Mark Deliduka

Mark, that would be awesome. Maybe we can start a Small Scale Group Build to give you incentive. I'd love to see that finished. Do you have a pic of the boxart?

I had heard of a guy that used magnets to suspend a couple aircraft over a base. He set them up so they would repel each other. He set four of them in the base and one in the model so that when he placed the model over the center area above the four, they all repelled each other equally, allowing the plane to sit above the base. Most ingenious I thought. I need to try that someday myself.

I haven't any decent photos of my B-52H anymore; I'll have to take some if I can clear a tabletop big enough. However, if you'd like to see the AC-130U built up, this is how it looks: I hope this helps a little. despite what the rivet counters may say, I think it looks like an AC-130 gunship. I'm certainly happy with it.

Thanks Von! I appreciate it. Thanks Dave! Glad to see you back on these boards. I'm looking forward to seeing that '32 Ford coupe. Stay tuned for more, hopefully in the next week or so.

Awesome Mark. I do hope you can get it tweaked in place though. Thanks for the compliment. Now to get a little more done.

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like them. I got some trucks working now to follow the bug.

Beautiful job Ron! I also built one of these and really enjoyed it. Keep them coming!

Thanks Mark! It was a simple Heller kit, but a fun diversion to some of the more difficult ones (*cough*armored train!*cough*)

Beautiful job Chris! Spectacular! And in my favorite scale too!

Dave you have been sorely missed! Glad to see you back!

Thanks Greg! Lately, this 'machine' has been needing a little oil....

What a gorgeous smile! She did awesome on that model too. Please pass on my kudos for a job very well done. It's nice to see more kids into model building, hopefully they'll always come back to the hobby.

Thanks Gil. I'm glad that YOV-10 is finally done. It fought me the whole time I was working on it. The decals also took some serious convincing to lay down! I'm actually surprised it looks as good as it does. She's no award winner, but she does look good!

This week I was able to finish two more aircraft. This first one is a simple 1/72 scale Heller Hawker Tempest. It's a basic kit that I did out of the box and painted in standard British camo pattern. This next one is an ancient 1/72 scale MPC kit of the YOV-10 Bronco, a COIN aircraft used in Vietnam. According to the instructions, I painted it wrong and made it totally inaccurate. Oh well. It's mine, and I built it to look good. Here it is after being delivered to my US Marines: Well, there are my latest aircraft models. I have several more that I have almost ready to complete. Stay tuned for more. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

Okay people, here's my latest update. I'll start with my armor. I got the three dump trucks painted up. All that's left is to add the windshields and clearcoat for decals: Also, on the Small Scale Group Build on the Modelers Alliance Forums, I have sprayed on the green basecoat for the latest Bradley: Now all I need to do is camouflage this and then get a clearcoat on it for decals. Next I'll show my aircraft. This is my Areo Subaru. I got the nose on and added some filler for the small seam I had to fill. The windows and windscreen are already masked in preparation for paint. Here is my British C-130 with the basecoat on it: This is my Buccaneer all ready for decals. The next pic you see of this will be completed. And lastly, as we head out to my shipyards, you'll see that the USS Virginia is ready for me to put the P/E parts on. Then I'll be able to paint her up and finish her: That is all my latest progress. I may even have a few of these completed by Easter. That would be nice. I need the space in my Hobby Room! That's all for now. Thanks for looking in and as always, comments are welcome.

Mark, I don't see any issues with that model. It is a stunning display of quality workmanship! Way to go guy. Keep them coming!

Thanks Guys! I appreciate the compliments very much. I hope to have more progress done on all these. Bob, the Herc is 1/72 scale and yes the wings on the model were drooping only because I had not actually cemented them in. In actuality, the Herc's wings are level (except in flight when they flexed upwards) After having glued the wings in; I found them with a distinct upward sweep and needed to bring them down. It worked a little, it is not so pronounced, but is still there. And no, there was no reinforcement of brass rod needed. This is a well-molded model that holds up well. I have two Herc's in progress. One is a US Air Force bird that I lost the decals to some time back and has been languishing on the bench until I could find or replace them. This one has decals for multiple versions from different countries, so I'm planning on using the US Air Force decals from this one on my first Herc and then making this one a British bird. Both will be decaled at the same time, and hopefully finished then too. Stay tuned!

Well, it was a good weekend production-wise. I got some progress done on three aircraft. I also started four new armor models while finishing two others to bring my total up to 561 armor models finished. The first aircraft I got progress done on was the British C-130 which was basically masked off in preparation for the basecoat. No pics of that; there really ain't much to see. On the other hand, I got the Buccaneer masked, painted and then camo'd. Here are those pics... Base coat: Camo pattern: Next, I went to put the decals on my Bronco and once again, the main landing gear broke for the fourteenth time! That's it! I placed this little pain upside down and proceeded to cut a few pieces of copper wire. I threaded and wrapped them around and then placed them beside the landing gear parts and CA glued them all together. Here is how they look now: I'll paint silver over these and call them done. They'll look like crap, but by God they'll hold this plane up without breaking again!! Here it is standing on it's new legs waiting for decals: Now for my armor progress. This first one is another Bradley I found in my stash recently and so I decided to build it for a small scale Group Build on another Forum. Here is my progress on the first day of work on this. I started with the lower hull and suspension. Got all the roadwheels on and the rear end on: Next, I assembled the turret, all except for the main gun. I don't want to snap it during handling: Finally, I assembled the upper hull, and the side skirts separately which I left on the sprues. here is a shot of the three sub-assemblies all test-fit together. This Bradley is ready for it's basecoat: When I went looking through the stash lately, I found that I had three Hasegawa 1/72 scale GMC CCKW dump trucks. What the hey, I thought, I'll build them all. Two hours later, here they all are, ready for the first basecoat of paint: That's all I have for now. Feel free to check out the two newest armor models I've got posted as well. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

The count moves up. Here are two more armor models I have finished this week. This first one is the Military Wheels 1/72 scale German Afrika Korps Volkswagen that I finished yesterday. This model is a little over 1 inch long: This next one is my RevellAG 1/72 scale German Leopard bridgelayer all completed finally: That's all my armor for now. Got more coming down the pike so stay tuned. Meanwhile, thanks all for looking and comments are welcome.

I like it. You've done outstanding on that assembly. Can't wait to see it in paint.

Fantastic progress Mark. Time for me to get going on a few more.

Yeah, I'm familiar with Black Widow. On another of my Forums I frequent; one of the guys crewed her. he's done many a diorama showing some of the experiences he had on her. If I could get enough spare parts and the gumption, I'd try to build a Vietnam-era gun truck from one of my 1/72 scale trucks.

Good looking boys Lee, and I commend you on helping them through their situation with modeling. I do hope you get the books; they are some deserving boys. That being said; I haven't had any of those books myself. For decades I just plugged along, learning real slow and building everything the same until I was able to join a club and go online. Then my models dramatically improved. Before that, I never even knew books like those existed.

Thanks Gil! That must have been awesome seeing those Hunters flying! Way to go!

Thanks Rodolfo! That Zepp has been giving me fits, but soon I hope to have it finished. Thanks for the compliments on my Bradleys. I'm glad I finally got them all done. Now I have six of them on the shelf (I'd built a RevellAG one several years back) Stay tuned for more!