Maddog Manufacturing Opening for 2026

[Stikpusher]

And the beat goes on

I’m looking forward to seeing that Sheridans built!

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Mike! Just trying to clear the Hobby Room of boxes so I can add more models to some empty shelves.

Thank you Carlos! The Sheridan is almost done!

[Duke Maddog]

The Trams are fueled and ready for another tour, all who wish to see the latest progress on this next short tour, feel free to board the trams a get ready for the trip to the Hangar first.

In the Hangar here, we have in this first bay the German Arado float plane that got the final camouflage color and the canopy. I also had lost the twin guns for the back seater, so I decided to kitbash some up using guns from my spares box. They may not be accurate, but at least I have guns back there:



In the next bay, we added the camouflage pattern to the French Noratlas. The wings and boom are still only dry-fit in place:



Later when I was looking at the instructions, I noticed it said to paint the red stripes on the top of the wing. I proceeded to apply masking tape to the wing and then paint the red stripes:



Later the tape was removed and the wings and booms were re-dry fitted together again:



Hopefully soon we'll be able to get decals on this...

In the last bay here we has started on the Tu-26 Backfire, assembling the cockpit first:



Later the back of the aircraft was done, including the main wings that do swing:



That should be a fairly quick build as well.

Moving on now to the Motor Pool since the Shipyards are still resting from previous work....

In the Motor Pool here is the US Army Sheridan from the Gulf War in this first bay. The tracks were assembled and installed and the 3-D printed items were all installed:



Later this got a full coat of paint, some details painted and some preliminary weathering done:



With a bit of finesse, this little beastie will be done...

Moving into the next bay, we added a brown wash to the German flatcar: This just needs decals and some weathering to be finished next:



Moving again to the next bay, the Photo-etch was added to the Cromwell ARV:



Later all that was painted, waiting for decals:



Moving on to the next bay, the German Leopard 2A8 got paint on the main hull, and the turret was fully assembled:



A lot of parts needed to still dry before the turret could be painted. Once they were dry, everything got the base coat of green:



Later some details were painted and the preliminary weathering was added:



This beastie is about finished....

Finally in the last bay we started on one of four Abrams tanks that I'll be building concurrently. This is the M1A2 Abrams AIM that was started first:



That's as far as we got so far. So this ends the tour of Maddog Manufacturing for this week. Thank you all for looking in, and comments are always welcome!

[Stuart]

A really nice selection of builds there Mark as ever - I really like the aircraft you're building - that Backfire is going to be a beast!

I do like that little Arado Ar-196, an aircraft I've always meant to build - is that the Airfix kit?

[BlackSheep214]

I think he said it was Matchbox brand. Not 100% sure.