Most of this is armor. The exception being a few shots of some progress I made on two of the cars I'm working on, as well as two more aircraft I started for the Canvas Eagles game and another aircraft for a commission build. I'll start with them.
I finally got an acceptable enough coat of red on my Monkeemobile so now I'll buff it a little more smoothly and then apply a gloss coat to this, I hope:
I also got a good enough coat on the Corvette Rebel Racer I'm also doing. I do still need to buff out a few blemished on this before I move on, but it's closer to what I deem acceptable:
I also went ahead and shot a tan color inside the interior to improve the look of the interior of this car. I will re-paint the leather seats soon:
It will feel good to be able to move ahead on these cars...
Here are the two starting pics for two new aircraft I picked up for a song at a local contest. I'm building these for the Canvas Eagles game again. The first one is the Revell 1/72 scale SE-5A, one of my favorite WWI biplanes:
The next one is the Fokker DVII, also from Revell:
Finally, here is the commission build; the Airfix 1/72 scale Hampden. I started out, naturally; with the interior, such as it is. I had to paint the pilot and crew and then add them to the interior after painting it:
That was the closest color I had to British interior green so I just went with it. This will be almost impossible to see once this is closed up and the glass is installed.
I then assembled the tail section of this plane:
Finally, after awhile, I closed this aircraft up. Here it is with the tail assembly positioned aft of the plane:
Oh, one more thing... Here's a small update on the Revell Chris Craft fishing boat I've been working on. It has two long rods I needed to rig. Here is a shot of one of them rigged next to the other:
The other will be rigged later and then I'll paint both sets of threads in black. After that, all I really need to do is add the decals and then I can install these rods and call this boat done.
Okay, that takes care of those, now to move on to my armor and vehicles....
I guess I'll start out with two more modern German vehicles that I started so that I could paint the three-tone camouflage patterns at the same time. I'd already started the troop carrying Boxer for the APC Campaign on the Modeler's Alliance, so naturally, I got the other Boxer started. This is the command vehicle version of the Boxer. Just like the first one, I started by assembling the interior of the lower hull:
Then I assembled the command module that fits in back:
Here they are fit together. For some reason, it doesn't seem to fit as well as the first one:
Later on, after I assembled the suspension underneath, I closed off the front of the hull and manhandled the nose into place. Due to the previously mentioned fit issues, this was a real bear to get fixed. I even had to resort to filling a few gaps with styrene rod:
You can see that most of it was painted. That was because I had some leftover paint after shooting a basecoat on this next model....
This next model is the German Fuchs that I started. It was an easy model to assemble at first, except for the extremely tiny headlights:
Then I got to the suspension underneath. Holy crap! That was when I remembered why I'd waited so long to build this model!
After that was dry, I installed many of the additional detail parts and shot the basecoat on it:
Since I had the paint booth going, I then pulled out my two Russian tanks and shot basecoats on them too so I could get them all ready for their camouflage patterns. I started by applying grey over the T-64BV. It's hard to tell, but yes, I did shoot the color on this:
I then shot the tan base color on the Russian T-90MS:
While all that was drying, I figured it was time to work on my two buses.
I started out on the Ludwig Areo bus, sanding down the puttied joints and then added the windows to the body:
While that was drying, I painted up the interior of the bus, doing all the chairs and benches:
Next I painted the dashboard for this bus, trying to make it look like natural wood with a chrome plate where the dials are:
It probably won't be able to be seen once it's all closed up, but I do like doing this to make this a little better.
Here is the interior fully painted and ready to close up inside the body:
Finally, I dry fit the body onto the chassis and interior and then added the fin. I have to say; of all the buses I've assembled so far, this one was the easiest and best fitting bus to assemble!
Once I get the wheels installed, I'll glue down the body. What a sweet looking ride!
Okay, that's one bus down, one more to go to get ready for paint.
The Vomag, was a bit of a challenge. I started out painting the dashboard, the steering wheel and the front panel, trying to make it look like natural wood again:
I took my time making sure the lower deck was firmly seated on the chassis below when I glued it in place:
This made it a bit easier to close up the front of this bus when I finally got the main body on the chassis. I still had a pretty good gap to deal with:
I used some more styrene strips inside the gaps; melting them in place with the Tamiya Extra Thin cement. Then I sanded everything as smooth as I could. Later on, I added some Mr. Surfacer 500 to the seams that I will sand down later to smooth things out more:
Here is the whole bus fully assembled (sans wheels yet) and ready for more sanding and finally paint:
The blue mess you see on the windows is my liquid masking agent.
Well, that completes my latest couple weeks worth of work. I've been slowing down due to the heat increasing around here; makes it hard to get any painting done since I have to open my window. I do have a few more models I can get more assembly done on. Hopefully I'll be able to find some time to get something more done this week. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
