The turret is finished and all ready for primmer.

More detail

Frankentanken with friend, a Pz IV Ausf C from June 1944 in Normandy.

It's been sitting on the shelf ready for paint for a few years. This is a good time to finish it too.

Finaly I had finished the Maus, here some photos,

Irvin,
Lovely piece of work. It's almost a shame to cover it with paint.

Daniel,
Nice Maus.

Daniel- Really nice Maus.

Irvin- There's not much of the original kit left there under all that PE...lol. That would have driven me mad. Really looking forward to seeing that completed as it's looking good already.

Well now I've finished my Arnhem dio (using my two Sdkfz 250's that I completed here) I think I'll finish off an LRDG chevvy I started about 2 years ago. I didn't get much further than the cargo bed so I'll dig that out tomorrow and crack on with that. It's quite a nice kit, I've already built two for a dio that never happened so maybe this will motivate me into starting the dio...lol. Here's the two Sdkfz 250's in the Arnhem dio.

My PanzerIIIL with cammo its moving along.





Tom

My M110A2 has come a long way and that's where I am today:






I think I am close to the end, might need a few touches here and there before I seal the deal

Got sidetracked for a while building bridges with the kids as a mentor/helper at school for the bridgebuilding competition for Science Olyimpiad. Had 5 teams of two. We built about 50 bridges. Entered three competitions and finally went to the State competition at Michichigan State. One of "my kids" took 12th place at state out of 64 entries. Our school is a smaller charter school. I'm really proud of them.

Back on the little wood flattie now.

Did the blackening on the rudder hinges and it came out fine.







Had problems doing the blocks for the rigging. Those things are hard to hang on to. My neighbor, a fisherman suggested a fly tying vise. His had jaws that worked kinda like a pin vice and wouldn't open up far enough. Went to the sport shop and found this one. They let me take it home to test and I love it. It opens up wider and with parallel jaws.















These were the first blocks I did. I didn't like the look and broke several blocks and cotter pin eyebolts.







These I did with the new vise. I used 26 guage black coated copper wire, .032 brass rod for the eyebolts. Stained the blocks first with maple stain.







This block and ring was fitted to the traveler.







Moving along now with installing the masts and spars and the rigging hardware.



EJ

This one is also completed!









All comments welcome!

Ok I'm in. After reviewing some of these beautiful builds Im moved towards completing a certain T34 I started probably back in 2013. It was to be for a Battle of Berlin Diorama I had planned.

Dave

I think this is its 3rd repaint now. Going for a heavily faded Canadian 3-tone scheme:

Graeme, what did you use to mask the colour boundaries? They look super crisp.

Paul

OK, so I have also just joined and this is my project:



I made the master for Fantastic Plastic a couple years ago:



I got a copy of the kit as part of the deal and started assembly, but haven't finished it yet. I'll post photos tomorrow of where it is at the moment, but most of the basic assembly and clean-up are complete but it needs painting and then final assembly.

This is the scheme I'm going for:



Once the orange drop tanks are gone you would see the markings. Think I'm going for US AF Military Airlift Command in a mid 60s tactical scheme of that semi-gloss olive green seen on Caribous and Hercs. MAC band somewhere on the glide wings and big high vis '60s era stars and bars.

Think it's gonna look kickin' when finished!

Paul

Physical Therapy Putty (aka Theraputty) Yellow. Same idea as silly putty.

Cool. Ta!

@ Eugene J Schmidt,
Your working area is clean and orderly. I like.

Not always like that. I usually straiten up a bit for photo's or use a less cluttered area to the right of where I do most of the work.

Thanks though.

EJ

Hi all,
I try to assemble this Italeri's LAV-25. It was unfinished some years ago. This campaign is my good chance.



Regards,
K.

Howdy Y'all
I've figured out what kit I'll be finishing. I started this 1/700 Fujimi Ise battleship for the Battleship Campaign on Model Shipwrights. Here's how she looked a couple of weeks ago:

And I just started painting the deck today.

Hopefully I'll do a lot more this 3-day weekend.
Take care,
Don "Lakota"

Howdy Y'all
I put in a few hours on the IJN Ise for a couple of days. It doesn't look like I got far and I realize there's even more work I want to do on her. The deck isn't looking to even but maybe a dark wash will accent it a little better. I also want to streak some oil paint down the hull for weathering. Next step-I want to paint a light gray shade on top of the turrents for modulation. Then it will be airbrushing a coat of Pledge over the entire model to prepare for oil pin washes.

The black background was a trick I just learned today. It helped expose the touch-ups still needed on the float planes. Next step for the float planes-painting the yellow
strips on the front of the wings. Any suggestions?
Take care,
Don "Lakota"

Hello all, just a simple question, even the campaign is already start since February 1st, 2015, am I still allowed to join? If so, my unfinished figures on "Improve Your Figures!" campaign that recently closed at August 1, 2015 will be my choice. Thank you all


Warm regards


Garry

this is one of the most breathtaking models I've seen.