so I have finally gotten some bench time...it's been a while!  I've been peeking in and have seen a lot of great work put out...well, except those that are dealing with that PhotoBucket crap....

Anyway, I wasn't pleased with the clarity of the canopy and various pieces of glass, so I decided to put some Tamiya smoke on them, so when that has time to dry, I'll aply the masks that I got for them, and get the framework sprayed....

I also got the propblur props painted and applied.  

I began work on the water splash from the released upkeep bomb with a bit more work to do, but I mocked it all up for a few photos..

Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr

Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr

Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr

Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr

That is one cool looking Tornado Steve. Love the tail art!

Steve... that is one fine looking Tornado!

Jack, Bish, BK, Check, Damion, thanks.

Damion, thank you for the compliment. These are just some new techniques I recently tried like black baseing and pastel wash. I have come a long way in just a couple of years thanks to all the great members here.

Bish,

After several ww2 models, I too feel a change is in order. I just hope I can do a good job.

I would really like to do a WNW 1/32 one day...

Damian

Steve,

Another award winning build, fantastic work! One day I may be 1/100 as good as you.

Damian

Just tried PB again and it's on strike and customer service is not responding. I'm out of town for a few days. When I get back I'll have to find a new service: the gents here have mentioned several I haven't heard of.

Eric

Damian:  thanks for the intell.  Years ago I had one of Revell's 1/28 Camels in Billy Bishop's markings.  Certainly he was a great Great War flier.

Steve:  another great airplane; well-done!  Really looks exceptional.

Very nice, Steve. That Nado looks great.

BK

Awsome build Steve, and a great recovery after the wheel well incident. And yes, a very appropriate scheme.

I think you deserve a break from the GB, look forward to seeing back after the val.

Hi Steve, terrific work on your Tornado. 

Really like that tail scheme, resonates with our topic here of being an anniversary celebration.

regards,

Jack

Bish,

I'm done with number three. This was a nice little kit although I did run into some issues. The pitot kept breaking off so I eventually replaced it with a pin and of course the wheel well dislodging into the closed fuselage. Since it started out as an Italian bird the kit was missing the ECM jammer and chaff pods, oh well.

I'l be starting on the Hurricane after I finish the Val that's on the bench.

I've just noticed some of the pics on the front page have been effected by Photobuckets current goings on. So Eagle, Johnny, Toshi, if you could re post a pic useing your new hosting site, or if you prefer you can just e-mail me one and i will host it. If the latter, PM me and i will drop you my e-mail.

Thanks guys.

Rigidrider

PhotoBucket about 3 yrs ago started limiting the "Free" storage to next to nothing, and then started charging for it, I went to Flickr... 1TB storage for free, Not realizing how much a Terra Bite is at the time, I have over a thousand photos in Flickr storage, and have JUST used a full 1 percent of my TB. Hope they don't start like Photo B did. 

Guys... SO much going on here... PLEASE don't take offence If I forget anyone, But MAN... This is one hot GB!!! What work is taking place! WOW...

Well OK then, Guess I'll post somemore too...

OK, Got all the doors and the gear on.

And the base coat of green.

And thats about it for now. Thanks and take care all!

Doug

 

 

Really like that in the green, this is going to look so good in that scheme. Great work.

damouav

So apart from re-establishing all my images links, I have my new build ready to start;

The 1/48 Roden RAF S.E.5a Wolseley Viper

I will use a mix of MRP and Tamiya paints, try my hand at wood effects and rigging for the first time and most importanty have fun in the process.

 

 

 

Looking forward to that one, good to see some more early stuff.

I have a nephew called Billy Bishop. I don't think he is named after the pilot, my Brother isn't a history or aircraft buff, but still nice to see one of his aircraft.

CM & Doug, Thanks.

The chap in the picture is William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED a Canadian flying ace credited with 72 victories in WW1. He served form 1914 - 1918 and then from 1936 - 1944 a very distinguished flying career.

Even though he is a Canadian... he has my upmost respect for his valour, and will model my S.E.5a with his markings.

Thanks Damian, CMK, 

Damian... Love the old WWI aircraft, Looking forward to seeing it built! 

Take care ...

Doug

Nice work, Doug!

Damian:  looking forward to this; whose the pilot pictured on the box?

So apart from re-establishing all my images links, I have my new build ready to start;

The 1/48 Roden RAF S.E.5a Wolseley Viper

I will use a mix of MRP and Tamiya paints, try my hand at wood effects and rigging for the first time and most importanty have fun in the process.

With all this time wasting with photo"cr*p"bucket going on it has taken me away from why I posted here in the first place, as Doug has kindly pointed out.

Doug - What a brilliant job you have done, I can't wait to see her with decals on standing proud! Excellent work.

plasticjunkie

 

 

damouav

PJ,

As a matter of interest what are the monthly/yearly fees?

Thanks

Damian

 

 

 

 

I was paying $19 a year for the last 3 years and they jacked it up to $38 a year. I bit the bullet cause it's really eay to use, has some nice features and works 99.99% of the time. I can only remember one time in 4 years they had an issue and was resolved in a couple of days. 

 

Thanks PJ.

Don has gotten Google Photo to work and as I beilve in their model and I will stick with it, even if free becomes a paid option. Appreciate the information all the same, thank you.

PhotoBucket about 3 yrs ago started limiting the "Free" storage to next to nothing, and then started charging for it, I went to Flickr... 1TB storage for free, Not realizing how much a Terra Bite is at the time, I have over a thousand photos in Flickr storage, and have JUST used a full 1 percent of my TB. Hope they don't start like Photo B did. 

Guys... SO much going on here... PLEASE don't take offence If I forget anyone, But MAN... This is one hot GB!!! What work is taking place! WOW...

Well OK then, Guess I'll post somemore too...

OK, Got all the doors and the gear on.

And the base coat of green.

And thats about it for now. Thanks and take care all!

Doug

modelcrazy

BD that image is HUGE on my email. Is there a way of making it smaller?

 

Of course it's huge - it's a WHALE!!!

Lol, yes. When embedding from Dropbox, it puts the full image into the email, whereas theback end on the FSM forum was resizing the embedded images from PB. WHen I make my images for sharing, I'll just make sure I size them to a reasonable 700x700 pixels, so they are big enough to see, but not massive like the whale ;)

-BD-

BD that image is HUGE on my email. Is there a way of making it smaller?

checkmateking02

Maybe it's just taking them some time to track us all down

one

by

one!

 

Crap, Sherlock's on the case, we're screwed.

Oh, how 'bout that - it's pretty easy to do with Dropbox (though there is a small change in the share image code you need to make (change the ending where it says "?dl=1" to "?raw=1"

-BD-

plasticjunkie

 

 

damouav

PJ,

As a matter of interest what are the monthly/yearly fees?

Thanks

Damian

 

 

 

 

I was paying $19 a year for the last 3 years and they jacked it up to $38 a year. I bit the bullet cause it's really eay to use, has some nice features and works 99.99% of the time. I can only remember one time in 4 years they had an issue and was resolved in a couple of days. 

 

Thanks PJ, $38.00 a year doesn't sound too bad- I'd go up ten bucks a month or so. I can't see four-hundred a year though. PB recently reminds me of the folks who had the goose that laid golden eggs that got greedy and killed it... 

BrandonD

Bye, Photobucket. The slow load times, ads that won't close when the X is clicked, and general garbage design was usable while it was free.

Now they won't get my money on principle.

-BD-

 

Bye, Photobucket. The slow load times, ads that won't close when the X is clicked, and general garbage design was usable while it was free.

Now they won't get my money on principle.

-BD-

Maybe it's just taking them some time to track us all down

one

by

one!