<-- **** DONE: 1/48 P-38J Hill's Angels - Twin Engined Aircraft of WWII

[Crimea_River]

Welcome back John and Happy New Year. Which bloke do you mean. I can only guess the guy on the right is Tiger but he looks too thin.

 

[Airframes]

Tiger Wood or Tiger Wouldn't !
Good to have you back John, and glad to hear that 'flu bug is clearing. Nice work on the pre-shading.

 

[JKim]

The bloke on the right. He's not Tiger Woods. This guy is a lefty.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far John!

 

[JKim]

Still not feeling 100% so getting back into the cold workroom after sundown is not appealing to me. The mystery golfer is Barack Obama. He golfs at Mid Pacific regularly when he's in Hawaii but this is the first time I've been there at the same time. We got frisked by Secret Service when our groups passed each other on adjacent holes.

 

[Airframes]

They weren't very 'secret' then, if you knew who they were !!

 

[Wayne Little]

Happy new Year to you John, hope your feeling better...

 

[fubar57]

Nice shots, both vacation and model. My home course is rarely open before May long.

 

[JKim]

A few niggling things have been causing me procrastination on this build. One of them is the mispainted prop spinners. I misread the decal instructions and assumed that the spinners were green with a white stripe around the back edge of the spinner.

The white stripe is actually in the middle of the spinner and the back half should be painted olive drab. So I finally worked up enough motivation to remove the prop blades, strip the paint and correct the spinners.

The preshading took 3-4 sessions to complete. I think the weather (cold and rainy) plus this hanging remnant of illness has something to do with my lack of desire.

The neutral grey has been sprayed onto the bottom. I want to lighten some of the panels with a lighter grey but laziness is telling me to skip that step and get on with the olive drab uppers.

 

[Airframes]

Nice work John, particularly on those spinner stripes.
I know what you mean about the lack of motivation - been in Norfolk for a couple of days, and picked up a heavy cold. Got back today and had to force myself to get to the bench. At least it made me forget about the cold for awhile !

 

[Crimea_River]

All that preshading doesn't support your "laziness" moniker John. Like most of us, enthusiasm is like a sine wave and you'll be back on the upswing soon.

 

[Wayne Little]

Agreed....

 

[Wurger]

With all here.

 

[fubar57]

Very nice looking spinners

 

[rochie]

Very nice John

 

[JKim]

Thanks for the encouragement guys! I think part of the issue is not having any future projects in my sights. At this stage in the game, I'm usually looking at the next GB and thinking/planning about that usually gets me motivated to spend more time on the workbench. But the next few GB's are outside of my wheelhouse. Don't really have the interest or inclination for a WWI subject. I might be able scrounge up a prototype but I like production models better. Jets aren't really my thing so the Vietnam GB doesn't really stoke my fire. I have some non-GB stuff in my stash that I may do after this P-38. 1/48 Bf109K-4 and a 1/32 109D-9 Big Tail.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far John!

 

[Robert Porter]

Great work John, I am with you in that after this GB I am pretty well done for the next few. Not at all interested in the subjects available. But it will be fun to watch others progress through them.

 

[JKim]

Creeping along here. It took a couple of days to get the upper olive drab surfaces painted. Instead of using masks, I free-handed the demarcation between the OD and the Neutral Grey.

 

[Airframes]

Nice !