hello, here is my progress. this is a nice kit, but lacks a few details inside the cab.
steph

Monogram obviously did not intend for the airbrakes to be glued shut

I've also opened the position lights behind the brakes.
And got the base coat on in the cockpit

Here is a update on my CF-18:-

Yippy, starting to look more like a tracker. Here is an early set of images of the decals going on.

A lot of cool stuff, nice models. Made some progress too on my Grizzly. I hope i am correct with the colors. It is an early Grizzly and i decided to paint it in the three tone camo. 2 green colors and black. Washing is done, started with some streaking effects, this totally new to me and have to work on it. Wheels are not glued, just on for the pictures. If some of the canadian guys can tell me if the colors are ok or totally wrong, would be nice, thanks.



A little bit chipping was made along the sides and on the top. Not too much, new for me too.

Cheers Christoph

Well I've got the construction done on the ferret and now I'm ready to slap some paint on it. I've scratch built the fuel can rack on the back with scrap plastic and jerry cans from Tamiya. The .30cal came from afv club's centurion kit with scratch built base.

Christoph,

Nice work on your Grizzly. The dark green and the black look accurate but the lighter green is too yellow in my opinion. It should be more of a faded olive drab shade.

@Christopher,looks pretty good your Ferret, i like the added parts.

@Jason, thanks for the help. I will see that i can change the color. I wasn`t sure about it.

Cheers Christoph

I like the colours. One thing for sure is that the colours of that era showed a lot of fading as they aged, and were repainted, and aged some more.

If you make the colours as they are on the 1:1 scale, you will find not enough contrast between the 2 greens when you get down to 35th scale, so they are going to need some lightening-up to maintain that contrast. That being said, and as Jason said, your OD may have a bit too much yellow vice brown added to it, but I certainly would not bother changing it.

This is what happens when you don't lighten the OD, it becomes very hard to distinguish it from the Green:


Here's some reasonbly fresh paint on a real one:



How did you do the hard edge? Brush paint? If so, what paint, as it went on very nice.

Hello all,
I haven't been very active on my model lately but here is where I am so far. The paint is done and the weathering process is on going. Hopefully, crossing the finish line is a question of weeks.









I still have to add the straps which hold the fuel and water cans at the rear of the LAV and perhaps some others here and there as I noticed there were a lot of them on the pictures I used as reference.

Olivier

Hi guys,
@Graeme, i love your Grizzly, saw it on Network54(? i am not sure), great model. thanks for your help. I try to change the green a little with a brown filter or something. see what happens.
The dark green base color is sprayed with airbrush, the black and the other green is painted by hand with the brush.
the colors.... black, i am not sure, which one i used. it was the black from Lifecolor or Chaos Black from Citadel. Normal black, nothing special.
Dark green, standard Nato green primer from Vallejo.
Olive drab, Citadel, dont wonder about the names, one layer of Death World Forest base color and then Elysian Green layer color, only thin layers, not too much.
After the colors are dried i used the AK Interactive Filter for Nato Tanks. Wasnt that happy with the filter, doesent worked like i wished, but ok.

@Olivier, cool Lav, like it.

Cheers Christoph

I've slowly been making progress. The fuselage is together

And the engine gets a polish

I faked up some Radar Warning Receiver fairings

And a test fit. Yes, it looks like a Starfighter

Some more pictures of the LAV III. Most of the gear has been added. I still have to figure out to represent the ratchet strap that secure the spare wheel in its cage, add some more dust and I could call this one done.









Olivier

OK, let's try this again (friggin' Photobucket and Shockwave )
Olivier - nice looking LAV-III. Other builds are coming along nicely as well!
@ John - I'll be painting this one overall green; other choices would have been UN white or tan.
@ Alex - the Real Model conversion isn't too bad - worth it for the p.e. alone. As you'll see it's missing a few small details though.

Continuing on:

Added the rear hatch extension with sheet styrene and lots of sanding. Anti-skid texture is made by stippling on lacquer thinner until appropriate texture is achieved:


Rear data connection hatch scribed in using template (copied from LAV-III hatch):


Armour mounting bosses cut from .030" rod cut with razor blade saw in mitre box:


Rear upper hull details complete:


Rear end complete. I had spent considerable time scratching the guard around the service air outlets when I realized there was a p.e. one I could have used!:



Muffler spaced out from hull with tube and brass strip support:


...and guard added:



The engine deck isn't quite right (rear grill isn't 'high' enough among other things) but I'm going to let it go on this one:



Now to add the rest of the hull p.e. and mounting bosses!

Jim

Some good tips there Jim!

I'm going to use your method of cutting the AoA bosses. Such a simple idea, but it works!

I've never seen Laquer Thinner use for stippling styrene. Sure is cheaper than Testors Liquid glue. Wonder it it would work for texturing weld beads?

Thanks for your comment Jim.
I hope the pîctures of the complete model will suit you as well.
Here they are:









Pictures are in the Campaign gallery. More are available at my site as well as a comprehensive build article.

Olivier

Olivier, that turned out really nice! I like the details such as the ratcheting straps. Weathering looks just right too. What did you use for the optical glass? I like it.

Thank you for the kind comment Graeme.
The optical glass effect is just a black base with some layers of Tamiya clear blue.

Olivier

hello, Olivier and Graeme superb work. a little more of my progress.
steph

hello,
here is my chevrolet finished. thank you for this campaign.
steph

I'm going to try to finish something for this campaign. Primarily because I want to add that snazzy ribbon to my profile. I have two kits with Canadian markings, a firefly hybrid DML orange box re-released in 2009 with DS tracks and some small upgrades to the turret and hull from the original 1994 release. The second one is a really intriguing option, it's a Canadian model by modelcraft of the venerable centurion. This comes with Canadian markings too. It seems this company made this kit under license from academy and that it was originall designed to be motorized. The firefly I might have a chance to finish on time if I put everything else on hold but I'm really tempted to step way outside the box (for me anyways) and go with the centurion. The kit seems simple enough with low part numbers but I know next to nothing about centurions and even less about this kit, fit problems etc. I would really appreciate any and all feedback on this kit as time is running out in this campaign. The kit I bought of all places at a fundraiser for our church that my wife dragged me to. It cost me a whopping $2 at the silent auction. I guess no other modelers where there that day . Due to time constraints either kit would be strictly OOTB.

I am finally getting started on my kit a Miniwings Avro CF-100 Canuck. Following photos show box opening.

@steph - nice finish on the CMP, great looking model

@Kevin thank you
steph