Shelf of Doom GB 2016-17 (now extended to 30th June !!!!!!!)

They're both looking great so far O. They're very attractive schemes, is that why you chose them ? For me, they both look like great NMF finishes.

Cheers

Tony

Hey FSM,

I haven't had as much time at the bench as I would have liked, but I have made (some) progress on my NMF Thunderbolt WIFs.  I've gotten the decals on, and they're both flat-coated and standing on their own legs.  Just a few small things to do here-and-there, then I can start with the final fiddly-bits.

Anyway, It shouldn't be too long now...

Lady D:

Miss M:

Again, thanks for stopping by.  Feel free to share your comments and criticisms.  Looking forward to hearing from you!

Cheers,

-O

Painting the hull and other vertical surfaces.

I could probably add an 'Old Crow' to this GB as well Bud, but I've got a few more fish to fry first.

That's an interesting fact MC, and your P?E work is immaculate as always. I know its tiny and hard to work with.

Cheers

Tony

Here are the completed PE for the 20mm guns, K-guns and depth charge racks. Man, did these take a while to complete. Not shown are the twin 40's. The mast and stack PE will likely take as long but will make it look sweet!

Interesting note I had not thought of. When destroyers went into a surface battle the crew would place the depth charges on safe. This was to prevent them from exploding and killing the survivors in the event of the ship sinking.

Here's where I'm at with the Mustang.  Originally started for Gmorrison's flash D-Day GB. Academy's 1/72 P-51B.

Hopefully it will be done by the end of the week.

The last picture is fine with me.  Shouldn't be too hard to find one, Revell Germany repopped it several years ago.  Will start on the Mustang in the morning.

Nice to see it done Buddy, and it looks resplendent in it's two tone scheme too. Well done. I think it 's been well worth the effort of completing it. I'll take the last photo for the front page, let me know if you prefer another.

Following your inspiration I nearly bought this kit at a swap meet today. The only thing that stopped me was that it had parts missing.

Cheers

Tony

It's done.

The interiors of the gear doors have been painted GSB and are now drying.  If everything goes as planned, tomorrow I shall have a finished model.  Once the Bearcat is done, I'll be moving on to a 1/72Academy P-51B. C'mon Brandon, get off your duff and get one of your Shelf of Doom models finished.

Just lurking in here since I don't want to touch my shelf of doom project(s) at the moment, but I'm glad to see so many getting built. I did have to laugh a little at the irony of the build deadline being extended for this particular one, and I have to admit I would probably still miss it!

Maybe next time...

Keep up the good work!

-BD-

That sounds like a whole lot of trouble Bud, good luck with it. 

Greg, it's good to see some progress on that. I'm thinking of finishing off a stalled car project soon too.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks Tony.  I dumped the gear doors in the purple lake to strip off my last attempt at yellow.  The problem I had the first time was I put too heavy a coat on of the gloss yellow, and it pulled away from the edges, showing the blue plastic underneath the Tamiya white primer.  I shot a coat of Testor's flat yellow from the square bottle in the hope that it will provide enough tooth for the gloss yellow to keep it from pulling away from the edges again.  Yes, the decals are Starfighter Decals.  They're out of print, but they can be found fairly easily.

Greetings all,

The WIP builds I've seen so far all look great, as do the subjects that actually managed to get finished!

Here are some WIP pics of the stalled Revell 1997 Ford Expedition (UD EMS Sprint car)...

The interior is almost complete with the addition of TufBox & flat head axe mounted in cargo area, seats installed and the light controls, MDT and cellphone mount:

Here's some of the gear (rescue bullet, rope bag, short boards, fire helmet, gear bag and spine board) that will be in the vehicle:

The Vector lightbar w/arrowstik and A-pillar spotlight:

Hope you like the pics, constructive comments welcome....

Oortiz, nice job on the 47s!  Looking forward to seeing the others come together.

Theuns, always enjoy your builds.  The Spit is coming together nicely!

Good job on the Mustang Mongoose.

Haven't been much in the mood for building, but I did finally get the prop and canopy on.  All that's left to do is paint the gear doors and attach them and then she'll be ready to go to Buddy's Used Aircraft Lot and Museum.

I rather used humbrol 163 dark green instead of the normal humbrol 30 wich is way to "blue"

I sprayed the green and brown very thin and uneven to simulate the blotchy way it would fade, I am rather pleased with the results sofar.

Theuns

I'm done! Here's the finished product in BMF...I uswd matte aluminum BMF and burnished it with a popsicle stick. The surface wasn't in great shape after stripping the paint. I sanded with 1000 grit and cleaned out the old paint from panel lines. Almost everything came through the BMF like it should...including the rough surface in places. I had the hardest time getting a good line on the leading edge of the wings. I started with large sections like the wing and tail. Once I got used to the method I started doing some smaller pieces so there was some contrast between sections. I then buffed the whole model with a good car wax. Then I cleaned it all off when I did the decals. My purpose was to redo this and learn to use BMF so I deam this a success. Below is the before pic.

My hand was a tad unsteaddy with the preshading, must be getting old  

Sky tipe S on the inderside, just enough shading showing through to give some feel.



Theuns

TWO DOWN AND TWO TO GO!

My Monogram and HobbyBoss -47s are done!  

Here's a photo of the Razorback:

Here's one of the HobbyBoss Easy Assembly:

If you'd like to see more, you can see the Razorback in this link: Monogram 1/48 P-47D Razorback

If you'd like to see more, you can see the HobbyBoss kit here: 1/48 HobbyBoss Easy Assembly P-47D 

And just to show that I'm making progress on my other two Thunderbolts WIFs from the Shelf of Doom stack, check these out:

I had some problems with the Miss M nose art on the port, but I was able to fix it (as best I could) with some paint.

Lastly, Miss M and her stripes:

Here's Lady D's nose art:

Now that two are done, I can concentrate on the WIFs in NMF.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,

-O

Really glad you found it MC, that would have killed the project. Don't you hate blowing a whole evening searching for something you know is there somewhere !

I hope you can squeeze in a little spraying time Theuns.

I finished my little Airfix British Infantryman. I hope you like....

I thought I lost my PE set for the Johnston. When I put the kit aside I carefully place the PE set somewhere but couldn’t remember where. I looked most of the evening and couldn't find it. Like most folks I put box bottom inside the upside down box top. It occurred to me that I may have placed the set between the boxes and bingo there it was.

So now I need to find where I stopped and continue on. Now that I have a 3 day weekend coming up I hopefully I'll get some good bench time.

Thanx, I got the primer on and I think it is ready for paint. Would have done it this weekend but need to work, so modling time is not to be  :-(

Theuns

Nice to see the progress everyone. That F-22 looks to be a lot of work. The ship and the water base will look stunning I think. That's a really neat look cockpit Theuns, it's come up so well.
Cheers

Tony

MC,

great to see another of your builds. Watch and learn. The ship and setting are very dynamic.

PJ,

Like the look of the Pershing. Is it a dragon kit?

Theuns,

Cockpit looks great. Hope it compensates for having to wrestle the rest of the build together.

The F22 is coming together. Tail is all together now. Took a lot of shims around the base of the vertical tails. Had to put a bit of filler into the leading edge (on the wing too). Not great fit on this kit, not sure if it a tamiya or one of their reboxings.

Next is cleaning up landing gear and doors, rebuilding the bang seat and then on to painting.

Dang Thunes, that pit looks real!

The thing with the Spitfire kit was that all went OK till I joined the fuse halves and glue on the wing. The fit was really bad and there was allot of filling and sanding to be done...this broke my "wanting to build it"

The cockpit is nice, I added some detail.

I now need to blend in the windshield to the fuselage, the fit is poor, but the rear section behind the seat is such a poor fit that the hood will have to be in the opne position to hid it :-(

Theuns

Buddy - I love the look of that Bearcat. One day I'll do one of my projects on this type, and build a few with different schemes. This one is definitely included.

Lostagain - it's great to have you on board. I've updated the roster and look forward to seeing your F-22 get done. I've assumed it's 1.72, let me know if I'm incorrect please.

Panzerjager - that's a good looking project. I don't know much about the M-26, so I'm really going to enjoy getting to know it through your project.

I'm overdue for an update myself. I've been working on the Airfix 1/32 WW2 British Infantryman, from the multipose set. He'll be finished as a Coldstream Guard. I'm going to try and finish it this week as I have another bout of travel next week.

Cheers

Tony