Battle of the Atlantic Feb. 1 to Aug 1, 2006

Nice show David......really that U-boat will look great on the living room mantle.......Hey......Have you tried building some of the new Paper Model Subs, there are many and sure look nice.....a little hard but worth the time and cheap!!!

Check this site:

http://www.e-papermodels.com

Thanks solid! nope never tried a paper model yet, might try one some day thanks for the link

Ok the U-Boat is very close to being done all that is left is to gloss coat, decal and then dull coat

Well Froggy your U-Boat is safe from my catalina I'm after bigger fish my cat will be hunting for the Bismark! I have most of the cockpit built up but I feel the gunners station is rather lacking in detail with the large blisters to see through

TOM if you liked the first pic of the Wildcatfish here are most of the ones i have including a model one fellow built

PS Tom DROOL IS BAD FOR THE KEYBOARD! ! ! !

looks awesome froggy  great detail and weathering job

KINGFISHERS: Little Killer Birds

OK-- finally some progress-- the painting took a while-- after I finished the white and let it cure, I decided to Future it so that the white wouldn't pull up when I masked and that seemed to work pretty well.

And a shot of the engine:

The other night, I masked off the dive flaps and sprayed them with Future-- then last night sprayed the insignia red-- having sprayed the Future first sealed off the edges of the holes in the flaps so I didn't get bleedthrough of red onto my white and gull gray outer surfaces-- so that worked well.  More to come soon...

Nicely done Mike.  Looking good.

Regards,  Rick

Dave - nice job on the u-boat

Mike - well done on that engine

Plastic has finally met glue on the He-115.  This is going to be a straight OOB build.  The cockpit took about 17 seconds to build.... 1 floor and 3 seats.  the most Imay do to thi9s is rescribe the rasied panel line...maybe.

Nice looking  u-boat David.  The SBD is comming along nicely Mike.

No progress on my PBY.  I want to get it started by the end of March?  My boly is taking longer than excpected. Just a few more days for that one!

Thanks every one on the kind words on my U-Boat. Mike nice looking aircraft, was never good at that kind of camo.

I got the U-Boat done yesterday I was just to lazy to post the pics. Did not decal it since the decals fell apart on me right when they went to water

Very nice build David.  Shame about the decals.

Regards,  Rick

Almost ready! the moment my Boly is finished (ETOC Wednesday), I'm starting the canso! 

Dave hows the little 1:700 destroyers coming? 

Okay, lots to catch up on here so bear with me.

David: Great work on the u-boat.   looks like a nice little kit.  I will update the front page to show you've completed your build.

Wulf:  Welcome to the build!  What procedures are you asking about?  The ever confusing AM instruction sheet or the GB rules?  If it is the GB rules read the first page but basically just build it by the end date of the GB (Aug. 1) and try to post as many in progress pics as possible as you go.  If you are referring to the kit you are doing there are others here doing the same kit that I am sure can help you out.

Chris:  Sorry to hear about the Venturas and that life is gettting in the way of your modeling.  Hang in there and hopefully things will turn out for ya.

Jay:  No progress as yet on the destroyers.  They are up next as soon as I complete the Sunderland which will hopefully be this weekend.  Lots of other non-modeling projects on the go right now too as well as other "Life" issues so I do what I can.

Wulf wrote:

I'm in with an Accurate Minatures 1:48 Dauntless. Can you fill me in on the procedures if any? Thanks.....

That's a sweet kit, (just ask Jeeves )  between the two of us we've probably driven AM stock up 3% from all the SBD kits we've bought!  I've always wanted to do one in the Atlantic camo scheme, but never found the time... I look forward to seeing yours!

Nice job on the u-boat Dave.

Finally some progress on the He-115.  Pontoons together and sanded....lots of sanding.  Same with the fuselage and wings.  Both wings fit great on top but have a huge gap on the underside… and I don’t even want to think what filling and sanding where the main struts between the wings and pontoons attached will be like.

Well folks the Boly is done (you can see it in the Canadian GB or in the main aircraft forum the post is called "Scheme you don't see everyday...").

Next up - the Canso!  Hopefully by next week I'll have some good progress on it to show you guys. 

Hey Guys

I need HELP i finally got my photos of my Little Killer Bird on to photobucket.com but how do get them on to fine scale so i can post them

so i can show off my OS2U-3 kingerfisher to everyone that it's finished any

help would be apprechated

KINGFISHERS: Little Killer Birds

I've been away a week and so much to catch up.

David that's nice work on the UBoat it looks great.

Mike nice progress on the SBD.

On my build I'm waiting for my PE bits from squadron to continue with the fuselage.  I'm hoping to continue work on the engine nacelles this weekend.

Hillbilly I'm looking forward to seeing your pics.

Cheers

Bear 

Hey guys....Thanks for the welcome.

Here's a couple of progress pics from the Dauntless. I'm attempting the preshaded panel line technique for the first time on this build. The first shot shows the preshade and the second shows the final belly coat. I like the effect and will continue to use it. I'll post some more pics soon.

David great looking U-Boat, it looks excellent.

Mike the detail level on your SBD if fantastic, I look forward to checking out some more pics!

Progress - I have actually managed to make a small start on my Beaufighter the other night even if it only a small one.  I washed and dried the True Details (ex KMC I think) resin cockpit and have begun removing the casting blocks.  Not much I know, but at least it's a start.

Cheers

Time to go gangbusters on my Canso.  I've switched out the boly for the canso in my sig - actually I couldn't find any profiles of a canso so I edited a catalina without the amphibian landing gear but you get the idea anyways.

Hopefully I'll get the interior painted up tonight and who knows, maybe i'll get the big slab-like wing and stabilizers glued together too.  hot damn, I am looking forward to this one.  I'm still flipflopping on whether I should go for a weather beaten canso (so I can try out pe-shading again) or one that looked like it just came off the factory ramp.  I've got a bit of time yet.

Darren, everytime I see a post of yours my eyes are inexplicably drawn towards that horrendous black mole on Mel Brooks' face- uggh, there I go again!  must...not...look!  it is like the gaze of the medusa or basilisk/cockatrice, I might turn to stone or something worse.