Duke Maddog
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Thanks Luiz! I'm hoping to have a couple of these done before too long; if I can just find time for the bench.
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All Righty ... What's on the bench today?
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Thanks Luiz! I'm hoping to have a couple of these done before too long; if I can just find time for the bench.
Looks good Tim, don't know what it is but looks good. 
nsmekanik
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for the 1/72 Dragon kit. Going to be a rather abused example 
nsmekanik
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Duke Maddog
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Excellent work Tim! I also have a few Secret Santa projects I need to finish as well. I miss the days when we did that on other Forums. It was the only way I could get models for Christmas unless I bought them myself. Oh well, here's hoping some Christmas money comes through....
Haven't been on the bench much myself. Hopefully today I can get something done. I'll post when I can.
Haven't been on the bench much myself. Hopefully today I can get something done. I'll post when I can.
I hear ya Mark! My nephew asked me what I wanted for Christmas & my B-Day so, I cobbled up a wish list...
Got the RA-5C nearly complete. Just waiting for glue to dry on the gear doors & then I'll flip her over and add the tail & stabilizers. Will need to do a little touch up painting too....
Prop Duster
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Still struggling with ( my own fault :tomato ) my White truck is Red.
Have made some/lots/not much, progress.
Trying now to mock up the windows (the kit didn't have any provided) which I find to be a fun, restful part of modeling this kit :smack ---well maybe I "over stated" that a little bit :facepalm
Regardless, I do want to pass on to all, my personal wishes, in the spirit of this season.
Have made some/lots/not much, progress.
Trying now to mock up the windows (the kit didn't have any provided) which I find to be a fun, restful part of modeling this kit :smack ---well maybe I "over stated" that a little bit :facepalm
Regardless, I do want to pass on to all, my personal wishes, in the spirit of this season.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Merry Christmas Steve! Looks like you're making excellent progress from where I'm sitting.
Well, I have a few hours to go before I have to leave for Midnight Mass, so here's the latest progress I got done today. It ain't much, just small steps here and there to try and get a few things closer to the finish line. Most of this was done with the airbrush, with a little extra work on the side.
First off, I shot a clear gloss onto the C-46 so that I could start decaling it soon:
Next, while I had the airbrush out, I shot some dullcoat on my Huey Hog to seal in the decals:
Now I can move on with that one.
While I was at it, I decided to test the Italian red that I'd gotten with the decals for the Stearman. It was the closest match I'd found yet. It's the left-most blotch of color:
So, I took a leap of faith and shot the engine cowl Italian Red:
Now that I had a red cowl, I shot another coat of cream over the whole aircraft to cover places I's sanded a little to smooth things out. The top wing is only sitting on the four inside struts:
Now I'll be adding a gloss coat to this for the decals and assembling the engine to install in the front of this plane.
After this, a friend called and while I was chatting with him, I spent the time sanding the bottom of the Space Shuttle smooth:
I was hoping to get the interior installed on this so I could add the clam shell doors and then the wings, but I ran out of time.
That's all I got done on my aircraft, now for the armor progress...
First off, I wasn't happy with the holes in the back of the T-54. I didn't want to fill them, wait for them to dry, then sand them smooth; possibly eliminating a lot of detail back there. So I came up with another idea that is slightly inaccurate, but was far easier and faster to do.
First thing, I cut a piece of styrene strip about the width of the back area and glued it on over the holes:
Here you can see the holes I'm covering:
Then I trimmed this plastic down to size:
After that, I added the upper hull; snapping it into place without glue and proceeded to sand it smooth:
The second band of white above is simply the light reflecting off the still-glossy surface of the rear upper hull.
Here is the new addition already painted. The paint is still a little wet here:
Like I said, a bit inaccurate, but much faster and easier.
While I had the green out, I figured I'd paint a couple more models. One was the little tank for the train. Here it is shot with green, and a little preliminary weathering as well:
The other model was one of the SCUDs that I jumped the gun on. I figured, lets see what it's like to get one of these painted, so I shot a coat of green one one of them:
Not bad so far. I still need to build the missile cradle on both of these first though.
Okay, while I was shooting dullcoat around on the Huey, I also shot the T-54. This one is also weathered a bit with some dusting of brown:
Right after that, I also shot a dullcoat and dusting on the Diamond T cargo truck:
You can see here I also removed the window masking. I also had to replace both the headlights with new ones since one broke off, rolled down my leg and disappeared! So I removed the other one and added two others from a different kit.
Now the T-54 just needs the roof machine gun and it'll be finished; while the Diamond T still needs rear view mirrors, spare tires, and a couple more detail parts before it's done. Maybe a day or two after Christmas, we'll see.
Well that's all I was able to get done this Christmas Eve morning before my wife came home. Now I'm off to Midnight Mass. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
Well, I have a few hours to go before I have to leave for Midnight Mass, so here's the latest progress I got done today. It ain't much, just small steps here and there to try and get a few things closer to the finish line. Most of this was done with the airbrush, with a little extra work on the side.
First off, I shot a clear gloss onto the C-46 so that I could start decaling it soon:
Next, while I had the airbrush out, I shot some dullcoat on my Huey Hog to seal in the decals:
Now I can move on with that one.
While I was at it, I decided to test the Italian red that I'd gotten with the decals for the Stearman. It was the closest match I'd found yet. It's the left-most blotch of color:
So, I took a leap of faith and shot the engine cowl Italian Red:
Now that I had a red cowl, I shot another coat of cream over the whole aircraft to cover places I's sanded a little to smooth things out. The top wing is only sitting on the four inside struts:
Now I'll be adding a gloss coat to this for the decals and assembling the engine to install in the front of this plane.
After this, a friend called and while I was chatting with him, I spent the time sanding the bottom of the Space Shuttle smooth:
I was hoping to get the interior installed on this so I could add the clam shell doors and then the wings, but I ran out of time.
That's all I got done on my aircraft, now for the armor progress...
First off, I wasn't happy with the holes in the back of the T-54. I didn't want to fill them, wait for them to dry, then sand them smooth; possibly eliminating a lot of detail back there. So I came up with another idea that is slightly inaccurate, but was far easier and faster to do.
First thing, I cut a piece of styrene strip about the width of the back area and glued it on over the holes:
Here you can see the holes I'm covering:
Then I trimmed this plastic down to size:
After that, I added the upper hull; snapping it into place without glue and proceeded to sand it smooth:
The second band of white above is simply the light reflecting off the still-glossy surface of the rear upper hull.
Here is the new addition already painted. The paint is still a little wet here:
Like I said, a bit inaccurate, but much faster and easier.
While I had the green out, I figured I'd paint a couple more models. One was the little tank for the train. Here it is shot with green, and a little preliminary weathering as well:
The other model was one of the SCUDs that I jumped the gun on. I figured, lets see what it's like to get one of these painted, so I shot a coat of green one one of them:
Not bad so far. I still need to build the missile cradle on both of these first though.
Okay, while I was shooting dullcoat around on the Huey, I also shot the T-54. This one is also weathered a bit with some dusting of brown:
Right after that, I also shot a dullcoat and dusting on the Diamond T cargo truck:
You can see here I also removed the window masking. I also had to replace both the headlights with new ones since one broke off, rolled down my leg and disappeared! So I removed the other one and added two others from a different kit.
Now the T-54 just needs the roof machine gun and it'll be finished; while the Diamond T still needs rear view mirrors, spare tires, and a couple more detail parts before it's done. Maybe a day or two after Christmas, we'll see.
Well that's all I was able to get done this Christmas Eve morning before my wife came home. Now I'm off to Midnight Mass. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
Man Mark, you got a lot going on.
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Thanks guys! I have a whole day tomorrow after Christmas Day so I'm hoping to make excellent progress and even finish a few of these. Who knows? Maybe I'll be able to add to my completed models for 2015. Stay tuned, more to come.
:drinks
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Well done Ed. That definitely looks worthy of the display shelf. With my 2500th post, I'll sign off now and head on out to the workbench.
