Maddog Manufacturing Now Open.

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks Bucky! I hope you like what I finished.

Stay tuned, more to come.

[JCON]

More nice work... you should fine that super huge person that sat on that bus seat and bent the frame... lol!!!

[BUCKY]

Nov 19, 2017 9:20:14 GMT -6 Dukemaddog said:

Thanks Bucky! I hope you like what I finished.

Stay tuned, more to come.

I absolutely do like what you finished! And, what you're working on, presently, too!!

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks Bucky and Joe. Your comments are most appreciated.

[JED]

Great work going on Duke and an awfull lot of it 👍

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks Jed! I appreciate the compliments. Yeah, there's too much work!

[mike]

Maddog Manufacturing is very impressive!   Excellent work goes on there!   I am thinking of starting my own manufacturing company too.   I have about a dozen cars in the works now!   I think that is enough to start.   I will be working on cars, so your work on ships, aircraft, and tanks will have no competition.   Both of our companies should do well!   As I was reading this thread, I saw you and Joe talking about the Antelope Valley.   I also grew up in Lancaster!   Joe and I graduated from Antelope Valley High School together!   

[JCON]

Sounds cool Mike, you will need to come up with a name for your plant and start a new thread here telling about your manufacturing business like Mark did!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Thank you Mike, I've been running this Manufacturing for many years and have many models finished to show for it. I am thrilled to have you building on the lot next door; I expressed my gratitude for the company in your Blue Fish Thread.

Antelope Valley has an IPMS model club that hosts a contest every year in late October/early November that I try to attend every year. I missed the last few, most recently due to a job call. My sister used to live in Rosamond so I have been up that way a number of times. You probably don't live close enough; but if you did, it would be great to meet you in person at an Antelope Valley contest.

Now, let's get your factories going; and feel free to check on here too; more is coming. And if you ever need any additional staff due to vacations or sick leaves, feel free to borrow some of mine!

[JCON]

Very cordial invite and offer there Mark... as to the AV show Mike lives clear up by Salt Lake Utah and I am almost on the Canadian border in NE Washington State... but I do have relatives in Lancaster and Rosamond that I could possibly stay with for a visit to the show... hummmmm...

[JED]

So whet does Misdoula Montana stand in relation to these places?

[JCON]

Missoula Montana is about 280 miles due east of me, Ski and Fightnjoe... about 454 Kilometers...

[JED]

Gulp!! Not that I havnt driven those distances before it's a bit out of the question I think during the visit for my daughters wedding next year 😳😳

[JCON]

Yeah its a bit of a stretch!!!

[mike]

Thank you Mark!   I would like to meet you too!   It would also be fun to attend the Antelope Valley contest, maybe even enter a few cars.   As Joe said, I live in northern Utah.  It may be a while before I get there.   I will have fun building and sharing my cars here!

[Dukemaddog]

Yeah, I figured you'd be quite far away Mike. That's cool. There's always the Phoenix Nationals if you are able to go. Joe, I already knew where you lived from back in the old LEM days. Woodbeck and I were discussing a possible road trip to come attend a Steven's County model build night back in the day. Alas, it never came about.

Joe, I'll try to give you a heads up next year so you can possibly fit it into your travel plans.

[JCON]

Sounds good Mark!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Well, the last week or so, I've been getting a few small things done here and there. I feel like I'm swimming up through a strong current; I may have done a lot, but I don't really feel I got anywhere! I did find some time to airbrush, but otherwise, it's been small things here and there. You be the judge....


I'll start again with the aircraft.

I shot the yellow and Olive Drab on the P-51 after masking it all up. Here's the result:



Later I also dullcoated the P-40 after the decals dried:





I should be able to finish that one soon.....

Next up I shot the camouflage grey on the bottom of the F-102:



Later on I masked that back off to finish painting the camouflage pattern on the top. I had forgotten a whole couple sections of OD. Here it is with the Silly Putty and the new paint:



This is the result after I removed the Silly Putty. There were a few places that needed some touchup here:





Later on I touched up those areas....



.... so I could gloss this for decals. Here she is ready for decals:



While that was drying, I masked off the helicopter windscreen for paint:



Moving right along....

Recognize this?



That is the Swedish Lannsen all masked so I could paint the underside:



That was the before shot... this is the after shot:



Now all I need to do is remove that mask and then I can gloss this and decal it.



Moving on, I found my HMS Daring, a Type 42 Destroyer that I had started some time ago. I got the hull color on the hull and superstructure:





Now to find the deck color and get it painted on the decks....




Now for my armor....


I started out with some base coats on a few of them. The Japanese Type 89 Early got a new coat of grey that was darker. This is going to be the final color. I may modulate it a bit, but I'm moving forward on this:





I then shot the tan basecoat on the T-90:





Later, when I had the Silly Putty out for the -102; I also added it to my Japanese Type 89 Late and my T-90. Here is the Type 89:





The T-90 got some as well:



Later I shot some Russian Green on the T-90:





Getting paint into all those nooks and crannies was a challenge indeed!

Later as I was looking around, I found a Trumpeter M-113 ACAV that I;d bought for a couple bucks. When I opened the box I remembered why: it had been started and comepleted except for tracks and guns! So, I figured since I have the airbrush fired up, I'd shoot this thing so I could finish it:

Here it is sporting a coat of OD:



Here's where you can see my fix of the builder's mistake. Another reason t was a couple bucks....



After that, I tried once again to tackle the tracks on the Schturmtiger. Here you can see that the CA glue was only partially successful, albeit very weak:



I couldn't get it to glue on the curved areas. The indie track parts were also barely attached:




I took a break from that for awhile and added some decals to this. I know they were mostly unmarked, but I just couldn't see not having some German crosses on this. I think they make it look more cool:





As mentioned before, I saw this stuff at Pegasus Hobbies and decided to buy it to try on the tracks for this beastie:



They told me at Pegasus that it is designed to hold the tires to the wheels on remote control cars. I thought if it worked for that kind of vinyl, it should work for the vinyl tracks on this kit since it appeared to be the same type of rubber/vinyl.

Here was my first test:

Bottom run re-glued:



Later I taped up the curved parts of the run; added the rest of the indie links and finally glued on the top run:



The next day after it dried overnight, I checked it. These tracks were solid:



Success! Now to do the other side....

Finally I decided to have some fun. I started the Berlin House; the first step was to build the interior stairwell:



Later I assembled the whole bottom floor: dry fit and taped down the second floor so the walls glued straight; and I added the second story stairwell that I had also built:



I'll keep the second story unattached so I can open this up and paint inside. For run I might even try to add some interior detail here and there some time in the future.

Okay that completes this session of what's on my workbench. Personally I can't wait to get some of these done. With Hobby Day coming up, I plan to decal a whole lotta models so I can run them over the finish line!

That's all for now. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[JCON]

Very cool painting, decaling and then that awesome success on the tracks followed by a building!!! Wow Mark!!! Way to go bro!!!

[BUCKY]

Excellent progress, Mark!! Great pics!