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Damn Women!

68GT

Damn Women!

 

 

 Here's with the first round of the gray marble effect applied.

and then I came back over the whole thing with my Badger 150 with a little tighter pattern for the marble effect. We'll be jumping from here on the rest of the assembly and camo scheme.

Almost forgot.....and for those who haven't seen this part of the build yet...here's the completed interior tub:

that's pretty good ! there

That is nice, who makes that cockpit?

Mustang,

The pre-shading looks good. I know I've seen that office before, and, it's still some fantastic work. 

Decals are on and some clear coat.  Going to start with a burnt umber wash 

68GT

That is nice, who makes that cockpit?

 

hogfanfs

Mustang,

The pre-shading looks good. I know I've seen that office before, and, it's still some fantastic work. 

 

After a good long drying period for thw wash I gave the A-1 a flat coat.  I'll let that sit a while before I continue.

Anybody else  have some progress to show?

68GT

Anybody else  have some progress to show?

 

BTW..your progress is looking swell.

Thanks Mustang, I'm looking forward to some more pictures.

 I spent the better part of 3 hours applying paint. I already know I'm going to hear it from somebody because I've been telling myself all morning long that I must like to make things difficult. I have applied these colors in patches rather than go over most of the bird with the predominant color. I made the mistake of applying the predominant color once on my Stuka and I didn't much care for it because when I went back over the base color with the second camo color it looked to thick. So I opted to do things this way. I've also opted not to put the cockpit on just yet. I'll get to that in due time and in my own fashion...……..the hard way. I do like the benefits of the marble pattern and will more than likely continue that trend. There is a couple of touch ups that I need to do between the camo colors but I do like this way even though it is time consuming. I spend more time masking than I've spent on any other area of the model.

Looks great!  Thats the way to do it if you want to have the preshading to not be hidden.  I'll do this often with WWII german stuff and SEA camo and it's well worth the effort.

68GT

Looks great!  Thats the way to do it if you want to have the preshading to not be hidden.  I'll do this often with WWII german stuff and SEA camo and it's well worth the effort.

 

Almost ready for the painting the lighter undersides of her after some more color border touch up:

I'm back in the saddle again my fine feathered friends.

I've done ALOT of work on this one as of late. The friggin' landing gear legs broke loose from their mounting and I had to re-glue those back on.  I've pretty much completed the camo scheme for this aircraft and have to say that this one goes down as one of the most difficult paint jobs that I've done yet with all the black basing, marbling and masking. Sheesh!!! With all that being said and aside from needing to paint the back of the engine nacelle a burnt black here's where we are now:





and the bottom side.



after the burnt black application on the engine nacelle we'll be off to completing the nose section and applying a gloss coat! My FAVORITE part.

Looking good lm glad you got that undercarriage resolved. that camo very impressive now would you do that black basing again? I haven’t tried it yet.

@68,

The A-1 looks great, I really like that SEA camo scheme.

@Mustang,

Your 234 looks great. I still think that cockpit is one ofthe best I've seen. I'm looking forward to seeing this one finished!

Thanks, I have some A-1 updates also

The A1 is looking very nice GT!

So here is my entry for the shelf...I hope to get her out of space dock soon...

I originally wanted to add lights the saucer section and secondary hull and make the impulse engine deck glow. Access as you can see has been added to the bottom of the secondary hull complete with on/off switch and a means of mounting the ship on a plaque when completed. But now I think I might abandon that approach and just get this thing done. 

It's been sitting for years as I bought it new when the movie came out circe 1986?!?

That bird is coming together nicely Ed.

Mark: Since 86?? Wow! Looking forward to the progress.

Welcome aboard Tomcat, I'm looking forward to seeing some of your work on the Enterprise.

Anybody have any progress photos?  I unfortunatly havn't touched a thing in 2 weeks.

I'm sticking a fork in the A-1 and calling it done after a good dusting and some more flat.

And for my next shelf squatter is a Monogram F-106A.

Just a little work and I went old school with the pilot.

I Finally got around to working on this. I decided to forgo internal lighting as I just want to get this done finally. If I decide I want a lighted model, I'll just start a new model, after all they are pretty easy to find.

Anyway, I permanently glued in the battry cover and sealed in the on/off switch. I filled the seams and rescribed (horribly) the panel lines...

Still needs some clean up and refinement.

Next the impulse engines were to be internally lit. So scrapping that idea, I had to rebuild the impulse deck. Here puttied over and waiting for clean up then some embellishments to be added...

Again still a lot of cleanup ahead, but still its progress.

Looking good Mark,  any kind of progress is good progress