Rolling Shelf of Doom GB

WOW!  Great job on the Chi-To!  I like the camo job and the restrained but realistic weathering you did on it!  Personally I think the tracks look fantastic even without the sag!  Congrats on finally getting it done hogfanfs! 

BTW, is that bendy thing on the turret the radio antenna? 

Gentlemen, 

Here is where I had left off on my Japanese Type 4 Chi-To:

And here she is. I'm calling the tank finished.

I added the road wheels and tracks. I used the supplied tracks from Fine Molds, and I really do not like them. I could not find AM tracks for this tank. The stock tracks have no sag at all, and are extremely tight on the wheels. Plus I have a few floaties as well. So, originally, I was going to put this tank on a base with a Japanese Torii, but since it did not turn out that well, it will sit on it's own. I do have a figure that I will finish and then this build will be complete.

For my first tank build in over twenty years, all in all not too bad, and I did learn several new techniques.

Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think.

68GT, hogfanfs, Wayne, thanks for the kind comments.  Sorry I haven't posted an update; the T-34 has since been glossed, decaled and an overall wash applied, but I got stuck on some other projects, so it's on a bit of hold right now.

Wayne, thanks for the video link!  That's a really cool technique and similar to how I do my exhausts.

bufflehead

 I also painted up the exhaust pipes, which I'll install at the end of the build:

Next I will give it a gloss coat so that I can apply the decals and washes.

 

rust looks really nice. here is another quick technique i will try on the mufflers of a couple of "egg" tanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wY1xhHy_1s&feature=youtu.be

I'm in. I have a Hobby Craft Grasshopper, needs the glass and some finishing touches. Also have a Revell 1/48 ME 262. Every once in awhile I'll pull it out and throw putty at it. I hate doing seams, and this one has canyons to fill. 

bufflehead

I also painted up the exhaust pipes, which I'll install at the end of the build:

Next I will give it a gloss coat so that I can apply the decals and washes.

 

Think I'm going to strat with a Fujimi A-1 that I never finished painting.

I really like the paint affect that you created here and your exhaust pipes look great also.

Well I managed to get a bit of work done on the T-34.  Used the black/white technique and laid a base coat of 4BO green.  I used a 50/50 mix of AK Interactive Real Color acrylics, Protective 4BO and Russian Modern Green (see pic).  First time using this paint range and I'm not sure I'll stick with these colors for future Russian armor....just experimenting on this tank!  Then painted the spare tracks, ice cleats, saw and tow shackles dark brown with a little black stippling on them.  Last thing I did was to spray a couple of filters on it to give it some depth;  Sin Industries Brown for Dark Green and Green for Light Green.  

I also painted up the exhaust pipes, which I'll install at the end of the build:

Next I will give it a gloss coat so that I can apply the decals and washes.

WOW, that stincks!  I didnt know the Tamiya putty was that agresive.

I can see why there is a shelf of doom for models.

The rear window sections of my supercub had to  be modified to look like the full size, I had to mask off the clear bits and fill in with putty so I can sand the very poor fit to the correct shape.

Anyhow it seems that the solvent in the tamiya putty blead under the masking and ate a 2mm wide section of the clear plastic. Now I need to somehow sand and pollish this way.

Theuns

badlanguage

If there's room for me to join I have a 1/144 Airfix Saturn V on my shelf of doom. I tooka hiatus after trying to get the F1 engines looking reasonable (and failing). But since 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, I guess I need to finish it!

 

 

If there's room for me to join I have a 1/144 Airfix Saturn V on my shelf of doom. I tooka hiatus after trying to get the F1 engines looking reasonable (and failing). But since 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, I guess I need to finish it!

Here is the revell 1/32 PA-18 supercub I am working on. It was lying in the box with the floor assembled for a long time so now is the time to get it done LOL

The kit has a few issues.

1. The elevators are for a PA-14 cruiser, the PA-18 had counter weights. azy to fix though

2. only one wingtank, again a PA14 thing, the PA-18's had two wingtanks

3. no flaps on the kit wing - PA-18 has flaps

IMG_20181231_071848 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

The model I am doing is a L-18c used by the US ARMY to train artillary spotters in the early 1950's. The later more powerfull Supercubs became the L-21.

Anyway, I had to basically build the whole cockpit from sheet and sprue, the seats, all the tube members ect.

IMG_20181231_071715 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

The red thing on the firewall is te header tank for the engine

IMG_20181231_071800 by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr

Theuns

i am back and this is a good one to start with. i think my last count was 20; some are at the paint stage, some hit that one little snag that makes me put it aside and later i find i have changed interests. 

mostly wheeled armor and military trucks but do have a RR gun under wraps. as soon as i figure out where ito upload my pics, i will have a decision.  

Its not really a fantastic kit, quite basic but then the full size is also basic ;-)

Theuns

1/32 L-18c Supercub, WOW!  I dont think I've ever seen one of those.

I come and play along with my started 1/32 Revell L-18c Supercub :-)

Theuns

That's a great kit.

I had a hard time getting acrylic to stick to the plastic at first for some reson, so I primed with lacquer.

Here is my entry; AMT ERTL 1:32 Star Wars Episode 1 Trade Federation Tank. It is actually less together than I remember it when it went up on the "shelf of doom". I have 2 projects I am trying to wrap up this week and will try to get at this one and provide updates soon.

Armor_Aficionado

Start point on the Pzkw. 1-B (some initial painting and minor construction had been done before it became a shelf queen for the past 20 years):

Armor Aficianado,

Holy cow there IS someone with Shelf of Doom kits as old as mine!  Of course we should not be proud of it.  

I too have a bunch of decades-old kits on the Shelf, but I think the failed GB models should be first in line, to pay respect to all the GB hosts.  I’ll have to tuck in my tail and retrieve them (from the SoD, not my nether regions).

Yep, I got somthin. I'll let you know when the dust settles, put me down though.

This is the toughest GB to do because you put the thing away due to loss of intrest or because of frustration. It's tough to drum up the will to git er done.

Why not? I've got a Revell/Germany boxing of Italeri's A-6E TRAM that I've been hauling around since the early-mid 1990's. I may even finish it some day.

And its still all there after 20 years?

Start point on the Pzkw. 1-B (some initial painting and minor construction had been done before it became a shelf queen for the past 20 years):

Count me in again.   I'll pull my

1/72 Italeri EF-111 Raven in for the the last shelf of doom GB

and a

1/48 Monogram F-5E

ANd maybe one more as soon as I can get to the rest of my SoD.

Falcon

Hey 68, 

Good job on the badges!

I may have to get in on this one.I've got at least 3 candidates but I'll have to make sure I have all the parts. I've moved twice and then moved the kits at least half a dozen times since.

As long as its started and not completed it will fit the GB.

This is my P-3C