Maddog Manufacturing 2025 Grand Re-Opening!

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you. This is one of two tug kits I'm building; the other is lost in the stash somewhere. This one I'll keep working on until I find the other and hopefully get it across the line as well.

[speedgraflex]

A second tug!!! Wowee!!!

[LyleW]

The word eclectic comes to mind. Wow!

[Duke Maddog]

Yes indeed Bruce! A second tug.....and I just found it! Gonna be working on both now together

Thank you Lyle! I'm glad to see you posting again! Yeah, I kinda have to go eclectic since most 'mainstream' subjects have already been built.

[speedgraflex]

Any chance of sprue shots, Mark?

[Duke Maddog]

Since both have been started quite a bit, I think that sprue shots wouldn't show much. I'm certain someplace like Scalemates should have some. I can try to get a shot of both tugboats in their current state of assembly side by side.

[speedgraflex]

No worries, Mark!

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Bruce!

Merry Christmas one and all! Despite the business of this part of the season, I still managed completing enough to do one more short tour. All aboard the trams everyone, as we head in to see what's been done.

Here we go, starting in the Hangar. This first bay shows the British Swordfish completely painted and with the upper wings finally attached:







I think decals and rigging are all that's left to do on this.

Therefore, we started another quick and easy build in this next bay. This is a twin seat RAF Harrier. You can see how easy it was to build up:



Paint and details on that are next. As mentioned, this is a short tour, so we'll head on into the Shipyards now...


Here in the Shipyards, this first slip has the USS Montrose Assault ship, which now has the decks painted:



In the next slip, the tugboat got a lot more of the paint on it, as well as some additional detail parts:



Moving to the next slip, we have the actual French Frigate Normandie. It's all assembled and I used the resin parts that are supposed to differentiate this from the Aquitane:



Here are the resin parts, poorly installed on this ship:



I wasn't happy with that so I did some major fixing as much as I could to close that up:



Still not well done, but better. Some judicious sanding and filling will fix that. I continued to work on this so that almost all the parts are installed, bringing this closer to the paint stage:



That's as far as I got on that. However, in the last slip here we laid the keel for the USS Defiant, a Vietnam-era patrol boat that I got in the Distressed Kit Auction:



Later the superstructure was built up:




And that concludes this short tour of Maddog Manufacturing, that you all for looking in, comments are welcome.

[speedgraflex]

Mark, Why not try Milliput on bad joins? I use that all the time instead of any squeeze tubes. It’s fast and easy to use and much cheaper. One box lasts for months!

[Stikpusher]

Nice update Mark! Gotta love those old Revell ships!