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ghodges

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  1. Yet another outstanding build Michael! Love the mottling and the home defense bands add some color to the overall scheme. Congrats, and thanks for sharing!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

  2. No pics today, but got a lot of "fiddly" work done. I built up the nose cannons from 3 different sizes of steel tubing, built up the rocket tube supports from spare parts and strip plastic, and finished up the final sanding, scribing, and primering of the model.

     

    Glad you got to see Bill at the show. He does sell a lot of vac stuff, especially to me! I made the mistake of buying his B-24 Ford nose conversion in Columbus last summer. I say "mistake" because I did it while my wife was standing there with me! ("How much is this? Is that all that's in the box?") I think Bill got some perverse pleasure in watching the whole scene unfold! The lesson for y'all: when the wife is there with you, tell the vendor you'll "think about it" and then sneak back later to get it! :smiley2:

     

    GIL :smiley16:

  3. Wow! That's not just a great looking model, but great photography too! At first I started to berate you for trying to pass off airshow pics as a model.........

     

    Impressive work! What kit and what scale is it? Thanks for posting!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

     

     

  4. Bill is a real gentleman as well as an icon of our hobby! From my viewpoint, we can never repay him for his Monogram kit designs, and he's been a L-O-N-G time supporter of IPMS. I can recall when he showed up to the USAF Museum regular fall contest as a competitor; and he usually won!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

  5. Starting to get back to work on the Koster A-20G now that I've got the decals on my Spit and Hurricane for the Group Builds forum. Got some of the last exterior parts on yesterday....

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    This pic shows the upper intakes, for which Koster provides resin intake lips. You can also see the firewall/cowl flaps that will seat the engines and cowlings.

     

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    This shows the intakes on the inside of the nacelles. Koster even provides pe intake baffles for them! You can also see the exhaust pipes I added using plastic tubing. The gray putty is (hopefully) the last application of Mr. Surfacer before the final priming and rescribing.

     

    I also opened up and test fitted the vac cowlings, as well as assembling the resin engines and tires. The next job will be to cobble together the cannons, machine guns, and the 4 rocket tubes to allow me to build the Havoc on the cover of the "In Action" book. Questions, criticisms, and comments welcome! Cheers!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

  6. My MkI Spit is painted! I did the Dark Earth on Friday evening. I decided to do a "tight feather-edge" mask for applying the Dark Green today. I used Sherwin Williams yellow tape (much like Tamiya tape, but much cheaper and in bigger rolls) and placed thread along the mask edges to raise those edges ever so slightly.

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    This is TEDIOUS work, but it's VERY effective!

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    Note that I've also post shaded both colors with lighter tones to add a bit of "character" to the camo. At this distance, the camo almost looks like a hard-edge mask. However, if you get within 6inches, you can clearly see the soft edges.

     

    By the way, I initially was going to use some blue-tac to do the camo, but had a devil of a time trying to put it on the model. It would stick to my fingers better than the model! Made it impossible to put into place! Is this because I was in my garage and it was rather hot (above 90deg)? Do any of you who use this method regularly have this problem, or did my environment create the problem? Thanks!

     

    GIL :smiley16:

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