Weekend GB 2019-See you in November!

SD and Mach, 

I've updated the frontpage with your builds. I look forward to them.

The kit muzzle brake was poorly molded:

So I replaced it with one from a PaK 40 in my spares box:

Assembly was completed:

Then primed with Vallejo Red Oxide Primer:

After letting the primer dry overnight I painted it with Mission Models Panzer Grey:

Finally I sprayed a lightened panzer grey on the centers of the panels and the highlights, painted the tires rubber black, used the red oxide to create wear on the high points and corners, and then dry-brushed with Light Sienna Weathering Powder from Vallejo.

Proof of completion:

Final pictures:

I had quite a bit of trouble with water in the airbrush during priming/painting, but other than that things went quite smoothly even when I got called into work and lost 12 hours. Lewbud; you can use the first or second pictures for the fron page. Now that I am finished with this one it is time to get to work on the Huey.

Congratulations SD! I look forward to your Huey!

Nice work there SD and Ernest, good detail and nice paintwork on both models.

So Ernest has reminded me I didn't do my beer and a build picture, so I am going to have to do another one.

Tamiya 1/48 Hetzer. Started 6:07 this morning.

6 hours n ready to start painting:

14 hours, two coats down

lewbud

Congratulations SD! I look forward to your Huey!

 

Unfortunately I forgot that we had plans for Christmas so I did not even finish the building in time. I will post pictures as I continue, but I am working on the twelve days challenge right now.

Hey all-hope everyone had a happy holiday. I finally got to feeling better & finished the vacation trip to Dallas-back in town for awhile....anyway, got started this afternoon.  Little change though-building the Revell 37 Ford Pickup-newer molds so I figured things would go together better than a 40 year old MPC kit...

Waiting for Tamiya spray can primer to gas off before starting painting-Tamiya acrylics is the plan-gonna try to paint the body here in a few hours.

Updated the front page with Lost and Bob's builds and SD's pic. Keep at it guys!

Bob, that looks like a good one, looking forward to that.

The Hetzer is complete!

This is how the camo was formed - not a great way to work to a time limit - took me 90 minutes to mask each time!

MIdnight and the camo is complete

Weathered, assembled, touched up and complete with a few hours to spare. I will do some proper photos tomorrow night. Cheers!

Well done Lost! Looking forward to the pics.

How's it going Bob?

Great job Lost-very nice job of weathering on the Hetzer-and I love the camo scheme.

Lewbud-I think it might have been Chuck Yeager that said it best-something to the effect of always have an escape route planned.  Not happy with how the paint turned out on the Ford pickup-however, I do have a backup plan-the OLD AMT/Ertl/Otaki P-47 Razorback 1/48-I had planned on building it but then decided not to-not a bad looking kit-not Tamiya but it does look like a P-47.  Just started and primed everything-will be using Vallejo Model air paints so it needs a primer.  I am off work until Thursday so I should be able to devote time tomorrow & Tuesday if needed.

Bummer about the truck Bob. Got your build updated.

Hey Bob, good to see you have a plan B, let's see how it goes...

Here are the good looking photos:

And of course for Ernest, my build and a beverage photo - Kampei!

Lewbud, I think that in your excitement\derangement getting this thing of the ground you made the badge so small that it does not show up on the computer. Either that or someone decided that they could keep us all sane by hiding it. Either way it would be nice to have a certificate of our collective insanity to display.

SD,

I have no badge for this year's build. I don't have a personal computer, so I've usually put out a call and asked for help in creating a badge. If you have the talent, please feel free to create one and share it with the rest of the group (I can't remember if I did so this year). The only thing I ask is that you (or whomever does it) try to keep the Calvin and Hobbes theme going. Retreads of past badges is fine with me.

Front page has been updated with Lost's finished Hetzer.

Made some progress-in between other activities-got interior finished, fuselage buttoned up-fit not as good as it was during dry fitting-tried to fix the worst of them but not going to devote a lot of time-got the neutral gray sprayed & the canopy masked-hope to spray the OD early tomorrow but I doubt I'll make the 48 hr goal...but it's good to get back at the bench...

Ran out of time-too many outside activities but it's been a good holiday break.

Waiting for Future to cure-applied earlier this am-then decaling, dull coat and attaching the small bits-hope to complete by tomorrow evening.

Bummer that you didn't make the deadline Bob, but keep at it! I don't think I've seen a yellow nosed T-bolt before. That's cool.

Thanks Lewbud-the plane is supposed to be a Bomber Formation Monitor from the 467th BG-ran into the problem of some of the key decals disintergrated upon touching water-ended up mixing decals from the two planes on the decal sheet.  Will hit it with dull coat in the am and should have the little bits attached tomorrow.

Hey guys.  I hope you all had a great holiday and a Happy New Year to all.

I have been watching and enjoying your work but have not been able to participate yet.  Long story short......I had a heart attack.  Knocked me out of commission for a bit.  Worse still has been getting used to the meds. which have left me quite beat up and drained.

I am however ready to give it a try now, so if we are still going, I will start sometime tomorrow.  Charging the batteries for the camera now.  Looking at the finished list I see no civillian wheels yet, so a 1/24 1994 Tamiya Toyota Supra Turbo will be first up.

Till tomorrow.......

Caveman,

Sorry I didn't respond sooner, but yes we are still going so whenever you want go for it!  Sorry to hear about your heart attack, but glad you are with us and adapting to your new circumstances.  Looking forward to your build.

SD - great work on the PAK 75!  I have the MM Panzer Gray paint, but haven't used it yet.  Looks very nice on your PAK - I may have to give it try soon!

lostagain - I love how your Hetzer came out!  Fantastic camo job....that disc pattern is not easy to pull off, especially in 1/48 scale!  Is that sake in the celebration pic!!

bob - the T-Bolt seems to be coming along nicely!  Might not make the 48 hrs, but I'm still eager to see her complete!

caveman - good to see you back and sorry to hear about your HA.  I totally understand what you're going through, I had one myself 10 yrs ago.  It did sideline me for a few weeks until I felt good enough to get back to the bench, so take your time and keep your health foremost. 

Lewbud - I think that's it for me.  Looking at the calendar I don't think I'll have a straight 48 hrs free until the end of the month.  Too bad....I really wanted to do an AC for my 2nd entry.

Ernest, 

I totally understand. You got one done and had fun, that's all that matters.  I know I've got Saturday-Monday clear for my second and final attempt. Unless things pickup, I may call it done in a couple of weeks.

Well, for better or worse, here's mine. I wound up switching to the Special Hobby EMW A9 since I needed a change of pace from jets.

And we're off!

Fuse glued up with pit installed. Pit was beyond minimal, but is largely invisible so there were no heroics to raise the detail level. The kit really started to put up a fight at this stage - the fit was somewhat poor, but given enough time and clamping pressure doing small sections at a time could be forced into a much better looking join that needed minimal cleanup.

I started gluing up the launch pad while I dealt with a mold misalignment on the fins. Even after cleanup the fit of the fins was poor making glue up a time consuming process. At least they look good from the top ...

At this point I paused to sleep.

I spent the morning New Year's Day with family to de-stress a little.

After seven hours of work I had this to show for it - almost done! Pad almost completely assembled and painted, and the rocket is painted, decaled, and ready for clearcoat. For reference all the painting is hand brushing, for no other reason than it's what I'm used to.

aaand done!

Thanks for hosting this GB, lewbud! It was a lot of fun even with the kit fighting me most of the way. I'll try to get some better finished shots up this weekend.

Well done Mach! An unusal subject matter to say the least. Whenever you get better pics up, let me know which one you want for the front page.

Mach, nice work on a really different and difficult model. Always like to see something unusual.

Caveman, bummer about the heart attack. I am another survivor - eleven years ago. Got me back into modelling though as the physio said I had to practice fine motor skills - so go and do your therapy!

Bob, it is looking good, keep it going

lewbud, lost : Thanks!

Here are some "good" shots. How about the first one for the front page.

Oh, and Buddy, it's just Mach1. Mach71 is someone else. I should probably find a Ricardo Montalban avatar or something so it's easier for everyone to tell us apart.

Hello everyone!

Here's my entry: