Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: taiidantomcat on February 27, 2012, 12:00:57 AM
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This is the Cockpit for the 1/72 Testors ATB. Not much to see so I didn't really bother going too crazy (test fits revealed you can barely see the seats!) I hit it with black and then tried to go over it softly with brown to create a fade effect. Actually worked ok, just hard to see in the pics (And impossible to see when the model is sealed!)
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White on. The Gray circles are Lo-vis Hinamarus. I know that pink is technically the "correct" color in this case but I just thought gray would look better. ==)
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I think it has a perfect WWII look on account of it being so darn rounded all over!
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Strangely enough Black, which is normally a forgivable color wasn't working with my airbrush. So I decided to spray paint it, then go over it later with the Airbrush to keep the weathered look consistant. Tamiya Nato Black was a perfect match so I lightened it with a couple white drops. This picture shows it really well!
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Big wad of masking tape!
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Inspiration.^ As I look it appears I missed a spot I should have painted black! Err! (between to the two finger like patterns in the center) Might be Too late to change it now... still deciding :icon_ninja:
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Most of the Decals have been cooperative but the Meatballs are a disaster. I still havn't decided how to handle it. Should I take them all off and start again? try cutting or sanding them?? :(
been working on the Landing Gear AKA undercarriage in the meantime.
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landing gear Still in progress but the Aircraft itself is basically finished. 8) ... still deciding if I want to add that Black portion I missed :-\
Special thanks to RussC AKA "The Flying Wing King" for the inspiration ;)
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TOTAL BAD ASS!!!!!
Don't worry about the missing black area. Doesn't need it IMHO.
And love the lo-vis roundels under the wing. Killer idea and I'm totally stealing it! :icon_ninja:
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If the black is gonna nag at you everytime you look at the model go ahead and add it, from my perspective it doesn't need it and if you hadn't mentioned it nobody would have noticed. It looks great either way. :)
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Waaaw great camo !!! I love it :-*
Alex
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That paint scheme/work is fantastic - great work! :)
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Wow that's killer, Mr Tomcat! I'll echo some of the others and say only go over that black spot if it's bothering you. I think a topcoat will help the cracking decals, but in the shots taken from a little bit back, I can't see any problem with the hinomorus.
What an inspired idea and masterfully executed!
Brian da Basher
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Wow that's killer, Mr Tomcat! I'll echo some of the others and say only go over that black spot if it's bothering you. I think a topcoat will help the cracking decals, but in the shots taken from a little bit back, I can't see any problem with the hinomorus.
What an inspired idea and masterfully executed!
Brian da Basher
I ended up sanding them down to fix them. Luckily the underside meatballs of the decal sheet were the same size (Minus the white outline) So I just redid those and it did a lot better.
Thank you everyone! Sound advice from all! I am just going to have to think about that black spot. I removed the cockpit masks and was very happy with it. One of those moments where all is right with the model, turned out much better than I would have hoped! So I might just let it go...
The camo was going to be splinter pattern, but I have always like that Aircraft Carrier Camo and suddenly I realized, I will probably never paint another aircraft model so big and flat like a carrier's deck ever again! So I picked the colors and went for it.
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Very nice !! Crazy plane with a crazy paint ! Bravo !
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SO FREAKIN OUTSTANDING :o :-*
I would have just scraped the meatballs , repainted them and called it weathering ;) :-[ :icon_alabanza:
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That rumbling sound------- me jumping up and down and clapping with glee!
Well Done 'Cat!
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That is astounding! Excellent work on the camouflage. The upper hinomaru may have been a pain but they really make it pop! Love the lower lo-vis hinomaru too :)
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Gorgeous work on what I know is something of a bear of a kit. One little correction though, it's a Revell Kit, Testor's does the actual ATB or B-2A in 1/72.
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Gorgeous work on what I know is something of a bear of a kit. One little correction though, it's a Revell Kit, Testor's does the actual ATB or B-2A in 1/72.
I stand corrected :)
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Backstory will have to come later. Im tired! I am calling it finished though, and just in time for the What If? GB at Aeroscale.
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Being a big bombers fan --- you got me WOWD
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For backstory, first a name is needed. Usually for bombers, big mighty objects like mountains or rivers. Fujiyama was already taken for a bomber project.
Maybe UNZEN which is a active volcano in the Southern Islands. Longer names of the 2 most active peaks are Unzendake and Fugendake.
Once again...Great build !
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Seriously cool beans!
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How you think that would look with a Betty nose section ???
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Awesome! (http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m309/ChernayaAkula/Emoticons/worship.gif)
I love how the black camo spots sorta resemble the "rising sun" of the Japanese naval ensign.
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Great build! The camo pattern and the fading are just awesome!
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total cool paint!
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Another winner, Tai- love that paint scheme.
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Camo theme borrowed from a ship and done high quality as you did is so effective :icon_surprised:
Impressive build in all ways. Carries Japanese look forward from WW2 to the bomber :)
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How you think that would look with a Betty nose section ???
This is a great idea!
Brian da Basher
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How you think that would look with a Betty nose section ???
This is a great idea!
Brian da Basher
If you placed the G4M nose at the head of that design, combined with the wing design there, it would actually look a lot like a Vulcan w/o tail and underwing inlets instead of the leading edge.
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Fabulous build. How is it pannel lines show so well, is a good touch. What did you do to make it happen?
Can see a tail gun where white cone is. Like from a B-66 or B-58 or....... :)
Bill
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Like these flying wing ideas! :D
A few last beauty shots:
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Still working on the back story... Have some good ideas though:
*Tall undercarriage to help in the loading of these:
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* Mitsubishi or Nakajima (?)
*Thanks to RussC, it will be called UNZEN by Japan and JAMIE by the Allies.
* What if world 1950/60s after the axis and allies develop Atomic weapons around 1944, causing an arms race and a "hot and cold" war with spasms of mass destruction.
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Thanks for the extra beauty shots, Mr Tomcat! You certainly made one sweet Havoc II!
Brian da Basher
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Yes , thanks especially for the front view, I never built or bought that kit and wondered what its front profile looked like.
Mitsubishi or Nakajima would almost be a coin flip as they both built each others designs and both were engine and airframe makers.
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As far as Japanese flying wing stealth aircraft go, thats just about as good as it can get.
Great work. ;)
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Bought this B-17F from Cliffy B and I noted that this old 1/72 Revell kit really does not look like a B-17 :blink: So I cut out sections of the wings to save shelf space (for the back story it is meant to make it faster!) Lengthened the engine nacelles with 1/48 F-14 Exhausts (which also added some much needed detail) And then cut the fronts off of the 1/48 engine faces for the spinners on the props. The tail fins are from an old and busted 1/48 A-10. It was supposed to be a quick project but like all my builds took longer than expected!
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Its a Repost , but I am trying to bring all my stuff together :-\
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It looks great.
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*Tall undercarriage to help in the loading of these:
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Is that the air version of the Kaiten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiten)?
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wow! had to take a second look to see the change s all made!!
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Thanks everyone! It sure looks like a Kaiten. Plan on attempting one soon. ;)
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Foreshadowing ;D
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The above Nakajima "Ben" (yes I named it after me!) Uses P-47 wings for fins and Mitsu Zero cowls for engine exhausts.
Another blast from the past... still consider it some of my better work.
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I think its awesome !
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(https://www.fiddlersgreen.net/aircraft/Mitsubishi-Zero/IMAGES/variations-mitsubishi-zero.jpg)
Inspired by the last profile of the above (But I am not finished yet :wacko:):
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So what happens when your brightly colored training aircraft suddenly need to be camouflaged for combat and you only have black paint on hand? Sometimes a solution jumps onto your foot:
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WOW! Dunno how I missed THAT one!
Absolutely SUPERB camo, inspired from a carrier.
And, of course, Nature give us SUPERB examples of "protective coloring", especially in its amphibians!!
(You might recall my He-1062 "Molch" and its "Alpine Newt" camo.)
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Bought this B-17F from Cliffy B and I noted that this old 1/72 Revell kit really does not look like a B-17 :blink: So I cut out sections of the wings to save shelf space (for the back story it is meant to make it faster!) Lengthened the engine nacelles with 1/48 F-14 Exhausts (which also added some much needed detail) And then cut the fronts off of the 1/48 engine faces for the spinners on the props. The tail fins are from an old and busted 1/48 A-10. It was supposed to be a quick project but like all my builds took longer than expected!
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Its a Repost , but I am trying to bring all my stuff together :-\
This closely looks like a real-world flying machine, picture a improvement to the existing 4 engine design dogma by assimilating the US heavies of the day (1943) plus the Lancaster and Halifax and meld with the Nakajima G5N. What would emerge would look like this.
As for the Tomcats and Arado, its just tons of fun, and the overall orange one is really :-*
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That Float Viggen is sensational!
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I was looking at that "newt" again just a couple days ago sequoiaranger! :)
Russ, Thanks for the compliments on the B-17 conversion!
Litvyak, Zacto is talented isnt he?
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Japanese Iowa class battleship. No back story, just think the Iowa class looks good anywhere. :-*
Cool stuff from Wyrmshadow:
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Japanese classic in modern colors. :)
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Finishing F-14s in Japanese W.W. II schemes is a stroke of sheer genius, Mr Tomcat!
Bravo!!!
Brian da Basher
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Lovely Zeros!!!! I still can't understand why the IJN never painted their carrier planes for sea duty. Geee, we're flying over water, namely the VAST Pacific, let's paint em dark green and or a light gray so light that it might as well be white!!!!! :-X
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I got this 1/48 B-29 from an Ebay auction really cheap and already built. The seller wanted to cancel the transaction because he didn't know how to ship it but I convinced him he could cut it up and I wouldnt be upset, so long as i got it:
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But then it became a bit of an albatross, the original idea I had for it, didn't really work out so I was stuck with a very big model, that I needed to make smaller somehow kicked around a lot of ideas, asked for help here as well, and finally decided to make it a kind of Japanese Mig-23 Flogger:
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Its still in progress but I got a lot done on the engines, and epoxied the front and back half together (no pic of that sorry) . Still a lot of work left.
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Made from Otaki "Jacks" in 1/48 scale with parts of a Monogram Mig-29 Drop tank half added. BTW if you are ever looking for a prop that is a ready made lookin jet engine this kit fits the bill. Plan on doing a jet version of it and ordering a few more for other big jet looking projects.
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Japanese stealth, four engine prop bomber, now this B-29 & Mig-23 meld :-*
Such imagineering. All are way cool 8)
Bill
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??? :-\ :-*
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Wow...
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waw this looks like its going to be something pretty special 8)
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Damn! :icon_surprised: Yer not messin' around, are ya? >:D
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I don't know how in the heck you manage to continually top your own work, but that kind of talent is so far off the scale it's astounding. Those engines are gems in their own right too.
I really like your SuperF-14MiniFortress, Mr Tomcat!
Brian da Basher
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I dont even know where to start ! Keep em coming !
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I don't know how in the heck you manage to continually top your own work, but that kind of talent is so far off the scale it's astounding. Those engines are gems in their own right too.
I really like your SuperF-14MiniFortress, Mr Tomcat!
Brian da Basher
Still trying to get that show back on the road but its pretty complex :-\ Probably won't be able to finish it anytime soon... but its still going here and there.
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Just finished this today! Its far from perfect. I got an old beat up 1/32 109 that was missing the cowling and canopy. A big restoration project ensued but I soon ran out of steam and could not figure out what to do after stripping the paint. I didn't want to take parts from another fresh 109 to make it work and I didn't want to cast anything either. I planned to make it a Radial for some time but then realized that a P-38 prop and spinner from another project fit the bill, and the "Mike" was back on! So I used styrene to bolster and cover the gaps and used a 1/48 Raiden canopy cut to fit. (radians have big canopies so its not too small for 1/32) The wash on the underside is not that hot, it was still flat and not glossed so when I washed it stayed!! ::) Used fine sand paper to get some of it off. Its painted with Rattle bombs. finished with some pastels and the decals came from the spares box. SWMBO helped me apply them because she is the best!
So the "Mighty Mike" is finished. Its kind of odd looking, I can't decide if it looks like a LaGG or P-40 or Ki-61 or 109... I do like it though. It sure looks Japanese to me!
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Wow!
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Looks like an IJAAF bird, and I at first thought a Mig 3 was involved until I saw the canopy to tail space.
Beauty! Needs a Kitai number, whimsical nickname and a ATAIU codename though.
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Looks like an IJAAF bird, and I at first thought a Mig 3 was involved until I saw the canopy to tail space.
Beauty! Needs a Kitai number, whimsical nickname and a ATAIU codename though.
Agreed! I have been bad about backstories lately!
A real blast from the past IJA F-15:
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One of first Meatball whiffs. Takes me back! :D
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:)
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Your killin' me! You've been bangin' out some killer stuff lately and I'm having a hard time remembering the last time i saw my bench. Some truly awesome stuff, I'm green with envy.
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Kind of makes you wonder what a JASDF F-14 Tomcat would look like in some of the special markings that were used on their F-15 fleet.
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Your killin' me! You've been bangin' out some killer stuff lately and I'm having a hard time remembering the last time i saw my bench. Some truly awesome stuff, I'm green with envy.
Thanks Doom!! I am moving to TX in about 6 weeks so projects need to be finished or boxed up. C:-)
Kind of makes you wonder what a JASDF F-14 Tomcat would look like in some of the special markings that were used on their F-15 fleet.
I do plan on building an 1/32 F-14D(J) in this scheme:
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(best picture i could find ::) )
With all the resin sets I have collected over the years
Very proud of this one, exceeded all expectations:
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A6M(classified variant) Zero, Tokyo 1945
Was looking for a nice OOB build that was supposed to be quick (that should get a big LOL at this point) Using rattlebombs to practice my Sci Fi striping/masking patterns. picked the 1/48 HAse Zero out of the stash. scheme is based on the Homeworld Elite style, with stripes cut and applied using "the rule of cool" . I stuck to a pretty basic color pallette as well. Black, gray, white, and silver. The fuselage got a terribly pebbley finish when exposed to too much over spray. Much sanding ensued. I managed to smooth it out well enough but could not rid it of a chalky residue tried everything, soap, water, rubbing alcohol, tac rags, nothing seemed to work. So realizing it was a make or break moment I dipped the tail tip in Future and it seemed to fix it! So gloss coats and decals followed and then I put it all together over the last few days. Its not perfect (if the seams count as recessed detail my zero has lots!) but that's how it goes when you paint everything separately and bring it together at the end without PSRing and repainting. Very fun to do an OOB build.
My backstory is that these specially armed and equipped secretive Zeros escorted VIP transports after Adm. Yamamato's death.
Quite happy with the result.
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Thats a beuty :)
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Those big F-15 murals on 50th anniversary JASDF planes are incredible. On a Variable geo machine, it might not be so easy. The F-14 has wing gloves and some practically Soviet looking actuator covers on top.
My fave JASDF bird scheme is the Cherry Blossom Mountain, followed closely by (what else) Shiro Ryu.
Texas! OMG.... Pictures of a Samurai wearing a Stetson and Lariat swimming through my head!
(http://www.amv83.fr/Asm/Sig/japon/F15/303sqn/10ans-6.jpg)
(http://www.amv83.fr/Asm/Sig/japon/F15/303sqn/TacMeet2003.JPG)
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Those big F-15 murals on 50th anniversary JASDF planes are incredible. On a Variable geo machine, it might not be so easy. The F-14 has wing gloves and some practically Soviet looking actuator covers on top.
Believe me I know!! :icon_nif: Had to mask over and around them more than a few times! I would paint the every intricate wings separately too. Could also remove them and add stiffing plates instead... The joy of what if!! :)
Great schemes all
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I want to see final of those B-29 jet engines :-* :)
BTW: very serious models here like that Jap Me-109 :-* :)
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So a couple nights ago I had way too much coffee and started getting struck by some excellent Japanese ideas. Why am I telling you this and not showing you wonderful pics of mangled plastic? Because all of my WWII stuff books, kits, etc is still at my brother's house over 800 miles away :icon_crap: So I have been sketching up a storm and am asking him to send me a few of the smaller boxes so I can get started. Its kind of hard to explain, but basically my new strategy is "throw the rules book out the window"
I've learned you really can't fight inspiration, so I just hope I get some stuff here in time to be of use and not before I have moved onto the next big thing that will be collecting dust in a week ;D
In the mean time here are some pretty pictures:
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(http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/gallery/jsp_profiles_2.jpg)
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Thought I should have this one here as well. Great memories
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Looks sooooooooo right! :-*
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Amongst the many great things in this thread (you have some awesome ideas and impressive modelling skills on display here) I'm quite taken with these. Kinda remind me of a Japanese version of SKY1.
Brent
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Thanks for posting more marvelous works in this thread. Somehow I missed it since about mid July.
Love your digital and styrene builds :-*
Like getting blasted with a broadside of creativity :)
Difficult to pick favorites --- going with: the Zero and kitbashed SR-71. Oh yes !
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Love your digital and styrene builds :-*
Thank you so much! However I must note that none of the Digital art is mine (I can't draw a stick figure, let alone with a computer!) Don't want to take credit for something that isn't mine ;)
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Old Harrier that I got off EBay with a Dinah front :)
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Ohhhh I like that Dinah nose. Haven't really thought about it before but seeing it like that it's got a really nice sci-fi feel to it.
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That Dinah nose on the Harrier is about fifty different kinds of awesome! :) :-*
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:-* I love the push-pull SR-71... Is it a plane from the 1960s or from the 1940s? (secret anyhow, I undestand)
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:-* I love the push-pull SR-71... Is it a plane from the 1960s or from the 1940s? (secret anyhow, I undestand)
Probably post 40's :) has the feel of one of those planes that would be perfect after years of development if not for the invention of the jet engine! ;D
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P-61 built backwards. Plan on putting it in this configuration
(http://images.wikia.com/homeworld/images/a/a1/Concept_Hiigaran_Bomber.jpg)
as soon as I figure out how...
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Cool flag by BruceAdama
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some very cool aircraft there. really like the carrier camo. Nice work
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I've just seen this thread. I LOVE that quad-prop powered SR-71, it's a total hoot, superb work. :)
Where did that uber-long canopy come from?
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I've just seen this thread. I LOVE that quad-prop powered SR-71, it's a total hoot, superb work. :)
Where did that uber-long canopy come from?
Thanks Camthalion and PR! :) Its a 1/48 Dinah front windscreen with a modified 1/48 F-14 Revellogram Canopy 8)
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Having a built-in 1/48 scale filter I'd never have figured those out, a nice bit of scale mixing. :)
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Some stuff brought back from a visit home. :-\ Godzilla cat there for scale
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Japanese Lightning ? was it a 2-seater with radials ?? :D
Saw somewhere a P-38?? with a Dinah cockpit grafted on.
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Japanese Lightning ? was it a 2-seater with radials ?? :D
Saw somewhere a P-38?? with a Dinah cockpit grafted on.
You remember that? Well the good news is I brought that one back too, and I am taking a look at finishing it. I have had to try and figure out where I was when I left off and what to do next!! :-\
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5314/14369982135_1cc22b4f18_c.jpg)
I grabbed this one too and hope to do complete soon. Its going to be in a Modeller's alliance GB (shelf queen II) hence the phone in the picture.
I got this idea from the late Chris, AKA PanzerWulff I PMed him about it and asked to use his idea way back in 2010:
I used the Tamiya "Birdcage" corsair in 1/48 for mine,the japanese didn't have a way to do bubble type canopies so the framed canopy looks more the part.the other major appearance change was adding a spinner for the prop it changes the lines of the corsair's nose and make it feel different than the unspinnered prop.Other than that I built the kit oob and painted it in IJN colors.It's cool that my "Kaizoku"(japanese for Pirate) inspired you to do one I can't wait to see it
Chris
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a351/PanzerWulff/kaizoku044.jpg)
his original thread is here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,11392.0/highlight,panzerwulff+corsair.html (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,11392.0/highlight,panzerwulff+corsair.html)
hoping to finish this one as a tribute to him even though he is not here to see it.
Here is the P-38/Dinah I'm entering it too:
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Cool picture I found:
(http://img.wp.scn.ru/camms/ar/571/pics/65_1.jpg)
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That was one of my favorite Panzerwulf builds and I think it's great your paying him homage like this, Mr Tomcat.
I especially like the scheme in that picture you found and I think that'd be a great way to kick it up a notch!
Watching with great interest,
Brian da Basher
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(http://www.j-aircraft.com/hustad/ki-84-1.jpg)
Scheme based on this Ki-84 by Steve Hustad who does marvelous 1/72 scale Japanese fighters. Look at that!! ^
So this is kind of a weird one, because its one where I am actually "working backwards" painting everything and then going after the cockpit! Unfortunately this is just not going to be a contest winner, Its being built from spare parts from a 1/48 scale zero, (remember this is a 1/72 scale corsair!) I don't have any proper landing gear, and I am just happy to make it a solid 3 foot model/weekend project. I plan on going with an even better rendition of Chris's Corsair in 1/48 in the future where I can do it up right from the start. Its kind of disappointing but its going to look better finished on a shelf than languishing boxed in a basement.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3895/14442632221_b50dde973e_c.jpg)
Weekend project goes on! I picked a pretty solid color but it stayed tacky for 72 hours, so the Monday deadline was blown on step one
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Masked off the anti-glare. Like all good masking there is a 60 second to 1 second ratio of masking to painting. This took about 5 minutes to mask and 5 second to paint!
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3923/14466168063_1889040b1a_c.jpg)
Green prop on! The flat coat should tone it down a tad later on
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/14259400730_73c6625e68_c.jpg)
Slightly blurry pic of the Decals. These fought me like crazy I went through 3 decal sheets and all of them fractured or vaporized. This forced me to have to use larger sized Meatballs on the fuselage than the wings which sucks because they would have been perfect reversed :( They are too small on the wings and too big on the Fuselage! Doh! but it is what it is, I was happy at this point to get anything. Never has been putting on 10 decals taken me 90 minutes!!
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5483/14422886676_2131279fdc_c.jpg)
With Canopy fitted for a check to see how it all looks
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The new canopy and spinner really do a good job of making it look more Japanese. I look forward to seeing it finished.
Cheers,
Logan
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For a "dodgy" build, it looks pretty good to me! :)
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Nice.
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Using a pencil to "make metal"
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Not as much paint chipping as on the Ki-84 that inspired the scheme, but I like it
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3926/14715325780_6f5993890b_c.jpg)
I was shocked at how user friendly that silver pencil method was!
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Brush painted the underside. This was one of those excellent bench sessions where everything worked out exactly as you wanted and it was wonderfully refreshing to be building a model.
The prop fought me a bit on the yellow tips and masking, but its looking very good:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3866/14901677822_d6e1e18891_c.jpg)
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Nicely done.
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The paint chipping looks just right to me!
I feel your pain about the decals. Sometimes I'm lucky if one in four are passable.
Brian da Basher
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I love your 2 on-going P-38 Lightning... VERY interesting, thanks! :-*
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Finished.
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I have moved and am starting a new job, along with the rug rat, which continues to exist... I thought it was just a temporary M-F 9-5 gig, but apparently its much longer hours, like 24/7/365 for 18 years. 7 months down at least. SWMBO says I can teach him to drink and curse someday as a reward, but boy does 10 years seem like a long way away. With life getting so crazy I can't even set up my bench, I'm still trying to unpack and organize and I have a ways to go (maybe months) before I am settled in. But I am dying to do SOMETHING! So I found my old Japanese P-38, and I am going to rescribe it, and get it refurbished. No idea how far I will take it exactly, and what I will alter but it should help get the ball rolling. In the meantime I am also going to try and sketch and even give some pixels a shot to keep the creative, sleep deprived juices flowing.
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"Before" shots
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Engine. I am going to drill a new hole so the new props will be centered to make it look more like a radial
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these are the implements of desctruction, bagged so I can move to a fresh flat surface and get something done an hour at a time before packing things away.
Some Flags I downloaded and then altered in Paint. Its basic, but its something I was thinking they could be IJA unit flags, for infantry or armored divisions:
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5836/22484536767_820d67db76_z.jpg)
pretty simple to do just took what others had done and added a spot.
(http://i.imgur.com/WoHA5.png)
In other news, I have unpacked my japanese military books and had forgotten just how many I had, and how many are extremely in depth so there is a lot of ideas to find. I also checked my computer and through a lot of right click saving and other DLing have over 7,000 japanese pictures over the years including whifs :)
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:-* Weird Japanese P-38... Is this a Lightning with radial engines? Will there be huge spinners with no frontal air-intake? (to justify the rear coolers on the booms) I know some rare radials were liquid-cooled, is that the explanation? or artistic fantasy? ;)
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I thought it was just a temporary M-F 9-5 gig, but apparently its much longer hours, like 24/7/365 for 18 years.
Good to hear life is going well albeit busy. If you didn't know the above beforehand...well.
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I thought it was just a temporary M-F 9-5 gig, but apparently its much longer hours, like 24/7/365 for 18 years.
Good to hear life is going well albeit busy. If you didn't know the above beforehand...well.
That can change in a heartbeat. Make hay while the sun shines!
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Blast from the past that will be stripped down and given new life here soon hopefully ;)
I'm also looking into a few simple projects I can do that will demonstrate some concepts I have been curious about for a while
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Yeh! Yeh! Given the news in the F-15ski thread, it ain't gunna happen! ;)
You think one's a handful! Ha! ;D
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WOW taiidantomcat!
I love all of your creations, they are amazing...
Unfortunately there are so many pics that dio not appear any more in the first half of this thread...
It would be great if you could share them with us again!
Ciao!
Antonio