Mark Deliduka

Oh cool. I have quite a few, although I only have pics of a small fraction of the ships I've built.

I am especially upset at this as I finally was able to get some Floquill Oily Black to replace my Polly S Oily Black. Now they are going to dicontinue THAT! I'd better stop now before I type something that will get me banned.....

Thanks Bill. I do feel like I haven't been getting enough done. I'd love to be able to finish some of these and get them off the workbench. Thanks again for the great comments. Hopefully I'll be able to show some finished models soon.

Once again I've had a pretty good Hobby Day weekend, despite the fact that allergies hit me full force on Saturday. I was still able to get some good progress done, including a couple models I started this weekend. Let's start with armor and then take off from there. I started out the weekend by painting the camouflage pattern on the SAS Jeep. I also dry-brushed some metal on the guns. This little thing is now ready for final finishing; the next pics you see of this will be in a completed Thread: The next thing I worked on was my Opel Staff Bus. I did a preliminary painting of the interior. I didn't know what color they painted them , so I chose a light grey. Now that it's painted, I'll be trying to work on detailing this out more: Now this next thing is something a bit different, especially for me. My IPMS club is doing two group builds for two collections going to the Nationals. One is P-51 Mustangs, (several of which I'm building for that) and one is for TV and Movie cars. Since I had a Monkees car in the stash, I decided that it would be a great reason to get this car built. First I built the engine: Then I added the exhaust pipes underneath the Chassis: Simple work really. Next I assembled the dashboard: And finally, I built the seats inside the interior tub: Now to start shooting paint on this bad boy..... Okay, that completes the ground portion of this show, next is the air portion. All of these aircraft are new models I started. Some were started due to having boxes that were falling apart. Another one was a P-51 Red Tails model kit I found that I wanted to do for my club's IPMS Nationals Mustang collection. Okay, now to show you what I got done. On the P-51 model kit, I got the cockpit completed. Later I painted it, but didn't get the pics taken of the painted 'pit: The next kit I started was an ancient USAirfix Henschel scout plane kit. I got the engine assembled, the cockpit assembled and the fuselage closed up. Then I added the landing gear to this to allow it to sit better. Then I sanded the seams and added filler where it was needed: The third aircraft I started was an old A-Model kit of the Yak-28 heavy Interceptor. This is a tough model to build, it is a short run kit so it is like the ACE kit of aircraft. I built the cockpit, then installed it inside the fuselage, then assembled the nose cone (it was in two halves!) and added it to the fuselage. Then I added the tail to it. I filled the numerous seams and gaps with Mr. Surfacer 500: When dry, I sanded them down, re-filled them and sanded, re-filled them and sanded again. Then I added the canopy to the cockpit. Finally, I think I have this all filled and smooth enough to move on: Note: The wings are not assembled on this yet. I just snapped them into place to keep the fuselage from rolling over so I could take the pics. And finally, the fourth aircraft I started was an old Airfix CH-53G model that I'm going to put German markings on. I started, naturally, with the cockpit: Next I painted the cockpit and added the instrument panel decals: Here is the whole interior installed on one side of the fuselage: Then I realized, that this had pilots in the kit. I thought, 'what the hey...' and painted them, up and placed them in their seats: Here is the main fuselage all closed up with the main canopy installed. That way, I don't lose it! Okay, that's all that I have for this week, maybe I'll start getting some of these finished soon. Meanwhile, stay tuned and thanks for looking in; comments are welcome.

Is that the USS Alaska battlecruiser? What sc ale is it? I have a friend looking for a 1/350 scale Alaska battlecruiser.

Heller did do one; I built it about a decade ago. I remember it being a bit of a tough build. Raised panel lines and rivets too. Good looking model when done. However, it is in 1/72 scale. Not aware of a 1/48 scale one if they have it.

Looking great! Man, I don't envy you those seams! Good catch on the platform; cameras are awesome modeling tools.

Brilliant paint work! Man, I am amazed at how that turned out, especially for a 'quick build'.

Brilliant! Those look so awesome!

Man, I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully it won't be too long.

I like them! Especially the diorama. I do need to build a Libyan MiG 23; yours really looks great!

Beautiful! Chino always puts on a awesome show! Thanks for posting these.

Beautiful work Ron! You really do outstanding camouflage!

Love these, especially the K-mart missile package deal. I think I'll head down to my local K-mart today to pick one up! Awesome work Mark! Way to go, I can't wait to see some of these at the Nationals.

Thanks Chris. I have even more armor.

Thanks Gil! Yeah, ain't that a kick!

Thanks Mark! I do love all those MiGs as well. Thanks Gil. I'll try to remember that. Some of those models are 40+ years old!

Here's about two thirds of my Desert Warfare armor models that I currently have pics of: British Monty's Caravan used in North Africa: I'd put a complete interior inside that. British Humber Scout Car: British Long Range Desert Group: Iraqi T-72 "Saddam": Iraqi T-72 "Lion of Babylon": Iraqi T-55 Enigma: Iraqi BMP I: Iraqi T-55: Egyptian T-34/122mm Gun: Israeli Tiran 6: Israeli Tiran 5: Israeli T-62: Israeli T-55: Israeli M-60 A1: Israeli M-60 Blazer: Israeli M-48 A3: Israeli Centurion: Israeli Cromwell: Israeli Merkava I: Israeli Merkava II: Israeli Merkava III: Israeli BRDM I: Israeli BTR 152K: Israeli M-3 Halftrack: Aircraft and helicopters in other posts.

These are most of the helicopters I currently have for the Desert War Theme. All are in 1/72 scale There are a few more of them I need to take pics of. Iraqi Mi-24 Hind: Iranian AH-1 Cobra: Libyan Mi-24 Hind A: Israeli MD-500: Aircraft and armor are in other posts

Some of these are very old pics of some very old models so I apologize for the quality on some of them. Okay, lets start with my aircraft in this post. All of them are in 1/72 scale: Kuwaiti Hawker Hunter: Kawaiti Mirage F.1C: Kuwaiti A-4 Skyhawk: Iraqi MiG 27: Iraqi MiG 21PF: Iraqi Sukhoi Su 22: Iraqi MiG 21MF: Iranian F-14 Tomcat: Israeli F-4 Phantom II: Israeli F-15 C Eagle: Israeli A-4 Skyhawk: Israeli F-16 Fighting Falcon: Israeli MiG 21 MF: No, that is not a "what if" model. It was actually acquired when the Iraqi pilot defected to Israel bringing his MiG 21 to them. They even used it in combat during one of their wars. This was also my first Israeli aircraft I ever built. Moving along... Israeli Kfir C7: Egyptian MiG 17: Egyptian MiG 19: Egyptian F-16: Egyptian MiG 21: Jordanian Mirage F.1C: Syrian MiG 21: Saudi Arabian BAC Strikemaster: Saudi Arabian Tornado: Saudi Arabian F5B Tiger: Saudi Arabian F 15 Eagle: That's most of my aircraft. I have several more that I hadn't gotten pics of yet. My helicopters and armor are in other posts...

Ed, that thing ROCKS!! So awesome!

Well, it's been awhile again, and I finally have something to show. I have quite a few pics of work I did on four models. All these are armor models so without further ado, here they are.... First off, I started to paint the camouflage pattern on the OT-62 when I happened to notice that there were a few detail parts that still needed to be added to this. Here's some of the more obvious ones attached, with the paint scraped off where the others are supposed to go: Here it is with all the detail parts and some stretched sprue grab handles attached: I'm really beginning to hate grab handles...... After that, I went to work on the little SAS jeep. I painted the lower chassis and wheels with Floquill Oily Black, then dry-brushed some steel over it: That chassis is upside down by the way..... After that, there wasn't much else to do; so I decided to buckle down and finally get the tiny, delicate gun assemblies done. These were pretty tough to do given how small they were. Still, I got them assembled as best I could: There are nine parts in each one of those dual gun mounts. Later I painted the guns, I went to paint the remainder of the unpainted parts; but then I found out that I'd left the Jeep base color at home. Oh well, baby steps..... Next, I figured it was time to finally get some progress on the general Staff bus I started some time ago. I had built the basic chassis and the dashboard but that was as far as I went before putting this back aside. Now I have the lower chassis completed, except for the engine which won't be seen under the hood: Roden made this kit so the front wheels are positionable: They also turn or spin so this bus will potentially roll. Anyway, it was time to move on... I started to build some nice little furniture. Furniture for a bus? Yep! Now here are a couple shots showing the furniture all installed inside the bus, along with the radios, Enigma machine and even a typewriter! the floor is not quite cemented down to the chassis yet: Later on I'll do the windows and then build the body of the bus. I'm going to make this one grey just like the other one. Finally, I wanted to do something simple, so I pulled out my WC-360 locomotives and added the decals. There were no callouts showing where they were supposed to go, and the box art showed markings that were way different than the markings on the decal sheet. So, I just winged it: In another day or so, these engines will be finished. All I have left to do is weather them. Oh, the one with the red wheels is the stand-alone model; the one with the grey wheels will eventually be pulling my Leopold railgun once I find it and build it. That's all I got done so far. I do hope you all enjoyed the pleasant little tour of the manufacturing plant. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

Welcome Joe! Glad to see another So Cal modeler on these boards. Oh, and when you post pics of your models; they are supposed to be your models, not photos of a 1:1 scale restored museum piece! LOL! Awesome job on that Roland Joe! What incredible detail and realism! You are truly a Master Modeler Extraordinaire!

Yeah, I'm gonna need a lot of these myself....

Way to go Dennis! Looks like you nailed that camo pattern with the airbrush. Awesome!