ghodges Posted March 23, 2016 Report Posted March 23, 2016 (edited) This is the old Combat vac I started 15yrs ago, and it sat on the shelf in this condition til the beginning of this year... Finally finished her up today! And here's a pic of the 1/48 model on my shelf that inspired the final scheme with it's bigger brother... Lot's of nits on this one, but it feels really good to get 'er done! There are some "in-progress" pics down in the "On the Bench" topic, and a full build thread over on Agapemodels.com, for anyone interested in that sort of thing. Comments, questions, and critiques welcome, as always. Cheers! GIL Edited March 23, 2016 by ghodges 2
Rusty White Posted March 23, 2016 Report Posted March 23, 2016 Great looking model Gil. I love to see folks build vac forms. It just reinforces the fact that any kit can be made to look great with a little work.
ghodges Posted March 24, 2016 Author Report Posted March 24, 2016 It just reinforces the fact that any kit can be made to look great with a little work. And a touch of madness..... GIL
JohnRatzenberger Posted March 24, 2016 Report Posted March 24, 2016 Looks good, Gil - you've done a good job taming the surfaces of all that vac-formed plastic.
ewahl Posted March 24, 2016 Report Posted March 24, 2016 Hi, Gil, I am super impressed with the magic you perform on the old vacuform kits. This one is no exception. You are now 40% on the way to having a scale progression of the same aircraft, needing only 1/72, 1/100, and 1/144 examples to finish it off. Smaller is easier, right? Ed
JohnRatzenberger Posted March 25, 2016 Report Posted March 25, 2016 Hi, Gil, I am super impressed with the magic you perform on the old vacuform kits. This one is no exception. You are now 40% on the way to having a scale progression of the same aircraft, needing only 1/72, 1/100, and 1/144 examples to finish it off. Smaller is easier, right? Ed Don't forget card models in 1/33, 1/50 ...
youngtiger1 Posted March 25, 2016 Report Posted March 25, 2016 Gil, that turned out beautiful. I want to try a vacuform kit someday as they have several subjects that are only available in 1/32 that I want to have...U-2, B-26, SR-71 :D
spiralcity Posted March 28, 2016 Report Posted March 28, 2016 That is quite a nice job on a vacuform kit, 1/24 scale is a large scale vavuform to deal with. :blu-plane:
Mark Deliduka Posted March 28, 2016 Report Posted March 28, 2016 Gil that is is some stunningly magnificent work! You truly have the gift. There may be a few 'nits', but you've hidden or dealt with them most effectively. I bow in the presence of greatness! :smiley20: (P.S. what happened to our 'bowing' emoticon? I could swear we had one before. I need it with all the magnificent work being done here!)
mustang1989 Posted March 30, 2016 Report Posted March 30, 2016 That really turned out nice Gil and whadda paint job!!!!! Good stuff man!
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