Nerdman, I'm glad to see you still around. I'm sorry to hear you are on permanent meds for Crohn's. Just bear with it, my prayers are going up for you. I also know how you feel being sick; I've been fighting a flu for the last ten days so I'm a little punch-drunk here myself. Congrats on the new baby, I hope he/she comes through with flying colors and is a healthy baby for you. I envy you all the work, savor it while you have it.
Okay, as mentioned; I'm still a bit sick, and was bored out of my skull most of the past week. Whenever I felt up to it, I went in and did a little bit here and there in my Hobby Room to slowly move things along. Today I managed to get a bit more done than expected so maybe I'm recovering a little. So, here's my latest progress on a few models, some of which was done before I got sick.
Let's start with my aircraft....
This is the B-377 all primed up. I also sanded this a bit with some 8000-grit sanding pads but there's still a few rough spots on the wings I need to re-spray and sand again:
Moving on, I also added the AA missile rails to my Crusader and masked the canopy off for painting:
Later on I shot some flat white on the bottom of this:
I know it's a bit hard to see the difference here, but it will show more when I mask this off and shoot the upper grey color.
Moving right along; I had already shot the white on select parts of the Fokker DVII so I masked them off and shot the red on the front of this plane:
Later on, after the red had sufficiently dried, I masked off the red and shot the blue over this:
This plane is almost ready for decals now, just like the SE-5A. It won't be long now.
That's all I have so far to show on my aircraft. Now for some of the work on my armor and vehicles.
I'll start with the Ludwig Areo bus. I had already shot some dark grey over it as a basecoat. Now I shot some lighter grey over select areas to modulate the color. This bus is almost done:
Next up, I decided to get the lower hull and running gear of my T-90 MS done. I had already added the wheels to the suspension arms and painted and weathered them. Now I added the tracks. I chose to use some of the link and length tracks given to me by my friend Dave O'Barr. Because the top run would be hidden by skirts, I only did the lower part of the tracks:
Here's a shot of the lower hull and upper hull together to see how it looks:
Then I looked at the instructions and realized that I hadn't added the rear fuel tanks, so I got them installed straightaway:
I also completed adding the fiddly bits on the turret that I knew would fall off if I'd installed them earlier. All that's left here is touch up painting and additional weathering:
The next pics you see of this tank will be in the completed Armor Forums with the T-64BV tank. Shouldn't be long now.
Finally, since my Ludwig Areo bus is so close to being done, I was determined to get the Vomag bus closer to being done as well. Here are the results....
I started out shooting the white on the top and the stripe on the sides of the bus:
After the white was dry, I applied the first masking to this, making sure to cover the white stripe on the sides:
Once that was on, I shot the first part of the green color that I wanted on this bus:
After some more drying time, I pulled the lower masking off and added masking to the upper part; again covering the white stripe:
Finally, I shot the final set of green on the lower part of the bus:
After allowing some time to dry, I pulled all the masking off to see how this looks. Despite a couple areas needing some slight touch-up; I was quite pleased with the final result. It was actually better than I expected:
Now all that's needed is to paint the fenders black; gloss the whole thing, apply decals and complete it. I'm really getting pretty excited about this bus!
Okay, getting all this done, edited and uploaded; along with typing out this post has drained me quite a bit. Time to pop some more meds and hit the bed again. Here's hoping I recover a little more again tomorrow.
Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
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