Looks great Tony! Looks the part of a weather-beaten and salt water corrosion bird.

Cliff, I think I can get this golden oldie from 1984 done by the end of the month:

Cranking away on this one, it's a simple and well fitting kit.  It called for the blue green primer for the cockpit and that didn't seem right so I used a Gunze mix called for in a more recent 1/48 Hasegawa kit.  Hope it doesn't look too wrong!

John: That looks good! I'm crossing my fingers you'll get her finished up by the end of the year.

And my apologies if I'm a little slow here. Seems like everyone here at work is taking the end of the year off so I'm doing three people's jobs by myself.

No problem, Cliff.  Hope you get a little time for yourself.  If it wasn't raining every day I'd be working on my garage instead.

This is a nice little kit.  I'm not doing anything special, I find with most 1/72 kits all I ever see is the outside so the inside only got the decal for the instrument panel and the crew better hold on because they'll be flying without belts!  The fit is very nice.  I had to put some plastic card shims at the upper wing roots but that's really all other that a little Mr. Surfacer on the fuselage seams.  Quite well done for an early 80's molding.  Stark contrast to the 1/48 Hobbycraft Avro Arrow I'm also working on at the moment, or the Italeri B-26K, for that matter.

The canopy is all done except for two or three small frame sections on the windscreen, I did it by masking the vertical frames first and then the horizontals.  Gunze Nakajima IJN green.

Thanks John, and a merry Christmas to you and the rest of the guys here!

She's looking good! Always great to see a model done and ready for paint.

Merry Christmas all, I gave my brother the completed Kai and Nausicaa kit from earlier in this GB as his gift.

He was very surprised and pleased with it, so I got to be happy with the finished product twice over!

Awesome Piers! You did a great job on both figures, I'd be thrilled to get them! 

BTW: That Japanese food van you built a few years ago was so cool I picked up one of my own. 

Good to see Cliff. There's some wierd and wonderful stuff available in Japan!

Cliff, here's the B6N2 for this GB.  I painted all the markings except the tail code, and as I thought it might because of it's age it didn't go on too well.  I'll replace it later with one I print on my ALPS, but I can't do that now because the computer I use to run it (on XP) is in the shop.  I should have just left the decal off because it is for a B6N1 which had a single exhaust.  Fujimi must not have seen the photo I found!  I made an antenna mast from PE scrap and the antenna is Uschi Super Fine.

Well, got this one done earlier than normal by 2 days or so. ;)    She is the FineMolds 1/72 Kayaba "Ka-Go" model 1.  Compared to other FineMolds kits I've built, this one suffered from some fit issues. My only real complaint was the lack of a dummy front cylinder to fit inside the air intake. While the kit builds up ok, I wouldn't recommend it for a novice builder.  Now, I need to decide what to build for GB XI ... Happy New Year to all!!!

After a very long hiatus, I literally dusted off the M115 Howitzer in JGSDF service to wrap it up before the deadline.  Then I reapplied some dust in the form of pigments on the tires.  I kept it light, as this will just be a display piece, if I had room for it in firing position I would have beat it up more.

It was a fun little kit, too bad it is out of production.  It didn't take long to build, it was just builder procrastination that dragged it out.  Now I need to review all the posts since my last one to see the other awesome builds I missed. 

John, WrinkledM, Robert: Got you guys posted! Beautiful work and thanks for joining us!!!

The George edges closer. The painting is done. Next up is a clear coat and decals.

Cheers

Tony

 just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year.

Also just realized I spent so much time admiring everyone's work, forgot to post my finished pics. Will take some tomorrow to beat the deadline

Gamera, thank you for running another great group build!

Tony: Like it! Looks good! Looking forward to the finished photos.

Waikong: Looking forward to your finished photos too.

Happy New Year guys!!!

And running the GB is my pleasure- you guys are doing all the work. I'm just posting your finished photos!

Couldn't resist adding some plumbing to the engine.

My previous pics got lost, so here's another one with the NMF

Here's she is finished with a bit of weathering, lighting is a bit of a mess, but was in a hurry.

l;

Looking forward to GB-X !  Ten years wow.

Great job Waikong! I love the NM finish! Cheers sir!!!

Just updated the roster, as usual if I don't like the photo I used yell at me and I'll change it out.

Waikong, that is absolutely stunning. Wowwee !

I'd like that in my collection.

Cheers

Tony

 Thank you. Always wanted to try a dirty nmf.

I love the Ki-43, Waikong.

Agree, Nice Job on the Oscar Waikong!

Done again... lol.  

Great job John, will get your photo replaced right away!

Hi Cliff,

Here is my Aoshima 1/72 N1K2-J Shiden, codenamed 'George' by the Americans. It's a really nice kit actually. Now I have a mid winged and a low winged 'George'.O may try to sneak a 'Rex' into the next GB, so that I have a float plane too.

Cheers

Tony

Whoa, she turned out great Tony!!! 

Super work!!! 

Putting you up now. 

Excellent, Tony.

Thanks Cliff and John.