Mark Deliduka Posted October 2, 2013 Report Share Posted October 2, 2013 Well, here are my Sow's Ears that are not quite silk purses, but at least a fine cotton blend... :D I'll start out with my first ever ACE kit. This was so poorly molded that it almost put me off doing ACE kits ever again! I had so much cleanup to do, I sometimes didn't know where the parts ended and the flash began. I also had to carve out a new mounting point for two of the roadwheel torsion bars which was tough enough to do given I hadn't any clue where to do it. I eventually bulled on through and the result is here. One side has the idler and drive sprocket too high compared to the other side, but I did get it finished: Next up is an old Maquette kit. This one was one incredibly messed up mold. I only built it because it was the only C-75 ever offered in 1/72 scale. There were no windows, so I had to put them all in with Testor's Window Cement and Window Maker. The fuselage halves were not the same size; one was a millimeter shorter than the other side. There were no locating pins on the fuselage halves either. Neither issue mattered since the edges of the fuselage halves had so much thick flash that when they were joined together; it looked like the Himalayas along the entire seam. I felt like I needed a belt sander to smooth it out! I am amazed to this day that this looks even this good: My apologies for the oversized pics.... And finally, the ultimate in short run kits! This is the Armageddon Panzerzug BP-44 German Armored Train. This was one amazing piece of work! I felt like I was building each train car, adding a pound of filler to each one and then carving and sanding the model from the resulting block of plastic and Bondo! Here are some pics from before this was painted: This one car was so warped that I was afraid I wouldn't be able to finish this train: After swirling it in boiling hot water, I clamped it between two boards here: It worked! Man I was so relieved! Finally, I got the whole thing done: Well, there are my three most horrible kits that I ever attempted to build. I consider them an accomplishment in even completing them! Thanks all for looking in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PetrolGator Posted October 2, 2013 Report Share Posted October 2, 2013 Holy God that C-75 looks goofy. I would have tossed it. You did good with these messes, Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghodges Posted October 2, 2013 Report Share Posted October 2, 2013 You've been promoted, from Duke to the Prince of Persistence! GIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Deliduka Posted October 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2013 Thanks guys! I love it! Chris, the thought did cross my mind, but since this is the only plastic kit of a C-75 in my scale, I went ahead and completed it. It ain't no award winner, but it sure looks good hanging on my ceiling! Thanks Gil! I think I'll add that to my sig line. That rocks! Thanks Jim! It is the only plastic kit of a C-75 that I know of, but I warn you; it is one extremely rough kit! I'm not sure it is even in production anymore, but some may still be floating around. I do have a couple more models I could post for this; one is a Heller E3B AWACS that gave me fits due to literal 1/4" canyons on the wing roots that required 1/4" sheet styrene and a gallon of CA gap-filler to close, and another Maquette kit of a Russian helicopter known as the "Russian Dauphin". The E3B was stripped and re-painted nine times until I finally just gave up and finished it with whatever paint I had left! Stay tuned.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghodges Posted October 5, 2013 Report Share Posted October 5, 2013 Coincidentally, there's a C-75 in the Readers Gallery of the latest FSM. The builder eased his build by using some parts from other kits though! GIL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Deliduka Posted October 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Thanks Gil. As I don't have a subscription, I don't think I'll ever see it. That would be cool to know what he did to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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