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Looks good, Hook

Is this a little better?

Looking good Hook.

Is there any chance you could make your pictures any larger?

I'd love to see a little more detail.

Cheers

Mark

Here are some pictures of the Hmmwv progress. The first picture was the silly putty masked over the base coat green. This was my first time trying this. I think it worked out pretty well. When I sprayed the black down it came out a little to "black". Every army vehicle I've seen with woodland on it had almost a grey color from where the black faded. I think I go ta little too carried away trying to tone it down. I am not too worried because I am not even close to done with the weathering process. As you can see I lpainted the hood off color. When we were out at Graf my vehicle had a recent hood replacement. So the hood was the same weird color you see here ( it was just luck that I got even close, much less dead on). I painted the wheels black in my traditional style then drybrushed them. I think they will look neato with some dust and mud on them......... we will see. The tamiya top fits so well that I am thinking of leaving it loose so that when my friends bring their kids over for some hamburgers and rootbeer they can see the inside. Next the windows go in, then the undercarriage will get another coat of black. After that I will detail the under side join it to the pax compartment. Then the fun will start. Dust with just the slightest hint of loose mud. Should be fun. By the way my wife is feeling much better this evening. I got all this done when my daughter was napping today........ I love being a parent! Really adds a slight challenge into everything. Life would not be the same without the little ones. Cheers fellas...   Let me know what ya think.               JOSH

Hook, nice progress on the Hummer.

So now we have two Hummers going and still no wheels on yet. Its looking like a junk yard so far guy's. Let's get em done.

A-4 is comming along well and should be able to finish off the decals today or tomorrow.

Steve

Looks good, Josh.

Have the Italeri 1/48th Hook in my stash, will start soon, need to finish what I have going

Nice work on the Hummve Hook.

I hope you or Kenny get at least one Chinook going between the 2 of you.

I love those big ugly things.

An interesting note on the Chinook.

The Boeing Vetrol engineers had major problems with the amount of noise this helo made during the early prototype stages. They solved this by containing it inside the passenger cabin.

Same solution was used on the C-130 I believe.

Enough bull from me

Have a good day

Mark

we have two hummers going :)

 maybe this will work, JOSH

i am trying to post pictures for the first time sooo bear with me. I don't know if they are gonna work. I just started the hmmwv yesterday.... wah wah wah wouldn't you know it my wife is puking her guts out today, just when I thought I would have time to do what I gotta. Anyway I finally got to try out the badger 360..........money. Maybe this thing spoiled me because the old airbrush I had was so yucky. The hummer is in what I cal pre- weathered condition. Some of the base coating is not complete. I just had to send up some pictures. I plan on building the hook downrange. I was really worried about getting her done before I left, I am really glad you guys let me build the hmmwv. Lord knows I haven't logged as many hours in these things as a lot of you, but I have spent my fair share of time in these things. Go be a warrant they all said.... you won't have to do this stuff they all said....I have to tell you my friends the ARMY  is still the ARMY. You will always have to do stuff you don't want. Enough of my rambling. Let me know what you think fellas. I like to paint everything black first, then detail and weather. Enjoy my friends.

 

 

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Wonderful, scenic Graf(shuddddderrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)

that is fine with me hook as long as it is something you served on that is part of the build. i am thinking about building a blackhawk or chinook when i am done with the hummer flew on them enough in the 101

kenny

Hey fellas, Just got back from a wonderful few weeks at Graf. Anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes in Germany knows exactly what I am talking about. The only saving garace was that it rained instead of snow! Any ways.... I have a question for the group. My chinook, or rather my chinook parts are taking some time to get here. I am afraid I will not have enough time to do this project justice. So here is my proposal, I just spent the last two weeks as  TC for convoy live fire tng in a M1025 variant...... without vehicle mounted weapons. My wife bought me the tamiya version of this kit when I was in the field. I was wondering if I could build the HMMWV instead? I feel pretty certain I could get that done before the deadline, and truth be known I think the hook is gonna take some time..... like more time than I have before goin' downrange. Let me know what ya think.      JOSH

Wish the weather here would warm up so I could crack out the old airbrush. Unusual cold spell for Phoenix. Living in an apartment does have it's disadvantages when it comes to modelling

sidure wrote:

Hey Mist, hang in there. I was/am having the same problem with decals. My daughter bailed me out last night with her computor and they are close enough. Thats the problem when you model an exact replica of something you served with or on. You cant find decals for every unit or squadron. I searched every model web site and none had a match for my squadron. If you cant make the decals you want then sling some ordenance on it. At the end of the day though, model the way you like it. Steve

 

 I want this bird done so bad, i'll just decal it with the box decals.  I'm sure one of the atlantic squadrons were tarps birds.  I want to get this completed and weathered.  I have a new weathering tip i want to try.  It should be done shortly.  Stay tuned

 

Jim 

Hey Mist, hang in there. I was/am having the same problem with decals. My daughter bailed me out last night with her computor and they are close enough. Thats the problem when you model an exact replica of something you served with or on. You cant find decals for every unit or squadron. I searched every model web site and none had a match for my squadron. If you cant make the decals you want then sling some ordenance on it. At the end of the day though, model the way you like it.

Steve

Steve, looks good

Mist and Mark, hang in there

Rob, nice build, thanks

nice build rob. 3/32 INF was my unit when i went through basic at FT. Benning . then i moved onto the 101st ABD 1/187th INF. I was 11HE9 but the 101st didnt have tracked vehichles so i ended up in a hummer and i loved it. we didnt have a cool call sign lol D43 was ours everyone went by there vehicle number.

kenny

Here are a couple of pictures of my 1/72 scale Revell M998 HMMWV. It represents the first HMMWV I was assigned as a staff officer. I was the Battlion Maintenance Officer (BMO) for 3-32 Armor of the 1st Cavalry Division in 1992. My callsign was Scorpion 8.

Mark, hang in there dude. Dont feel bad about the future, for some reason I get the same effect when I use it and as a result I dont use it much anymore. I tend to use Testors gloss coat and dull coat. I use enamels so it's just easier for me that way. I am sure you will get it fixed. Just step back from it have a beer or whatever and come back at it.

Steve

hey mist she looks great. great progress

kenny

Well, i've given up on the hobby store, so i'm going with the box decals.  It won't match with the Tarps pod so i either have a non-accurate model or take the Tarps off and reload it with weapons.   What do you guys think i should do?

Looking good Steve.

The A-4's really look good in that colour scheme.

I've bogged down with the one-eleven.

The Aussie equivalent of futre is a rather poor cousin. It ends up with a fair amount of orange peel and I've not been happy with the results on the last 2 models I've used it on.

I  tried my panel line wash without it and it didn't work. The matt acrylic just wicked it up out of the panel line and I ended up with a distorted colour about 3-5mm either side of the panel line. In the clean up I removed half ot the post shading and got streaks in my enamel tan. (which I used as I'd run out of acrylic)

You know that little voice in the back of your head that says " You're not going to make the deadline anyway, so maybe you should just wait till you can get the right paint." Well now it's saying, "Told you so, bet you wished you'd listened to me. Now look at all the work you've made for yourself."

As a result, I've put the pig aside for a moment and am working on the accessories till I get the new, purpose made modelling equivalent of future sold here as Passt.

I'll catch you all later in the week.

Cheers

Mark

 

Ok, as promised here are some update photos of the A-4. Most of the decals are on except for the tail codes. Tonight my daughter made them on the computor and I printed them so hopefully they will be on tonight. I did a little panel wash but there is not many panels to do so that did not take too long. I am not going to dirty up the bird too much as they were kept fairly clean. I might do a little pastel chalk on it to give it some depth.

As always comments and critique are always welcome.

Steve

Hey Guy's, finally got back to the work bench last night and got a lot of decaling done and some small touchups. I am still scrounging the spare decal box to come up with the numbers and some of the colours etc. Still have not been able to come up with the tail code numbers yet though. URRRRGH. Might get some work done tonight and might post some photos tomorrow.

Steve

Hey guys, sorry for the delay in posting for this build. Things have been real bad for me right now. I lost my internet at home and my computer crashed on me. Then I left my job to go back to school. This is my first week back in 16 years. It is tough reajusting to this type of life, COLLAGE. I am at Texas State Technical Collage in Waco, Texas. I am taking 25 hours this spring. Plus I am having to be away from my family for the first time since I was deployed to the "BIG SAND BOX" the first time for Desert Storm. I have not had a chance to work much on the E-3, but when I go back home tomorrow I will be getting the bird and try to do some work on it.

So far all of the builds here are comming along nicely.

thanks for the comments guys hoping to get some more done tonight. i plan on muddying her up a bit .

john you are right too too many shades of OD as long as she comes out decent i am happy :)

Kenny, looks good, you must have been posting at the same time I was last night. Color difference does show up in the photo's. Too many shades of OD exist in real and it is hard to match in model building

Thanks for the kind comments guys! The intake was nothing three or four applications of filler and some coarse sandpaper couldn't fix I wrapped the sandpaper around a medium sized oval file to get into the corners.

Mark, that is an awsome 'Vark. I'll have to send a link to your build to a guy who flew them from Plattsburgh AFB in New York. He's building one now as well and I think he'll be able to gather some inspiration from your build!

 Kenny, sharp looking Hummvee. That's looking like a nice clean build. Are you going to dirty it up in the end or is it going to leave ready for the IG's inspection? Either way, I'm looking forward to seeing it complete. I have a pair in 1/72 that I could use some ideas for.

Thanks guys.

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Some nice work on the Humvee Kenny. I like the idea of displaying it with the TOW cover. If you can make it work it'll be very original.

Dave, Love the detail you're putting in the cockpit.

Nice seamless intake trunk too. don't see too many of those in f-16 models.

Mark