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

G'day Folk's,

Thanks,

Bob and Roy for the kind words on the builds.


The "JILL" is completed, as this Hasegawa kit has an optional weapons load of either the Torpedo or the Bomb Rack, [interchangable by means ofpoly caps], the undercarriage is also held into the wing by meands of poly caps. The entire model is OOB, complete with folded wings. The enamels are from the Xtra Colour range of IJN paints, the yellow theatre band is cut from a Yellow decal sheet.

the model:-

Rob amazing work on the Jill! I could alot pf problems trying to get those wings rite, how where they to put up like like that?
the Rex looks great too. Jason

Jason,

Thanks for the kind words on the 'Rex' and 'Jill'. As for the wing fold it's as per kit option of folded or level flight, the 3 hinge points on each wing have 2 p caps for the centre hinge to fit into, the braces the wings sit on gave a problem when securing the wings.
A/. Nowhere to hold model when attaching wings.
B/. Can't see where to fit wing braces.

But the build went well enough for the project and I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Lobbie-Great work on the Jill. Very impressive.

Landing gear is on the Wildcat-I definatly needed the assist of reading glasses & extra light. Tricky, but this Tamiya is such a fun build and with so many variations (thinking Atlantic paint scheme next time) there will be others.

Still need to mask & paint the canopy, weather the landing gear and get some dull coat on the wheels & tires.

The wildcat looks great Bob. That Tamiya kit is sweet. I, too, have one in the 'future build' pile to wear the atlantic scheme. I am trying to find decals with the little cat giving the bird (I think it is vc-13 and I know I saw it somewhere online, but I just can't remember where).
Leon

Thanks Leon.

Let me know if you find the Atlantic decals-I want to build a Wildcat with those colors.

G'day,

Bob,

Nice Wildcat progress, I helped a friend do a 72 Academy in the Atlantic Scheme, I can get some sideviews from him if you need them.

Leon,

Some Tamiya kits have decals that are so thick they don't look anything like decals, just painted paper, AM decals are a safer way for Tamiya and some Hasegawa kits.


I've been MIA on other projects in the past few weeks, with a local decal producer and with the Italeri Company, so much for retirering, for the A20b/c Havoc/Boston, yes the old OOP AMT kit is comming back under the Italeri name in the second quarter of 2006.
Along with another 2 P-40's for the P-40 GB, both in Middle East region and different bases. One is a P-40b in RAF 112 Sqn markings, the other is a P-40f in RAAF 3 Sqn markings when based on Malta.

QUOTE: Originally posted by bobbaily Thanks Leon. Let me know if you find the Atlantic decals-I want to build a Wildcat with those colors.

I found it!! Hannants has them. The link http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=8TM48050. I have never ordered from them or from overseas. Is it a hard thing to do? (money exchange and all)

And a picture.

Also, I appologize because we have ventured into the wrong ocean here, but here are the best two pictures I could find on the VC-13 squadron's wildcats. Right now I am thinking of doing an avenger and a wildcat from the squadron and placing then on a carrier deck.




Hope all is well with everyone. I am at the painting point with my buffalo. (Sadly, I am not very proud of the build I have done )

Leon

Leon,

Nice pix of the Wildcat, [maybe we could do an Atlantic GB, that covered a large area of the conflict].

Have you tried Squadron for these decals ?

hi guys,i have just posted my pics of my lvt-4 to the pacfic group site. all comments are wellcome, so please feel free. have a good day modeling.

G'day,

Roy.

Excellent build on the Lvt-4 that you posted. I asume this is the Italeri kit.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Lobbie Leon, Nice pix of the Wildcat, [maybe we could do an Atlantic GB, that covered a large area of the conflict].

Actually, there is an Atlantic GB planned for mid '06 (I think). There was a lot of discussion in the Battle for Germany GB about it. Or was it the North Africia GB? I forget. Maybe one of the regulars will read this and confirm.

btw-Leon-thanks for the post. Will spend the weekend searching domestic web sites. I'll advise if I have any luck.

Yes Bob you are correct, there is an Atlantic GB in the works and will probably start in Feb or March.

Gdarwin, had a hard time viewing your site and only saw a couple of pics but it looks great.

Hope to get back to my Essex next week and get her finished up for this GB.

Leon-I spent a little time-found the decals you show above @ roll models
http://www.rollmodels.net/search/pic.php?fName=TCD48050.jpg

thanks for the kind words razordws ,where you on my home site? or the photobucket site?anyway thanks for the words.

QUOTE: Originally posted by bobbaily Leon-I spent a little time-found the decals you show above @ roll models http://www.rollmodels.net/search/pic.php?fName=TCD48050.jpg

Thanks bob. I really appreciate it. Hopefully, I'll be able to get it soon.

I actually have some progress to show and may, just may finish my build before the deadline. Got most of the major painting done this weekend and hope to future it up tomorrow for decals. Tried using Polly Scale paints and had tons of trouble with clogging. I got some advice from rjkplasticmod that mentioned retarder, so I tried that and am having better luck. I really like the paint and want to figure it out, so I'm hoping with a little more work, I'll conquer it

Here's a picture of the current status:


Hope all is well. Leon

Looking good Leon!

Just putting the last of the railings on the essex and then I can finish up the painting. Should be done on time (I hope)!

Finished!




The Tamiya Wildcat was a fun build. Hope to add more to the collection as time allows.

Thanks for all the help & info provided by the members of this Group Build.

ps-Leon-you build is looking GREAT! Look forward to seeing the finished product.

the Wildcat looks great,nice build.

Awesome Bob!!!

The wildcat looks great Bob. I really like the tape over the guns; was that decal or your own doing? I also really like the level of weathering.
Leon

Thanks all.

The 'tape' over the guns was some leftover white decal material cut into random sizes.

Well, I got the decaling done. It actually went pretty well. Decaling is always a step that freaks me out; it seems that there is always atleast one that doesn't quite go as planned and ends up jumping out at me as a big mistake forever. Anyway, I used the Tamiya decals (something I have only done once before to disasterous results), but these actually worked great! I'm not sure if they have improved that part of their kits or if it is just this one, but it does tempt me to try out their p-47 decals to see if they are any good. It would be so nice to save the extra $10 or so dollars that AM decals take. Blah Blah Blah. I tend to blab. Sorry.

Here are some pictures of the decaled buffalo. One problem I did have was getting the dragon to line up perfectly over the white decal you put under it. I am thinking I will try to get out a very fine brush and try to hide the white that shows (cross your fingers for me). Also, I'm hopeful that a flat finish will hide the carrier film a little better than it looks like in the picture.

Anyway, thanks for looking. I hope all is well.
Leon

Looks great Leon. I didn't notice any issues with the underlying white decal (I always hate those things!)-even with the photo enlarged.

Leon,

That's a nice Buffalo, the dragon background being white is a bit of a pain, maybe Tamiya will get a better decal producer one day, as there decals are just a little of thick side.

Ok, I'm calling it done. Here are the pictures. I thought I had the whole camera/lighting thing figured out, but I just can't seem to get them to look as sharp as some posters on the site (rjkplastic for example - how does he do it??). Anyway, the summary: tamiya's brewster buffalo kit, kit decals, True Details tires, painted with polly scale except the sky color is Tamiya and the flat is model master, antenna is monofilament thread, exhaust tubes drilled out, other than that, I think it was out of the box. Oh I did make some seatbelts from foil and soder, but it isn't viewable in the pictures. Any comments / advice / critiques welcome.
Leon

One word Leon WOW great looking build

Thanks razordws. I really appreciate it. There are multiple mistakes in the build, but overall I am really happy with it.
Leon

I agree with Dave-WOW. Very nice build.

Thanks Bob. I really appreciate it. Hopefully we will run into each other with atlantic scheme wildcats someday
Leon