75th Anniversary of 1943 (World at War)

Hey Nick, excellent work on that bird.  I agree with check, the color is great!

CM thank you the sheet is from kits-world war birds it also came with grumpy. I do have the micro scale sheet #72-24 famous B-24 bombers( the witch) form the 90's looks very strange cheep.

Nice work, Nick.  Really good looking color.

What's the source for the noseart decal?  It's much more detailed and petite than many of them I've seen.

clear coated with decals next is weathering ....

And here I though you were going to add the tracks to help get the B-24 through the North African mud. 

You are turning out a great looking Liberator.  What you've got going is quite impressive.  You've achieved a really nice worn and faded look.  Good job!

I painted the underside with tamiya light seagray..

CM thank you this kit has been a challenge.Im attacking this build a little different, but for now I preshaded the top with tamiya red brown then the underside neutral gray. I sprayed the top with a dusting of desert yellow Im thinking of blending in some other colors due to the dusty environment more to follow. I know I left the tank tracks in the pic thats for the 1944 GB king tiger lol...

It's good to view your progress, Nick.  Looks like you managed to merge the nose and the rest of the fuselage very well.

Good job!

great stuff guy's Im getting around to this B-24 painted deiceing boots started to mask small windows props are done I just cant stay focused on this thing.

Looks good, Scott!  Good looking Lex!

Its the Dragon 1/700 Lexington and its a really nice kit.  I was told it was OOP but Scale Hobbiest had it in stock, so I got one.

Which kit is that Scott?

I got some work done on the Lex over the past week, but will be stoping for a while to focus on WW1 battleships.

Cheers Bish and Tony. 

Congrats Steve, very well earned.

Cheers

Tony

Some nice ship builds going on here guys, will certainly be watching these.

Steve, a huge well done, its deffinetly well deserved.

Thanks guys!

Scott, that would have been great, especially if Lewbud and Mopar Madness and come as well, we could have all gone out for lunch.

Congratulations!  You certainly earned it.  

Supercon Ft Worth was this weekend?  ARRRRGH!  I forgot to put that on my calendar, so much has been going on I spaced it off, it would had been a great time to meet up.

I am so happy for you Steve.  Best of luck at Salt Lake City.

Scott

Congratulations 

Check, The Scharnhorst won 1st place at the Fort Worth IPMS SuperCon yesterday. 

I brought 2 builds (1/35 Fieseler Storch the other....won second) and brought home 2 awards.

Now it's on its way to Boise to hopefully be taken to the Salt Lake show....then retired. A far better destiny than the 1/1 scale version.

The Oriskany is one sharp looking ship.  Excellent work!

Looking forward to following your build, since i have a Dragon "Atlanta" and a few destroyers.

I got the kit and signed up for this GB in February, and last night I started on it.  Whew, what a lot of parts.  Where to begin?

The fit on these Dragon kits is really superb.  I used the Randolf kit as a base to build the Oriskany.

Test fitting the inner hull to see how much sub-assembly I plan to do before painting.

Sharp work, Steve.  Nice, neat work!

More gap work and scratch building. The forward windows of the chart house needed filling There was a large gap in front of the forward gun tub and minor gaps that need filling. 

Doc(Steve)

Thanks, Doc.

I used the Tropical Green for two of them, and MTB Green for one.  

CK,

WOW! And in 1/700 scale! Did you use an electron microscope to build them?! Those are impressive to say the least. It looks like you have two in Trop Green and one in ? 

Doc(Steve)

That sounds good, Doc.  Tropical green is a pleasing color to the eye.  I used it and MTB Green on the 1/700 scale PT's.  It will look good on your bigger version, too.

checkmateking02

 

 

docidle

Thanks CK. I’m hoping to get some paint on her this week.

Doc(Steve)

 

 

 

 

That'll be great to see.  What kind/color paint are you planning on?

 

Since this an early Elco 80’, I’m going to paint her with ColourCoats Tropical Green. I want to add some fading and weathering, etc... at least that’s the plan. I have some Model Master .50cal barrels with flash suppressors that I’m trying to get up the courage to install.

Doc