Gerry, those are looking good. Remember, those Marines don't believe in camouflage...
Paul, best of luck helping out your mom. I hope everything goes smoothly.
I was able to get quite a bit done this weekend, although not quite as much as I wanted to. A lot of things at Hobby Day weekend kept me hopping up to help out. Still, I'm pleased with the work I got done.
I'll start with some of the aircraft I'm working on.
I first shot some paint over the two WWI aircraft I'm building for the Canvas Eagles wargame. The Fokker E.III got a shot of faded olive drab on it:
The Neiuport got a coat of metallic silver:
Later on, when I tried to apply the decals, most of them went on okay, but the words I tried to put on shattered. Also, the small roundels didn't fit on the bottom of the wings. So, since this was for a game anyway, I improvised:
Later on I'll seal this so the decals stay on, I hope....
I also have to paint a white stripe on the Fokker E.III before I can decal that one.
After all this, I spent hours sanding the seams on my C-118 and re-filling the wing roots and a part of the fuselage behind the cockpit canopy. I figured while I was talking long distance with my friend, I'd be able to keep making progress while we talked:
Finally, after exhausting my patience on that big model, I decided to start another simple model. This is the Italeri 1/72 scale Me-110 a friend had sent me. it was the perfect thing to start for the Twin Props Group Build on another forums so I decided now was a good time to get going on it. I started with the cockpit interior, naturally:
After that, I assembled the wings and engine cowlings:
Later on, I painted the interior base color. I'll add the detail painting later:
That covers my aircraft so far. Moving along, I also tried to make some progress on my USS New York. First, I shot a coat of blue over all the deck surfaces:
The white stuff is where I started to apply the liquid mask to the deck. Here it is after I covered all the deck surfaces with the liquid mask so I can re-shoot the grey on the hull and superstructure:
Later on I hope to shoot the grey over this, as well as several other ships whose decks were also sprayed.
Moving on to my armor, I first tried to see about finishing one of my flatcars for one of my armored trains. I got this far before Hobby Day tasks and general demotivation stopped me from going further:
Going back to the day before, I shot a coat of red over one of my Russian Fire Trucks:
While painting, I decided to pull out the grey and shot a new coat of grey over my WWI German A7V tank:
Later, I masked this little beastie with Silly Putty and re-shot the Olive Drab on this tank:
I think it finally looks far better now:
At Hobby Day after decaling the Neiuport, I added the decals to this little guy as well:
Finally, while painting on the day before Hobby Day, I pulled out the 1/35th scale commission build and shot a coat of black as a primer over it:
Afterward,, when I pulled out the grey to paint the A7V, I also shot the basecoat of grey over this tank:
After that dried, I decided to modulate, or panel fade the color:
You can see I also painted some of the details, like the jack block and exhaust system. I also clearcoated her before taking her to Hobby Day where I added the decals after working on the Neiuport and A7V:
Well, that's all for now. I was hoping to get a bit more done, but I'm pleased with my progress so far. I've got some good jumping off points for working on some of these this week, so hopefully I'll have time to spend moving some more of these further along. Until then, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
That and the time change and not quite enough sleep hammered me Monday and Tuesday. Went to bed right after getting home last night and finally got enough sleep. Time change still has my body clock screwed up though.
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