Okay, it's not as big an update as I'd hoped for this week but I did get a little bit more done so here is my latest progress. Let me start with my aircraft...
I dry-brushed a couple colors on top of the SE-5A biplane to give it some modulation. I like how this looks now:
Next I shot a primer coat of Tamiya Grey Primer over the C-118 to see how many flaws I still have:
There's at least ten or twelve I've seen already. Time to break out the polishing pads again...
After that, I made some more progress on the Hampden that I'm building for someone. I added the tail to the assembled fuselage after sanding the seams and removing the tape:
Next I built up the wings, which meant assembling the landing gear and inserting them between the wing halves:
After that, I assembled all the sub-assemblies. Now this thing is ready to be masked off and painted:
Moving on now to my armor...
First off, I spent five and a half hours doing two quad Maxims for my two Russian Armored Trains. I need five of these guns, yet this is as far as I got after five and a half hours:
Gun cradles:
Guns mounted on gun mounts:
There were eleven photo-etch parts that needed to be bent and assembled there on each gun. I still have five more more photo-etch parts to add to these and four more plastic parts before I can even start on the gun stands! As for making these all line up properly; that is evidently far beyond my skills to do. After this I had it so I moved on to something simpler....
Here's the something simpler. I added the wheels, drive sprockets and idlers to the lower hull of the T-90 MS:
Later I finished shooting the color on the lower hull and touching up the upper hull and turret. After I peeled off all the Silly Putty, I mocked up the tank to show this:
My apologies for the slightly blurry pics; I don't know what happened here as I was quite steady with the camera. Maybe the lens needs some cleaning.
Moving on, I also finished gluing the side fenders on to the main hull of the T-64 BV. This beastie is ready for clearcoat and washes now, along with the T-90 MS:
Again, apologies for the slightly blurry pics....
Lastly, I got more done on the two buses. The Ludwig Areo has a basecoat of dark grey on it now. I hope to modulate that color soon:
I decided to go with the grey so it matches my other grey Opel buses.
After I fixed the roof racks again, I added the white to the sides and top of the Vomag bus:
It's kind of hard to see in this pic, but I got it painted and now will be masking off to shoot the green color on this. I'm looking forward to seeing this in color now.
Now with all of these armor models getting closer to being done, I have to mention another reason why I'm going slower. Given the hit on my mojo recently, I decided to start packing up my armor and vehicle collection on flat tubs to prepare for the day when I take them down to the hall for pictures. Well, here are the first four tubs holding about a quarter of my collection so far:
I even bought six more tubs to hopefully have enough to hold everything. We'll see.
Okay, I'm done for this week. I don't know whether I'll be able to get anything more done until August so just hang out for a while. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
