Some more work on the F-2. Starting to look airworthy 

TJ: Great job there on the F-2. She looks almost ready to mask and paint!

Looking good TJ! 

Piers: That's nice looking snow and the skis look pretty darn fine too! 

Encouraged by Waikong, I have finished the skis - remember this is 60s style:

Then I thought maybe do a bit more work on the skiers and driver

1/48 figures look a bit rough at this magnification, but okay in real life!

Blocked them in with the base colours to get a feel of it all.

Piers: Those look cool, nice work!!! Looking forward to more!!! 

There are a lot of awesome stuff going on in this GB! 

I am sorry for the long absence, but I had to crash-land on 'UpToMy Ears In Work'-Jima.

My wing root joins were shattered and I had to fill and sand for weekends.  Not HASEGAWA, only me to blame.

A coat of Humbrol Aluminum 27002 was applied overall and then the bottom surfaces with Tamiya XF-12, (mixed with a drop of green). Wheel wells were painted with a metallic blue-green.

Blotches of maskol were applied with a toothpick, for my first attempt of serious (or very funny) paint chipping. After some XF-12 touch-ups, the Nakajima green will be sprayed on the top.

All the fellow modellers and their work in this GB inspired me to go on and I am hell-bent on completing this. 

GAF: your Zero is excellent, you pulled through despite your 'chemical' incidents.

GraySnake: This is one helluva beautiful painting work.

Waikong: Very nice built of one of my favorite planes ever.

Steve: . I doubt I could do this even on the real Akagi...

Piers: I am very curious to see the result. Add some scarves, cause these guys are cold!

Gamera: Perfect build, but your painting, ts, ts.. look,all your paint has chipped off

Zvezda:Ouch!! That's horrible!!! Looks like you've got things under control now though. Nice work!!!

Zvezda> It wouldn't be a Hasegawa model if it didn't require major rework! 

Looks good!

Gary

thanks for the kind words folks.

After masking the bottom surfaces, my own mix of Nakajima green was sprayed (80% Gunze H59 IJN Green + 20% H422 RLM82).

Gam, Are you going to hast another Japanese GB next year?

Zvezda: Nice work! You're making great progress there!!!

Steve: Yeah, if there's enough interest. I'll see about putting up the JGB X thread after Thanksgiving. Sorry, just spent five hours on the road driving home and I'm a bit zonked out right now...

Enough intrest! LOL, this GB is a staple of FSM's fourms.

modelcrazy

Enough intrest! LOL, this GB is a staple of FSM's fourms.

 

So it would seem. I keep wondering if people are going to get bored with it though. 

Were you intending on entering your new Yamato turret? I really want to see that too! 

Well let's discuss this. As of now I have the Akagi on carryover from this year and the Japanese Ships starting in August. I was going to enter a Betty but now not so sure. Let's carryover the Akagi and enter the turret. I won't start it though until August. 

They all sound cool to me Steve. I've got to work Thanksgiving so I'll probably throw up the thread then while I'm at work bored. Take your time, you've got plenty of time to decide on which you want to go with.

Same here. I've has a bunch of life issues past couple years, but I'd like to get back to my Tamiya Gekko build from JGB7. Bring on JGB10, and thanks for taking the time time to host one the most popular Group Builds in the Forum.

Thanks guys for the vote of confidence! I'll see about getting the new thread posted tomorrow. 

Sorry, I wasn't on yesterday. I went to the eye doctor and they dilated the krap outta my eyes. Anything with a screen on it was just a a big honkin' white blur... 

Lostagain> That's looking nice!

Gamera> I'm up for X, although I only have another Zero in the stash. 

Well, at least its not a Hasegawa!

Gary

Oh yeah, I have tons of Japanese subjects.

Thanks guys for the interest, I just put up JGB X. 

Piers: Nice work there on the dozer. And I love the snow being pushed off the base! 

Piers: Very nice idea and execution. The snow turned out perfect.

My natural metal chipping turned out a total (and very unnatural) failure. Masking fluid could not be removed, nor seen beneath the paint.

I rubbed it off with alcohol and coated it over with a fresh layer of paint.

In order to calm down, I masked and painted the hinomarus (meat balls), with a set of Montex masks I had in the stash. Much better than decals.

The elliptical section of the nose anti-glare was painted (rest of the nose will be painted later) flat black. An oval ruler was used to cut the masking tape.

That's looking sweet, Zvezda!  Good job on the hinomaru.

Gary