AIRCRAFT, ARMOR, FIGURES, SHIPS - D-Day Group Build, 5-8 June 1944

Hey wibhi2, we all make little boo-boos now & then. A great looking build in any case. Nice work!

gregers, sorry you couldn't finish the Horsa. I'm still playing beat the clock with my build as well.

Regards, Rick

thanks for the comments guys wibhi2 nice looking piper. cant wait to see the rest of the builds

Wow the piper and the typhoon look great

wibhi2 sweet looking bird. nicely done.

joe

fellows, you have some really good looking builds on going on here!!! looking awesome!!

btw, PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES MY FELLOW MODELLERS!! i signed up for this group build and then forgot that i was a part of it as the GB's got moved over here and i just kinda got caught up into other builds and forgot!! i won't have one to display!! sorry!! later.

Chris, you get 20 lashes with a rolled up piece of Blue Tac !!

Regards, Rick

LOL, that would be a sticky situation!!! later.

It's Done !! Finally finished my build this evening. Too late to take pics tonight, but I'll post some tomorrow.

Regards, Rick

Alrighty, despite the best efforts of RL, I've finally finished off my D-Day diorama. What I've put together here is a view of one gun from the the 13th Field Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division moving inland off Juno beach on June 6th.

Anyways, here are my pictures.

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Holy moly....warren. Is that 1/76th? You clazy Blo......

that's one fine lookin' dio.

warren stunning build. nice job.

joe

Warren, great job on the diorama . Lots of detail for such a small scale.

Regards, Rick

Thanks guys! Glad you like it, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out

wibhi2...yes, the kit is 176th scale. The crew is made up of a mixture of 1/72 and 1/76 scale figures from a few different companies. All told the whole diorama is 20x25 cms.

Here is my completed build with 2 days to spare ! Berlin Express was a P-51C-3-NT piloted by Lt. William Overstreet & assigned to the 363rd FS, 357th FG, 8th AF at Leiston, England. Model features full invasion stripes & the white wall tires associated with several of the Squadron's aircraft.



Basic kit was the Tamiya 1/48 P-51B with AM goodies from Eduard, Ultracast & Aeromaster.



Paint was Alclad2 for the NMF, ModelMaster enamel for the OD, & Floquil for the invasion stripes.



This was my first participation in a Group Build & I found it to be interesting & fun. I would like to offer a big THANK YOU to John for initiating & moderating this GB.

If no one objects, I'd like to also post these pics on the Aircraft Forum, as not all of the flyboys/airheads have been following this thread.

Regards, Rick

Great job on the Mustang!

Nice Pony Rick-- very crisp looking! I better go finish the Tempest LOL...at least the 190 is done!

rick that looks awesome. nicely done.

joe

rick, very, very impressive work friend!! i love it!! the ol' stang looks good any way she's dressed!! later.

absolutely stunning, rick. I am almost at a loss for words....

Beautiful work, Rick

BTW, what was the process on doin' the white walls?

Hey, thanks a lot guys for the unwarranted praise. The model has a few flaws, but overall I was happy with it.

Chris, If you ever do Old Crow, I think it also had whitewalls, at least on some versions ( there were several Old Crows). On the main wheels, I painted them overall very dark grey, let the paint cure, then used a plastic circle drawing template & carefully taped the wheel to the appropriate sized circle opening, aligning just inside the tread pattern. Using an AB & Floquil Reefer White I sprayed at as close to a 90 degree angle as I could. Repeated for other wheel, then added the prepainted aluminum hubs. Actually turned out to be pretty easy. For the tail wheel, I painted the entire part white then brush painted the aluminum & the outer tread portion of the wheel. Touched up a few boo-boos on the sidewalls with Vallejo white acrylic. The tail wheel turned out to be more trouble than the mains.

Regards, Rick

sounds like you had it figured out friend, they look very authenic!! the D model "Old Crow" don't have white walls, but all the B models that i've seen of "Old Crow" have white walls. again, nice job on the stang. now, ya gotta saddle up -n- start up a nurdin' over on mustang ranch!! well, if you gonna build a subject over and over, it ain't nothin' like building the stang over again!! later.

Yeah, thanks Chris. I'm doing a Tamiya 1/48 D model "Miss Detroit" for the Mustang Ranch GB. AeroMaster recently issued a decal sheet for her. Always wanted to do a model of that Stang cause 1, I live in the Detroit Area & 2, She had the distinction of being the only Bird to down 2 Me-262's on one mission. Never had any good decals until now. Later.

Regards, Rick

Miss Detroit will make a very attractive build!! i'll get around to that one oneday, have fun. later.

Phew.... crunch time!!

OK-- got everything done in time, so here goes. First off is Priller's 190...done much better by others in this GB- but hey -- this is my first time trying to paint the German camo by airbrush Sorry for the quality of the pics...I hope Santa is good to me this Christmas... my digital camera is much lacking...






And next is the ride of Wing Commander Roland Beamont- In 1944 Beamont (now Acting Wing Commander) was charged to form the first Tempest Wing, No 150, in time for the D-Day. Two days after D-Day, Beamont's Wing encountered Bf109s over the beaches and shot down three of them without loss.

Seems like he had more success dealing with the Jerries than I did in modeling his mount. While applying decals, I apparently didn't have one of my exhausts too well glued and it popped off inside the model. This was of course after I had just finished touching up the seam using Swanny's fencing technique. I wasn't about to pop open the seam...and gave up trying to fish it back into place despite Ed's advice for how to do it...so here she is in all her glory :

mike you do incredible work. outstanding builds.

to all, this build was fun from start to finish. thanks to all for making it so. now lets see the rest of those finished builds.

joe

D'oh!!! Sometimes it takes posting them to find more boo-boos My 190 canopy is crooked...gonna go fix that now!

I dunno mike. I think you did very well with that spray camo.

excellant builds overall

mike, those 2 builds are excellent looking friend!! i love the way the tempest looks anyway! you did a nice job on the camo for it being your first time. what did you use for mask on the tempest's camo job? again, very nice looking builds. later.