Mark Deliduka

Sweet! Here are my favs, all have been mentioned before. 1) Firefly 2) Babylon 5 3) Space 1999 And my Honorable Mention, for the cool ships in them: Buck Rogers back in the seventies. Loved the ships, and the space battles. HATED that stupid Twiki robot!!

Yes! Two more models off the bench and on the shelves! This time, I managed to finish the Italeri 1/72 scale CH 34 Choctaw for my US Marine Corps. It is not as good as I'd have liked it to be, but I am satisfied that it is finally finished. Here she is ready for delivery to my Marines: There are several issues with this one, but they would take too much time and effort to fix, far more than is justified for the results. I'm happy to be placing it on the shelf now. My second model is the old Heller De Havilland Vampire F.B.5. I already built one of these as the Mistral in French service, so it only seemed right to make a British one as well. Here it is, ready for delivery to my British Air Force; my 1/72 scale Heller De Havilland Vampire: That completes another set for now. I'll post more when I have more finished. If you haven't yet seen them, check out my finished Armor in the Armor Forums. Thanks all for looking, comments are welcome.

Good idea. I may have to try that too. Yeah, I have a couple 'cats that need alot more food too. I'd love to do a complete series of 'cat food'.

Thanks Papasmurf! Glad you like it. I am also pleased at the exhaust!

Thanks guys! I appreciate the comments. Yeah Gil, somehow the British always seemed to get multi-winged planes right, while really messing up the looks of their multi-engined planes. thanks for the great comment. Thanks Von! I used flat black on it first, then afterward I applied a coat of Humbrol Ancient Brass (Humbrol 171 Metallic) over it. Then I gave it a wash of black, and when it was dry, I applied a light drybrush of silver. I like how it turned out. Thanks again everyone for the great replies.

Sweet! I've always wanted to get a Libyan MiG 23 myself. Getting the kit ain't hard, it's the decals that are hard to find! Thanks for the tip on the backgrounds. I may have to try something like that.

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it. James, I just felt this plane needed it's aircrew. I agree it does add to the model. Sounds good Paul, I'll keep an eye on it. Dave, I enjoyed this one too. And I myself am still afraid of rigging! Thanks again guys!

Those are awesome Von! Man, I wish I could get good backgrounds like that for my pics!

Yep! This is my latest model completed. This is the ancient blister-packed kit of Airfix's British Hawker Demon biplane. I finally got it rigged today so I'm calling this one done. It is painted in Citadel Chainmail on the fuselage, and the doped wings were painted with Pollyscale Flat Aluminum. I rigged it with some very fine vinyl thread given me by one of my fellow IPMS Orange County members. I didn't weather it and I also used the original kit decals. They went on amazingly well without any tearing, thanks to the coat of Micro-Scale Liquid Decal Film I applied to them the previous day. Still, I need to put this in a window so the sun will bleach them out a bit more. Here are the pics. Thanks all for looking, comments are welcome.

I second the motion, all in favor say "Aye".

That's it! Time to pull out my copy of Wrath of Khan and watch it again! This is too much! I love this Thread and I hope it keeps going!

You are very welcome! I'm looking forward to seeing this one done.

Yeah, I agree, "Wrath of Khan" is the best of the ST movies I htink, followed by "The Voyage Home". Here's one vote for best Sci-Fi movie: "Serenity" Then again, I loved the TV series that spawned it. Okay, back to the bottle.......er, ummm workbench!

Thanks Papasmurf! Glad you like them. Yeah, that Foxhound is one of my favorites. Von_L, I have the same kits.....somewhere! I've been wanting to build them myself. If you want more of the better tires and they won't send them, see if you know anyone that can cast them in resin for you. That is what I did with one of my other kits. It also helped getting replacements for missing parts as well. Good luck Von_L, I hope to find my kits soon so I can get these built as well.

That's why the first "Blair Witch Project" was so successful too. My favorites include a TV series: Babylon 5 I think the episode in the 3rd Season entitled "Severed Dreams" was one of the best I'd ever seen. But this is about movies. OKay, let me see.... Oh darn, can't think of any right off the bat! I'll come back to this later.......

Okay cool. Here they are: This is my 1/72 scale MiG 21. I built it about 18 years ago: My Su-24 Fencer D in 1/72 scale: My Su-15 Flagon in 1/72 scale. This was a fast two day build: And my most recent Soviet fighter, the MiG 31 Foxhound in 1/72 scale: I have more, but I need to take better pics of them. They were taken with a poorer camera and therefore not very clear. Hopefully soon.... Thanks again Papasmurf! Later I'll post some Soviet aircraft in Mideast markings.

Thanks Papasmurf! I'm glad you like it. I have a ton more Soviet aircraft to post, but they are all fighters. I only have one more bomber so far to post but it isn't in good enough condition to post, so I'd better get going on those other ones! Thanks again for the compliments. If you'd like to see the fighters, let me know I'll be happy to post them.

My pleasure Comrade! I hope to have some pics of my own soon to add to this! Oh wait! I do have one to add. This is three views of the Tu-22 Blinder in Soviet markings: This model is the 1/72 scale one, same as the Iraqi one you posted. I painted it with Tamiya Silver spray bomb. The different colored panels were painted first with Citadel Boltgun Metal and the Tamiya Silver sprayed over it. It was an experiment. I hope you don't mind me posting this here on your Thread. I can remove it if you do.

Sweet! Thanks for posting your Works in Progress. As you said, it's "What you're working on" and the whole purpose was to get some discussion going. Glad to see you added your list. Thanks man! Can't wait to see your progress!

Hey Papa! Nice Red Birds! The Tu-22 and Tu-26 are both 1/72 scale. I have both of these hanging from my ceiling. I have another "Blinder" that I have in the stash that I'm going to make Iraqi also. I've been wanting the "Blackjack: for ages, and one day I'll build my Tu-16 and Tu-142 as well!! Thanks for posting. These are all gorgeous, and you've just motivated me to start on one of my Russian big bombers!

Paul, jump right in! Thanks for listing your Works in Progress! Thanks Keith! As for my pace, I'm waaaaaay under my production level of last year! I'll be lucky to have completed fifty models this year! Thanks Gil! Yeah, sometimes I do feel a bit stretched. That's when I pull out something simple like the biplane and Hurricane and just 'throw them together'. I do have sort of a system which, while I do build what I like and let the chips fall where they may, does include building as many subassemblies as I can until I get to a level where I need glue to dry or paint to be laid down. Then I'll move on to the next model. I'll bring everything to the decal stage and then decal everything all at once. Then I finish everything off at leisure til it meets my satisfaction. And yes, I do have fun! James, yes, these two are brush painted. I did thin the paint a little to try and get it to lay down better, but was marginally successful. I didn't airbrush these because , well.... I was lazy. These were simply a 'shake the cobwebs, burnout reducer' builds so I didn't utilize all the 'advanced' techniques. These were just models I 'threw together' for fun to push through the modelers block. I agree, I never mask my wheels either. The technique you described is what i do as well. It didn't work too well with the biplane, so I'm going to try the same thing in reverse using the silver on the hubs. Although, the paint callout does show them painted with alternate red/yellow stripes, but I'm not sure I want to mess around with that. You're right. Even though I did clearcoat with Future, the base paint coat is the culprit. When I airbrushed it on, it went on very 'powdery' for want of better word. Therefore the coat is a bit more rough than it should be. I didn't want to pile on too much Future because I didn't want runs or anything else, so I just went ahead and decaled it. I've already pinpricked them and applied a Micr-Sol solution to try to reduce the silvering as much as possible. And like you, I also airbrush Future over all my models before decaling. That's the best clearcoat ever! Do you mix Tamiya Flat Base in with your Future for flat and semi-gloss coats? I do. All my armor is finished with a Future/Flat Base mixture of 60/40 Future to Flat Base ratio. That reminds me; I gotta go pick up some more Future.... As for using decal solutions, I'll use -Set for difficult ones that refuse to lay down right. I'll use -Sol for ones that need to be laid down over surface detail, or ones that silver despite my efforts to eliminate silvering. I'll use Solvaset (the 'nuclear option') for those difficult ones that need to be brought down over deep detail or compound curves or both; or whenever the other two solutions don't work. Thanks for the advice on the photography. I have two lamps on my desk that give these the look of flash. I always turn it off because these two lights give plenty. Then there's my window with sunlight coming through too! Once I get my hobby room a bit more cleared of stash, I'll set up a better photo setup. I've copied your sggestions for use when that happens in the future. Thanks! Not at all! I thank you very much for the suggestions and tips and I do very much appreciate your posting them. Please, if any of my answers imply otherwise, don't read them that way because I do want to see suggestions like these; particularly when a) I ask for them, and B) they keep me motivated to try and improve. Every now and then, however, I'll do a 'quickie' which is meant to be fun and will dispense with the 'advanced' techniques just to clear the modeler's block. Essentially I'll build it like I did as a kid. The Hurricane and the Demon are two models that I did just that on, which is why they are hand brushed. Furthermore, asking questions like this help you to know where I am skill- and technique-wise so that you know more what questions and suggestions to offer. I appreciate that. As for your final question, the League of Extraordinary Modelers is an invitation only Forums that started up about four/five years ago. Our 'mascot' so to speak is a ring tailed Lemur, and we call ourselves LEMurs. We are a close-knit group of guys that have loads of fun, and specific rules for 'LEMur meets'. As for the 'extraordinary' part, that doesn't just apply to the model building aspects of each LEMur, it also describes us personally as persons as well, if that makes any sense to you. There are several other members of IPMS on these boards that are LEMurs as well. If you'd like to know more, our site is: www.the-LEM.com I've been a LEMur now for a good three years and I've thoroughly enjoyed the whole time! Thanks again to everyone for all the great comments!

I decided to help fill the boards a bit more by starting this Thread much like Jeff Herne did in Ships. These are all my 1/72 scale aircraft I have currently in progress. Not as many as Armor, but I'm getting there! This first pic is of my 1/72 scale Airfix "Aircraft of the Aces" series Hawker Hurricane flown by Squadron Leader R.R Stanford Tuck. I didn't quite make it fully accurate paint scheme-wise, but that's partially because I didn't have the color's called for in the instructions. I did my best though. I just need to apply a semi-gloss coat over this and then maybe I'll try to weather it before I take of the canopy mask. This next one is another 1/72 scale Airfix kit. This is an ancient model that is so old it was packaged in a blister pack! Since the pack was falling apart, I thought it was time to build it before I lost any parts. This is taken right after I applied the decals; and yes, they are the original decals! All I have left is to add the propeller, exhaust pipes, aircrew and rear machine gun and mount. Yes, I do still have all those parts too! Those are my two "quick builds" that I did to clear the cobwebs. Next I applied the decals to my Italeri 1/72 scale H-34 Choctaw helicopter: I just have to clear the tissue out, assemble the top rotors, and finish the final little details and this one will be called finished. Maybe one or two of these will be finished in another week or so. Hopefully..... I also have a 1/72 scale Vampire jet under construction, but there isn't enough done yet to justify pics. Aside from that, I haven't much else going on, except in Armor. Feel free to check out the Armor Forums for my "What I'm Working On" Thread over there. Meanwhile, thanks for looking and comments are welcome.

Yes, it is the ancient Airfix Blister pack model. I got it in a grab bag at a local show. The blister was popping open so I figured I'd better build it before any parts got lost.

As I was surfing the new Forums, I kept getting the Error message that "I am not allowed to use this feature. If you need to log in you can use the form below." This happened after every three or four Threads were read/posted on, and always when I moved to a different Forum (i.e from IPMS USA Forum to Modeling Forum and then to Other Topics Forum) Is there any way to prevent this as it is extremely annoying having to log in all the time. And apparently, despite having cookies activated for this Forums, it certainly doesn't "remember me" even though I have that checked. Thank you for any assistance you can offer. It just did it again when I hit "Post New Topic"!

Looking good Clare. I too am building a little bi-plane, the Hawker Demon. I've got it painted now so I know what you're going through. Gonna apply the decals soon I hope. Keep plugging man, you're almost home!