Secret Santa- WWII Aviation GB

Been looking over the instructions for my P-38J.  I'm leaning towards doing Bong's "Marge", but I must admit the droop snoot and nightfighter options are very intriguing! 

I'm even toying with the idea of doing something different, and doing this one gears up to hang suspended inside my display case.  Might be kinda cool! 

Cockpit assembly begins tonight! 

Ed's subscription ran out. He hasn't had the cash to renew it unfortunatly.

Driving a golf cart? hmmmm, ya never know

Mr. Mott wrote:

DrewH wrote: Yea Avus, how do you paint so straight??? Looking good tho. Keep it up.  Here is a pic of Hippy-Ed's P-51. I'm posting for the pic he sent me as he's not able to do so.     So what happened to Hippy Ed? Seen someone posted his build in Aircraft forums earlier which was on another site. http://www.modelx.com/phpBB2/index.php

DrewH wrote:

Yea Avus, how do you paint so straight??? Looking good tho. Keep it up.  Here is a pic of Hippy-Ed's P-51. I'm posting for the pic he sent me as he's not able to do so.

So what happened to Hippy Ed? Seen someone posted his build in Aircraft forums earlier which was on another site. http://www.modelx.com/phpBB2/index.php 

Very nice jwb, mph34 and Avus. Good work guy's Gee, jwb building a spitfire, who'd a thunk it

Well, I finally got off my duff and re-painted the Gekko. I am bound and determined to beat this thing. Hopefully next weekend the decals will be going on.

wing_nut wrote:

Looks great... one of your best. Where have you been?  I did notice you have been a bit scarce lately.

Between time devoted to some web work I do for fun, plus some additional time I'm having to spend at work, time has been scarce. I've mainly just kept up with the aircraft threads a bit and left it at that.

Hopefully in a few weeks things will slow down.... probably wishful thinking.  

Looks great... one of your best.

Where have you been?  I did notice you have been a bit scarce lately.

Sorry I've been out of this for a while guys.... poor showing on my part. But....

I finished my kit! Woo-hoo! Here's the pics!

Eventually this thread seems to be alive again.

Great work Hippy-Ed and mph34!

Thanks for the compliments guys.
Actually it the first time I preshaded an aircraft and I had a hard time figuring the correct color-thinner-ratio.

This week-end I completed the preshading and painted the underside; this is the result:

Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!! Almost TWO WHOLE DAYS without a post!

Well, here are photos of my finished P-400.  I had a little of trouble with the left wing root, but it puttied and sanded out pretty well.  I took a little "liberty" wit the end result.  I didn't use the provided decals for the plane's name.  I kinda liked the way the blue came out against the camo paint.  Otherwise, the kit is completly built OOB.

Yea Avus, how do you paint so straight??? Looking good tho. Keep it up.

 Here is a pic of Hippy-Ed's P-51. I'm posting for the pic he sent me as he's not able to do so.

Time for another

BUMP!

... and a progress pic:

Primed and preshaded the "Tank-Killer"!
Next WE the paint will go on ... I hope.

Sorry to hear of your painting wowes Drew. Same thing happened to me a while back. Best explination that I got was the difference in humidity!!!!!!.

I have been slaving away with a seam problem that just wont go away. ''Fill, sand, and prime over and over again and I still see it. I have the invasion stripes on the wings of the C-47 and have started on the fuselage. They are proving a little more difficult to get straight and am on my second attempt. I will prevail though.

Hope everyone else is progressing well.

Steve

Thanks Steve and Avus. IT's getting there. I tried to paint it last weekend, and had a couple of things to sand out and fix. So I applied a second coat yesterday and something went drastically wrong The first glossy coat turned flat after. Wha!?!?!?  I have no idea why, I'm using the same bottle of paint as the first, same thinner etc, just something didn't mesh.

 So.... a stripping I will go, a stripping I will go.......

Time for a little

BUMP ...

It looks like the "surgery" on your aircraft went well, DrewH.
Looks good.

My progress is not worth being show as you'll hardly notice it. I've been puttying, sanding and twiddling around with PE in the last week-ends.
Actually I was ready for priming yesterday but found out, to my horror, that my Maskol was completely dried out ... will have to wait till next Saturday to get a bottle.

Drew, it's comming along nicely. Very nice progress, keep up the good work. Good luck with the fuselage

Steve

Well, progress has been made slowly. It is getting together bit by bit. The gear and details have been painted a base of floquil old silver. The lower wings are now on and the last of the nasty warp issues is about to be dealt with. It is so isolated not it has become nothing. The cannon bay has helped in keeping the rear fusalage in alignment and the correct width. Thanks Tamiya for the superior engineering! It would have been a real bear ir the cannon racks weren't there.

Marc,   You know that was a pretty good idea about checking the dihedral of the wings.

 While they were pretty much in alignment, a simple 1 mm shove in the right direction made all the difference between a simple putty job, and filling the Grand Canyon....thanks.

The rest of the builds look great, Drew, your seatbelts make me sick.  Mine look so silly by comparison.

DrewH, what a wonderful looking interior, great job. Comming along nicely.

Avus, good looking cockpit and as a dry fit it looks like it will be a good looking aircraft.

Steve

It's been quiet arond here and now I see why: everyone's been busy on his model and everyone's made great progress.

Me, too. So here's a pic of a dry fitting:

Looking good Sidure, get shimmin buddy

 I have got the hardest part over with. I cut the thing It was hard to take that first slice with my razor saw, but I did it. The cockpit is now complete, and the forward fusalage is glued together. Here's the pics you dawgs

Hey Guy's, been kinda quiet out here lately so I hope it's because of all the building going on. I have been making some progress on my C-47 and have the fuselage buttoned up and the wings completed with all the other major assemblies also done. Some sanding to come next and then priming.

With all the work on the interior it's a shame most of it can not be seen. There is some nice interior parts to this kit and the fit was excellent. Oh well, at least I know it's in there. Now for the major problem that I just discovered. On dry fitting the wings to fuselage joint, there is a gap on both sides like the grand canyon!!!!!.

I guess I will now get a chance to do my first shim job and see how that works. I think it's too big to fill with putty.

Steve

Sturzkampf wrote:

i couldnt get the chilean markings decal sheet, so i think i'll be doing a plain soviet-marked Yak-3

Man, that's a bummer!! would it be too difficultt for you to have a set of decals made in those markings? There are a few people here who can do something like that.