FSM New Years Resolution — Build More Models GB

I am calling the shuttle done. After the re-paint, i added some flry wash and then went over that with a thinner coat of the base colour to give a bit of a grubby finish. Some of the panels were done in a slightly differant shade of greay then the whole thing was finished with a couple of coats of Alclad Light Sheen. This has brought out some of the colours and i really like the look.

I also removed the canopy and sanded down the front edge. It was sticking up quite a bit. Its still not perfect but better than it was.

The last thing was to finish off Darth himself, and the figure really shows how big the shuttle is, even thoguh darth would have to duck to get under the front.

So here she is.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the great work come together over the next week and a bit.

Nice work folks.

Got all the antennas on the BUFF fuselage, and the horizontal stabs on.  Wings, flaps and pylons are together. Once the wings are on and the main gear doors are on, off to paint.  Engines are together and seams are sanded, as are the tip tanks.  Not going to make the end of month deadline, just too much going on at work, and add in being gone for four days in the next week.

Pics will be up once the wings are on.

Bish, maybe we will see your shuttle in the next movie, eh?  Well done!

Looks great Bish! And I love your Darth.

Thanks guys.

Well John, you never know, its been a while since we saw one in a movie.

Steve, he is a bit over shadowed by my other one, but i like him.

Bish...brilliant!  Simply brilliant!  Love it!  You are a credit to the Empire.  LOL!  Great base too!

Bobby

Thanks buddy.

I love the shuttle, Bish. I remember building that one back in the day when I was a kid!

I put a couple coats of dark blue on some of the Dom parts:

"Fantastic ,that shuttle looks hmm"

I can just about hear the dark march that playd when the emperor gets off the ramp to inspect his Imperial gaurd in their red uniforms :-)

The water on that carrier build it just so cool!

Theuns

Hi Bish, great job with the shuttle, and good call with a dark base - helps pick out the intersting lines of the subject.

regards,

Jack

Thanks bad. Thats a lot of blue there. Be nice to see all that come together.

Steve, another really nice water build, and can't believe you have done this in 3 weeks. And great job on the Hornet. Had not realised it would be camoflaged like that. Really nice display all round.

Theuns, thanks. Doesn't take much for me to hear the Imperial march

Cheers Jack. For the base i was just thinking of the hanger on the Death Star, but your right about how it helps the kit stand out.

Bish excellent finish on the shuttle. Base is just right

Steve the first plane coming off the deck makes the whole thing look alive

Howdy All!

  I'm somewhat astonished how quick some of you have finished your builds AND with no percieved drop in quality!

I finally called "done" on a few assemblies.  This occured when I finally realized the view through my magnifier wasn't even close to the reality of the finished model with normal vision.  This also allowed me to move past step 2 of the assembly instructions!

I glued in the cockpit and the lower wing assembly and discovered a few fit or alignment issues, mostly from my previous gluing mistakes.  The two fuselage halves are quite flexy without the cockpit bulkheads installed and I don't think I was able to keep the halves in alignment as they dried.

Ended up with a gap on the port side of the cockpit between the headrest bulkhead and the side of the fuselage.  Tamiya putty to the rescue.

Also had a bit of step between the upper fuselage and the wing/lower forward fuselage assembly, noticable directly forward of the leading edge of the wing.

Lastly I haven't locked in on a paint decal scheme yet.  The kit came with decals for three aircraft all in the same paint scheme.  I'm sort of leaning towards the USS Ranger aircraft because it is a bit more colorful with the rudder stripes.  Any toughts?

Real nice there Theuns. I do like that scheme and you have done a great job on the weathering.

Looking good there V.

Ta

Theuns

Theuns, extremely well done Spitfire in American livery.  

Really can't go wrong with Tamiya, and combined with your skills, you have a really fine build there.

regards,

Jack

Theuns, that's a lot of kit to put together that fast!  Nice work!

Modelcrazy, I still wish I could do water at all, let alone like you have.  Nice display of the Hornet.

V737D, theres a lot of parts that have to come together all at once there, it helps to have four hands and six eyes sometimes!  It will look great when you are done.

Great looking Spit Theuns. 

With the American markings it doesn't really look as much like a Spitfire. 

Bish....love what ya did with the shuttle.

Steve....great job on the Hornet.

Theuns...the Spit looks wonderful.

Here's three more WIP pics....

engine intakes painted & installed in nacelles

a mock up of the engine cluster with the intakes/nacelles

more done on the tricycle landing gear

Nice work guys.  I really need to learn how to do the water thing.  My Kfir has been giving me some issues, probably my fault, but I hope to be in primer later tonite.  Really not much to show at this point.  Some of the smally fiddly assemblies are done and the pit has some color.  Anyway it should start looking the part later this evening.

Please excuse my photo quality.  Just happy to get photobucket to work right now.  More to follow tonite I hope.

Thanks Greg. The Viper is coming along nicely. I have just been looking at the Mobius site, some nice looking kits there. Am i right in thinking your doing the original Viper and not the Mk II.

caveman, good to see thye Kfir coming together. I have given up on PB completly, just got sick of it.

I started assembly of the A-Wing fighter. Easy snap kit, not as nice a model kit as I remembered as a young college student. My expectations have changed and Fine Molds Star Wars kits have spoiled me.

I found a new type of Star Wars kit in the clearance aisle of the local Hobby Lobby. It is a snow speeder from the Force Awakens movie. I did not recall seeing it and after viewing some of the deleted scenes from the Blu-ray disk, the scenes it was in were cut. Probably why it wasn't sold out and ended up on clearance.

This is a photo etched kit by Metal Earth, scale is unknown, but my educated guess is slightly smaller than 1/72. Maybe 1/87 scale.

Dang that A-wing PE model looks interesting, I have never done something like that before.

The Kfir is coming allong well, I recall building one some years back and slicing my finger open on the LE dog tooth while sanding !

I do like the blue engine outlest on the Imperial Shuttle, those must be Ion drives right? ;-)

Theuns