♠ Allied Aces GB (WW1 -WW2) April 2006 Start - Sept 2006 Finish

The BMF came out looking good.  Nice smooth paint work.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks Rick.  I did another very light coat to correct a few texture issues on the right wingtip and the front of the nose.  I'm hoping to mask and paint the blue nose tomorrow night, decals on Saturday.

Next time, I really want to try an Alclad II finish.  The Tamiya Acrylic metallic mix I did is "ok" but I know Alclad II looks better.  Although I am happy with what I had to work with. 

I have Good News & Bad News.  The Good News is my T'bolt was finished last night.  The Bad News is my 2+ year old Digital Camera Totally died when I turned it on to take some pics.  It was from the first production run of the Nikon D70 in 2004 & there was a known defect in one of the metering system components that could cause total failure. Nikon fixed the problem in the second run & put out a Service Advisory that they would repair any camera with the defect for no charge.  Most of them failed in the first few months, but I thought I was lucky with mine... until last night.  Now to make matters worse, when I took it to the store this morning to arrange for repair, I was informed that the free fix offer expired August 01, & there is now a $250 service charge & a 6-8 week repair turn around time.  New technology is great & all, but stuff like this really sucks.  I had Nikon film cameras that were still going strong after 20 years of hard use.  Sorry for the rant, but the bottom line is, I'll still post pics of my finished build, but not until I get my cam back.

Regards,  Rick

Scott Looking good keep up the good work

Rick that truly sucks at the cost of repair it's almost better to by a new one these days.

Cheers

Bear

Ok, the painting is done!  Decals go on later today as soon as I get a chance.  We're going to be busy getting a couple of rooms in our house packed up and ready for the final phaze of the remodelling.  Hopefully I'll be able to do them later this afternoon and will post pics tonight.  Just need to attach the propeller, exhausts and landing gear.

Looks good Scott.

Cheers

Bear

Hey guys, I just need to get the decals on the P-51D.  I was hoping to take care of that over the weekend, but it took us all weekend to do the prep work for the renovations.  I spent most of the day on Saturday at Lowe's getting all the tile, paint etc. and all Saturday evening packing up the master bedroom, bath and the family room downstairs.  We spent all day Sunday ripping out the bathroom cabinets, sinks, toilets etc and moving all the furniture out of those areas, as well as several hours assembling the new cabinets, medicine chests, and a new glass model display case.  Rough couple of days, we were on the go from 7:30am to 10pm both days.  I'm worn out!  sigh...

Anyway, I hope it won't be a problem for me to do the decals tonight or tomorrow and submit the final pics of my build then.

Please, please, if there is a god, please let me be able to walk across the downstairs floors just once tonight so I can get my P-51D and the decals out of my den....................

sigh.... they had just stained the hardwood floors downstairs so I couldn't "sneak" into my den last night to get my kit and decals out.  Hopefully tonight.

Our floor guys didn't do the first coat of poly-eurothane on the hardwood downstairs, so I was able to get into my den for a couple hours.  Most of the decals are on, I just have a few tiny ones to put on the scoop on the underside, and on the drop tanks.  I decided to stop for the night as I was getting pretty tired and almost made a couple of huge mistakes.... lol, but caught them in time.

Tomorrow I add the propeller, landing gears, exhaust and the decals on the drop tank and scoop.

I'm going for a really clean build on this one.  I'm still going gaga over the pristine P-51 Mustangs from the Reno Air Races, and those things are alway immaculate, so I want mine to look similar. 

Looks Great Scott

Cheers

Bear

Looking good Scott.  Nice work.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks guys.  I appreciate the positive reinforcement. 

I smuggled my Mustang and the rest of the decals out of my den this morning so I can finish that process up tonight.  I'm not going to be able to get into my den for at least 2 days, so I'll get the propeller, exhaust and undercarriage installed probably Friday. 

Sorry for being late on this one, life has been insane the past couple of months.  We'll be done with our home remodelling soon, and I'm almost done with a couple more GBs, then I'll be able to participate in these GBs closer to the start dates instead of the finish dates. 

Well folks look like we're done! 

I think the only one left is Scott and his p-51.  I've given up on my Spitfire (for now) but I'm glad those who participated had fun and it was great seeing all your builds!  I haven't been on the forum for a while and I had forgotten that this GB was to end Sept 30. 

Thanks for hosting this one Jay.  It was interesting & fun.  I still need to post pics of my Jug, once my Digital Camera is repaired.

Regards,  Rick

Still don't have my camera back, but a neighbor let me borrow his Canon Rebel.  Not as nice as my Nikon, but at least I got some pics.  Here's my finished build of Eagleston's Jug.

See you all at the next GB .

Regards,  Rick

Great job Rick your Jug looks super

Cheers

Bear

Thanks for the comments guys, appreciate them.

Marc, the NMF is Alclad over Future with a Black primer.  There are 4 shades of Alclad, although they don't show as well in the pics as in real life.  The darker panels are Alclad Dark Aluminum, the others used were Aluminum, Duraluminum & White Aluminum.

Regards,  Rick.

Thanks Tanky.

Regards,  Rick

I have been watching this group build over the months, and I have to say that I am IMPRESSED with the work that all of you have done.  My time has been cut short since my son was born in July, but I have managed to finish my Yak-1

It is not my best work, but I take what I can get these days

I will be posting some pics later when I have some time

Looking forward to the pics.

Regards,  Rick