Re: Maddog Manufacturing Now Open for 2022!
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2022 7:39 pm
Now that my foot is finally healed enough to walk on without having to ice it all the time, I was able to get a few hours in the hobby room in between getting caught up with all the other things that were neglected. Here is what I was able to do, so all aboard the trams again for this new tour of Maddog Manufacturing!
First off, while I was re-organizing the room and re-packing many of my spare parts in a new container I got , I finally found the missing propeller to the Fokker Friendship! It was in that container marked "Propellers, Blades and Rotors":
Naturally I had to paint it like the other one so I got started:
I cleaned that up a bit and finished the painting of the whole thing:
Now that I got that finished, I'll post my new pics of the finished plane in the Aircraft section...
After that, I decided to see how the pews looked so I punched one out and assembled it. Pretty cool:
Each square on the mat is 1 inch in size if I recall. That will give you some idea of how small that is.
Moving on to our Hanger, here is the work I did on the Marine Harrier to prepare it for paint. First after masking the canopy, I added the extra part in front of the wing; dry fitting the whole assembly and gluing it together on the fuselage but not to the fuselage. That is why you see it removed here. I also was able to pull the front exhaust cans off thanks to poly caps inside. The rear ones wouldn't come out so I taped them with the rest of the things I needed to mask:
I then dry-fit it together again to have it ready to shoot when I break out the airbrush:
My next project was the F-117 that I'm building to replace the one that was stolen. I'd had it all assembled already so I flipped it over and shot white in the gear bays and bomb bay. I used a rattle can, that is why it is everywhere. I also had shot the landing gear parts, the inner gear doors and the inner bomb bay doors:
After that dried overnight, I placed the gear doors and bomb bay doors in place without glue and shot the flat black all over the bottom of this plane:
Yes, they are raised, but I'm building this with everything open so I'm not worried about it.
Once that was dry, I flipped it again and shot the top with the flat black:
I love how the doors underneath stayed in place!
Next up is a detour to the shipyards again because I laid the keel on a new landing craft, this time an LCM from the Dragon 2in1 kit. I now have three landing craft under construction that I need to get done:
While here, we can check out the Emden. I didn't do much to it, simply taping off the hull and painting the black boot stripe on it:
Later I taped that boot stripe off, masking it for the lower hull paint. I searched around a bit and finally found what I believe to be a suitable enough hull red by Humbrol. Hopefully I'll be able to get it painted soon.
Now that we've seen that, it's on to the Motor Pool section to see the latest vehicles under construction.
First off, I decided to start one more of my birthday presents, the Roden pakwagen. The instructions have you start with the gun:
This was quite fiddly, but with a little careful sanding; I was able to slip that gun into the cradle without needing to glue it as you see here. I also added the rest of the details for the gun cradle:
Finally the gun shield went on, but not without a fight. This was nearly impossible to keep properly positioned without five hands, but I managed to get it looking right.... so far:
After that, I built the fenders. Simple assembly. I simply had to add all those doors to them:
I then glued them onto the lower hull and added the interior details:
After that, I got the side walls on the top hull:
That's probably going to need some filler....
Moving on, I started a little Japanese mortar towing truck that I got for Christmas. It was a fast little thing to build! I left off the engine cover because there's a few more things that have to go on the front of this first:
Here it is sitting next to the 120mm mortar it tows. I'll be keeping this one in the firing position. Since there's two models in this kit, I'll make the other one towed:
That is all I have for this week. Not much in the way of vehicles, but I have a shipload of them to paint so next time might be quite an extensive tour. until then, thanks for joining and comments are welcome.
First off, while I was re-organizing the room and re-packing many of my spare parts in a new container I got , I finally found the missing propeller to the Fokker Friendship! It was in that container marked "Propellers, Blades and Rotors":
Naturally I had to paint it like the other one so I got started:
I cleaned that up a bit and finished the painting of the whole thing:
Now that I got that finished, I'll post my new pics of the finished plane in the Aircraft section...
After that, I decided to see how the pews looked so I punched one out and assembled it. Pretty cool:
Each square on the mat is 1 inch in size if I recall. That will give you some idea of how small that is.
Moving on to our Hanger, here is the work I did on the Marine Harrier to prepare it for paint. First after masking the canopy, I added the extra part in front of the wing; dry fitting the whole assembly and gluing it together on the fuselage but not to the fuselage. That is why you see it removed here. I also was able to pull the front exhaust cans off thanks to poly caps inside. The rear ones wouldn't come out so I taped them with the rest of the things I needed to mask:
I then dry-fit it together again to have it ready to shoot when I break out the airbrush:
My next project was the F-117 that I'm building to replace the one that was stolen. I'd had it all assembled already so I flipped it over and shot white in the gear bays and bomb bay. I used a rattle can, that is why it is everywhere. I also had shot the landing gear parts, the inner gear doors and the inner bomb bay doors:
After that dried overnight, I placed the gear doors and bomb bay doors in place without glue and shot the flat black all over the bottom of this plane:
Yes, they are raised, but I'm building this with everything open so I'm not worried about it.
Once that was dry, I flipped it again and shot the top with the flat black:
I love how the doors underneath stayed in place!
Next up is a detour to the shipyards again because I laid the keel on a new landing craft, this time an LCM from the Dragon 2in1 kit. I now have three landing craft under construction that I need to get done:
While here, we can check out the Emden. I didn't do much to it, simply taping off the hull and painting the black boot stripe on it:
Later I taped that boot stripe off, masking it for the lower hull paint. I searched around a bit and finally found what I believe to be a suitable enough hull red by Humbrol. Hopefully I'll be able to get it painted soon.
Now that we've seen that, it's on to the Motor Pool section to see the latest vehicles under construction.
First off, I decided to start one more of my birthday presents, the Roden pakwagen. The instructions have you start with the gun:
This was quite fiddly, but with a little careful sanding; I was able to slip that gun into the cradle without needing to glue it as you see here. I also added the rest of the details for the gun cradle:
Finally the gun shield went on, but not without a fight. This was nearly impossible to keep properly positioned without five hands, but I managed to get it looking right.... so far:
After that, I built the fenders. Simple assembly. I simply had to add all those doors to them:
I then glued them onto the lower hull and added the interior details:
After that, I got the side walls on the top hull:
That's probably going to need some filler....
Moving on, I started a little Japanese mortar towing truck that I got for Christmas. It was a fast little thing to build! I left off the engine cover because there's a few more things that have to go on the front of this first:
Here it is sitting next to the 120mm mortar it tows. I'll be keeping this one in the firing position. Since there's two models in this kit, I'll make the other one towed:
That is all I have for this week. Not much in the way of vehicles, but I have a shipload of them to paint so next time might be quite an extensive tour. until then, thanks for joining and comments are welcome.
Hey, try 1/72 scale, just remember to keep the microscope handy! 
