"Heavy Lifters" Cargo Plane GB 2008

Wirraway wrote:

Hello,  anyone out there ?  Bondo,  I think you are our last hope of someone else finishing before the end date...........

 

Yeah, I'm out. Sorry, just had a couple of minicraft kits kick my butt all year long and haven't even started the Northwest bird.

My apologies.

I bought a square foot of yellow vinyl- 0.05 inches thick for the liner in the AN-12. Need to figure out how to cross hatch it. Ideas???

I Will work on the Cub this weekend. I've got a couple others done, and I may have to watch "Lord of War" inspration.

I've been working on the Cub quite a bit this weekend. First; I've never built a Roden kit before, and this one is great. All the pieces go together well, and look sharp. Not Tamiya, but much nicer than I'm used to.

This is a seriously big airplane. Remember about a year ago I built the tank truck from Zvedza as cargo; here it is amongst the parts, along with an Avia Messer for scale, all at 1/72.

The biggest challenge so far has been joining the front/ rear halves of the fuse together on accout that I did it by sides, not front to back.

More soon- this is FUN!!!!

Bondo, 

Great to see the progress you are making, should be a beaut !

(Between you, me and the fencepost, I have to say how dissapointed I was with moderating my first GB.  Looks like only two of us will finish ?  Maybe I didnt crack the whip enough.  I hope the military veterans II GB goes a little better)

bondoman wrote:

I've been working on the Cub quite a bit this weekend. First; I've never built a Roden kit before, and this one is great. All the pieces go together well, and look sharp. Not Tamiya, but much nicer than I'm used to. This is a seriously big airplane. Remember about a year ago I built the tank truck from Zvedza as cargo; here it is amongst the parts, along with an Avia Messer for scale, all at 1/72. The biggest challenge so far has been joining the front/ rear halves of the fuse together on accout that I did it by sides, not front to back. More soon- this is FUN!!!!

Bondo, that thing is huge!  I think the most telling picture is the one with the Mavis hull in the background.  Its dwarfed by the Cub!  Your progress looks great!  I'm glad to hear that about Roden, as I'd like to someday build some of their Gotha bombers.  Need to get better at multiple wings first, though!

Wirraway, I'll finish my Gigant...I always finish my GB commitments eventually, but life does tend to get in the way a lot for me.  I tend to join more for the camraderie and the fun and the mutual building than to finish something.  It'll get it done eventually... But right now, even typing takes forever.

Cheers,
Alex

Alex,   I'll keep you to that promise !!  I picked up the glider version on e-bay (a BIG airfield dio with a He111 Zwilling all hooked up and ready to tow)

Maybe a glider GB some day ?

I am late but coming along with the Roden An-12 Cub in 1/72. The markings will be the 11905 at Cairo West in 1973. The Arab/ Israeli conflicts are a special interest of mine.

This is a really fine model. It is very nicely engineered and the detail is good. It is also huge. The props are close to the wingspan of my Avia S199 (Me 109).

I painted the wings with gray straight out of the bottle, and plan to post shade with lightened paint. I've noted before that at 1/72 I don't think "panel lines" are correct. It's more panel-to-panel variations of color.

I am proceeding with subassemblies. So far the cockpit, the cargo floor and ceiling, the wings, the prop assemblies and the the fuselage. Oh, and last year I built the cargo, a very nice fuel truck from a firm named ZV, which I assume is Zvezda(?).

 

 

There wasn't much available as a resource for the cargo bay, but I did find a picture I liked of one, and it matches Roden's instructions, so I went with it.

 

 

 

 

I could spend a lot of time researching this a/c; it's definitely on a par with a C-130 and full of interesting design decisions. But life is too short.

The internal components go together like a good puzzle. I've used kitchen foil burnished over a piece of square screen, brown vinyl from Joanne's, and decals from Tom's Modelworks. Oh, the decals. The Roden ones all shattered, I've fixed them but that's a whole other story.

I'm onto final assembly now that I got my pics- had to wait for a sunny day. More later.

I'm not quite finished with the AN-12. Swear it takes a pallet jack just to move it back and forth to the paint section. I've got the second coat of primer applied and sanded. I'm ready for the color coats. This is a nice kit and went together well. Tonite I'm going to glue on all the little blade antennas etc, and get to work on the Supercat.

Roden, 1/72.

Bondo.  Great to see the progress you are making here.  Cant wait to see this baby finished !

Hello all;

After a hiatus I have begun cleaning off my workbench and the S.M 81 is moving forward again. I should be able to show pictures soon.

Mike T.

Mike,  that is great, looking forward to some pics.

I'm calling this finiski!! Done-ski. Time for a double Vodka!!

The Roden An-12 in 1/72, a very nice kit but just TOO BIG, to the point where I couldn't find a good place to take pics, and I have NO place to put it. This is a decent build, has a full interior, and the instructions and kit construction are about 90% good. The decals were not, so I got an AM set.

For the Heavy Lifters GB, that 6x6 fuel bowser from ZV models had about as many parts as the a/c. Nice model too.

For the Cold War GB, well the only AMdecals I could find were Russian, not Soviet, circa 1993, but hey it's involved in the withdrawal from Germany, so that'll work for me, and I liked the red stars anyways. They're from Aero master. Two jars of Tamiya light grey and a jar of flat white.

"Na Zdorovie!"

Comrade Billski

Bondo.  Congratulations on finishing that big mutha......looks great