Maddog Manufacturing 2018 Production

[JCON]

Sounds like a good method and works well in your Manufacturing Plant!!!

[Deleted]

Oh i wouldn't chrome the FORD logo, Its not chromed on the real truck.

[BUCKY]

Sept 14, 2018 16:33:19 GMT -6 @snakebitemetal said:

Oh i wouldn't chrome the FORD logo, Its not chromed on the real truck.

I agree with Ben.
Here are a couple examples:

[JCON]

Oh I like it in the red body color!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks Ben; I'm glad to know that.

I agree Joe, that does look good in red. I might have to try and see if I can do that.

Thanks Bucky for posting that.

Stay tuned, more to come.

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[BUCKY]

WOW! I'd have a hard time picking one of those! Maybe one of each, so they could be interchanged!!

[Deleted]

Sept 15, 2018 21:42:56 GMT -6 BUCKY said:

WOW! I'd have a hard time picking one of those! Maybe one of each, so they could be interchanged!!

lol

[JCON]

Snap in, snap out!!! I like the patriotic ones myself!!! Very cool!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Wow, the patriotic one and the Stars and Bars would be most difficult for me. Many of the other ones wouldn't go well with a red truck. Nice post; thanks for the ideas.

[Dukemaddog]

Once again, here is a small update showing what I was able to get done over this past weekend. I tried this time to get further along on a couple models I'd been neglecting or having trouble with. I also started another ship since I seem to be all fired up to increase my naval forces some more. Building ships has become quite appealing to me lately.


I'll start with the one aircraft I worked on. This is the Australian HAP Tigre I'd started some time ago. I had base coated this in the green color and then started to mask it. I finally finished the masking on this helicopter:





Next I shot the second color on this:





There's a third color I need to add so I'll have to continue to mask the brown before I shoot the light black. Hopefully I'll be able to do that tomorrow. Then I'll be able to clearcoat this for decals.



Moving on to my armor this time, I finally managed to win the fight with the cab of the Kurogane pickup. This thing is together now:



I then glued it into place on the chassis:





Once that was dry to my satisfaction, I masked off the windows in preparation for paint:



I then masked off the wheel posts on the underside so the wheels would glue better:



Finally, this has paint! I even tried to modulate the color a bit with some faded olive drab after I shot the basecoat. It is not all that visible in these pics, so you'll have to take my word for it:





The glob of Silly Putty on the roof panel is to cover the spot where the spare tire goes. I want it to be able to glue as well.

Moving on from that, I worked on my two Humvees since I wanted to do something easy after all that fight with the Japanese pickup. To start, I masked off the areas that I didn't want paint on:



I had to mask off the inside of the cabs as well to keep the windows clear. After that I dry-fit the cabs onto their respective chassis to see how things fit:



You can see that I masked off the sides of this one with the Silly Putty. That is where the photo-etch armor pieces will go, so I wanted to make sure they would glue well:



Speaking of armor plate; I sprayed them in the rusty brown color I'm seeing in the box art pics:



Now these two Humvees have basecoats:









You can see I haven't shot paint on the top side of the cabs. I had these taped upside down to shoot the paint so they wouldn't get blown away by the airbrush. I should have no problem shooting more paint later. The troop carrier with the tilt will be painted a three-tone NATO pattern while the gun truck will be only in green.



Moving on to my shipyards, I started out by shooting the photo-etch parts for the HMS Daring destroyer:



There's only a few of those parts I'll use.

Next, I painted the hull and deck of the USS Bootes Liberty ship after adding most of the little greeblies it needs:



Later I did the same with the Japanese fleet oiler:



Both of these ships have been clearcoated for decals.


Finally, my shipyards laid down the keel of yet another ship. This is one I'd been wanting to build for awhile, so I pulled it out and started it. This is the USS Sacramento an AOE unrep ship. I started of course, by adding the deck to the main hull:



Next I built the main superstructure which stretches almost the entire length of the ship:



There's a disturbing number of holes on the top of that superstructure....

Here's how it looks all dry-fit together:



I also test fit the lower hull to see if I wanted to make this a full-hulled version. I was surprised at the deep draft of this ship:




That's all I have for this weekend. I'll see what else I can get done this coming week. Until then, comments are welcome, thanks for looking in.

[JCON]

Wow that was very productive sir!!! Looking really good Mark!!!

[Deleted]

I applaud your patience with stuff like this!! Can i buy some patience from you

[ogrejohn]

Dang fine work Mark, especially the fleet! 

[Ernie]

Lots of good stuff going on Duke! That UNREP ship looks really interesting. She has a really nice elegant bow.....until you add the lower hull I like a good ship every now and then...or more accurately a submarine. I find they are always a nice fun build in between other projects.

[SteveM]

The Duke machine rolls on! I like the ship too but that little truck caught my eye

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks very much for the great replies everyone!

Ben, I would but I'm very short myself. That's why I build so many at one time: I have no patience to wait for things to dry! LOL!

Ernie, I agree. Adding the lower hull to the AOE ship takes her from swan to pregnant whale! LOL! And lately, I have had a real pull to completing some ships.

Thanks Steve! That is an interesting little truck that had never been released in 1/72 scale before. That's why I just had to build it.

Thanks again everyone for the motivating replies.

[JED]

Some great manufacturing going on 👍

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks Jed! Hopefully more to come soon.

[Dukemaddog]

Okay, I had some time to spare for a couple days so I spent a lot of time in my Hobby Room trying to get several models moved forward. Now that my camera battery is dead, I'll go ahead and upload what I have so far this weekend. I'll start with some of my aircraft first.

I had shot a grey underside on my Nigerian Hind, and then masked it off in preparation for the upper camouflage pattern:



Speaking of upper camouflage patterns, I shot the final color on the Australian Tigre and then removed all the Silly Putty:





Moving on, I had finally shot paint on the F-6F Hellcat I'm building on commission. I had shot the whole thing in dark navy blue.

Fuselage:



Wings:



Afterward as you can see, I added the night fighting radar to the one wing since I'd forgotten to do it before painting.

Cowl and drop tank:



Cowl needs touchup, that'll happen...

Next, I decided to attempt to glue in those parts B-7 through -10 that I couldn't figure out before. A pretty good idea struck me as to how I could get them to glue properly. After gluing the two parts together, I took the retracted landing gear parts and snapped them into place. Then I carefully glued the parts B-7 through -10 in place; lining them up with the 'retracted' landing gear:



Later, when I snapped off the retracted gear parts, the two sections stayed in place where they are supposed to go:



Here's another shot of the wing that got the radar pod:



After getting more information about the interior section of the wing fold being dark blue like the rest of the plane; I shot a new coat of blue on the bare sections, as well as touched up other places. Here's the cowl:



Here's the wings:



As you can see, whoever mentioned the long gun barrels being prone to breakage cursed me! Gonna have to replace these as I lost the one completely.

The wheels, struts and landing gear doors were next:



And finally, the fuselage top and bottom:





Some of that paint got a little dull so I'll have to go over it again. Then hopefully I'll be able to apply the decals.




Moving on from there, I decided to do something simple and almost mindless. I had two buildings waiting for paint so it was time to get that done. First I masked the windows (and the hole in the roof) from inside on both the train station and the Berlin House:





Yeah, in that second pic, you can see the Federal Disaster Area that is my workbench right now.

Next I shot the basecoat on the train station:



I used the same color for the upper story of the Berlin House as well:



I then used an RAF Ocean Grey for the bottom story as a base coat:



Later I used a medium grey to dry-brush the bricks on the lower story, as well as paint the top section around the roof:



This is looking quite nice already if I do say so myself. Now where is that church I also have.....

Okay, that's all I have for this short update. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.