Maddog Manufacturing 2017 Production Line

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it a lot. Work on these has slowed down a bit because my wife is on vacation for our anniversary. I'm getting a few things done here and there, so I might have something to show within the next couple weeks.

Stay tuned, more to come.

[Medicman71]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it a lot. Work on these has slowed down a bit because my wife is on vacation for our anniversary. I'm getting a few things done here and there, so I might have something to show within the next couple weeks.

Stay tuned, more to come.

Wait, wait. Your wife went on vacation for y'alls anniversary? Did she not take you or did you send her away?

[Duke Maddog]

LOL! Actually, she took the time off to celebrate with me. I've been spending a lot of time with her; going out to eat and also watching a play that a friend's daughter was the lead character in. In between, she has given me a little time to go and play in the Hobby Room while she rested or took care of some other things. (She upgraded our modem/internet connection which is now faster!) So, I did get a few things done and I hope to post some progress pics soon.

[BlackSheep214]

Sounds like you had a great anniversary! What play was it?

[Duke Maddog]

We watched an abbreviated version of Disney's "Aladdin" that was done by the summer theater program kids at my friend's church. For fun they threw in other 'references' to other shows like "The Music Man", "Harry Potter" and several others which made the show hilarious! That Theater Ministry they have is one incredible and talented group!

[Duke Maddog]

Here's some progress I made a couple weeks ago. Due to heavy work, Comicon and extreme frustration, I am only just now able to post this Maddog Manufacturing update. I really didn't get very much done at all relative to my usual productivity, but progress is progress. I'll start with my aircraft so I can explain the extreme frustration part...

Once I sanded the cracks out of my C-118 wings; I was preparing to re-paint the wings by masking off the fuselage. Since I had already shot a couple coats of clear over this; I decided to use frisket film. The frisket film shifted a bit during application and so I pulled it up slightly to re-position it in place and this happened:



This plane damn near impacted the wall with the velocity of an unladen African swallow!

I controlled myself though and set it aside....gently. My friend Steve picked up another kit of this same plane at the Nationals for me so I'll be able to replace that decal. Then I'll be shooting TEN coats of clear over them to be sure!

Moving on, I also dealt with the decals on my Jetstream. Here they are after I applied a coat of Liquid Decal Film over them. They have been sitting in my window for a couple weeks now to bleach out:





Moving on, there is a One True Scale Group Build on another Forums so I submitted this model for it. This is Dragon's LCM-3 that I started when I was bored and had nothing else to work on due to wet glue or paint:



I started with the cockpit(?). For the life of me I could not get that assembly to line up. This was the best looking job I had managed to do:



I then moved on to the front ramp, adding the hinge parts to the bottom:



Of course, that meant that I now had to finish adding the bars on top:



That is all ready for installation now. Man, I expected this model to fit better, but it has been a mass of ill-fitting parts and unclear positioning!

Moving on I added the top deck to the lower hull and that is as far as this got to date:



From here, I pulled out my Borax Wagon Train and finished the dark wash on the wagons; removed the masking on the wheels and suspension; and re-assembled everything. I also completed the water wagon which had never been assembled to the chassis. This is now ready for some dusting and dirtying:



I also have to paint up the 20 mules for this so I can get everything assembled. Now where did I put that base for this......

Finally on my armor; I did a few minor things. The Schturmtiger got almost all the P/E it needs as well as the wheels installed; I just have to add the P/E crane parts and then find the driver's vision slot and I'll be able to paint this:





You can see one of the side fenders disappeared so this is going to be missing a fender....

I also lost the P/E fret for my Sherman so I improvised the fenders with some sheet styrene. I do still need to sand it smooth, but the fenders are now closed off on this as they are supposed to be:



Just another test fit to make sure my new fender additions won't conflict with the mine roller mount:



Finally, I shot a gloss clear over the Vauxhall car to shine it up. Here it is all test fit together now. I had to rob a steering wheel from one of my Aerosans since the Vauxhall one disappeared:



Disregard that piece of lint on this; that was easily removed once I saw it later. Now all I need to do next is start on the interior detail painting. I also found the clear parts for this so I'll be able to finish it now!

That's all I have for now. I'm not sure when I'll be able to work on anything again for a few days... or maybe weeks.... so stay tuned and I'll post again when I can get something else done.

Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[Stikpusher]

You have stuff from barely started to almost finished here... most everything looks to be progressing properly. I think the LCM structure is called the wheel house or the pilot house.
Now I have to ask, how did the shifting of the frisket damage the decals? I have had similar results with tape over "sealed" decals myself. I think the only masking Medium that I trust over decals is Parafilm M. Good thing that your buddy has some decals for you to fix this.

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Carlos for letting me know what the pilot house was called. As for the frisket film lifting the decals; it is a sticky-backed film that grabbed them and pulled them off. The new decals have been shipped and are on their way. I can't wait!

Meanwhile, here's the latest....

After a month of my life in total upheaval, I finally found some time to 'play' on the workbench. Let me show you the latest from Maddog Manufacturing. It is a very small update, so...

I'll start with my Borax wagons. They are essentially done except for some dusting and weathering so I moved on to my mules. I started with ten of them; half of the total. Here they are after my basecoat of brown:





My apologies for the messy bench in the background; I know some of you hate to see that. I didn't have anywhere else to shoot these pics. I hope to move forward on these someday soon.

Next up I shot some clearcoats on my C-118, and my USAAF supply set, along with a couple other models. Nothing to see as it was a clear coat so nothing looked any different so no additional pics.

One model I did shoot a pic of that was clearcoated is my Merkava IV. I had also given it a wash and painted some of the details so here it is showing the latest progress:



I also did some of the details on my Roden Vauxhall car, adding the gold trim and painting the radiator grill, among other things:





While I had the airbrush out, I also shot an OD basecoat on my Sherman with the minerollers:





There is still a bit of touchup needed for that as I see under the hull sides....


After that I took a break and got some of the landing craft assembled. I completed the interior part here:



And then test-fit it inside to see how it fit. Surprisingly, this fit fine:



Meanwhile, I tried to get the forward door to fit on that but found out I had glued something wrong on it so I had to repair that. Maybe next time I'll be able to get it to fit right.

Finally, I shot a coat of flat black to the underside and select areas on the space shuttle. Man that felt good making some progress on that for once:








Well that completes my small update. I'll be going back to work so I might not have much time to work on my models again for awhile, but at least I was able to get this much done. I'm thrilled.

Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

[BlackSheep214]

Busy, busy, busy... looking good all at the same time too!

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Blacksheep! I'm trying! Hopefully I'll have something finished soon!