That is an awesome story! I would have cheered too!
This week on my bench I have a moderate update, mostly on my armor that I'm trying to complete so I can achieve my goal. In between, I did work on a few aircraft to keep things fresh. This will be a picture intensive post so buckle up and hang on tight.
I'll start with my aircraft...
The first one I did was the Crusader, masking it off to prepare it for painting the grey:
Next I decided to add the decals to my two WWI fighters. First off, I completed the decals on the SE-5A:
After that, I added half the decals to the Fokker D-VII:
This is why I only did half the decals. This aircraft gets a multi-colored pattern on the bottom. Well, here is the decals for that multi-color pattern:
That's right! I get to color them in myself!! YAAAYYYYYY!
Okay, enough fun with wingies for now. Let's move on to my extensive parade of progress pics for my armor.
Let's start with the three German vehicles I started; one of which is being built for the APC campaign here on the Alliance. I went ahead and painted on the second of the camouflage colors for this beastie:
Later on I added the third color:
Moving on, I also added the second and third colors to my Tpz Fuchs. After all, I had the paints out:
I started to do the same with my Boxer command vehicle, but realized there were a few parts missing that I forgot to add in my haste to keep up with the APC version of this vehicle. So, I glued them in place:
Later on, I airbrushed the base color on these new parts:
Now I can move forward on this camouflage pattern.
After this, I worked on my two buses. The Vomag simply got a coat of gloss clear over it so there wasn't any reason to shoot pics of that. However, my Ludwig bus got it's wheels on now:
I also gave a black wash to the front grill that was screaming for it. It looks a little more stark in real life; I'm very pleased with the results:
I plan on leaving this a semi-gloss color since this was used to ferry around officers so they most likely would have left it looking semi-glossy.
This bus is almost done now. I'm going to try and finish this and the Vomag at about the same time. You should be seeing both of them soon in a finished Forums before too long.
Now it was time to start on some new JGSDF equipment that I've been wanting to add to my collection for some time. I started with the new prototype LAV that the Japanese are developing. I assembled the suspension, then the main hull and before I knew it; I had gotten this far:
The I started on the turret. That was completed very quickly as well:
This little beastie is looking pretty good:
Later on, I realized that I hadn't added the nose and rear panel to the main hull, mostly because I needed to add the clear lights to them. I added them in, masked them off on the outside; then I painted the rear of both of them with Chrome Silver:
After they were dry, these two parts went on the main hull:
This is looking even better now:
I did notice all the seams on the edges of the hull and on parts of the turret and they were bothering me. I pulled out my Perfect Plastic Putty that I finally got some weeks ago and added it to all the seams to fill everything in:
This is now ready for paint.
The last thing I did was to start on my JGSDF Patriot PAC-3 launcher. Naturally, I started out with the suspension and chassis of the tractor part:
After that, I moved on to the cab, adding the windows to the outer part of the cab:
Moving on, I started the interior, adding the seats, dashboard and steering wheel. These guys sure enjoy a comfortable ride:
Just to see how it looked, I dry-fit the cab portions together:
Once I clean those windows back up the interior will be very visible!
Then I dry-fit this to the chassis:
It does look like it's sitting high, but there are some other fender parts to assemble and add to this.
I set all that aside to dry and went to work on the trailer portion. Here's the basic trailer assembled here:
That's as far as I got for now. I'm hoping this next week I'll be able to declare a few of these done. I might know by Thursday. Meanwhile, stay tuned. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
