Well, here's my progress on all the models I've been working on this past week and a half. I had a major setback this past weekend when I tried to shoot a clearcoat on my Boeing 737. It got badly messed up and I did something that I never ever did before: I threw this model in frustration. It is fixable, but I'm going to wait until I am no longer ticked at this one.
Moving on to my other aircraft, I shot another more complete coat of white on the Jetstream:
Later I masked off the top and tried to shoot a coat of metallic on the Jeststream. It needs some work:
I also shot the tan color on the Dagger:
Now I just need to mask some more to add another bit of Olive Drab to this. Then I'll be able to clearcoat and decal it.
Since I was still painting, I shot a basecoat of Olive Drab on the P-40. Here it is still a bit wet around the wing roots:
Later I made a poor attempt at color modulation here:
After sufficient drying time, I masked off the top and shot the Neutral Grey underside:
After all that painting it was time to take a bit of a break. I made an attempt at assembling the five pieces of canopy on my AH-1. I started with the top piece and added the two rear pieces to it and let that dry first:
Later on I added the two forward side pieces to complete the canopy:
Finally, in my aircraft; I started the stencil decals on my F-15E Strike Eagle. I got this far before I decided to call it quits for now:
I do have to hit a few of those with some more Solvaset. I plan on doing that and then sealing these before moving on to the rest. That way I have a 'handle' for shifting this plane around.
That's all I have on my aircraft for now. I did a ton of work on a number of my small scale armor models. For starters, I re-shot the basecoat of Dunklegelb on the Schturmtiger for a more even coat:
Next I painted the two other camouflage colors on the model. These colors were hand painted:
After that, I took a toothpick and added the dots for the ambush scheme on this tank:
Once that was all dry, I decided to experiment with different glues for gluing on the tracks. I took three of the indy tracks and glued them on with Tamiya glue from the orange-top bottle. You can see them on the drive sprocket:
On the other side, I glued the lower run of tracks on the wheels with Gator Grip Glue:
So far, both seem to be holding fairly well. We shall see whether they will stand up to painting and weathering.
Another model that needed improvement was the tank trailer from the USAAF re-supply set. I re-shot the OD on this to cover the patches I exposed when I sanded and fixed certain places:
Now this is ready for a gloss coat and decals.
Moving on, I completed the upper hull for the T-90 by adding the side skirts and extra armor:
This puppy is ready for paint now:
Since that was ready for paint, it was time to get the T-80 to the same level; or as close to it as I could. There is a lot of photo-etch on this after all. I started by adding more parts to the turret. The brass barrel is just dry-fit to the model:
Later on, I finished up the turret as much as I could:
Next I had to glue the two part upper deck together. I placed it here on the lower hull to hopefully get it to dry right:
It didn't, but it was easy to glue down straight later on when I added the torsion bars and roadwheels:
Later on, when all was dry enough, I added the side fenders to the hull:
Now to get all the photo etch on this model....
I wasn't ready for that so I decided to start another model; this time a Soviet ZIS-5V with a wooden cab. It was a quick build, more or less; once the parts were properly cleaned. I started with the chassis and the cab. The front of the cab is just dry-fit on for ease of painting the interior later:
I then built up the bed of the truck:
I then added the nose of the truck to the front of the cab and dry-fit everything together to see how it's gonna look:
After all that, I had done the decaling on the F-15 and when I stopped the plane; I figured I'd do some more decals on another model. I applied the decals to my Sherman with the minerollers:
Now to clearcoat this, dullcoat this; add the tracks, paint and weather it and I'll finally have this done!
And finally, I added a number of other details to the Russian carrier Baku and started the photo-etch parts. This has been a tough model to work on lately with all the tiny parts constantly breaking every time I try to move ahead on this. Anyway, I got a lot of additional parts on this; painted some details and started to paint other parts which aren't currently on this model. It might be hard to see in these pics. The island and 'cake stand' radar are both dry fit in place:
And that completes my latest week and a half of work on all these models. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.
