Dave,
You are welcome.(sorry I did not reply earlier)

Paul,
You are also welcome and that really does work.

Well,
I managed to get the decals on, I used the kit decals except for the formation lights for that I used some from a Superscale set.

Cheers Rob.

Do I look like a Viper yet?


How about now?

Looks cool, Rob. Great with a little color on the all grey Eagle.

Neil, nice looking Viper. Have you decided on underwing stores yet?

Yes Jesper, it will be ALQ-119 centreline, 2 x fuel tanks, 2 x Mk.84s, 2 x AIM-9J and 2 x AIM-9L

Hey Paul 3rd time a charm it turned out great
@Rob and Neil you guys are making those birds look great
With everyone turning out all this good work on these old kits if the manufactures see this tread we will never get any new kits

Almost done with Huey's Hut Rod. Still doing some detail painting on Huey's face. Here you can see him holding his tongue. I airbrushed the main colors with Vallejo acrylics (Hemp and Lt Green from my German WWII set). Detail painting on the eyes and mouth is the last thing to finish before putting some gloss on the eyes and laying down the eyeball decals. I've never painted a figure before so this is an interesting semi-introduction though I'm sure my techniques are all wrong. I used testors small-container flat white and light tan.



The Hut Rod is complete and awaiting the driver.



Handpainted with Testor's enamel. I used vallejo black wash to weather the wood and bring out the wood grain detail.



The copper tube between the moonshine jug and engine was scratchbuilt from a piece of 1.5mm round sprue. I heated and hand-molded the curl with a lighter. Should be done this weekend. Unfortunately I won't be able to do the BV141 in time to finish this campaign but I will be entering it in Anything Goes over at aeroscale.

Very cool, Neil. The load out is one of the fun things with the modern jets. A Viper ready for a little bit of everything.

I have now finished my Matchbox 1/72 A-20 Havoc. A nice kit with excellent fit. The decals turned out to work with a little TLC and really are colorful and cool.

Comments welcome

More update pics, the interior is finished.

Jesper, Sal. thanks guys the build was no prob, just the
paint job

Jesper: great little build there, looks fantastic

M.Douglas : nice Stuka what colors are going for. I personally liked the mottled African scheme.

Rob and Neil . now they really both look the part

Van : looking crazy man, but please put his tongue where
it belongs, it just looks "odd" to see it like that

Lap Man . looking good, stick at it mate

O.k. then, we have 11 days left. Does anyone need extra time?


Happy weekend everyone
Paul

Nice progress, Lapman.

Thanks for the comment on my Havoc, Paul.

Rob, your Eagle is looking even better with every update.
Neil, good work on the camo, it looks very good.
Van, crazy modelling subject! I like it a lot!
Jesper, these old good Matchbox kits..... they are so easy to assemble and look good when finished, even if they have lighter details than modern kits. You did a very good job in painting and weathering your Havoc. It looks really cool.
Lap Man, your Hanomag looks good. What are you thinking about the camo? Lots of potential with these type of vehicles!
Tat, thanks a lot. For me there were 2 Sherman tanks that looked and were mean. The Firefly and the Super Sherman. The latter is finished so soon i'm begining a Firefly for the Sherman campaign!

The Super Sherman is finished. I must admit it is one of the most enjoyable builds i ever had. A really nice kit.

Hi John, great looking M51 there , it certainly
makes a change to do a stressless build doesn´t it


Paul

Yes Paul, a problem free build is really relaxing, takes my mind of the everyday problems as i assume this goes for everyone. I mean that's what a hobby is all about after all.

Some rocket fuel combined with tsipouro (or zippero, i see you are familliar with what we drink in the Northern part of my country ) also helps a lot. I also just noticed in the last pic that the decal sort of slipped... probably during the last dull coat. I will see to that in the morning.
A great campaign. Thx for this one Paul, i'll be watching for the rest of the builds. Have fun people.

More update pics of Sdkfz 251 Ausf.B

More progress. The fit isn't that good with this kit. I filled the wing roots and the spine, top and bottom. Prime and prime again, these old eyes had trouble seeing everything the first time. Of all things the canopy didn't fit over the pilot's head. I pulled the seat and filed some off the bottom. Then I gave the pilot a haircut of sorts, I took some off the top of his head. When finished the canopy fit on top but had another issue, it wouldn't match up with the front of the cockpit. I'll get this worked out. The bomber is painted and ready for the final assembly. I didn't consider the fit of the horizontal stabilizers before painting. I only thought of it after and after action beverage. I'll work that out too. It's down to the wire now and the wife is starting to get a little irritable, so here are some photos of my progress.




Cheers,
FirstSergeant

Here is Huey's Hut Rod. Thanks for allowing me to slip by on a technicality, it was fun!







Is there a campaign gallery?

Jesper, Sal, Paul and John,
Thanks!

John, your Sherman looks Great!

Van, your rod looks Great also!

Well I finally got around to finishing the turkey feathers I think they look much better now but that was a lot of work In fact I have put a fair amount of work in on this kit and am just finishing up some details, just some painting of the missiles left.

Last night I took the canopy out of the plastic it was wrapped in and started to trim the flash so I could dip it in future. I noticed a headlight lens on the sprue and started to look through the instructions as I did not recall seeing a clear lens. Then it hit me my kit did not come with an F-15 canopy it came with an F-14 canopy.

I am going to see about getting a replacement canopy but I will finish everything else but may have a canopy less plane at campaigns end.

Cheers Rob.

Van: here´s the link, now get him parked in there before
he starts chasing round the place and eating the other entries Nice build and definatly something different

Lap Man and M.Douglas: now those two are starting to look the business. Take your time though there´s still 8 1/2 days
left

Rob: after all that effort I cannot refuse you the award.
Either way if the rest is done and your minus the canopy you´ll still get it



Paul

Huey was trapped in the campaign gallery. I had to lay down a trail of Reese's Pieces to get him to cooperate.

Thanks for the comment on my Matchbox Havoc, John. Appreciate it.
You did a great job on the Super Sherman. Love the subtle dusty weathering. Looks like a really nice kit.

Van, that is definitely something out of the ordinary. Thanks for participating.

Nice progress, First Sergeant. Are you going to do the splinter camouflage? Looking forward to see more.

Thanks Paul!

I just put in an online parts request.

Cheers Rob.

Hanomag Sd.Kfz.251/1 Ausf.B finished.

Daily life drudgery and recent events has interfered with hobby time and progress on this kit. I finally found some time and made a bit of progress. The turret is well along and I've worked a bit on the lower body including adding some lifting eyes made from brass wire to the rear engine area. Fit is mostly pretty good except for a gap in the right side that still needs to be filled a bit more.

The colour options are either all light tan or light tan with black splotches. At this point I am leaning toward the light tan (to save time). Here's where it is at the moment. Hope this works a Photobucket changed their interface and everythings in need of relearning.







I may have to fill in the slots by the drivers area as I can't seem to get them square and they've grown a little large. At this point I doubt I'll make the campaign deadline but I'll still continue the Blog of this thing.

Regards,
AJ

I tried something different for the inside of the engine nozzles, I put drops of thinned white and thinned sand in a small pallet and without mixing them dipped a wide brush and painted the insides.

I like the way it came out.

Cheers Rob.

Finished One Tamiya Quad Gun Tractor, circa 1974; as one used by the 5th Field Regiment of the New Zealand Artillery at Castel Benito Airfield, Tripoli, Libya, February 1943.

Firstly the fun part, masking and painting the Caunter Scheme






A combination of hot weather and leaving the masking tape on too long caused a few problems but a coat of Future and light weathering solved most of the problems







cheers
David