Stikpusher's GAABSA Builds -2nd Completed
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Duke Maddog
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Re: Stikpusher's GAABSA Builds
Wow, that is looking good! What a great model that is!
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Stikpusher
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Mark, it really is a beautiful kit. The detail is top notch. But as is typical for Dragon, I found myself more than once asking why did they mold this is such manner and not in a different way. No worries though, everything fits as it should as long as you don't rush it and take the time to look ahead at how it is supposed to look in the next step.Duke Maddog wrote:Wow, that is looking good! What a great model that is!
So off we go to the next steps.
Turret completed, except for the guns and sight which I will add after painting.
And then I built the trailer base
and with the turret on the trailer base
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BlackSheep214
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That's gonna look really nice when it's finished!
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Thank you Blacksheep. Now comes the hard part... which shade of OD to use... lol!
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I remember seeing that quad gun in the Waterworld movie. Cool to see one modelled.
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That's going great 'guns' ( 
) Stik - it's a nice looking build.
) Stik - it's a nice looking build.Stuart Templeton 'I may not be good but I'm slow...'
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Borg and Stuart, thanks for looking in and commenting. I never saw Waterworld, although I have seen these quads in plenty of other movies.
Since this is a
"multi media" kit, I am aiming to get some primer on in the next day or so. Perhaps even the base coat of OD if the gods smile upon me... 
Since this is a
"multi media" kit, I am aiming to get some primer on in the next day or so. Perhaps even the base coat of OD if the gods smile upon me... "Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
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Well since PB is up to its' usual stupid antics, I am goon have to do this in stages. I absolutely hate the site via anything but the phone app. And since I have two accounts that just really makes the computer absolutely refuse to co operate in a timely manner. I do hope the people who run that site get long painful illnesses...
anyways I'll lead off with my second bit of work today. I decided to resurrect an old sidelined F-86 project as one of the "shelf of doom/sidelined" GAABSA builds. This kit was started at least a good six plus years ago, and mostly built. But then sidelined due to problems in getting the NMF applied. When I airbrushed on some Xtracolor Duraluminum, I did not stir it enough and ended up with flecks of pigment fragments in the finish. These things were the size of salt and pepper grains so there was no smoothness at all in certain areas. As well as some large runs or other paint mishaps. So today I spent a couple of hours polishing off the offending painted areas.
Well once I did that, I cleaned up some seam filling work along the fuselage spine... gel CA which also polishes up mirror smooth for the NMF when done properly, and I decided to open up a couple of scoops on the airframe
and I'll be back shortly with the update on my M55 quad
anyways I'll lead off with my second bit of work today. I decided to resurrect an old sidelined F-86 project as one of the "shelf of doom/sidelined" GAABSA builds. This kit was started at least a good six plus years ago, and mostly built. But then sidelined due to problems in getting the NMF applied. When I airbrushed on some Xtracolor Duraluminum, I did not stir it enough and ended up with flecks of pigment fragments in the finish. These things were the size of salt and pepper grains so there was no smoothness at all in certain areas. As well as some large runs or other paint mishaps. So today I spent a couple of hours polishing off the offending painted areas.
Well once I did that, I cleaned up some seam filling work along the fuselage spine... gel CA which also polishes up mirror smooth for the NMF when done properly, and I decided to open up a couple of scoops on the airframe
and I'll be back shortly with the update on my M55 quad
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
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M55 update... I airbrushed on a coat of Humbrol Primer onto this little beast today.
It felt good to be back at the bench...
It felt good to be back at the bench...
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Duke Maddog
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Excellent Carlos! Man, you're making me itch to get back to my bench; and I just had a two-day bench run. Fantastic work on those models, that F-86 is incredibly shiny!
The Duke
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Virtuoso of Miniatures
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.