Your Last Three Models

Pat!  Great stuff.  Is the STP a what-if or was there a real one?  Love the Ducati

3 More to report. This is AFV Club's 1/35th Scimitar with several resin sets from Scorpion miniatures for a vehicle from the Falklands war.

Youngs Miniatures 1/10th Templar Knight bust.

And Airfix's 1/72nd Beaufighter TF.X.

Nice stuff Pat & Bish. You guys are cranking out the kits.  

These are my last three builds. In fact they are still on the bench as I write this. All three will be NMF including the F-5F. That build is going to be a what-if. I recently bought a Silhouette Protrait stencil cutter so I'm going to try to paint some of the markings on these builds. I don't have any W.I.P. photos but I will be posting pictures of the finished builds.

Some classic plastic.

Yeah, I built that F-100 a few years ago. Fun kit.

None new builds, but the most recent ones I've posted.

Italeri (ex-Hobbycraft) 1/32 Nieuport 17c in kit markings for French ace René 'Père' Dorme:

Arii/LS 1/144 P-3C Orion (with Starfighter decals) from VP-40 'Fighting Marlins' 

The old-but-good Monogram F/A-18 Hornet in Super Scale CAG markings for VFA-97 'Warhawks':

And pushing the count slightly...the old Airfix 1/72 Hs126 done up in desert colors (but with not-strictly-accurate Eastern Front unit codes from the kit sheet, so sue me.... ):

Great stuff Greg.  Love the markings on the Orion and really like the Henschel.

Hi Greg,

Really like all of the builds but can you answer some questions about the Nieuport?

What did you use for the rigging?  How was the kit to build?( I have the Hobbycraft version in my stash)  What paints/colors did you use?

Thanks,

TJS

Greg. awesome builds. Wylie Coyote super genius..

MR TOM SCHRY

Hi Greg,

Really like all of the builds but can you answer some questions about the Nieuport?

What did you use for the rigging?  How was the kit to build?( I have the Hobbycraft version in my stash)  What paints/colors did you use?

Thanks,

TJS

Thanks, John, Tom & Crown.

As far as 'to build,' it was pretty typical Hobbycraft: soft detail (and pretty sparse cockpit detail), but nice overall shape and proportions, and generally good fit; I don't recall any real problem areas. One suggestion -- which admittedly I didn't do on this build -- would be to thin the interplane 'vee' struts a bit, as they're kind of 'blocky.'

Rigging was the 'fine' version of the elastic thread product called EZ-Line, which I use for pretty much all my rigging. I pre-measure the lines to about 75% of the length they'll need to span, and use CA to attach home-made 'eyes' made of fine wire as turnbuckles. I pre-drill holes before attaching wings and such, so when it's finished I can just 'plug in' the rigging lines (again using super glue as the adhesive) using a pair of needle-nose cross-lock tweezers. It's a great method that removes all the stress from the rigging job, and since the elastic will 'give' if knocked accidentally, it's very forgiving of ham-handed klutzes like myself.

Paints are my own 'eyeball' mixes of Tamiya acrylics. If you hunt around on the web, there are actual contemporary color photographs (from an early process) of several French WW1 aircraft that can be used as guidance for the proper hues. (You might also do a search for the works of aviation researcher Alan D. Toelle, whose work on original colors has been used by institutions like the Smithsonian.)

I don't have immediate access (on my phone, that is) to the formulas I used, but if you're interested, I'll be happy to look them up next time I fire up the PC.

Cheers.

Great job on that Hs 126 Greg.

I finished 3 over the summer..

Tamiya 1/72 N1K1

Hasegawa 1/72 Jaguar for the Desert Storm group build

Hasegawa 1/72 FW 190-D 

Great stuff JB.  Love the variety.  

My most recent. Been on a 72nd tear lately

Trumpeter Wellington Mk.X. All markings are painted because me the dummy lost the decals

Fujimi A-4KU

Academy OV-10A with AOA decals for Air Force FAC in Vietnam

Revell 1/48 PV-1 Ventura, Academy 1/48 CH-53E and Revell 1/48 F-105G.

coloradj 10hi by steve hawley, on Flickr

rigged too by steve hawley, on Flickr

F-105GSH by steve hawley, on Flickr

TJ great stuff.  I always wanted to do that A4 in those markings.

Steve - awesome trio.  I love the ch53.   And we certainly don't see Venturas built up often.

Great stuff RT. Love the Stallion and Thud. Nice job getting it to look like the subject.

Almost done enough to include it here; Tamiya 1/48 F-4B Phantom II

Bandai X-Wing 1/72

Young Minatures "Hell on Wheels" (Brad Pitt - Fury)

Nice stuff chops.  Always like the Sundowner markings.  And what a great variety of subjects!

Great job!  I hear that the new Tamiya F-4 is a great kit and I really like that "Fury' figure.  How did you get his 5 o'clock shadow?

TJS 

Thanks guys!

I used watered down mix of blue and grey for the 5 o'clock shadow. Took a few layers.

Haven't built a new model all year but just about to fire up the printers again.

These are the last three models I built all from scratch using 3D printers, an Ender 3 Pro FDM printer for the large parts and a LD-002r resin printer for detail parts. Both printers are made by Creality.

This 1/35 scale Pershing was finished at the very end of 2020.

I finished my 1/450 scale USS Atlanta in November of 2020

And my 1/450 scale USS Texas was completed in early October of 2020

From SCRATCH?!?!   Beautiful work - very impressive.  Did you print everything?  Hulls etc?

keavdog

... Did you print everything?  Hulls etc?

 

Very, very impressive.  Phil Toy would come by our IPMS San Diego meetings way back - he scratch built ships as well.  

keavdog

Very, very impressive.  Phil Toy would come by our IPMS San Diego meetings way back - he scratch built ships as well.  

When you throw modern computer design software & 3D printers into the mix - It's kind'a cheating, it uses a different skill-set to get the same result.

Though the finish work, painting and weathering is pretty much the same.

tempestjohnny

Fujimi A-4KU

Academy OV-10A with AOA decals for Air Force FAC in Vietnam

I feel inspired by these two. Very well done

Bish

Bish,

Love the looks of this, the extra gear, weathering and the display. Very natural presentation.