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[dogfish7 (R.I.P.)]

WOW!!

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks guys for the great comments. Hopefully soon I'll swell the shelves with some more finished models!

Stay tuned, more to come!

[JEFF]

Even have a little House Raising in this update. Well done, Buddy.

[ARMORGUY]

Incredible how you manage to work on so much projects, you have my respect mate !

The building looks very nice.

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it.

[Dukemaddog]

A small update here. I'll start again with my aircraft.

I shot the bottom of the Dagger again since the camo grey got messed up. Now I can decal this bird:



I also did the decals on the USAF Jetstream. These were so old they kept curling, even with the application of decal solvent. I started with the demarcation lines. Here they looked okay before they started curling:



Then I did the wing walk lines. They did not go on straight, despite my best efforts. They kept sliding on the smooth wing surface when I tried to press them down. I didn't catch that mistake until too late:



I tried to loosen that one up to adjust it but it was too firmly attached. Oh well, it is an ancient 50+year-old kit....

Here's a couple shots of the decals after I got them all applied:





You can see the curling more effectively here. I'm gonna see what I can do about that later. If I can't do anything about it, oh well; it's an ancient 50+year-old kit.......

Another ancient kit that gave me some trouble with curling decals too was the Heller Saab J-32 Lannsen. These decals behaved a little better though once I brought down the boom:



Later I dullcoated this and then removed the masking. This just needs undercarriage and gear bay doors and she'll be done:





That's all for my aircraft, now for my latest on my armor.....


Since I was decaling, I decided to finally get the decals on my USAAF re-supply vehicles. All of the vehicles have most of the decals on them. Some simply disappeared from the bumpers after I applied them and hit them with solvent:











I also added the decals for the tiny Japanese Type 89 tank....



.....and later dullcoated it:



After the dullcoat dried, I dry-brushed this with a lighter grey:





This one is getting close. Just a little further to go.

Now it was time for some painting. I shot the black lines on the T-90, but forgot to take pics before I masked the black lines with more Silly Putty:



After that I shot more green to take care of the overspray. Now this is completely camouflaged:





I also started to modulate the color on the ACAV:



Until I got to the other side and saw that square of roughness. I decided that it was time to fix that. I sanded it down even more and then applied some Mr. Surfacer 500 to the spot:



Once that dries sufficiently, I'll sand it smooth and then re-paint that side.

Finally, I started the Hobby Boss Merkava IIID (LIC). The turret was the first thing to do. I assembled almost all of it here, leaving off a lot of the breakable detail bits:



Next was the upper hull. I added all of three pieces to this:



Here it is sitting all together on the lower hull to show how it looks:



Later on when I was painting, the next thing to happen was the basecoat of Green Drab on this Merkava:



Later when that was dry, I modulated the color with an over spray of Israeli Armor Sand Grey:






And that completes my small update so far. Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[BUCKY]

A very productive day, at the Maddog factory! Good job, Mark!

[JCON]

More super work Mark!!!

[JEFF]

Roll on, Dude. Roll on.

[JED]

So do you have more hours in a day than the rest of us folk!! 😃😃

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks guys! I appreciate it.

Jeff, I shall indeed.

Dec 12, 2017 14:06:25 GMT -6 JED said:

So do you have more hours in a day than the rest of us folk!! 😃😃

No, I have the same amount of time; I just try to pack in more work in each hour. I also get my usual eight hours of sleep. I have to since I work with power tools and want to keep all my fingers.

Stay tuned, more to come.

[JCON]

Stay Tuned for more... Same Bat channel, same Bat time!!!

[Dukemaddog]

Here's my most recent progress.

I got the landing gear on my P-40, at least the main gear. The tail wheel is missing. Then again, the whole sprue with the landing gear and doors is missing so I used the P=51 gear:



I have spare P*-51 gear to use on the P-51 so no big deal. I'm just tired of things like this sitting so close to being done and not being able to finish them! Maximum utilization of available resources!

Moving on, I also completed the assembly for the Berlin House. Now this is ready for paint:



Later on I'll add the window glass. I'm also going to add some sheet styrene behind the walls of the roof...



In my armor, I finally competed the tracks on the Schturmtiger. This beastie is ready for final weathering:





I also got the decals on the Russian T-90. Even though the instruction sheet shows no markings for this tank, I just feel that it is too naked without some kind of markings. So, I added this one to my Guards unit:





Finally, I got the decals on the Merkava IIID LIC as well:





Well, that is all I have for this small update. Enjoy!

Some of these have been completed too. Feel free to check them out in their respective Forums.

Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[JCON]

Good job Mark!!! Can't wait for the building to get color!!!

[BUCKY]

Nicely done on the flighty and crawly thingies! The building is looking sharp! Carry on, my friend!

[JEFF]

Outstanding, Mark.

[SteveM]

Your versatility is admirable fella! Love the variety

[Dukemaddog]

Thanks for the awesome replies guys! I do appreciate them.

[Dukemaddog]

Here it is at the end of the year and I've been trying to finish a few more models in 2017. Here is the progress I made on the last few models I worked on for this year.

First off, I added the tracks to the Japanese Type 89 early tank:



Here they are completed on the other side:



While I was working on Japanese tanks, I applied the second camouflage color to the Type 89 Late and then covered that color (once dry) with more Silly Putty. Then I shot the third color:





Later on I removed all the Silly Putty. This pattern came out better than I expected:






Moving on from that, I started to work on the body of the Ludwig Areo bus. I re-shot the cream color:





After applying the glosscoat, I tried to pinstripe this and failed pretty spectacularly:





Well, that seems to be the best I can do so it's staying that way. After that dried, I applied a wash to the grill to bring that out better:



Before that, as you can see above, I had painted the underside to get this ready for finishing:



As that was drying, I added the windows to the body and painted the luggage rack area:






And that completes my final progress for this year. Later on, I'll post those finished models I did complete, as well as my Year in Review. Stay tuned....

Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

[JCON]

Great work Mark!!!