Okay, here's my latest progress. This is all I have done in the past week so it's a small update.
Okay, now to begin. Again, we start with my aircraft...
After spraying another coat of white primer on my Boeing 737; I found some more spots that still needed some attention:
Once they were dry, sanded down and smoothed out, I shot another coat of white primer:
I think I'm starting to finally move forward on this. We'll see though. I still need to shoot a gloss coat on this and find the decals I want to use so there's still plenty of time to screw this up again.....
Moving along, I got all the stencils applied to the A-10:
Later I clearcoated this again to seal the stencils in and then applied the rest of the markings:
I also had gloss coated the two F-14 Tomcats in preparation for decals on those two. Here they are all painted up and glossed up for decals:
I started with the F-14-A and applied the decals to it. They took so long that I ran out of time to start the F-14-B:
One decal that I know of silvered on the tail so I'll be fixing that soon.
Moving along from there, I went back to fix the Marine Cobra... again. I first shot black on the tail, then masked it off:
Later I shot the medium green on this:
Now it is finally looking like it is ready for decals:
Since I was working on helicopters at that time, I pulled out my Australian HAP Tigre and painted up the cockpit. Then I closed it up inside the two fuselage halves and added the canopy to the cockpit. Then I added many of the other bits and bobs that this needed. Now this is almost ready to be masked off and painted:
Moving on to my armor, I decided to pull out a small Russian truck that I'd started some time ago and had been sitting around taking up space. It was time to get this further along. So, I glued part of the main cab together after cutting and installing new axles that would fit the wheels better:
You can see I also painted the interior. Then I built the bed in back and dry-fit it to the chassis to see how it would look:
Not bad, but I was bothered by how the cab and the nose were fitting on that chassis. So, I cut everything off and re-glued it into a better position. Now this looks better, and allows the rear bed to fit better too:
Now that truck can move onto the paint booth.
Speaking of moving something to the paint booth, I finally added all the bits and bobs to the M-109, as well as the rear half of the last roadwheel (that goes where the axle was short-shot) so this bad boy is ready for paint as well:
Later I'll add all the easily breakable parts to this to finish it off.
Then, in order to participate in a small scale armor Group Build on the SoCal AMPS website and forums, I pulled out something that I've been wanting to work on for awhile. This is the MAN 5-ton truck used by the German Army. I already have the 7-ton and 10-ton MAN trucks, so this was needed to complete the set. I started out by building the chassis:
Then I moved on to start the cab. I won't finish this entirely until I can get the interior painted and the windows mounted:
Don't worry, that gear shift will be fixed.....
Later on I built the rear bed and then dry-fit the three assemblies together:
This is gonna be one cool little truck.
Finally, that BMP-3 I got was also calling my name, despite the obscene amount of P/E inside the kit. So, I pulled it out and started the turret first:
That's as far as I got before it called for P/E parts to go on next. I wasn't ready to tackle P/E in the short amount of time I had at the IPMS OC Build Night. So, I moved on again. This time I started the lower hull since that was a fairly straightforward assembly:
I left the little sprue pieces in between the hatch openings to help support that rear plate. I think I will be opening all these hatches given the extent of the interior inside this thing.
That's as far as I got on that before Build Night ended. So, that is where I shall pick up again this coming week; God willing and the crick don't rise....
Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.
Micro Sol has better results over decals coated with Micro Scale Decal Film compared to Solvaset... duly noted...
