GROUP BUILD - Pacific 60th Annivesary [from Nov 1 2004 to Nov 1 2005]

Jason,

Your cockpit build is looking good so far.

Roy,

Here is an LVT-4 that was entered in the recent Melbourne Model Expo over the weekend of June 11 - 13 of 2005, the other pix taken of various models and dio's are detailed links below, sadIy Al was not trading at the expo this year due to ill health, I have his website addy and will email it too you.



To view other AFV's in either dio's or kit. Model Exhibitions is the Gallery, the link is below:
http://s9.invisionfree.com/Scale_Magic/index.php

Enjoy.

Incidently, I entered the Beaufighter in the Modified large aircraft and did not place in the top 3, but the Bird was awarded 'Best of Show' for an RAAF aircraft .
To me models entered in a competition are for fun and to share ideas and tips, [not to collect hardware, like a lot of people I know], it was totaly unexpected.

Lobbie-Congratulations & well deservered at that.

Congratulations Lobbie! It looks great and is well deserved.

Thanks, also, for posting the picture of your shelve holding all the in-progress builds. I really appreciated seeing that. All I can say is wow, I wish I could be that prolific.

Leon

Lobbie,congrats on your win,your bird is great,the pic of the lvt is great thanks,it is an lvt[a] 4, not the same as the one im doing,mine is open all the way,and no big gun,just 2 .50 and 2 - 30 cals on it. yes,please send the addy,i would like to see his kits.

Lobbie, congrats on the award!

Rob way to go and thanks on the pit

Lobbie-question-does the India/China/Burma Theather qualify for this GB? Reason I ask is that Project Zero will be turned into a test mule for my air brush and I have a P-51A in the stash. If not, I'll go with Plan B....

Thanks

Thanks for the kind words on the 'hardware' folk's, I don't know why the pic of the finished bird did not show up.

Roy,
Thanks for the correction on the LVT. It was one of many AFV's entered at the resent Expo, I took about 90 pix and when edited I'll let you know . The addy for Al's site is
http://www.armsmodelit.com.au

Leon,
The in progress shelve are [sadly] my own models, not models built for customers or contracted to the RAAF OTS. Mine just join the que and wait their turn, three of the IJN birds are just waiting for either final flat coats or decals and weathering.

Bob,
In regard to your question about India/China/Burma, in relation to this GB, China is the only country that would fall into the Pacific region, but the Japanese over ran what was Indo China, which Burma is on the western fringe of, so build your subject of choice as to what you originally had as plan 'A'.
The 'Air Commando' unit started in the India / Burma region and moved to various other places, the AVG ended up as another group of a particular Air force [the number eludes me at present].

Thanks Lobbie. I will proceed with Plan A, which is good 'cause I didn't have a Plan B yet....

Lobbie,

I gave it some more thought and the India/Burma/China idea is pushing it a bit-especially since the decals I planned on using are for a plane based in India. Therefore, Plan B-an F4-F Wildcat based on Guadalcanal.

Question for the group-were the Wildcats in VMF-223 'early', i.e., lap belts only or were shoulder harnesses installed by that time (August 1942)?

Thanks

Bob,

To my knowladge full Lap / Shoulder harness's were fited to the Wilcat.

On another note:
If it clears a bit I maybe able to get some painting done on a few birds, that are assembled, none of which are intended for any GB's, as 3 of the 72 birds all RAAF are for a museum, they are a P 39, P 40e and a Mk VIII Spit.
The 48 birds are for my cabinet: RNFAA Marlet [based on the Wildcat], P 40m in RAAF, Mk IX Spit from 453 Sqn RAAF in Europe and a Typhoon Ib of 198 Sqn RAF Europe.
The P 40m is the old Mauve kit, the decals are composite [from the spares box].

The contract build Porsche GT 3 took a lot of time and had several modifications done on it, so it's owner [my brother] can have it in his office.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lobbie Bob, To my knowladge full Lap / Shoulder harness's were fited to the Wilcat. On another note: .....The contract build Porsche GT 3 took a lot of time and had several modifications done on it, so it's owner [my brother] can have it in his office.

Lobbie-thanks for the info-just the reason I needed to justify the full PE kit for the Wildcat.

Since you are doing the GT 3 for your brothers office, does that mean you have been able to procure a 1:1 version (at his expense, of course) "for research purposes"

Bob,

As with the GT 3, no he didn't have the 1:1 scale verson, to work from [he did own the 930 for several years], I actually went to the Porsche dealer here for the references to the build. If anyone ever builds this the tyres are incorect [I should say Tamiya have copied one side only of the tyres and they are not directional].

With your Wildcat, which brand and scale is it ? I built the Tamiya issue in 48 and intend to finish it in the RNFAA colours of 888 Sqn [Operation Avalanche] January '43 as used as fighter cover during the Salerno Landings. As a Martlet II as it can sit on the shelf and acompany the RNFAA TBF 1c Avenger [when completed].

finally got the US Marines to finish my Dio.... have to finish up a couple other things this week, but two weeks i should have it complete.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lobbie Bob, As with the GT 3, no he didn't have the 1:1 scale verson, to work from [he did own the 930 for several years], I actually went to the Porsche dealer here for the references to the build. If anyone ever builds this the tyres are incorect [I should say Tamiya have copied one side only of the tyres and they are not directional]. With your Wildcat, which brand and scale is it ? I built the Tamiya issue in 48 and intend to finish it in the RNFAA colours of 888 Sqn [Operation Avalanche] January '43 as used as fighter cover during the Salerno Landings. As a Martlet II as it can sit on the shelf and acompany the RNFAA TBF 1c Avenger [when completed].

Hope you will post pics of the GT 3 when complete. I enjoy auto builds but get frustrated when the paint is 'perfect'. Like to killed myself last summer working on a Candy Apple Red paint job for a funny car.

The Wildcat is the Tamiya 1/48th. That is definatly going to be my build (when I get started) however, I may do some decal shopping and go with a different battle, i.e., Midway or Wake Island. Not sure yet.

hi guys,just thought i would ask how are the kits doing?im finishing off my pibber boat so i can on with other builds,likt finisging up my lvt-4,i hope to have it done soon and will post pics.happy modeling guys.

Sorry i haven't posted here for awhile, My Essex carrier has been mothballed for awhile as I have been away from home and in the midst of moving to a new city. With all those delicate PE parts I just haven't had the desire to pull it out until I'm more settled again. That plus the extension on the finish date has given me an excuse to move on to other things .

Lobbie Congrats on the award

gdarwin-good question. I'm trying to focus on GB's in order of completion dates. Therefore, I need to complete the Accurate Min. F-6A for the North Africia GB before I start on the Wildcat for this one then the P-40 by year end. Hope to finish the F-6A by the end of July. Reason for the delays are summer (more time with family outside) and a new airbrush (first time) that I've had for two months and still in the box!

yes i know what you mean,sometimes its hard to do all the builds,i look at the end dates and then try to the builds based on the end dates,sometimes it works.have a good day modeling.

I got some paint on my Frank. This is the first time I tried pre shading so let me know what ya think.



the nose is just on for the pics Jason

Jay-preshading looks good from here.

Is it too late too join? I just got the Tamiya 1/48 scale F4U-1D Corsair...can I join in with it?

Jay That preshading looks really good. Is that the 1/32 Hasegawa kit?

Razor, Thanks No it is 48th Hasagewa
Jason

rob i did get your email but i keep forgetting to respond. congrats on the award. but if yours took third which masterpieces took first and second?

oh and yes to the pics of the akagi.


joe

Too late to join?

PakNick-40,

You'd be welcome to join in on the GB with your Corsair.

Joe,
The Beau was not in the top 10 models judged, yet it gets a best of show for the type. I'll post pix of what I was competing with in the 'Modified' 48 scale, as soon as I can sort them out, as with the Agagi I'll organize them for you.

Jay,

Your pre-shading looks great, I'll be interested to see this finished.

Bob,

The Porsche GT 3 model is finished and in the hands of it's owner. He is now talking of another Porsche project for me to do as the 1/12 Porsche 934 RSR if you would like a few pix of the completed car, just send me an email.

In relation to the models my Beaufighter was competing against, here are the pix of the group I had entered into.

thanks Rob those are some very nice planes.
Jason

rob although i see excellent work i believe yours is better than most of them. maybe it is a bias but i believe yours deserved better.



joe