Good progress guys! Glad to see all these great models coming together.
This week I have a little bit more to show. I was able to get a lot more bench time than expected so I made the most of it.
I'll start with my aircraft. Only one update there; and it's a small one. I found the nose cone for the Me-110 and now I can move forward on this:
Next up are my ships. I got all the detail parts on and painted on almost all of them so far. Here's the USS Ingraham first:
Next is the USS Arthur Radford. The main mast isn't glued on yet, that'll come later:
The USS New York now has all her detail parts as well:
Finally, I got most of the photo-etch and other detail parts on the USS Forrest Sherman. I still have more parts to add to the photo-etch platforms:
After all this, I started the decals on all these ships, except the Radford. I still have to paint the white stripes and patterns on the deck first. The others are sporting their deck decals though:
Finally, it's amazing what I find on my workbench when I'm moving things around. This is Revell's Chris Craft fishing boat that I started some time ago. I decided to pull it out and start detailing it out. Here's where it is now with some additional paint work done and the masking removed from the windows:
That's all I have for all of that so far. Now here's my latest progress on my armor.
I'll start out with a couple trucks. The Canadian truck and the Japanese fuel truck now have a basecoat of green on them:
Then I decided to shoot another coat of Panzer Dunklegelb on the SS-100:
I also finished painting the mittraelerwagen with Panzer Schwartzgrau:
While it was sitting and drying, I had the misfortune of having the fan on my 'spraybooth' fall on this, breaking it up pretty good:
After some time, I re-assembled the wheel truck:
I then finished adding all the rest of the broken parts to the rest of it:
And now it is back in shape again! I also gave it a wash and a dry-brush of a lighter grey so now all this needs is dust and weathering to be done.
I also removed the window masking on my SS-100. All I have left to do is add the wheels and then weather this as well and I can call it done. Well, as done as I can get it since the decals went missing. They are only license plates so I can replace them with spares from my spares box:
Finally, I started a model for the APC campaign here in the Alliance. This is the Revell of Germany 1/72 scale Boxer. It's a neat little kit with some pretty good detailing. I started out building the lower hull:
After that, I added the floor plate inside:
Next it had me build the driver's compartment:
After that, I added it to the lower hull:
Next I started the rear troop compartment. Since the real vehicle is modularized, they made the model the same way. Here is the basic box:
I didn't worry about the huge sinkholes in this because the top covers them quite well:
Later, I slipped this into the rear compartment on the lower hull. I was very amazed at how well this fit! This is only dry-fit in place:
Well, that's about all I have for now so enjoy the tour. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
