Battle For Germany 45 GB Starts Now - 08 May 06

Thanks Karl.  Not sure about the "Pretty" adjective, my wife thought it was "Cute" .

Regards,  Rick

Rick absolutely awesome build as usual  .  I don't know about a pretty bird but I definitely would say she a clean and dangerous looking bird.

I'll add your pictures to the photobucket group brag page when I get home from work tonight.

Tom apologies for not sending the spreadsheet through last night but I was doing some work on it yesterday afternoon and then emailed it home, unfortunately it never made it.  Tonight I'll make sure I take it on a disk to make sure I've got it.

Cheers

Rick she came out great that the one bird i havent built yet i might have to pick FW 190.

Had to go out and pick up some dark panzer yellow for my 88 so ill keep you all posted.

Rick - looks great!  that's inspiration to finish my big on now... (still no luck on the canopy on the 1/72 one )  And as said, great job on the mottle!!!  That is a good ad for the 100!

Smokin - that FW-190 kit is a nice build.  I have one 2/3 done in my stash right now... everything goes together fairly well on it... Looking forward to your painted 88... I really might try some artillery after seeing the sweetness of that kit!

Darren - no rush... my plan is to compare the FS numbers on all the military paints and look them up if I don't have them already.. should be able to get through it in a few nights of research!  I know of a few here recently switched to Vallejo and I think it would be a nice tool for them!

Karl - thanks!  and I am glad you noticed my masking..    I probably spent more time on that then the model itself haha.. ok yeah... I know... professional help would do me good.

Darren, Smokinguns, Tom,  Thanks for the comments guys, much appreciated.  Did a wee bit on the Komet today, but nothing worth pics.  Tomorrow is another day .

Regards,  Rick

okie dokie I promised pics of my 1/72 panther "KITTEN" and here they are all cammo was hand painted with brushes using MM enamels I still need to add the tools and weather it though

tiny aint it?

hope ya like it

Ok everyone I got the 88 painted a least the gun anyway assemling the gun was the easy part man those trailers have alot of parts and you have to repeat alot of steps due to thier being 2 trailers, and the tires wow four sprues with individual tred sections would have perferd rubber tires.

Wow Chris!!!  that's an awesome paint job!  Maybe I need to hire you to teach me to brush paint better!!!!  Only thing I could find to criticise is that one of the dots on the gun mantlet is clearly 1/32 scale inches too big..   Seriously though.. it looks GREAT!

Smokin....  ok you've convinced me one of those is in my future.. nice looking gun!!!  although that part about the tire treads makes me shudder! 

Panzer - Small in size but big in looks.  Cool camo.

Smokin - Looks nice.  The skies over your house are just a little bit more unsafe

Progress  - Got the primer on... about half a roll of TP stuffed in all the openings.  If there were a winter camo D-9 with a big tail I could wrap this up real quick.  Hmmm? Maybe a "what if"... Nah!  As I was stuffing the TP in the wheels weels I noticed my big boo-boo on this build.  I forgot to paint the inside of the engine compartment.  Probably since I was think that it can be seen since the covers don't open... but I forgot the great view from the wells  At least it is gray plastic and not green or something like that.

Cheers

Dave, Thanks for the comments, appreciate them.

Chris,  Beautifhl little Kitten.  Excellent painting.

Smokinguns,  That gun is smoking .  Very nice work so far.

Darren,  The Dora is looking good, just keep fillen & sanden .

Regards,  Rick

thanx to all you guys for the praise

Tom my brush technique comes from over 20 years of art school/classes and almost 28 years of practice lol not to mention all the D&D figures i have painted over the years

Darren the cammo scheme is a combination of a scheme i saw in an old Hobby Japan magazine and an article in FSM where a guy used little triangles of tape to make streams of "blowing leaves" on his ambush cammo I just used hand painted dots with a #00000 brush the one i use for faces on my D&D figures BTW I Only use SABLE bristle paintbrushes for painting the only thing i use Nylon/taklon brushes for are drybrushing and weathering techniques and 15 years of being a Commercial artist/ Illustrator has tought me to take care of my brushes lol

my half track is doing well but is in many subassemblies i hope to have some shots of it within the next week or two

Rick, great looking Fw-190, beautiful as ever, I never tire of admiring your builds.

Chris, now that is a cute tank (if you can call it that?) ha!  I like the paint job!

Smokinggun, really nice, once you get the paint on it really show the detail well. 

Darson, I hope myt doras don't give me problems like that.  I've got several hours tomorrow to start on mine, pics for Monday I hope!

Chris- Like the kitten mate!! Can't believe how small that thing is!

Smokin- I still think we should take that thing duck hunting

Rick- Very nice 190.

Darren- Which kit is that 190? I can't see anything wrong with the join you pointed out, unless t's just me

Thanks for the program and the gif mate. Muchly appreciated.

Might give ya a call about the resizing bit. Would save me many hours of hassle (kinda become computer illiterate over the last year)

Haven't started on my 190 yet, hoping to get some time tomorrow night to get into the c/p.

Still pretty peeved about the Spit, but such is life.

Starting to think the cat would make a very nice throw rug

tweety1 wrote:

Starting to think the cat would make a very nice throw rug

Or a nice pair of fur lined gloves.

(Oh that's just wrong on so many levels)

Or we can use it for cat control

I still dont know if i should add another color to i think i might make it stand out.

Everybody else's builds look good too.

Jay, Sean, Thanks guys, appreciate the comments.

Jay, looking forward to Monday & some pics.  Be sure & charge the battery & tie down the USB cable .

Regards,  Rick

Thanks Tanky.  The Gas Passers are OK, but I think I'll stay mostly with the window fans .

Regards,  Rick

I have a great tip on a very cool looking paint job for a street rod.   Off topic you say… well maybe alittle but I will tie it all together.

While waiting for the primer really cure well I have been painting some of the fiddly bits. I had just sprayed the underside of the flaps with aluminum buffing metalizer and cleaned the AB.  Decided to put a gloss coat on the already painted black spinner to put the spiral decal on the spinner.  Well if you do a really crappy job cleaning your AB, when you spray the gloss lacquer over the black there is a very subtle silver flake in the gloss and looks very very nice over the black...  IF IT WAS ON A FORD!!!  Just not to good on an Fw 190 spinner.

Marc, Ouch, that had to hurt.  I've also learned the hard way that the AB really needs a good cleaning after spraying metallics.

Regards,  Rick

Ok work has begun on the 190!

Now, this is the first time since the 'Sabre' (shudder.....) that I've stepped away from Hase kits, and is my first Dragon kit so I've got a couple of questions.

Firstly, is it my imagination or is the Dragon styrene HEAPS softer than most others??

I made my usual trimming of flash from the parts and it left a ruddy huge gouge in the c/p tub

Secondly, do Dragon kits usually have horrid fitting parts, or did I just get super lucky?

The fuse alignment on this thing is beyond retarded, and there not warped, I checked that. It looks like the master mould was made from soggy bread or something, and there is a large raised section just in front of the tail rudder which looks more like an after thought than part of the original design.

So the fuse tapers rearward, then takes a drastic pitch towards the tail.

My first Dragon kit isn't filling me with oodles of confidence.

Yeah Tweety, the plastic used by DML/Dragon is very soft & their kits are not known for ease of assembly.  The 190 series are among their worst.  Still, with a lot of TLC they do build up into great models.  Take your time & dry fit twice before you glue.

Regards,  Rick

Sean - the links below address the 190 LG pretty well.  Karl is correct about the drag link. Part 2 makes a good comparison of some of 1/48 LG struts and fixes for them.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/fw190landinggear_1.htm

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/fw190landinggear_2.htm