Mark Deliduka

And now, part two; all the work I did at home. At home the day after Hobby Day, I was re-arranging my Hobby Room and found a few projects I'd almost forgotten about. One of them I pulled out to continue working on since it is for a "First Blood" Group Build on another Forums; it is my horse drawn machine gun wagon. Last time I was working on this; I lost one horse's tail. So, the first thing I did was to shoot a coat of grey over the wagon parts and set them aside to dry: I realized I used the wrong color grey on this. I need to shoot a new coat of the Panzer dark Grey, then use this grey to modularize the color. I'll get on that soon. Next, while the paint was drying on the wagon; I pondered what to do about the horse's missing tail. Then I found a piece of sprue that had a bent piece where the corner was at the end. So, I carved that down to a more slender piece at the bend and down the sprue a bit. I then dipped the carved section in some Tamiya Extra Thin cement for a minute or three until the surface was soft enough. Meanwhile, I found a Dremel bit that would work well at what I wanted to do. After pulling the softened plastic out of the glue; I ran the serrated edge of the bit down the softened part of the sprue to make wavy grooves. Here is a pic of the result with the glue, sprue and Dremel bit: A closer look at the new 'tail'. It's kind of hard to see given the white plastic, but I think it looks pretty good: Later I drilled a new 'arsehole' for the horse to make the tail fit more firmly: After adding the new tail, I did some preliminary painting of the horses; adding some detail and experimenting with their coats a bit. Here is a shot of the two horses; the one showing off his new tail: And for fun, here is a mock-up of the machine gun wagon and hitch with the two horses: This one is coming along well and will hopefully be finished soon. I did some more painting of the horses and have noticed a few shrink marks that need to be filled before I can do the final painting; but at least I have an idea of what to do now. And that concludes my update for this week. Thanks all for stopping in to check this out. Feel free to leave comments; they are always welcome.

Today I have a pretty long update to show, given how much little stuff I got done on so many models. I'll have to post it in two posts since these Forums don't allow more than 25 images per post. Alot of it is small stuff that didn't take long; but some of these things took a good effort to do. More on that later. Almost all of this was done at my monthly Hobby Day Friday this past week. I had brought in my compressor and airbrush to paint these things so I could hopefully get some finished! The last little bit was done at home; I'll post that in the second update post below. I'll start with my aircraft. I shot some more Alclad on my DC-6 so hopefully it looks good enough for me to try to apply the decals.... finally. No pics of that; it just looks exactly like the previous times I shot Alclad on it. In between all the armor I was working on; I started an Eduard kit of the L-39 jet aircraft. It's my first Eduard kit I've ever done; so this is an interesting project for me. I started with the cockpit, and could go no further until I painted the interior and added the instrument panel decals. Here is where I stopped on that: Then I added the air intakes to the sides of the fuselage (no pic of that) and then glued the two halves of the wing together: That's gonna take some work fixing that joint..... Okay, that's all I got done on my aircraft so far, so now on to my armor... Remember the car and the truck that I painted Gloss Black; then realized that I forgot the P/E parts? Well, I got the P/E added to each of them, then re-shot the paint on them both. Here they are with the P/E parts added to the sides of the hoods: I succeeded (for the most part) in re-painting the car as you can see here: But the truck's paint kept cracking and wrinkling every time I shot a new coat. It's now sitting in a bath of Easy Off Oven Cleaner to strip the paint to nothing so I can start over. So I moved along to another truck I had; the ZIS 5 that I started for another Softskins Group Build on the Missing Lynx Braille Scale Forums. I shot the coat of green on it and then added the windows inside before closing up the cab: Later, I remembered a friend on those very same boards telling me that the ZIS 5 never had that big clunky fender on the front and showed me a pic of it with a simple bar across the front of it. So, I cut off that big clunky fender; carved down the front pieces sticking out, and added a small styrene rod to the front of this model: Ah yes, much better! You can see she has also been shot with Future for her decals. Moving right along, I also shot a final coat of paint on the Traction Avant: Then later I shot the coat of Future over it in preparation for the decals: I also shot a coat of green on the little Tatra staff car: Later I added all the clear parts to it which were tougher than I expected they would be: You can see here that they still need to be adjusted. After that, she also got a coat of Future for the decals: Since I was shooting Future on everything; I also shot a coat over my British Warrior which had been waiting for it for awhile: Now if I can only find the instruction sheet for this, I can add the decals to it! Speaking of needing instruction sheets; I brought this bus to finish it off since it had been sitting for too long. I added the detail parts (which have since been painted) and I shot primer on the P/E rack so it would hold paint better: But when I went to read the instructions to find out where and how to apply the P/E, that part of the instruction sheets was missing........naturally....... So, moving on again, I brought out my Japanese three-ton truck and trailers and shot paint on them all so I could move on with them. I had to shoot inside the cab, as well as the bed of the truck. I then shot green on the two trailers. Here is the truck all dry-fit together: Here's the water tank all painted in it's basecoat of green: And the kitchen trailer all painted in it's basecoat of green: Here's a mock-up of how it's gonna look all together: Finally, at the Hobby Day, I pulled out the Br-86 train engine and added all the detail parts to the boiler. I also built up and added the cab to the boiler afterwards. Here it is dry-fit to the lower chassis: Check out some of the detail inside this cab. Most of it will be relatively hidden, but it is so cool: Later on, I cemented the parts of the coal bin together, and dry-fit that to the back of the cab and then to the lower chassis to see how it looks: And now for part two below...

Waddaya mean "you hope"? You've already took a Best of Show at one contest; you definitely have contenders for the Nationals! The closest thing I had to a contender was Dora and she fell flat on her barrel; figuratively speaking of course! You will surely place at the Nats in Hampton. I only wish I could be there to see it.

Welcome aboard Rich! I would have loved to see Telford, but it was not in the cards. I'd love to hear some of your stories from that event! Have fun and don't forget to post some pics of your models!

I love it Rob! Those are some great cars! The Bug kinda reminds me of the green one I used to drive to high school in. What memories!

I haven't had all that much time to find something in my stash. Then again, I have so many models in progress I really should get them done before I start something else.

Right on!

Thanks guys! Mark, I'm not sure I'll be doing a GTO Judge anytime soon. If I do anything 1960's right now, it would be a Mustang from '65 or '66, since that is my favorite car from that era. Sorry about that. I just never really got into the GTO's. Thanks Gil! I have several other automobiles in progress at the moment. Hopefully soon I'll be able to make more progress on them.

Here are some of mine I built, some of which aren't in my scale! I know I'm probably pushing things a little by posting some of these 'military' automobiles, but they were civilian automobiles that were used by the military, so they are still automobiles! Some of these are very old models, so I apologize for the quality of many of the pics. I didn't have a great quality camera back in the day. I'll start with this little WWI gem, a 1/72 scale Model T Ford scout car: And an ambulance version of the same car in 1/72 scale: Here is another 1/72 scale GAZ M-1 Russian Staff car made by ACE that I built: Here are two 1/72 scale versions of the infamous Kubelwagen from Germany, which was later the basis of the Volkswagen "Thing": I'd built these Kubelwagen when I was 13 or so... Speaking of Volkswagens, here is the ubiquitous Bug used by the Afrika Korps in WWII in 1/72 scale: Then there is this First 1/72 scale model of a civilian vehicle ever issued by any manufacturer way back in the day. It's a Mercedes Staff Car done my Hasegawa back in the 1970's: That Mercedes was built when I was 10. Not to be outdone; for the Allies, I have two so far. This first one is an Opel Cabriolet used by the Allies in WWII, then later used by civilians all the way into the 1970's: And finally, my last 1/72 scale automobile; the ACE 1941 Ford Staff car: Now on to my larger automobiles... Here are two of my Tom Daniel's cars in 1/24 scale, the Red baron and the Police Paddywagon: This is a 1923 Model T Ford I made and gave as a gift to the stage manager of our performance of "Ragtime". I built this about 7 years ago or so. She was thrilled. It is still proudly on display at their main offices: This is a commission build I did for someone about a decade or so ago. It is a 1/18 scale '31 Ford truck, built to look like the one his grandfather had: This next one is another commission build of a 1/24 scale '32 Ford pickup just like the one his father drove. I had to kitbash a '37 Ford pickup with a '32 Ford Highboy to get this truck: This next one was a commission build as well, but the client never picked it up so I still have it. It's a 1/24 scale Aston Martin DB-5 as driven by James Bond. It even came with figure of James Bond and Odd Job as part of the kit: Finally, my automotive Magnum Opus: This is the ancient 1/12th scale of the 1911 Christie Fire Truck I built a few years back: There are my automobiles that I have done so far. I do have more in the works. Surprised?

Awesome job! Way to go!

Outstanding! I would love to try and kitbash one of those in 1/72 scale, but finding all the weapons in that scale would make this almost impossible. Still, I'm going to copy some of these pics so I can give it a try anyway. Way to go Al! That is one incredible masterpiece!

I couldn't have said it better than Gil! Fantastic job!

I have another Hobby Shop to add to the list for Texas. It's in Greenville, Texas and is located at the following address: Greenville Hobby Depot 2610 Lee St. Greenville, Texas 75401 It is run by a good friend named Gerry Satterwaite and he also sells trains and supplies; Warhammer and other Games Workshop gaming supplies as well as models, paints and tools. He also does online orders as well. Here is is website: www.hobbydepot.biz I would appreciate the listing and map be updated with this new info. Also, I know of some changes to the Southern California list that I'll have to get updated. I'll post more later when I do. Thanks guys! I appreciate all you guys do to keep this organization going!

I have a couple of these! Yeah, they ain't all 1/72 scale, but they are vehicles that I like! My Thread coming soon!

Looking good. I'm really impressed with those heavy AA guns.

Thanks Gil! Sometimes I feel like it's two steps forward and three steps back! I'm still 'walking' though. Stay tuned for more.

More great stuff Frederico! I love it. Thanks again for all you do for this hobby.

LOL! Thanks Ed! Unfortunately, the treatment for this skin cancer ain't covered by Obamacare! LOL! Gonna take some work when I finally get around to this again. Thanks Chris, I appreciate you stopping in.

Thanks Chris! Yeah, I may get that plane done someday once I figure out how to keep that mess from spreading. While the locomotive looks complicated; it is pretty simple to build; of course, it's easier if I put the parts on right side up! Stay tuned for more; I may have some more progress to post later this week. I do have to do some touch-ups on Dora before the Antelope Valley contest so that I have a better chance of placing. After that, I'll get to work on some other stuff.

Congrats Chris! Definitely well deserved!

Awesome! I also built this kit; thanks for the great memories! You did brilliant! Yeah, Old School is the Best School in many cases!

Sweet! A naval shootout! I can't wait to see the results of the Great Naval Battle of Lake Charles!

Oh man, you are one lucky Sonufagun! I envy you your chance to experience a once-in-a-lifetime event. I'll never make it to England, so I shall live vicariously through your pics. Have fun!

Brilliant! His clothes in particular look like real cloth! Way to go! You gonna put him on a roof?

I'm loving this. Looking good so far. Speaking of "what if"; I myself picked up the Revell kit to do a "what if", only mine would look like I imagine it would if the Soviets had kept it after the war; developed it for their use and even added an angled deck to it (a la Kiev class). I'd then add Forgers and Helix's to it; and maybe even some Su-25's, Su-27's and -29s as 'test' aircraft in prep for the 'new' Tblisi/Kuznetsov class carriers. Now if I can only find that Revell kit in my stash...... Keep going Chris, I'll be watching this one with interest!