Maddog Manufacturing 2017 Production Line

[Stuart]

I really love those old 'Golden era' piston airliners - they were such beautiful aircraft. Makes me want to build my DC-3 that I have in the Dan Air boxing.

Great builds as always Mark - realy liking that cobra and it's hard to belive that's the old Airfix Hampden - did you do anything to the rivits?

Cheers

Stuart

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Stuart! I appreciate the compliments. Go ahead and build that DC-3 when you can finish some other builds you have going. It should look fantastic.

On the Hampden, I didn't do anything to the rivets; I've just built this OOB. On areas where I had to sand; I added some tape to each side of the seam to protect the detail. I'm hoping to be done with that very soon. I can't wait to deliver it to my client.

[Stuart]

Thanks Stuart! I appreciate the compliments. Go ahead and build that DC-3 when you can finish some other builds you have going. It should look fantastic.

On the Hampden, I didn't do anything to the rivets; I've just built this OOB. On areas where I had to sand; I added some tape to each side of the seam to protect the detail. I'm hoping to be done with that very soon. I can't wait to deliver it to my client.

I really should do - my wife gave it too me for my birthday, besides, it'd be nice to have a civvy build.

I started my Hampden ages ago - I really should finish it.

[Duke Maddog]

Considering I've been working on my Hampden for someone I'd love to see how you are doing yours. Show some pics my man! You can even post them here to so I can get some ideas that might help improve the one I'm working on.

[speedgraflex]

Duke, I have been devouring your 2015-2017 Production Line threads—truly gorgeous work, the Stratocruiser, wow, man, wow, wow, wow, wow, the care and TLC in all departments of the build, especially the finish—just slack-jawed/gob-smacked/pole-axed amazed by what you are building.I am really interested in creating metal finishes because I know so little and I am grateful for your willingness to document forward and back as you paint. Bravo!

Also, the quote from Jayne Cobb always makes me smile. So, last night while I was waiting for the putty to cure I fired up the original half of the "Firefly" pilot to decompress... that's in no small thanks to you, sir!

Bruce / speedgraflex

[Duke Maddog]

Wow, thank Bruce for such an amazing reply! Your reply has made my entire month. I'm glad I was able to help a bit with information on bare metal finishing too. It is a very tough thing to do that I am determined to learn well. I figure my screw-ups and drawbacks will help others to learn; as well as give people some expectation of what it involves. I do hope you continue to follow that Thread.

Have you seen my Motor Pool yet? It is quite an interesting sight. Feel free to check it out too if you like.

That quote from Jayne Cobb was always one of my favorite lines; I just had to add that as a sig line. I truly wish they has continued that series; it was so well written and acted! I'm glad to see another Firefly fan here; now if I can only get a model of that Firefly transport I'd be in heaven... especially if it was in 1/72 scale! LOL!!

Thanks again Bruce. I do hope to see you at some local contests and shows someday. I just had a fantastic time at the March Valleycon at the Peterson Automotive Museum. Great show!

[Duke Maddog]

It's been a rough couple weeks, but here is what I managed to get done whenever I had the time.

I'll start with the last couple things I did on the B-377 when I finished her up. First off, the decals on the nose had all cracked, so I took some Insignia Blue and painted over as a touch up. You'll also note here one of the the decals that had cracked off and disappeared. I didn't fix that as I have no decal to match that:



I had also built the propellers and painted them up. I used Chrome Silver on the hubs just for fun:



After that is when I installed the landing gear and the gear doors. Later, I found out that this bird still didn't want to sit right. So, I had to add some more weight to the forward end of it. The best stuff I had was some birdshot my friend had given me so I first stuffed some in the forward landing gear bay:



Once that was filled, I glued it with a slightly diluted Modge Podge glue which held it fine. But it still wanted to sit on it's tail. So, I re-opened one of the popped out windows near the front, poured in some more birdshot and then followed it with some more slightly diluted glue. I stood this on it's nose the whole time and left it that way until the birdshot stayed glued. Some is still lose inside, but it's no biggie; she at least sits properly on her landing gear now. Afterward, I re-added the window using the Micro Crystal Clear window-making glue, added the propellers and called her done. Again, you can see the final model in the other Thread.


Moving on, I tried again to get some languishing projects finished. I finally started on the P/E screen for my T-14 Armata tank. It was tough; I didn't get very far:



You can see how much more needs to be done; but that took me about 45 minutes or so to do as it is. And I have one more of these to do.....


Okay, it was time to move on to something simpler. I pulled out my Soviet Carrier Baku and started to decal the deck. These are some delicate decals indeed and they don't lay down very well. However once I got started; I realized that I still needed to paint a yellow strip down one section of the deck, some of which has to be covered by decals. That put an end to this task right here:



Yes, later on I did apply some decal solvent to eliminate the silvering. The yellow stripe is now painted and I can hopefully move forward on this again. Pics forthcoming...


After this, I puttered around doing some detail stuff to the Hampden which I did not take pics of. That bird is practically done anyway; I might as well wait and post pics of the finished model.

So, with all that done, I decided to start a couple more models. One is the British Type 82 destroyer HMS Daring. I started with the main superstructure:



After that was the hanger structure:



Pretty easy compared to the main superstructure. These look good together:



They look even better on the almost completed hull:



This ship is almost ready for paint now before I detail it out.


Moving on, I started one of two projects for the Micro Modelling Month Campaign which you can follow over there as well. This one is the Hobby Boss F-15E Strike Eagle that I'm building to replace the one that was stolen back in 1996. I started, naturally; with the cockpit:



Gotta paint and decal that next. Meanwhile, I assembled the whole rear fuselage of the plane, getting it ready for the forward part to be added later:



I might even get this to the paint stage in a few days. That would be nice.


That's all I have for now, like I said; it's been a rough couple weeks. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

[Stikpusher]

Lots of stuff going on at your bench. But then I would be surprised if it was otherwise.

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Carlos! I did manage to get further along on some more of these models at Hobby Day. I was hoping I would've been a bit more productive, but I'm happy with what I got done. I'll try to post them sometime this week.

[BsYamato]

So much great updates Duke
I hope you'll resolve the problem with the nightgale decals