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

on the pit Bear.  Nice work.

Major decals are on the Avenger.  Fighting the urge to NOT put all the little stencils on the plane.  Especially since this is a very old set of decals.  Will flip a coin tonight to decide.....

I went back a bunch of pages... have not been around as much lately...

Karl, HKshooter, Marc, Jay, Bob... All of you have made some great looking progress.

If I didn't go back far enough and missed some progress my apologies... not leaving anyone out on purpose.

hkshooter Thanks,  I'd suggest you do a 1/72 Lanc you might have a better chance to find some room for it

Cheers

Bear

Bear, sorry to hear about your wife, man. Hope she gets better soon!

That makes me want to build a Lanc! But where would I put a 1/48 Lanc?

Thanks Dave, Yeah those PE sets are great they realy make the crew compartement look good.  My wife won't be a happy camper if she's stuck with that cast for more than a couple of weeks it's only been 5 days and she's already climbing a tree.

Cheers

Bear 

Thanks Rick

Cheers

Bear

Looking good so far Bear.

Regards,  Rick

Hi all as usual work and house reno's have been keeping my progress to a crawl throw in my wife fracturing her wrist last week and I'm not even getting time to sniff the styrene.  However I do have some progress pics for you, but first.

JAY your cat is comming along nicely keep up the good work

Bob you avenger is looking good

Karl The Grief looks super

HKshooter your doing great work on the dauntless, sorry to hear about the fit problems that sucks.

Now here are some shots of the Lanc hope you enjoy.

That's it for now

Cheers

Bear

All progress is on hold for the moment. I'm having huge issues with the cowls where the upper gun cowl, the intermediate cowl and the engine cowl meet. It's not a lousy fit issue either. I could fix a crappy fit problem. The kit parts are not engineered to go together. The gun cowl is wrong in every direction. I emailed AM two weeks ago but still have not got a reply.

This is my first Accurate Minatures kit build but I have a stack of them waiting. I really hope this is not what I have to look forward to with the others.

Reading everyones coments on how well the kits are engineered it makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong.

great camo job lookin good can't wait to see her when she's finished Karl .

hillbilly70631

Looking really good Karl .

Regards,  Rick

awesome job on the cockpit so far the detail is astounding on the gauges can't wait

to see the rest of the cockpit when it's done let alone the rest of tke kit (KUDOS) so far

hillbilly70631 KINGFISHERS: Little Killer Birds

Thanks for the kind words guys.

A little more progress after a couple of days break.

The excellent reference pics I have show the rudder links as cables, not rods like the kit part appears to be. I challenged myself to make them better. This is what I got.

This is the kit part. My refs show the cable and roller but not the rod on the bottom so I removed it.

This is how far I've gotten on the cock pit floor so far.

Will post progress as it happens.

Looking good hkshooter.

Regards,  Rick

Bob, great progress.

From the paint work it looks like you're getting on great with the Omni. My first double action was an Omni 4000, I still use it for area work, as it's like a hosepipe compared with the my 100!

My eldest has strong views on Megablocks, berating them whenever he sees them in the shops!

hkshooter, that interior looks great, keep those pics coming.

Progress Update

Spent last night assembling the second Fritz X misile, these are a mini kit in themselves, as well as the exhaust flame dampers etc.

Will attempt to tidy up the camo on the Greif tonight.

Then, depending hoe it looks, I'll post some pics.

Karl

hkshooter-nice work.  The AM SBD is a fun build.  One of the few planes that you can see all that interior detail after it is buttoned up.

Dave-Yeah, the Mega Blocks are something else.  I knew I was in trouble when I had to use a hammer to get them together....

Here is the first pic. Interior of me SBD-3. Fuse halves are ready to go together at this point so I though I better take the pic before I forget and it's to late.

Thanks Dave & Rick.

Dave-don't cringe....they aren't 'real' Legos-they are Megablocks.  Look like Legos but not quite up to the quality standards of Lego.  Fit is just not quite as good as Legos.  Therefore, on some stands, a drop of superglue is required.  My son got a Megablock destroyer kit many years ago-like to drove me crazy trying to help get it assembled....nothing like any Lego kit we have.  My son has countless Lego kits-never a part missing!