WardWorks Doings 2024 - Update - Nowunder 13

[Dukemaddog]

Superb progress on all these models. Masterfully done as well.

[BUCKY]

Nice progress in spite of the setbacks. Pulling an outage on the equipment is never the most fun one can have when trying to enjoy a lifelong hobby!! Keep up the great work, mate!!

[WardWorks]

Cheers Guys, thanks for commenting..👍

Tiger has been set aside for the moment, I'm still looking for a specific colour scheme reference for it.. I know how the vehicle I'd like to finish it looked, but am unsure of the specific vehicle was a mid or a late production vehicle. Won't know that til I find the book I'm looking for in my tomes of Tiger enlightenment. The other 3 will cop their markings today, be weathered tomorrow and sent to the display area, pics will be tooken at some point, awaiting better weather/light outside (weather forecast ain't that rosy for the rest of the week)...

Meantime, I'm getting on with a bit of UFO cleanup/finishing off (mainly markings and finer part assembly - those annoying lil greeblies that will fall (or be blasted) off during the paint process.. things like underwing mass balances, pitot heads etc

Aaarrgghh ! 🤯😏🔥💥😳

That does mean what it says, 😈 Wardair is open again (briefly, just til I get the paint desk and various drawers of stasis clear of winged UFO's), after which, I'll return to the 35th armour building lines (for which my eyes will no doubt thank me profusely ! ) living with inoperable cataracts ain't no fun at all (and very vile language inducing 🤬 Living alone, no one hears you cuss, no matter how vehemently) 😳 Ain't I lucky ! 🙄😲😋

Best
M of WW 😉🙃

[JED]

Nice paintage going on

[JCON]

Looking forward to what you come up with on the painting front!

[WardWorks]

Sitrep part the first (second part (35th AFV's) tomorrow)...

One pair of 1/72nd Me-109 E4's.. ICM first in spare markings from the Special Hobby kit, ICM's kit supplied national markings on the wings only. Assembled as usual for the ICM kit, I'll fix the rear canopy issue when I clean up the canopy framing..A quick slash arond the upright front frame of the rear canopy oughter do it 🥱




Special Hobby (new release) kit, a complex lil so and so, way more complex in the cockpit area than anything I've encountered this time round from Eduard, no good reason for the complexity, unless you want to leave a few panels off and cutaway around the cockpi (too much work for me in 72nd, even if the parts were in the kit, which most of them ain't 🫨) apart from that and a bit of flash in the harder to trim "leetle beets", its a good'un. Finished in kit supplied markings as a machine belonging to 1/JG26 (Ithink), with their famous "Hellhound" under the cockpit, came up as below.




That's all for today folks, seeyas tomorrow with 3 35th AFV's

Best
M of WW 😉🙃

[JCON]

Good looking 109's there M!!!

[WardWorks]

Sitrep Part the second

Cheers Joe 👍

The promised AFV's are Here Somewhere

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M of WW😉🙃

[WardWorks]

On the desk, a start has been made on a Dragon SdKfz 250/9 (Neu) with its short 75mm gun, early days yet, but thus far no problems to report, I may find something else to start on, to be worked on in parallel whilst glue dries on this one, still thinking about that...😈



Best
M of WW 😉🙃

[BUCKY]

Nice progress on these doings!

[Dukemaddog]

Nice smooth work!

[WardWorks]

Cheers guys 👍

There's a few more parts gone onto the 250/9 (more than a few if you count the individual track links and the pads over the joints between the links) 🤬




That's the hard part over, the rest should be a breeze, it'll be dribs and drabs style progress for the next couple of days,(its a Supercars weekend)...

In other relevant news, Wardair is more or less permanantly closed, mainly for eyesight reasons related to inoperable cataracts in both my eyes.

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M of WW 😉🙃

[JCON]

The 250/9 looks great!!!

[Dukemaddog]

That vehicle looks amazing! Brilliant work all around.

I'm so sorry to hear about your eyesight; you do such incredible work on your aircraft, they will be missed. If it's not too personal, why are your cataracts inoperable? Usually it's an easy procedure, so I'm just curious. If that's too personal a question, then please disregard this question. I care, that is all.

[WardWorks]

For the last time:- My cataracts are inoperable because they now go too deep into the back of my eyeballs to be removed safely, In my case, it would not be anything like a "simple procedure" as I'm allergic to any variety of anaesthetic they put into my eyes, even the stuff used by eye specialists to dilate pupils instantly and agonisingly painfully burns like somebody's squirted powerful acid into my eyes, as does the reverser (which is a "make it worser" in my case). The Cataracts should have been removed 3 years ago, they weren't because covid got in the way, hospitals out here were only doing necessary (life saving/preserving), surgery during the almost two years of covid, Obviously,  cataract removal isn't anything like necessary surgery, (nobody ever died because cataracts were not removed)... I've explained all the above in previous postings in various threads over the last few years.

No offence intended towards anybody, but I will not mention or discuss this subject again. I seek no sympathy whatever over the hand I've been dealt, I'm human after all, us humans adapt to difficult situations, I'm no different, If I cannot see properly to do 72nds anymore, I'll adapt to the situation by not  doing 72nds anymore, life goes on etc;  end of.  

Suffice it to say I'm not missing straining my eyes to see smaller parts in 72nd, much less removing flash etc: from them. I'll miss building them, but hey, that's life for ya, it goes on and its utterly pointless trying to stop or slow its progress, just step aside and don't let its little reversals get to you, its all anybody can do, complaining doesn't help. Never did. Life doesn't have to adapt. it can't. We humans can and do. 😈 Apologies for the philosophising. 


Best
M of WW 😉🙃,

[JED]

Great work M

[JCON]

I remember your having to wait on the doctor's during Covid lockdowns... it sucked for many that needed minor medical procedures. I have another friend here in the states who has the same problem with cataracts being left too long. Stick with the larger scale models, you do an awesome job on them!

[Dukemaddog]

My apologies for bringing this up again. I won't bother you with that issue again. Keep up the excellent and masterful work and I will watch as you forge ahead.

[WardWorks]

Thanks guys..👍

Duke - No harm done/offence taken, just gets boring having to explain it over and over again. I've always been allergic to that pupil dilator stuff since I was a little kiddywink. Turns out the anaesthetics they use during cataract ops are more powerful derivatives of that stuff. Not much anybody can do about that. At least they don't think the dang things will get any worse in thickness or colour (apparrently, they're a translucent colour, like milky coffee) They could cut the fronts out of them, they reckon that would work for a couple of years, but I'd need to have it done every couple of years or so, but they've decided that's a non starter, due to my proven allergy to the pupil dilator stuff..

Gets wierd when I get glare on my glasses and decide to clean them, because they seem dusty somehow, then I look elsewhere whilst I'm polishing the glasses and realise I'm still seeing the dust specks reflecting the glare - cataracts strike again ! At least there's no Glaucoma or Macular Degeneration as far as can be ascertained at present. That's the kind of nasty suprise nobody needs. 😲

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M of WW😉🙃

[Dukemaddog]

So true. I hope and pray you don't ever get those!