Well, the last week or so, I've been getting a few small things done here and there. I feel like I'm swimming up through a strong current; I may have done a lot, but I don't really feel I got anywhere! I did find some time to airbrush, but otherwise, it's been small things here and there. You be the judge....
I'll start again with the aircraft.
I shot the yellow and Olive Drab on the P-51 after masking it all up. Here's the result:
Later I also dullcoated the P-40 after the decals dried:
I should be able to finish that one soon.....
Next up I shot the camouflage grey on the bottom of the F-102:
Later on I masked that back off to finish painting the camouflage pattern on the top. I had forgotten a whole couple sections of OD. Here it is with the Silly Putty and the new paint:
This is the result after I removed the Silly Putty. There were a few places that needed some touchup here:
Later on I touched up those areas....
.... so I could gloss this for decals. Here she is ready for decals:
While that was drying, I masked off the helicopter windscreen for paint:
Moving right along....
Recognize this?
That is the Swedish Lannsen all masked so I could paint the underside:
That was the before shot... this is the after shot:
Now all I need to do is remove that mask and then I can gloss this and decal it.
Moving on, I found my HMS Daring, a Type 42 Destroyer that I had started some time ago. I got the hull color on the hull and superstructure:
Now to find the deck color and get it painted on the decks....
Now for my armor....
I started out with some base coats on a few of them. The Japanese Type 89 Early got a new coat of grey that was darker. This is going to be the final color. I may modulate it a bit, but I'm moving forward on this:
I then shot the tan basecoat on the T-90:
Later, when I had the Silly Putty out for the -102; I also added it to my Japanese Type 89 Late and my T-90. Here is the Type 89:
The T-90 got some as well:
Later I shot some Russian Green on the T-90:
Getting paint into all those nooks and crannies was a challenge indeed!
Later as I was looking around, I found a Trumpeter M-113 ACAV that I'd bought for a couple bucks. When I opened the box I remembered why: it had been started and completed except for tracks and guns! So, I figured since I have the airbrush fired up, I'd shoot this thing so I could finish it:
Here it is sporting a coat of OD:
Here's where you can see my fix of the builder's mistake. Another reason it was a couple bucks....
After that, I tried once again to tackle the tracks on the Schturmtiger. Here you can see that the CA glue was only partially successful, albeit very weak:
I couldn't get it to glue on the curved areas. The indie track parts were also barely attached:
I took a break from that for awhile and added some decals to this. I know they were mostly unmarked, but I just couldn't see not having some German crosses on this. I think they make it look more cool:
As mentioned before, I saw this stuff at Pegasus Hobbies and decided to buy it to try on the tracks for this beastie:
They told me at Pegasus that it is designed to hold the tires to the wheels on remote control cars. I thought if it worked for that kind of vinyl, it should work for the vinyl tracks on this kit since it appeared to be the same type of rubber/vinyl.
Here was my first test:
Bottom run re-glued:
Later I taped up the curved parts of the run; added the rest of the indie links and finally glued on the top run:
The next day after it dried overnight, I checked it. These tracks were solid:
Success! Now to do the other side....
Finally I decided to have some fun. I started the Berlin House; the first step was to build the interior stairwell:
Later I assembled the whole bottom floor: dry fit and taped down the second floor so the walls glued straight; and I added the second story stairwell that I had also built:
I'll keep the second story unattached so I can open this up and paint inside. For run I might even try to add some interior detail here and there some time in the future.
Okay that completes this session of what's on my workbench. Personally I can't wait to get some of these done. With Hobby Day coming up, I plan to decal a whole lotta models so I can run them over the finish line!
That's all for now. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
I didn't find the Dio_Sol But I'll keep looking ... :frantic :frantic :frantic
