Maddog Manufacturing 2015 Factory is Open

[LyleW]

This is such an epic build. Love it. Go Apollo!

[CallSignOWL]

Well gosh diddley darn. Where in tarnation do you find the time and energy to build all these tootin' models?!?

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Lyle! It is turning into quite a deal indeed. I do hope I can make good progress on it this week.

Thanks Owl. I find the time whenever and wherever I can. Sometimes it may be 20-30 minutes here and there between other things, but every little bit helps. Hobby Days once a month every month really give me loads of time for completing things and that's where I get most of this done. as for energy, I tend to find that on my workbench itself. I always get energized when I sit down at the bench; except after a hard day of working on someone's house. Then I get my sleep first.

[Duke Maddog]

Okay people, brace yourselves. This is gonna be a big update....


I'll start out with a little work I had to do on Annie's gun. I was about to re-touch up the paint on the main gun when I saw a big glue splash on the side of the breech block. Here it is right after I started to sand it off:



I've since sanded that down smooth and shot paint on it. Just waiting for it to dry.

Next I completed the painting and decaling of the F-18 cockpit so I could finally assemble the whole fuselage like this:



After that, it was real easy to add the wings and tail surfaces:



After this I should be able to add the canopy, mask it off and start shooting paint.


After all that, I decided to have some fun. I pulled out my Headless Horseman and started to detail more of it. I painted the horse's eyes red, painted the saddle blanket, as well as completed the sword hand and mounted it on the model; among other things. I gave his white shirt a dirty brown wash, touched up a few things and set it all up:





Look out, he's coming for your head next....




Later on I found his cape and after a few more additions and touchups, I put it all together again to see how the final thing will look when I'm done:



I still have a few more things to do for this, most notably the base of the tree and then add a Jack-'o-Lantern to the base next to the sign. I should be done in a few days I think.


Finally, I went to work in a big way on the Saturn V. First off, I figured it was time to finish up the LEM and Command Modules. I started out by masking the (already black-painted) LEM in preparation for the silver color:





Then I looked at the color call outs (such as they are!) on the instruction sheets. It called for a 'bright silver' color on this and the lower part of the Command Module. I figured the brightest silver I could use was Chrome. So, I went ahead and masked off the white panels on the Command Module next so I could shoot both at the same time:



You can see how difficult that was, trying to get every square properly masked off, but I succeeded...



Next I pulled out my Chrome Silver and shot these two:



They looked pretty good to me:





While these two were drying, I went ahead and shot some Tamiya Bare Metal Silver on the capsule, since it called for a different color silver:



While everything was drying, I went ahead and puttied the crack that I'd gotten in the clear part that the LEM sits inside of at the top of Stage III. This was after I'd c=glued the lower clear part to it so it would be more sturdy:



I should be able to have that all sanded and repainted tomorrow...

I had also finally finished painting all five main engines on Stage I. Man that was time consuming! Here they are dry-fit into place:



This is a view you do NOT want to have when this thing fires up!



After all that time, I was able to finally add all the retro rockets, sensors, doodads and thingamajigs to the outside of the LEM and Command Modules. These two are now completed:

Command Module:



LEM:




Now all I have to do is complete the white on all these stages, add a clearcoat and then mask these off for the black so I can complete this model:



This is where I am now, and for five hours I fought and struggled to get that rocket body done in a clean and smooth coat of white. So far, I've not been successful. I can only hope that I can get that done before the Nationals!

Okay, that is my long and tedious update, you can all wake up now. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[Stikpusher]

Mark I am really loving that Saturn V!

[LyleW]

That is out of thie world! What scale is that? 72?

[BlackSheep214]

That is out of thie world! What scale is that? 72?

BIG!!!!

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the compliments. Carlos, if you're coming to the meeting, you'll be able to see this thing in person. I'm intending to bring it.

Yes Lyle, the Saturn V is in 1/72 scale. My apologies, I was certain I'd mentioned that before. And thanks for the compliments.

[Thomas_M]

Duke, I am this happy you guided me to this epic Apollo build!

As happy I am with my pre-assembled 1.5 metres tall kit the more I am in awe about your painstaking work!

[BlackSheep214]

Love to see the completed build with you standing next to it.