Mark Deliduka

Wow, I agree with Ron. Man, I wish my work would look that good!

Yeah, I was noticing a few things while I was building it. I saw the box labeled this as 1/72 scale, but like you said; it can be any scale you want it to be. I do have the little armored suit that came with this kit still to finish. I should get it done soon. Thanks for the reply Rob.

I agree about the turret Phil. I kept wondering where the main armament was when I first saw this thing. After building it, I can see where it is, but it just gets lost in all the other items. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you do with yours.

That was awesome! It is also refreshing to see a news report like this that makes us look good. Out here, whenever the news comes out about our events, they always add a disparaging tone to the story or vid. Well done; it looked like an excellent show and I do hope you get pics up soon. There were a large number of models I saw in that vid that I would love closer looks at. P.S. You look good Chris! Glad to put a face to the name.

Yes Will, I have. It's too round to hurt my foot so that won't help me find it. Thanks for the compliment on the hovertank. I'm happy with it.

Thanks Will! Yeah, when I first saw that kit, I thought the same thing about the weapons. They look like once that bird lifts off that they'd break right off and sit there. Thanks also for the compliment on the color scheme. I tried to find something that would look like it would blend in with the veldt

Stunning work Mark! I'm speechless. I can't find any adjectives that have the punch to describe my impression of this incredible Masterpiece!

Thanks Gil! It is definitely a unique little model for my collection.

Thanks for the great replies guys! I appreciate it. Ed, so far... nothing. I guess I still have to wait for the carpet monster to finish digesting it. Same with one of the wheels to my little 75mm pack howitzer. I had that one finished, but then lost the whole wheel assembly. Found one wheel and axle, so it still remains unfinished after being finished.

Thanks guys for the great compliments! Yes Chris, they came with the kit. I had just placed that sprue back in the box to keep it from getting lost and promptly lost the box! Later I found it under a couple other boxes that had fallen on top of it. That's when I was able to finish this up. Mark, I like this little thing too. I had gotten it because I knew it was unique and different from any other helicopters I have in my fleet. I just had to build this one.

Hey everyone, Here's my latest model to be done. I built this for a Helicopter Group Build on another Forums. This is Italeri's 1/72 scale A-109KM Agusta helicopter in South African markings. I finally found the weapon systems for this kit and got them installed. Now I can declare this finished: It ain't an award winner, but I sure like the looks of this little helicopter! Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

Hello everyone! I got this as a Secret Santa gift on another Forums. This is my SF3D M.A.K. Nutrocker Hovertank. I had it all completed and took these pics: Then, as I was arranging to take more pics of some finished models; several paint bottles, other bottles, tools and such decided to start an avalanche off my hobby desk. After replacing everything back on the desk, I found that the hovertank had mysteriously lost it's radar dish. Not the one that looks like a window frame; the other one. I searched for hours and couldn't find something that big! So I said 'screw it!' (or words to that effect) and scratched built a new radar dish. Here's how the new one looks: I don't know why this is so yellow in the second pics. I tried editing the pics to show how it really looks in real life. The first two pics show it the way it looks in person. Now this thing is finally done! Thanks all for looking in! This was an excellent and most unique gift! (And it is STILL in my scale!)

Just a small update this week. I spent most of the time trying to go over everything on my Dora to get the small detail things put on that I was waiting till last to do. Meanwhile, in between all that; I got some other progress done on several other models. First off, I'll start with a my two ACE armor models. On the OT-62, I found some drive sprockets from another OT-62 kit. They are slightly different than the ones I'd seen on the original sprues, but I'm tired of this thing fighting me and I used them anyway. They may not be the most accurate, but they fit, they are solidly glued on and they are staying: Later on at Hobby Day, I took a few hours to install the tracks to each side of this beast: While I was at it, I also installed the tracks on the Buratino as well. They went on easier than the smaller tracks of the OT-62: Now to get a camouflage pattern on that and the OT-62 and I'll finally be close to done. Speaking of being close to done, I painted up my two WC-360 locomotives and then clearcoated them for decals. What really bites is that although the kits come with decals, there's no indicator on the instruction sheet or color callout sheet showing where they are supposed to go! The box ain't any help; it shows completely different markings than anything on the decal sheet. I guess I'm gonna have to wing it again.... Anyway, this one is going to be for the Leopold gun once I find it and build it: This one will be my other stand-alone display model: And finally, I painted up my little SA Jeep with a basecoat and some other paint on select parts. Now all I have to do is build the guns for this and mount them; then I can camouflage it: The paint was still a bit wet when I took that pic. In aircraft, all I was able to do was finish up the final details on the A-109KM Agusta helicopter and then remove all the window masking. I also opened the main cabin door on one side: I was going to declare it done since I'd lost the box holding the weapons parts; but then I found it after all. Now the finished pics of that helicopter are in the Aircraft Forums. Feel free to check it out there. Meanwhile, thanks all for looking in; comments are welcome.

Excellent work Gil! Your pony certainly turned out far better than any of my cars. Way to go! My friend Jeff Hunter managed to get some recently. I don't remember where, but at least they are still available.

Thanks Eric! I got it.

Thanks Rob!

Well, it's the day after Hobby Day and I got a lot done yesterday and today so I have more to "overwhelm" you with. Most of what I did at Hobby Day was to build some simple and easy kits to kind of "cleanse the system" so to speak. Today, I shot paint and clearcoat on anything that needed it and was ready for it. Let's start with my aircraft since that is what I got most of my progress done on. At Hobby Day, I started an ancient Airfix kit, the 1/72 scale HS 165 Dominie. This aircraft is used by the RAF for navigation training. It was also an early post-war airliner both here and in Britain, so of anyone knows of some aftermarket airliner decals in 1/72 scale, I'd be happy to put them on this plane. Here is where I was after a couple hours: Now, my IPMS club in Orange County has decided to do a Group Build of 1/72 scale P-51 Mustangs and at least seven of us so far are building Mustangs to send to the Nationals for the Collections/Group Builds category. While the Domninie was drying, I pulled out my three P-51 Mustangs that I'd been working on and got them all assembled almost to the same stage. Here they are, all ready for paint: Later on at home today, I shot paint on all three of these for the basecoat. You can see that two of them are still wet in places: While painting, I shot some gloss white on the little Cessna 172 floatplane as well. I do have to reshoot the floats since they got messed up, but other wise this bird is ready for the decals. I'm thinking I'm going to apply then before adding the floats: And finally, I shot another basecoat on to the Valiant. It ain't the best, but it's gonna have to do. I start the camouflage pattern next: Now for my Armor.... Going back to Hobby Day, I only worked on a couple of armor models; both of which were fast and easy to assemble. One of them even got painted at Hobby Day! The first one I started was the new Dragon 1/72 scale SAS Jeep that I recently picked up. I got the whole thing assembled, but kept the body disconnected from the chassis for easy painting later: The next one I started was another on of ACE's 1/72 scale 75mm pack howitzer. This one I made for my Marines. I got it assembled and ready for paint inside of 20 minutes. Later when it had dried for a few hours, I painted it up: My apologies for the slightly blurry pic; this is so small my camera can barely see it! All that's left for this one is to weather it. Today, when I was painting up my aircraft, I also got a few of my armor models coated. This first one is the TOS-1 Buratino that finally got the basecoat of green. Next up is the camouflage pattern: After that, I shot the grey basecoat on the two WC-360 Locomotives that I'd had ready for paint. Next up is to detail those and get them finished: Finally, I figured that my Nutrocker hovertank had languished enough. I painted up the details on this beastie and then shot a coat of Future glosscoat over it in preparation for a wash and decals: And just for fun, I even tipped it over and gave it a drybrush of silver to highlight the bottom that you'll never see: Well, that's all I got done so far this weekend. Maybe I'll get some more progress done on some of these tomorrow. Meanwhile, thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome!

Same here, just got the same blank screen with the address in the address bar: http://shopsite.easycgi.com/ss11.2/sc/order.cgi It's amazing how something like online registration that is supposed to make things so easy ends up making this twice as hard as it should be!

I have tried registering for the Nationals and once again, every time I click on "Checkout" I get nothing but a blank screen. This whole shopping cart system needs complete overhaul or replacement! I've tried clearing the history and the Cache and still nothing but a blank screen. I get nothing but this line in the address bar of my browser: http://shopsite.easycgi.com/ss11.2/sc/order.cgi Only THERE'S NO ORDER! It's amazing how something like online registration that is supposed to make things so easy ends up making this twice as hard as it should be!

I've been following this with interest. I would love to get an England in 1/700 scale. If you are still considering the camo pattern on this ship, I'd recommend getting some masks from Gators Masks. He's at gatorsmasks.com He has a complete set to paint both sides of the ship. Keep pluggin' along man, you're doing awesome!

LOL! Thanks Chris! I feel like I should take a bow! Yeah, forty years, mostly because it took me all that time to simply find the decals! Stay tuned for more, I have some additional progress to show...

That is sweet! I love helicopters and I do hope that they shrink this and their Merlin down to 1/72 scale. I would love to have them in my collection.

This is great! I built that one some years back as well. Thanks for the memories!

Awesome! Love the '40 Ford! I have two Tom Daniel's car conversions done; I didn't post them since I wasn't sure they fit the "commercial" criteria. Maybe I should reconsider in light of this post...

Sweet! Those rock Gil! Man, I'm still trying to get such a clean white coat. You've given me incentive to keep trying; your white coats are such a joy to look at!