this high altitude job. Side note, that looks like a great build to do.

Nothing there breaks the rules. If you go for the usual A-Bomb look, it would of course have to be smaller than what was actually used at the time. I think the max load was about 1,500 KG. And i would see it as delivering more of a tactitcal Nuclear weapon rather than the larger bombs dropped by the US or under my Arado.  I like the sound of the ARE 381, does your kit come with one.

So I've been doing some reading for my AR-234 build and am stuck on what to use for the bomb.

Do i just make up something that looks like your atypical a-bomb, or do I go with something like a mistel/parasite remote control bomb much like the ones used for anti shipping and bunker busting or a modified version of say an AR-381.

Thoughts?

Bish would that break the rules?

The 34 looks great, I cant tell if you modulated the color or its a shadow but it looks fantastic. Airbrushing buff work great for a nice dusting, congrats on a nice buid.

Terry

Dan, very nice build, I like the various tones of green on this Russian armour.

Might want to add a little black in the muffler openings, makes it more convincing they are hollow.

regards,

Jack

Thanks Dan, and ye, you should definatly do that.

Great job on the 34, love the finish. And some really nice weathering as well. I have added one to the front page and now looking forward to your Stang.

Thanks Colin.

Thanks Bish: Excellent job on your diorama build, the level of detail is great. A job well done. One of these days I'm going to try my hand at a 1/72 vehicle.

Thanks Jibber, Gamera.

I'm calling my T-34/85 complete, this is by far the fastest model build I've ever done. Took me roughly 31 days from start to finish. This Academy kit is top notch, excellent part fit, very little to no gaps of any size. After I was happy with the painted on numbers on the turret I airbrushed on Tamiya XF-57 Buff, going heavy on the finders, bottom, and tracks. Then going light everywhere else, there's not many recessed areas only behind the turret, I apply my model master washer in there.

The exhaust's are painted with a mix of Tamiya Flat Brown and Metallic Grey. For this model I tried to make a antenna for the first time, by heating up a piece of plastic sprue over a candle and stretching it. Then I cut the piece I wanted to use to size and painted it tamiya flat black. Then I finished it off with a coat of testors dullcote.  

My next model for this 1946 build will be Italeri's P-51 D/K Pacific Aces.  Should be a quick build. 

Bish, one word... Amazing! 

Thnaks Bruce, glad you like it.

@Dan,

Greta job on the modulation of the paint! And great job paint the turret number. The weather looks great! Do you plan to muddy this one up?

@Bish,

The dio did not turn out as good as I thought it would. It's by far better than what I thought! That is a work of art. I was wondering how you were going to depict the trench/hole for the bomb. The whole dio works very well together! Fantastic work! 

Thanks a lot Jack, ye, those figures were perfect for this, as soon as i saw them i knew they would work.

Do you mean the truck at the back. Thats an SS-100 tractor, but this is designed to run on coal gas, in reality it did not have the coal bunker on back. thats a Kora kit which came with the bomb trolley. Special hobby also do one as it was used as part of the V-2 rocket units.

Bish, very nice scene presented here, an extremely well done body of work.  Excellent use of the figures, you made them look like they were specifically for this.  I'm not familiar with, what I think is the fuel truck?  What kit brand is that?

regards,

Jack

Thanks Steve, great to have you looking in.

I love it Bish. You really have a knack of making a scene come alive.

Thanks G, much appreciated.

Very cool Bish, excellent results!!! Great looking 555, vehicles, figures, base, the whole thing!

Thanks Terry. Fortunatly, those particular figures fit a lot of scenes. Unforunatly, you only get one of each in both the Revell and preiser sets. I used all 6 ground from the set i got, so looks like i am going to have to hunt for more.

And thank you, after all these years, i feel things are really coming together. Now i hope i can feel more confidant in how the aircrfat will turn out and concentrate on more interesting scnes and bases.

Wow Bish, I have to admit that I haven't followed our Forums as much as I usually do and really didn't know you were building such a large and detailed board. My appologies, but thats one terrific build! I really love the jet itself but even more, that camo pattern. You've done a fantastic job building it up and painting what looks like a flawless pattern. Every vehicle, figure and every detail stands on its own and how you keep finding the right figures for what you need mystifies me. As usual, you runway bases are second to none and now a built in spot for the ammo carrier, just perfect.

Another one to be proud of Bish.

 Terry

Time to get this wrapped up. While i was waiting for the figures, i did put the bomb troller in its hole.

And with the figures duly ariving yesterday, i was able to get these painted up, nothing to complicated for German ground crews.

I had to do a bit of checking to place the figures right. They may look a bit odd now, but with the plane in place, they are doing a grand job. But you will have to take my word for that.

And then time to add the rest. The Officer figure is from Airfix. I cancelled my plan to add an access ladder as the aircrat is much lower than i had thought so a ladder is not really needed.

Add some chocks and a tool box to the back of the FAMO.

And there you have it. Been itching to build this for ages, so really pleased to have it built. Now looking forward to doing the big Jagpanzer in a few months.

She looks very good Dan, the pre-shading looks great! Looking forward to more photos.

Nice work on the shading and very effective. 

Terry

Dan, she looks really nice. Can't wait to see it done and add it to the front page.

And i should be joining the front soon. Got my figures today, just got the uniforms painted and once i add some detail i can fit them in and finish off the Arado.

Thanks hogfanfs.

Thanks Gamera: Those figures look sharp, wound how much trunk room there is in the Japanese Jeep?

Moff: Your off to a good start, never built a Trumper armor kit but I've heard the part counts can run high.

Modelcrazy: Photo-etch looks great.

Jibber: Very nice finish to your armored locomotive and diorama. The detail just pops out.

I've been away from the group build so my apologies if I missed someone. Work on my T-34 is just about to wrap up. After primer was applied I pre-shaded with model master gloss black #1747, next was the main color of model master Euro Dark Green #1764. To lighten it up I mixed #1764 with Light Gray #1732 in the center areas, and applied Flat Black #1749 to the tracks. To help darken the edges I mixed #1764 with #1749. The tow cables provided with the kit are string, so I replaced them with left over wire from a Dragon kit. After all final touch ups were done I airbrushed model master acrylic gloss clear. As it turned out the decals did not lay down on the turret, they just pealed off. So I removed them and just hand painted them on using Tamiya flat white XF-2, took about five to eight coats.

Terry,

The Diorama turned out spectacular! I am in awe! It all just goes together so well! I can't say enough good comments about it! I still can't get over how well you created the rock formation! Great, great job!

Joe your comments are very kind.

Jack the base has taken me about 5-6 months but the locomotive was only about a month or so. Thanks for the nice comments, I really enjoyed this one.

Terry