Maddog Manufacturing 2018 Production

[Medicman71]

Very nice builds Mark! Really liking the A-10 and Tomcats.

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Carlos! I do seem to specialize in quantity quite well. I appreciate your compliments. I am also loving the Churchill. I hope to get more done on it soon.

Thanks Stuart! You are too kind. I appreciate your compliments. You are right, that Airfix Gazelle is a real sod. It took me forever to strategically apply weight in the front to make it sit on the skids. Now I need to fix one because the piece just wouldn't stay glued.

The A-10 kit is done by Hasegawa. I'm doing a review of it here:

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/viewtop ... 643#p66643

Thanks Johnny! I appreciate the compliments on my work. I knew about the cracking caps, but this bottle exploding was a first.

Carlos I don't believe I ever left this one in the sun where it could get direct sunlight. Still, it was a very old bottle so it is quite possible. I stopped using it for a while in lieu of Solvaset, but I found that when I use the Micro Scale Liquid Decal Film over old decals; this Micro-Sol works better on those decals. I've gone back to using it now, at least on decals covered with Micro Scale Liquid Decal Film.

Thanks Medic! I actually cannot wait to finish those two Tomcats and the A-10!

[Stikpusher]

Micro Sol has better results over decals coated with Micro Scale Decal Film compared to Solvaset... duly noted...

[Duke Maddog]

Okay, here's my latest progress. This is all I have done in the past week so it's a small update.

Okay, now to begin. Again, we start with my aircraft...

After spraying another coat of white primer on my Boeing 737; I found some more spots that still needed some attention:



Once they were dry, sanded down and smoothed out, I shot another coat of white primer:



I think I'm starting to finally move forward on this. We'll see though. I still need to shoot a gloss coat on this and find the decals I want to use so there's still plenty of time to screw this up again.....


Moving along, I got all the stencils applied to the A-10:



Later I clearcoated this again to seal the stencils in and then applied the rest of the markings:





I also had gloss coated the two F-14 Tomcats in preparation for decals on those two. Here they are all painted up and glossed up for decals:



I started with the F-14-A and applied the decals to it. They took so long that I ran out of time to start the F-14-B:



One decal that I know of silvered on the tail so I'll be fixing that soon.

Moving along from there, I went back to fix the Marine Cobra... again. I first shot black on the tail, then masked it off:



Later I shot the medium green on this:



Now it is finally looking like it is ready for decals:



Since I was working on helicopters at that time, I pulled out my Australian HAP Tigre and painted up the cockpit. Then I closed it up inside the two fuselage halves and added the canopy to the cockpit. Then I added many of the other bits and bobs that this needed. Now this is almost ready to be masked off and painted:






Moving on to my armor, I decided to pull out a small Russian truck that I'd started some time ago and had been sitting around taking up space. It was time to get this further along. So, I glued part of the main cab together after cutting and installing new axles that would fit the wheels better:



You can see I also painted the interior. Then I built the bed in back and dry-fit it to the chassis to see how it would look:



Not bad, but I was bothered by how the cab and the nose were fitting on that chassis. So, I cut everything off and re-glued it into a better position. Now this looks better, and allows the rear bed to fit better too:



Now that truck can move onto the paint booth.

Speaking of moving something to the paint booth, I finally added all the bits and bobs to the M-109, as well as the rear half of the last roadwheel (that goes where the axle was short-shot) so this bad boy is ready for paint as well:



Later I'll add all the easily breakable parts to this to finish it off.

Then, in order to participate in a small scale armor Group Build on the SoCal AMPS website and forums, I pulled out something that I've been wanting to work on for awhile. This is the MAN 5-ton truck used by the German Army. I already have the 7-ton and 10-ton MAN trucks, so this was needed to complete the set. I started out by building the chassis:



Then I moved on to start the cab. I won't finish this entirely until I can get the interior painted and the windows mounted:



Don't worry, that gear shift will be fixed.....

Later on I built the rear bed and then dry-fit the three assemblies together:



This is gonna be one cool little truck.

Finally, that BMP-3 I got was also calling my name, despite the obscene amount of P/E inside the kit. So, I pulled it out and started the turret first:



That's as far as I got before it called for P/E parts to go on next. I wasn't ready to tackle P/E in the short amount of time I had at the IPMS OC Build Night. So, I moved on again. This time I started the lower hull since that was a fairly straightforward assembly:



I left the little sprue pieces in between the hatch openings to help support that rear plate. I think I will be opening all these hatches given the extent of the interior inside this thing.

That's as far as I got on that before Build Night ended. So, that is where I shall pick up again this coming week; God willing and the crick don't rise....

Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

[Stikpusher]

Good stuff Mark! I was glad to see you work on these last nite.

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Carlos! It was a thrill to be building with you. Someday soon we'll have to pull Bruce out of his cave to join us!

Stay tuned, hopefully more to come.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Carlos.... Someday soon we'll have to pull Bruce out of his cave to join us..

I still remember what Uncle Sam taught me to do for such occasions...

[speedgraflex]

Tomcat...



Excellent progress, Sir Duke!

[Medicman71]

Awesome work as always Duke!

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks guys! I truly appreciate your compliments.

Carlos, just give the word; I'll be happy to muster for that!

Bruce, stay tuned; I might even have more done on those Tomcats.

Medic, thanks again! Hopefully more progress soon. Stay tuned!