Mark Deliduka

I've also used it for masking things when I spray paint; like landing gear and other things that tape has a hard time getting around. It fits and holds better than paper towels or tissue too.

Well, I managed to get back to the bench again a couple times this week. Here is the latest progress I got done during the few hours I had to 'play' in my hobby room. Some of these, about six, are approaching the finish line. That means they are ready for clearcoat, wash and decals. These are the Staghound, CH-53 Helicopter (both shown earlier) the two halftracks, the field gun and the destroyer. Today I'll be posting my progress on my most recent works. Here is one I did a little work on. Barely anything when compared to the rest of the models I've been doing. Still, it is looking pretty good and I wanted people's opinions on it. This is the interior of my Br-52 Cab. I did a little weathering and detail painting in it, trying to give it more depth and make the wooden floor look a little like the paint has been scuffed off. I still have to paint a few more details like the gauge faces and some other things, but let me know what you think: Now on to some of the models that are ready for clearcoat,wash and/or decals. This is my ACE 1/72 scale German leFH 18/40 light field howitzer: Next are two more German vehicles, both Dragon Sdkfz 251's in 1/72 scale: Sdkfz 251D with Pak 36: Now my Sdkfz 251D: Now over in my shipyards, I have finally added all the bits and bobs to my Arleigh Burke-class destroyer that I hadn't had on before. Now she is finally ready for a clearcoat and decals: And finally, my latest on the two aircraft I'm building. Here is the Testor's 1/72 scale C-130 aircraft with the main cockpit windows in place and the wheels on, and the engine nacelles in place. Everything is sanded down and once I put the landing gear doors on, I'll be able to shoot paint on this plane: And finally, the 1/72 scale Italeri C-47 Dakota is now painted with the basecoat of Olive Drab over grey. Don't worry, I have liquid mask on all the windows: You can see that parts of her are a little wet. Oh well. After she dries, I'll paint the details, add a few bits and bobs, then clearcoat and decal her. After all this, I may be posting some finished models in their appropriate Forums! As always, thanks all for looking, comments are welcome.

Make it Shermans. Between me and Jim Wechsler, We'll fuill at least two tables. Then you'll need at least three more for everyone else! I agree. I would love to bring another 150 models to display instead of entering them. Either way, we'll see.

For me. I won't use it unless it is included in the kit as Dragon tends to do. I will only use it if it is gifted to me. I won't buy an extra set for a model; with my limited income, I like to save that money for actual models. Even when it is included, I will still be selective in using it; I won't use the smallest parts no matter how good they may make my model look!

Once again, another Mark says Hello and Welcome! Looking forward to seeing your work.

Welcome Mark from another Mark! (Who let the dogs out? Awful lot of barking around here!) Looking forward to seeing more from you.

Thanks Jonathon. I'm having fun with that Herc. Ed, thanks. The C-47 is actually molded in a very dark green plastic. And yes, I painted the interior with a green zinc chromate. I was actually going to make it a US aircraft, one that was used on D-Day even. Now that I got my decals in from Sprue Brothers, I'll be able to do that. I do have a couple more DC-3/C-47's in the stash, one just might end up a Lend Lease aircraft. Thanks again for the great comments guys! Keep them coming.

Thanks Gil!!

You should hear something soon. I had lost an entire set of return rollers on a Jagdpanzer IV I was building. I E-mailed them and got the parts two days before the confirmation E-mail. Very quick.

Yes Ed, the DS figures have the same properties as vinyl, but are designed to be glued and painted with 'regular' model glue and paints. I have used Testor's Orange Tube glue on these before and have had no problems. It holds perfectly. Also, my Testor's enamels went on fine over the DS plastic. I hope this helps.

Here's my weekend update now. These are the things I got done yesterday and today. I'll start with my Aircraft and helicopters. My CH-53 is now ready for decals. The main rotors are only dry fit on. I'll leave them that way. Makes it easier to transport back and forth to shows. All that's left after decals is adding the final bits and bobs. This one is nearing completion. Next, My C-47 transport is up on it's main landing gear and the engines are on and complete. I'll be fixing a few seams on this later. I'll be taking my time on this until I get some decals. I am quite impressed with how my engines turned out though, if I do say so myself: Now my C-130 Hercules has been fully assembled, wings and tail: The blue tape is where the missing door goes once I find it. Wheels and engines will most likely be next, and then paint. Now to my shipyards. Only one ship got worked on in my shipyards this weekend. The Richelieu is almost done. Just needs weapons and a few last bits and bobs: The superstructure is dry fit on. I got the lower hull taped off for painting. In my armor, I got the Sdkfz 251 with Pak 36 all assembled, the gun painted, and the whole thing ready for camouflage: While working on the one above, I found another Sdkfz 251D APC in the stash. I figured I'm already building the one, why not this one? So here it is: The top of this one is only dry fit; there's still some detail that need to be painted inside. Here is the two halftracks together: Oh, remember the ACE artillery piece I mentioned before? Well, I finally have enough assembled to show something. This is the German leFH 18/40: That is about all I have finished for this weekend. I'll keep you posted on further progress. Meanwhile, thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

I think the OH-13 Sioux's are still around, even if they are OOP. I built four of them so far. I may even have one or two still in the stash. Italeri did the early Kiowa's and I think I have built both the OH-58D and the AH-58D. I missed the OH-58A. Italeri also does the OH-6A and -D in 1/72 scale with parts for the MD-500. The Monogram is the only AH1G on the market in that scale. I believe it came in a kit of two because I have two sitting on my shelf. Colonel I have all these built excpt the OH-58A so I hope I've been able to help. I can post pics if you'd like.

Welcome John. I look forward to seeing your work. I also thank you for your service in the 'Nam.

A small update showing some of the work I got done today. I'll start with my Armor, which was the bulk of the work I got done. The Staghound was completed, and finally painted with the preliminary camo pattern. I just need to do a little touch up: The sand color, for some inexplicable reason, is gloss. That will be taken care of later with the flatcoat. After some touchups, I'll add the tools and jerrycans. Next, my Sdkfz 251 with Pak 36 is pretty well completed. Unfortunately the gun does not elevate or traverse. Dragon got lazy this time. Oh well, it is looking pretty good with the P/E shield: Again, the top hull is just dry fit on. I'll cement it down when I get a little more done on it. Next I did a little painting on my Lokomotive. It ain't much but it was tough getting into all the inside surfaces underneath the main boiler. I also put the basecoat color inside then cab. Just have to detail it later: On my aircraft, all I did was add more detail and paint to the C-130 cockpit and added the main landing gear wells to the inside of the fuselage. I also cemented all the doors in before closing the main fuselage up. Wouldn't you know it, just my luck. One of the doors is missing for the cockpit access so I have to wait to close this one up. No pics of the C-130, but I did shoot one of the C-47. I got the fuselage assembled and the wings and tail surfaces glued on. Next is the engines and landing gear: In my shipyards, I got a little progress made on my Charles de Gaulle carrier. I painted the lifeboat pods and added the dark strip on the flight deck . Next I have to detail out the white edges on this before I can clearcoat the flight deck and decal it: The Arleigh Burke class destroyer is ready for decals now: The white on the flight deck is hand painted. Too much hassle trying to get the decal to fit right. Looks like this one will be the USS Porter. That's about all for now. I may get more done on the weekend, it depends. I'll post more pics when I do. Meanwhile, thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

Webshots is the same way. Loads of space too, far more than photobucket. But if you don't have that many pics to upload then Photobucket is perfect. I like how Webshots doesn't limit the size of the photos either. That helped alot when I took all those large pics of my complete 1/72 scale armor collection.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I'm sorry. It was a busy weekend and the wife was home too. I'll try to pick up the pace here a bit more.....

Oh man, I want one! Jack, your son is an awesome modeler! You have every right to be proud. Way to go!

Just a small update on some of the things I got done over the weekend. Most of what I got done was little stuff. For instance, I painted a little on the interior of the C-130 cockpit and glued all the windows in the fuselage. I also sanded some seams and joints on the island of the Jeanne d'Arc, and generally did other small work on the halftrack and the artillery piece and the battleship that wasn't worth photographing. Now I'm going to show the noticeable progress done on some models and also show the two new projects I started. First off, the progress on the current builds. I finished off the detail parts on the Staghound hull, and got halfway finished with the turret: Next I finished the interior of my Sdkfz 251 halftrack and finished adding all the detail parts on the upper hull as well: Here it is with the top hull dry-fit on: Next, I installed the main canopy on the CH-53 and painted the camouflage pattern: Time to get the last parts installed on that and get the main rotors built. Finally, I got some more paint on the Charles De Gaulle. The decks and the flight deck are painted now, along with the lower hull: I'll be touching this one up a bit before adding the final detail parts. I'll be using some pinstriping for the boot stripe. The island is still just dry fit. I'll glue that down near the end of this build. Now for the two new projects; one big, one small. The small one is a gift I got from Tim Herriman, who won it in a raffle and passed it on to me. This is the 1/72 scale Zlin 142C aircraft that I started: Tough little build. There's no indicator slots and tabs to align things right. It's all got to be done by sight. Cool little plane though. I'll be doing it in Canadian markings. This next one is another gift I got from a former IPMS club member. It had no box, no instructions and no decals at first, then he found the instructions and gave them to me. I figured it was time to build this before the bag broke and pieces got lost. This is the Italeri 1/72 scale C-47 transport. This is the cockpit and interior: I then assembled the wings: Here is the main fuselage all assembled now. I also glued the two halves of both tail surfaces together: That's about all I got done this weekend. Yeah, it ain't much, but I'm slowly but surely getting through. I'll post more when I can get more done. Thanks for looking, comments are welcome.

:smiley17: Wow, thank guys! This is really inspirational seeing all these great posts! Man, I can't wait to get back to the bench now! Mike, I'm glad you're back to post again. I hope you stay.

I know it's been awhile, so in the spirit of increasing participation in this Forum, here are some pics of some of the work I got done between jobs all last week. I'll start with my Staghound and the Br-52 Lokomotive. I took these to Hobby Day again where I was able to work on them for about five straight hours. The result is that the lower hull of the Staghound is finished. All it needs are the wheels and then I can start on the turret: On the Lokomotive, I finished the coal tender and also got about a third done on the engine itself. I did complete the interior of the cab. Here it is: And the cab interior: That is about all the progress on my armor so far. I did start another ACE gun, but didn't get far enough to justify pics. And now on to my Shipyards. I have made a small amount of progress on my two French ships. The Charles de Gaulle has finally got a smooth enough join on the lower sponsons that run the length of the ship on both sides. I kept finding seams and imperfections for awhile. Now, after four attempts, and three coats of Mr. Surfacer, I am finally satisfied with the way the hull looks now: Here it is with the island dry fit to the upper deck. You can see that I did a preliminary painting of the windows. Gotta touch them up next: Now on the Richelieu, I installed all the deck fixtures. The only things missing are the stacks of life rafts and the weapons. Next up is the superstructure: Next I figured since I was building two French ships, why not three? This is Heller's Jeanne D'Arc helicopter carrier. It is a it bigger in scale than I like, but what the hey..... The main deck and superstructure are dry fit on the hull. You can see there's quite a bit of fit issues on this kit. Typical Heller.... That's all I got going on in the shipyards so far. Now on to my Aircraft.... Only one in the works right now. It is the Testor's C-130 H model that I got as a gift from a friend. I'm finally getting it done so I can clear out another large box. I have a few more aircraft I plan on starting along side this one; I'll post pics of them when I get started. Here is the cockpit assembled so far. Just need to paint it: Next I went and assembled the wings and tail surfaces. Gets that out of the way quick: I should make short work of this one soon. I'm looking forward to having it hanging on my ceiling. Well, that's another edition of Maddog Manufacturing's production report. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks all for looking and comments are welcome.

Awesome! Thanks for the update Pyrman. Hopefully I'll be able to get more now.

Looking good! Good to see you beat this beast into submission! That looks good enough to crawl into.

Beautiful! extremely impressive. I wonder if they still had these during the re-unification? I'd like to build one in West German markings....

Thank Pyrman for letting me know what part A-32 is. I appreciate it.

Right now, I'm working on an RPM Staghound in 1/72 scale, a Trumpeter Br-52 Lokomotive in 1/72 scale (2) Dragon SdKfz 251 D's in 1/72 scale. One will have a Pak 36 mounted on it and the other is a straight APC. I also started two more 1/72 scale ACE guns and three ACE BRDM variants in 1/72 scale: one an anti-aircraft version, the other two anti-tank versions for my Iraqi Army.