What's on The Workbench

[B-17engineer]

Sweet Mustang!

If that's the old Revell kit... they gave decals for those greenish stripes on the wing.

 

[magnu]

Cheers all, I thought some eagle eyed member would spot the mistake which I noticed when I removed the panel. It has now been corrected along with reattaching the tailplane s. Found another missing part the edge of the radiator scoop, I do however have another example of the kit unbuilt so I should be able to fabricate one using that as a pattern

 

[Airframes]

Glad you can put it right. Don't know if you're interested, but I noticed Hannant's also have a 1/32nd scale canopy for this kit, in Inglewood and Dallas styles, windscreen and separate canopy. Ignore the drawing showing the radio antenna wire - 8th USAAF didn't have it. The Hasegawa canopy is ok, but accentuates that the fuselage is too wide around the cockpit, especially from above.

 

[magnu]

DOH! Wish I'd seen this before the order went in . I may have to get that as well then but use it for the other kit along with a few more detailing goodies

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice job there Magnu..you will soon have it back on track!

 

[Trebor]

nice lookin mustang, dude!

well, as much as I wanna start on the American Airlines MD-80 and 737-300, I still have to finish this F-18 and do the F-15.

I've applied the 2 required colors. flat light and dark aircraft grays. i've painted the landing gear, attached the wheels, I don't think there's anything more that needs to be done with this bird. what do you think?

 

[A4K]

Great work mate! Looks good to me, the question is if you want to weather her or not.

 

[Trebor]

I dunno if I'm gonna weather her or not. most likely not cos I'm still not that experienced.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Looking nice there.

 

[Maglar]

I found the Fightin' Sam service crew lounging on the workbench!

Primed and ready. I went into the B17 figures and took the ones that had different poses. I found 2 mechanics with wrenches and decided to try my first conversion (Pic 2). For the lovely on the right: I removed the left arm and rotated it so the wrench is on a new angle, I lopped off his head and tried a minimal angle change and flipped the hat backwards, and on the right arm I changed it to be facing more directly out. It took about 5 minutes with a scalpel and some gap filling CA. I just applied extra CA around the new gaps and sanded it smooth to new arms and such. He should look better once he gets some primer, tomorrow..

Still have the Flight crew to attend, which is about 4 more figures. This dio will be active!

 

[Lucky13]

Nice work guys! Btw Rob, is that F-18 1/48 or 1/32, is bl**dy huge!

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Mags. Don't forget to remove all the moulding seams, for instance under the arms, around hands and ears etc., otherwise they stick out like a dog's whatsits when painted!

 

[Trebor]

Nice work guys! Btw Rob, is that F-18 1/48 or 1/32, is bl**dy huge!

heh, it's a 1:48. and yes, it is huge. military planes have doubled in size in the last 60 years or so. lol

 

[Catch22]

How was it to put together?

 

[Lucky13]

Cheers buddy! I have a few sets of decals for USS Coral Sea CV-43 birds....F/A-18A's. Been looing a the Hobby Boss offering.

 

[badbear]

eurofighter decals AAAAAAAGH.BB

 

[Trebor]

How was it to put together?

with glue?

 

[Wurger]

 

[Catch22]

with glue?

Oh har har!

 

[Maglar]

Finished the tractor for the lib.. the lighting does no justice to the surface variations and such but oh well. The driver has no feet because he wouldn't fit in any other way. It shouldn't be too noticeable in the overall dio..