Sherman 18
Master at Arms
That last picture Maddog is creepy 
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All Righty ... What's on the bench today?
- Thread starter panzerace007
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I just put in about 2 hours at the bench cleaning up my 1/72 Airfix PBY-5A alot of flash & sanded down some pin marks. Have more to fill in tomorrow... Got the horizontal stabilizers glued together along with the center wing section. Will add pics tomorrow... :tomato :tomato
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Thanks for the welcome back guys! It sure felt good to get something done, even if it was all a bunch of bugs for the most part. Yeah Sherman, I agree; that last pic does look a bit creepy. I still have a lot to do in the Hobby Room, but I'm slowly getting some progress done in there.
Stay tuned; I hope to have some more to post in another few weeks.
Stay tuned; I hope to have some more to post in another few weeks.
Had a chance to shoot some paint today on my SNJ-5 Texan & the Buffalo since the weather cooperated for a change :dance mid 80s & overcast. Ran thinner thru the A/B then thinned out some Chrome Yellow & started out just fine & then quit sprayin'. :huh: ok, so, I thin it a tad more & bumped up the psi from 8-10 to about 15 psi. stripped it down &adjusted the paint mix& here's what I got :idonno 
think maybe I should :frantic just go back to the hairy stick.... :frantic
think maybe I should :frantic just go back to the hairy stick.... :frantic
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Here's a small update here from me. It's funny, I posted this last night and once again, it disappeared into the ether before landing here!
Maddog Manufacturing's main Factory has completed renovations and is open for business. The bench and the room is now clean and organized enough to start some work on the remaining Works in Progress I have going:
The spraybooth is now cleaned off and ready as well. Here's the lineup of models needing clearcoat and/or paint:
Two of those need the clearcoat for decals; the rest need paint. I'm hoping to be able to shoot paint tomorrow or the next day.
Once I got the workbench and room the way I wanted, I decided to repair a number of models that had been broken during cleanup. There were about 17 of them and so I just repaired the landing gear, ordinance and such that had fallen off. No pics of that, I repaired them and then replaced them on the shelves.
One the repairs were done; I re-started a couple models that I'd been wanting to move on. The first one was my Russian armored train. I got the main engine finished with all the main parts on it:
This engine is now ready for all the Photo-etch that goes on it. You can see how happy he is to be getting the Photo-etch soon:
Here's a shot of the rest of the train all ready for the photo etch:
Finally, awhile ago, I had started about three Russian guns along with a British one. Sometime after starting all of them, one gun disappeared completely after I'd started it. After I had cleaned up and organized the whole room, I finally found this gun that had fallen back behind something. It had been half started, so I decided to finish it up. Here it is in front of the box it was in. Now it is ready for paint as well:
And that is what I was able to get done before it was time to hit the sack. Now that I have a clean and organized room and my health; things should be picking up rather quickly now. So, stay tuned, more to come.
Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
Maddog Manufacturing's main Factory has completed renovations and is open for business. The bench and the room is now clean and organized enough to start some work on the remaining Works in Progress I have going:
The spraybooth is now cleaned off and ready as well. Here's the lineup of models needing clearcoat and/or paint:
Two of those need the clearcoat for decals; the rest need paint. I'm hoping to be able to shoot paint tomorrow or the next day.
Once I got the workbench and room the way I wanted, I decided to repair a number of models that had been broken during cleanup. There were about 17 of them and so I just repaired the landing gear, ordinance and such that had fallen off. No pics of that, I repaired them and then replaced them on the shelves.
One the repairs were done; I re-started a couple models that I'd been wanting to move on. The first one was my Russian armored train. I got the main engine finished with all the main parts on it:
This engine is now ready for all the Photo-etch that goes on it. You can see how happy he is to be getting the Photo-etch soon:
Here's a shot of the rest of the train all ready for the photo etch:
Finally, awhile ago, I had started about three Russian guns along with a British one. Sometime after starting all of them, one gun disappeared completely after I'd started it. After I had cleaned up and organized the whole room, I finally found this gun that had fallen back behind something. It had been half started, so I decided to finish it up. Here it is in front of the box it was in. Now it is ready for paint as well:
And that is what I was able to get done before it was time to hit the sack. Now that I have a clean and organized room and my health; things should be picking up rather quickly now. So, stay tuned, more to come.
Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
Can a mod 
Hawkwrench
Active member
I just saw that Cobra Company has re-released their MH-60M detail set. Now I can order the final detail set for my build and maybe get started on it again-finally!
Clear up right!
Tim
Clear up right!
Tim
Well we're having a drought buster hitting us.
Greenwood is where I am, we're getting soaked. Flooding in Charleston but it always does. I remember walking through the Old Market up to my knees in water years ago.
Gotten some good bench time in because we can't do much of anything else.
Going to shelve this for a bit because I want to get some of my campaigns done.
Pro Racer back on deck. I'll explain this on that thread.
Greenwood is where I am, we're getting soaked. Flooding in Charleston but it always does. I remember walking through the Old Market up to my knees in water years ago.
Gotten some good bench time in because we can't do much of anything else.
Going to shelve this for a bit because I want to get some of my campaigns done.
Pro Racer back on deck. I'll explain this on that thread.
Sherman 18
Master at Arms
I was wondering if you were getting any of that MP.
:dude 's
Just a little. 
I had to dig out a little channel to get water flowing around the side of my garage instead of the front, water was about to creep under the door. It happens when it rains hard, drainage isn't right, someone should have put a pipe under the sidewalk up to the door.
No damage around here, just a good soaker.
I had to dig out a little channel to get water flowing around the side of my garage instead of the front, water was about to creep under the door. It happens when it rains hard, drainage isn't right, someone should have put a pipe under the sidewalk up to the door.
No damage around here, just a good soaker.
Managed to seal up the hull on my PT-109 this afternoon & scratched up a ladder for the Lazarette hatch
After taking these pics, I went to put the excess liquid glue back into the jar & the jar slipped out of my hand, bounced off the bench & dumped all down my pant leg!hmy: at least nothing vital got hit in this! Had about a 3rd of a bottle of the Flex-i-file Plast-i-weld but, not no more :facepalm I do have the Tenax7R so, I'm still in the game :drinks
After taking these pics, I went to put the excess liquid glue back into the jar & the jar slipped out of my hand, bounced off the bench & dumped all down my pant leg!
hmy: at least nothing vital got hit in this! Had about a 3rd of a bottle of the Flex-i-file Plast-i-weld but, not no more :facepalm I do have the Tenax7R so, I'm still in the game :drinks
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Today I got to the workbench and got started on those train flatcars like I wanted. Here's my latest progress on everything today.
First off, I hate when they make the sprue gates so big like this that they fill up the channel where the wheel is supposed to sit on the rails:
I was working on two flatcars; one long and one short. I had to clean eight of those wheels! What a PITA!
After doing all of those and getting the wheels and axles assembled, I built up the rest of the flatcars. These are by no means done; I have a lot of detail parts to add to these, as well as the side rails. However, you can see here the basic look of these little cars.
Here's the short one:
And this is the long one:
There are four parts to that long flatbed that had to be glued flat. I'm still not sure I succeeded. Oh well, this one is done so far.
After all that, I'd had enough of UM's trains so I took a break. I didn't want to fire up the compressor today to airbrush, so I decided to do a few simple kits and a couple of easy distressed kits. Here's the first of the simple kits. This is the 1/72 scale Hasegawa Huey Hog I started some time back. I found it again and went ahead and painted the interior of the cockpit and cargo bay:
Later on I'll paint the pilots and drybrush the instrument panel. For now, I just went ahead and painted some of the other details, as well as the interiors of the fuselage halves:
Once the pilots and IP are done this little bird will be ready to close up!
Moving on, I picked up one of the first of the Distressed Kits I wanted to (re)start. This is a Trumpeter 1/72 scale LAV-25 that someone "severely started" before I got it in the Distressed Kit Auction at my IPMS club's June meeting. This is what it looked like when I got it:
Notice everything is there....... except the instructions.....
Oh well, I'm a model builder; I don't need no steenkin' instructions!
I went ahead and finished fixing the suspension parts that had broken off:
I kept thinking, 'what's up with this green color anyway?' but I went on and started the turret. Once I got the turret all assembled, I noticed a fairly large gap that I was sure wasn't supposed to be there. So out came some strip styrene that got cut up and placed in the hole to plug it:
That will get sanded smooth later on.
Here's a test shot showing the hull and turret together:
That's gonna look pretty good when I finally cover that nasty green...
The next Distressed Kit I got was actually given to me because they felt I'd do a better job on it that they'd already done. (Whaaaa...?) This is the Minicraft 1/700 scale spru-can that was; again, "severely started". The whole hull and superstructure as well as the masts were already built; and the masts and tops of the stacks had already been painted a gloss black. I started out by replacing the lost antennae on the masts and added the weapons to the hull. The previous builder had also added the poor decals which had already started flaking off. I hit them with Solvaset to lock the remainder of them down and then I re-painted the masts and tops of the stacks with flat black. Here is what it looked like when I got done with all that. The white parts were what I'd added to the masts:
After looking at this, I noticed that I'd used the wrong type of gun on the front of this ship. I fixed that straight away:
Next I painted the hull. Then I looked at several of the gaps on the superstructure and decided I couldn't live with those. Out came the Mr. Surfacer. I started out with the gaps on the forward superstructure under the bridge:
Yes, I already fixed the drooping antenna...
Then I filled the gaps around the hanger doors:
All that will be carefully sanded down till it's smooth and then I'll paint the superstructure. Some gaps are still there, but I can't get to them with what I have so they'll just have to remain.
Well, after doing all that work on that spru-can, I got motivated to finish off the USS Virginia, despite not finding the replacement parts someone had sent me. Out came more of the styrene strip and rods.
Okay, remember this? This is where I stopped before:
Well since that pic was taken, the masts had all broken off; the big square radar disappeared and several other parts broke off and disappeared. *cough*torpedo tubes*cough.
Okay, after tearing apart the Hobby Room again looking for the square radar; I finally found the back of another one. I added the front of it using sheet styrene and then added the extra parts that made this radar:
It looks like crap, but at least I got one on this ship again! I also added modified launcher arms to look similar enough to the ones in back that are still on; then I replaced the masts, and fixed the other missing parts:
Then I touched up the paint a little more, and fixed a few more bits and bobs:
I'm not sure why I posted that pic; it doesn't look much different than the previous one. Oh well, here's a stern shot I haven't included before:
Okay, I guess I can now declare that ship ready for decals. Finally, I'll have that ship added to my fleet; after so many, many years of waiting!
Okay, that's all I got done so far today. Tomorrow promised to be just as open for working on my Hobby so this time, I think I'll fire up the compressor and start shooting some paint. So stay tuned, more to come.
Meanwhile, comments are always welcome, thanks for looking in.
First off, I hate when they make the sprue gates so big like this that they fill up the channel where the wheel is supposed to sit on the rails:
I was working on two flatcars; one long and one short. I had to clean eight of those wheels! What a PITA!
After doing all of those and getting the wheels and axles assembled, I built up the rest of the flatcars. These are by no means done; I have a lot of detail parts to add to these, as well as the side rails. However, you can see here the basic look of these little cars.
Here's the short one:
And this is the long one:
There are four parts to that long flatbed that had to be glued flat. I'm still not sure I succeeded. Oh well, this one is done so far.
After all that, I'd had enough of UM's trains so I took a break. I didn't want to fire up the compressor today to airbrush, so I decided to do a few simple kits and a couple of easy distressed kits. Here's the first of the simple kits. This is the 1/72 scale Hasegawa Huey Hog I started some time back. I found it again and went ahead and painted the interior of the cockpit and cargo bay:
Later on I'll paint the pilots and drybrush the instrument panel. For now, I just went ahead and painted some of the other details, as well as the interiors of the fuselage halves:
Once the pilots and IP are done this little bird will be ready to close up!
Moving on, I picked up one of the first of the Distressed Kits I wanted to (re)start. This is a Trumpeter 1/72 scale LAV-25 that someone "severely started" before I got it in the Distressed Kit Auction at my IPMS club's June meeting. This is what it looked like when I got it:
Notice everything is there....... except the instructions.....
Oh well, I'm a model builder; I don't need no steenkin' instructions!
I went ahead and finished fixing the suspension parts that had broken off:
I kept thinking, 'what's up with this green color anyway?' but I went on and started the turret. Once I got the turret all assembled, I noticed a fairly large gap that I was sure wasn't supposed to be there. So out came some strip styrene that got cut up and placed in the hole to plug it:
That will get sanded smooth later on.
Here's a test shot showing the hull and turret together:
That's gonna look pretty good when I finally cover that nasty green...
The next Distressed Kit I got was actually given to me because they felt I'd do a better job on it that they'd already done. (Whaaaa...?) This is the Minicraft 1/700 scale spru-can that was; again, "severely started". The whole hull and superstructure as well as the masts were already built; and the masts and tops of the stacks had already been painted a gloss black. I started out by replacing the lost antennae on the masts and added the weapons to the hull. The previous builder had also added the poor decals which had already started flaking off. I hit them with Solvaset to lock the remainder of them down and then I re-painted the masts and tops of the stacks with flat black. Here is what it looked like when I got done with all that. The white parts were what I'd added to the masts:
After looking at this, I noticed that I'd used the wrong type of gun on the front of this ship. I fixed that straight away:
Next I painted the hull. Then I looked at several of the gaps on the superstructure and decided I couldn't live with those. Out came the Mr. Surfacer. I started out with the gaps on the forward superstructure under the bridge:
Yes, I already fixed the drooping antenna...
Then I filled the gaps around the hanger doors:
All that will be carefully sanded down till it's smooth and then I'll paint the superstructure. Some gaps are still there, but I can't get to them with what I have so they'll just have to remain.
Well, after doing all that work on that spru-can, I got motivated to finish off the USS Virginia, despite not finding the replacement parts someone had sent me. Out came more of the styrene strip and rods.
Okay, remember this? This is where I stopped before:
Well since that pic was taken, the masts had all broken off; the big square radar disappeared and several other parts broke off and disappeared. *cough*torpedo tubes*cough.
Okay, after tearing apart the Hobby Room again looking for the square radar; I finally found the back of another one. I added the front of it using sheet styrene and then added the extra parts that made this radar:
It looks like crap, but at least I got one on this ship again! I also added modified launcher arms to look similar enough to the ones in back that are still on; then I replaced the masts, and fixed the other missing parts:
Then I touched up the paint a little more, and fixed a few more bits and bobs:
I'm not sure why I posted that pic; it doesn't look much different than the previous one. Oh well, here's a stern shot I haven't included before:
Okay, I guess I can now declare that ship ready for decals. Finally, I'll have that ship added to my fleet; after so many, many years of waiting!
Okay, that's all I got done so far today. Tomorrow promised to be just as open for working on my Hobby so this time, I think I'll fire up the compressor and start shooting some paint. So stay tuned, more to come.
Meanwhile, comments are always welcome, thanks for looking in.
Swordsman
Active member
Very nice boats Mark ... Great job ... Good luck on all your edivers ...
I'll. Post pictures tomorrow morning ... I think some of you liked my catfish fry wagon ... I'm getting back on it soon ... It just wasn't received to well here at MA ... Don't get me wrong some liked it ... So I ordered some Ork stuff so I can make a Ork fry wagon like it that will have some Ork Bikers dragging Space Marines by the feet with chains ... To the fry Wagon to be fried for dinner guests ... Their will some grecthen ... Skining them and prepping them and maybe waiting tables ...
I'll. Post pictures tomorrow morning ... I think some of you liked my catfish fry wagon ... I'm getting back on it soon ... It just wasn't received to well here at MA ... Don't get me wrong some liked it ... So I ordered some Ork stuff so I can make a Ork fry wagon like it that will have some Ork Bikers dragging Space Marines by the feet with chains ... To the fry Wagon to be fried for dinner guests ... Their will some grecthen ... Skining them and prepping them and maybe waiting tables ...
