Hi everybody :cheer: .
Here is something from the far distant past. It is a Trumpeter KV-1 that I started in December of 2008 I think
. Being a Trumpeter kit, it was a pretty quick build. Then I put it down for a minute or two, and it turned into yesterday already :laugh: . And it is a strange coincidence that it was an airplane model that made me put it down. And an airplane model that made me pick it back up again (more on that later ).
So now begins a long and probably boring photo spread of all the photos I took of this thing oh so long ago. Many of these were posted on the old T&T site, so some of you may have already seen them. Well, to badhmy: your gonna see em again :p.
Don't they look so cute at that age?
And then they start to grow up, and start doing things just to piss you off. Like losing the brand new return roller you just bought them.
And if I remember correctly, this one was Jenny's favorite :kiss: , cause she thought I was gonna paint the whole thing pink like the putty around the drivers hatch.
And it's things like this that still baffle me completley. How do you lose only HALF of a return roller. Especially when it rolled off the desk it was a whole return roller. Where the heck(family oriented
) did the other half go?
And now I remember this stage, when I started taking all my photos off center because the site was cropping off the right side of all my images. I remember about a month after starting this, Laura asked me about my photograpy skills :S , and I told her why I was doing that. She then suggested that I simply adjust my monitor resolution settings :duh.
Wow, I used to take a lot of pictures of the same thing over and over back then.
And that is where I got to, and that is where it stayed for over a year. And then about 5 days ago I was doing an experimental pre-shade technique on my Spitfire Vb, and ended up with to much paint in the airbrush to throw away. So I did some pre-shade on a StuG III F8 shelf queen, and still had paint left. So I saw this KV just sittin in it's plastic box, and decided to empty the airbrush on this. It looked just about the same as my StuG when I finished it. And then yesterday I was painting the Spitfire again with a nice shade of green when I ended up with LOTTTTSSSSS of green paint left over again, and the KV just sittin and staring at me :evil: , pretty much daring me to do it.
Here is what that dare led me to.
I really need to seriously think about a better camera with a bigger depth of field setting, and pics like this would look sooooo much better.
There is really not much more to do to this now except the fender brackets and the tracks, so it stands a pretty good chance of being finished up in the "between times" of other models here in the next few months.
Gary
Here is something from the far distant past. It is a Trumpeter KV-1 that I started in December of 2008 I think
. Being a Trumpeter kit, it was a pretty quick build. Then I put it down for a minute or two, and it turned into yesterday already :laugh: . And it is a strange coincidence that it was an airplane model that made me put it down. And an airplane model that made me pick it back up again (more on that later ).So now begins a long and probably boring photo spread of all the photos I took of this thing oh so long ago. Many of these were posted on the old T&T site, so some of you may have already seen them. Well, to bad
hmy: your gonna see em again :p.Don't they look so cute at that age?
And then they start to grow up, and start doing things just to piss you off. Like losing the brand new return roller you just bought them.
And if I remember correctly, this one was Jenny's favorite :kiss: , cause she thought I was gonna paint the whole thing pink like the putty around the drivers hatch.
And it's things like this that still baffle me completley. How do you lose only HALF of a return roller. Especially when it rolled off the desk it was a whole return roller. Where the heck(family oriented
) did the other half go?
And now I remember this stage, when I started taking all my photos off center because the site was cropping off the right side of all my images. I remember about a month after starting this, Laura asked me about my photograpy skills :S , and I told her why I was doing that. She then suggested that I simply adjust my monitor resolution settings :duh.
Wow, I used to take a lot of pictures of the same thing over and over back then.
And that is where I got to, and that is where it stayed for over a year. And then about 5 days ago I was doing an experimental pre-shade technique on my Spitfire Vb, and ended up with to much paint in the airbrush to throw away. So I did some pre-shade on a StuG III F8 shelf queen, and still had paint left. So I saw this KV just sittin in it's plastic box, and decided to empty the airbrush on this. It looked just about the same as my StuG when I finished it. And then yesterday I was painting the Spitfire again with a nice shade of green when I ended up with LOTTTTSSSSS of green paint left over again, and the KV just sittin and staring at me :evil: , pretty much daring me to do it.
Here is what that dare led me to.
I really need to seriously think about a better camera with a bigger depth of field setting, and pics like this would look sooooo much better.
There is really not much more to do to this now except the fender brackets and the tracks, so it stands a pretty good chance of being finished up in the "between times" of other models here in the next few months.
Gary
