The In My Stash GB

Nuc, it is the Hasegawa kit.  I have the fuselage closed up and wings on, and the fit couldn't be better.  I agree with you on the cockpit opening.  The IP completely disappeared but the seat is still visible.  The Schnellboot looks really cool.  I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Razor, thanks!  Snowberry lives!

Bear, oh yeah, I hope to have the Macchi finished by beginning of October, if not sooner.  Once I start building I'm relentless

Hey fellas.....I am still alive. My 162 poject has been put on hold for the next 14 months and change. I made it down to the sandbox. All is well here. I didn't want to ship my project down here because it was nearing completion and I didn't want to have to redo all the stuff mps would have messed up transporting it here. I am trying to have some kits shipped from baghdad....we can have our own little club up where I am . So I will submit a new project for vote...uhhh.....as soon as I have one. I will try to post some picture of other modeling project s the other guys in the unit are working. Enjoy fellas......JOSH

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Hey fellas.....I am still alive. My 162 poject has been put on hold for the next 14 months and change. I made it down to the sandbox. All is well here. I didn't want to ship my project down here because it was nearing completion and I didn't want to have to redo all the stuff mps would have messed up transporting it here. I am trying to have some kits shipped from baghdad....we can have our own little club up where I am . So I will submit a new project for vote...uhhh.....as soon as I have one. I will try to post some picture of other modeling project s the other guys in the unit are working. Enjoy fellas......JOSH

Thank you for your service.  Keep safe over there!   Good to hear that you have your own little model club over there!

Send a mailing address - I for one would be happy to thin the Stash a bit and send a few kits over to you guys.  I know that there is a 'clearing house' address for the area, but it would be nice to send some kits over to someone that I know (even if only thru this Group Build).

Josh Take care my thoughts are with you.

Arki  At this rate will there be any kits left in your stash come December

Progress report Removed the tape & silly putty from my build (peel & pray) and things came out pretty good some minor ridges and touch ups but nothing to big pictures soon.  The F-5 is neering the end so I should make better progress on the F-105.  Have a great weekend all.

Cheers

Bear

Bear, no danger here of running out of things to build.  I still have 27 kits in the stash, with another 2 new kits being delivered!  Not a huge stash compared to some, but if I'd just quit buying...

Underside color is now on, next is to begin masking for the upper color.  Since I'll be traveling this weekend, that won't happen till next week sometime. 

Razor, agreed!  We need pics, Bear!

That goes for you too Arki!   We need pics!

I've been scraping and sanding away at the hull of the Snowberry but it has been slow going.  Hopefully I will have it ready to paint (and pics ) in a couple of weeks.

Ok guy's as requested here are the latest pics of the F-105

This one is with the mask still on or a big glob of silly putty

And the results after the pray & peel

All in all I'm quite happy with the results.  The ridges have been cleaned up only the touch ups on the underside remain then I'll install the gears.  It's coming along slow but sure.

Cheers

Bear

My pleasure Dave & thanks.  Yep the F-5 is also coming along nicely looking forward to finishing it.  I'm looking forward to seeing some pics of your beast.  I saw the box at my LHS recently that's one BIG kit.

Cheers

Bear

Thanks Arki I do love silly putty.

Dave Only 2 builds, looking at you sig slide show I see quite a few gaps, how do you do it I'm only good for two GB's at a time or else I .  I agree at the size of that ship you'll definitly be working on it in the New Year.  I'm still looking forward to some progress pics

Cheers

Bear

Dave Good luck for sure 4 AR 234's at the same time that's impressive.  I had 2 CF-5's with the F-105 and I put the CF-5D on hold till I get the Thud out of the way.  I may join the Grumman GB with my Tracker we'll see.  Take care.

Cheers

Bear

So I started masking tonight for the upper color, went to readjust the first piece of Tamiya masking tape and...pulled up a big chunk of paint with it. 

I immediately set everything down and walked away from it.  I'll try again Wednesday evening with Plan B.

Why do we like this hobby again?

Arki OUCH!!! that's to bad I hope plan B works for you.  That was a good move to walk away we would'nt want a partialy built kit to become airborne now  Good luck on Wed. if not there is always plan C.

Cheers

Bear

Hello gents, 

I have the Tiger I all ready to be airbrushed and as soon as everyone in the house is awake, I'm going to spray it dark yellow. In case you're all wondering, there are 48 road wheels on this thing. Anyone who wants to send flowers is welcome. You know you have too many road wheels when you can use them to play a game of poker .

Jin is also staying here at my house. He got a 1/72 Academy F-8J Crusader from the LHS. It's pretty much the same one I built, so of course he's going to build it better just to show off, heh. His probably also has better decals because they're from Cartograf. Now, I had promised myself that I would not buy any more model kits, but Jin had to order a part from Great Models and to bump it up to $10, I had to add in a Dragon 1/144 UH-60L (2)... and some glue. I'm now almost dirt poor! Yay!

More later today... or tomorrow.

-Doomgrr 

Superbear-Astounding camo on your f-105. I had never heard of silly putty masking, looks like it works really well. How well does the paint clean off the putty once done and is it reusable?

Arkii- I'm sorry to hear about your masking problem. I hope the fix will be simple.

Doom- Looking forward to see some pics of your Tiger.

Here are some update photos of the s-100.

None of the superstructure is glued yet and I have some clean up to do, but at least it's progress.

It is progress Nuc, and darn good progress!  Thanks for the update. 

Plan B worked fine, the upper color has been shot, and I'm assembling the gear now.  I hope to have the 202 futured by tomorrow.

Nuc  Thanks, silly putty works great and it is reusable.  The paint does not come of it you just keep roleing it around in your hands till it blends in with the putty.  When you reuse it, it does happen that a few specks will stick to a new build however it comes off easily.  Nice progress on your S-100 looking good.

Doom can't wait to see some pics

Arki I'm glad to hear plan B worked out looking fwd to some pics.

Have a great weekend all.

Cheers

Bear

A quick pic of my current status.  Still need to put the exhausts on, plus some minor paint touchups.  Very close for Future stage. 

Sorry about the slight blur to the picture.  I've always like the lines of the C.202, the Italians can make some sexy aircraft. 

hey guys everyones builds are looking great well now that summer is over hopefully things will get back to normal.

hope you all had a great weekend see you all soon

Bet you guys thought i fell off the planet!!  Well, I have been missing awhile but I am still working on the kreigsloco!  This is the longest I have ever spent working on a model.  I would say i'm probably more than 1/2 way through it.  At the begining of the year I had  this model and the stuka and the 1/35th elco PT boat and I thought to myself... self... these 3 models will keep me busy for a year.  Little did i know that i would still be working on the loco 9 months later!  I have some pics for all those months of silence though.

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and my personal favorite ... details where they don't show!  This it the underside with the brake linkage.

 Here it is on the base.  Thought it would be a good idea to do the base before I attached the wheels.  Not really like a car... I had to make sure that all 12 wheels were making the correct contact with the rails.

The base was just plain smooth plastic but i thought that would look a little cheap.  So i scribed in mortor lines and painted to look like a stacked stone bed.  I still ned to finish the base up with some grass and weeds.  The rusty rails and ties photographed a little orange???  Not sure what's up with that.

Here it is with the tender.  OK, pop quiz... guess what i haven't painted yet?  I put a 1 foot ruler in front for scale. 

and a couple others

 I have been scanning through the tons of posts and wow you guys build great models!  Everbody's stuff looks really great!  I had to go back to the list because i did not see the Snowberry or the aircraft carrier?  What happened to the big boats?  Outstanding work guys.

sorry, 1 of the images did not come through with the text.  this image shows the part i was talking about some 25 pages back or so.  the part that has all the black hoses plugged into it was just 1 part out of box but with the PE parts the 1 part turned into 22.

the big ed PE parts for this model are great although it boosted the part count by about 5 billion and almost10 pages of instructions!  Look at me go on about this   the more the better!

Holy Crap!  RMV!!! I thought you had disappeared to the Himalayas!  Good to see you back and Wow, gorgeous work on the loco!  This is one of the builds I was really looking forward to seeing completed and I'm glad to see you're still slogging away.  Nicely done all around