Maddog Manufacturing Opening for 2026

[Mark Deliduka]

I know I'm late, but it's been a crazy, busy first of the year. Most of our departments will be open; however the Motor Pool 'crew' is still on hiatus for another couple weeks. Still, there's lots to see in the Hangar and Shipyards, I'll be showing almost everything I have under construction that I'm putting a priority on to finish. So let's board the trams and go see what we're working on in this new year!

Starting in the Hangar, we have these....

In the first bay, we have the F-35 that was started a few months ago:

The next bay has the cockpit assembly for the E-2C Hawkeye started a couple months ago as well:

Next to that is the F-15E Strike Eagle, almost ready for final assembly and paint:

The next bay has a gift from a friend, the British Harrier Jet:

In the next bay we have the British Swordfish that was started some time ago:

This one has the decals done and is ready for rigging. 

In the next bay, is the Fairey Seafox, all painted and ready for further assembly:

In this next bay, is the F-86 that I got in another kit; still trying to determine what country I'll place it with:

In the next bay here, we have the beginnings of the French F-84G, cockpit and nose intake:

In the next bay over is one I've been wanting to add to my Italian Air Force, this is the MBB-323:

In this bay, another cockpit started, this time for the An-2 Colt:

Finally in the last bay, there's the C-46 that was given as a gift to me earlier:

 

And that concludes this tour of the Hangar, now on to the Shipyards. 

 

We have a lot going on at the Shipyards here, in these next few slipways, we have some small boats under construction, first slip is the USS Defiance Vietnam-era patrol boat:

The next slip has the Coast Guard Icebreaker Eastwind, all completed:

It got the decals on it next:

In the next bay is the Tugboat Lucky XI, all painted up and waiting for final detail parts and decals:

Still trying to find the decals for that. Meanwhile in the next slip is the Tugboat Long Beach in the same state:

This one did get the decals and some additional detail parts, just looking for the last ones:

Finally, the small boat slips have the PT-109 in this last slip; all details are on except the most breakable ones and the gun on the deck is secured; it just needs the tie-down ropes on it:

Now on to the larger ships. In this next slip is the USS Montrose Assault ship:

After some time, she got all the detail parts and masts:

In this next slip we laid the keel for a British submarine, the HMS Astute. It's a fast and easy build:

This got paint and is now waiting for decals for finishing:

In these next two slips are the two French frigates Normandie and Aquitane. Both are now painted and the Aquitane is waiting for additional parts to finish up:

In the next slip is the hospital ship SS Hope, now all built up and painted:

In the next slip is the USS Alaska still waiting for full assembly:

Meanwhile, we laid the keel for the USS Albany a Chicago-class missile cruiser after it's conversion:

Finally in this last slipway, we laid the keel for the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier:

As I've been waiting for this, we continued with the interior of the main hull:

Interestingly enough, Trumpeter 'took pity' on us modelers and painted and decaled the main deck and ski ramp:

Here it is dry-fit on the hull:

That is gonna be interesting. 

That completes the tour of the Shipyards, so on to the back lot where other projects are underway....

Here in the Automotive Garage, we have one of the cars I've been trying to build. This seems to be as far as I can go with this until I get another kit to cannibalize since the box had been weakened and a bunch of parts are missing:

Now going back into the Back Lot, we have this figure of the Red Knight of Vienna waiting for paint:

As well as the European auto dealership that seems to be stalled due to the sprues for one of the buildings are missing:

And in the Space Port, the little UFO is still waiting for final paint coat:

 

And that completes our tour showing every current active project we're working on. Thank you all for looking in, I hope you enjoyed this preview of the many (I hope!) projects that will be completed in this new year. Stay tuned for more, and comments are always welcome! 

 

[Jmarc]

CCCCCCCCCCCCCOOL !

   Lots of neat stuff to view and acrion ...Just love it ....... my favorite this time is your truck SHOWROOM , somethig I should think to do ..

Keep it upppppppppppppppp

 

 

Jmarc

[Mark Deliduka]

Thank you Jean-Marc. 

[Jmarc]

10 hours ago, Mark Deliduka said:

Thank you Jean-Marc. 

NO,NO .. I thank youuuuuuuuu !

[Mark Deliduka]

Well, it's been awhile, mostly because of all the time spent with my display hosting visitors who came to see it. Now that things have settled down a bit, it's time for another tour. We've been quite busy during this time with a lot of new projects as well as come continuing work on others. 

All aboard the trams, our first stop is the Hangar....

Here in the Hangar, we've been busy with a lot of projects. In this first bay is one of the continuing projects, the Matchbox 1/72 scale Fairey Seafox. The last time we saw her was before the upper wing went on. Now it's on and the clear parts have been installed as well:

In the next bay another British aircraft in progress; the Harrier jet, got the decals applied:

All the rest of the bays have new projects that were started recently. First up in this next bay is a French Spad XIII that I found in the stash while cleaning up. It's so small and simple, I just had to get it started. First I built it up to the top wing as usual:

After a bit, I added the top wing to it. Now to figure out it's camouflage pattern:

In the next bay is another French aircraft, albeit from the United States. It's the Revell B-26 Marauder in 1/72 scale. I have two of them so I decided to build them both and make one French and the other USAAF, since the kits provided decals for both. Here is the French one so far:

As you can see from the upper left, I won't be getting much further on this until I find the other half of the one nacelle. I can build around it until then. 

Meanwhile in this next bay we have the US B-26 Marauder. The cockpit is built, the wings are assembled and everything else that was done on the French plane is done here too. Here's a shot of the cockpit and wings together:

In this next bay is a commemoration build for John Eaton; this is a 1/72 scale Roden C-123 Provider that I saw in his stash and since I had one too; I started it for this. First the basic cockpit was assembled, with the rear cockpit wall following:

Next the wings were built:

The cockpit was then painted and added to one side of the fuselage after I'd painted a bare metal silver on the fuselage halves, along with what I thought was adequate weight in the nose:

It wasn't adequate as I found out when I taped everything together, dry-fit the wings and tested it. So, additional weight was added to the front of this plane:

Once that was confirmed to be enough, I closed up the fuselage and glued on the nose:

Just for fun, I also glued on the tail feathers and re-dry fit the wings to see how this was gonna turn out. This is a big bird!

That's where I'm at with that one so we'll head to the next bay to see the 1/72 scale Mach 2 US Navy PBM-3 Mariner. First up is the cockpit as always:

This was then painted after it dried:

Yeah, it's kinda rough, but not much of it will be seen when it's closed inside the fuselage...

Before we got to that, I got the wings assembled:

Afterward, everything got closed up inside and the wings and tail were glued on:

 

That completes the tour of the Hangar, now on to the Shipyards....

Here in the Shipyards, a lot has been going on. Again, some new projects and some continuing ones as well. We'll start in this first slip with the British HMS Astute getting all marked up:

That one is almost ready for launch, just a few more systems checks...

In the next slip, we have the French frigates Aquitane and Normandie also all decked out in new deck markings, pennant numbers and names:

Aquitane:

and Normandie:

These too are almost ready for launch...

In this next slip, we started another kit that was found in the stash and looked to be fast and easy. It was, as you can see here:  

Later, this got paint, although it doesn't show well here in this shot:

Next up in the following slip is another fast and easy ship. I was having such a blast building this that I got this far already. This is the old Revell 1/500 scale SS United States already built and painted up so far:

Finally in this last slip, we are back to the HMS Queen Elizabeth, where the pri-fly island was built up:

This was then test fit to the deck:

Almost looks like a US supercarrier.... LOL!

The main island was then built up and also test fit on the deck:

There's more to do on the main island, and then this ship can be painted up. Until then, this is all I got done on it so far. 

The Motor Pool is still on hiatus but things are tooling up to start production soon, so by the next tour, we should see something from there soon.

Meanwhile, in the Space Port, we started up and old Airfix Lunar Lander in 1/72 scale, staring with the lower part:

These is a base included, but in my opinion it's too small, given the number of experiments this includes in this kit. Here it is with the lower part on it:

I like how it has the footprints on the surface!

Here's one of those experiments that is part of this:

After that I built the upper stage:

Here you can see everything together on the base. The experiment is tucked away on the right so you can see what I mean about the lack of space.
See what I did there?

We have some more construction happening in the back lot as well. Along with the Gazebo, the Lumber Mill and the Blacksmith shop, we now have a farm house with a garage, chicken coop and outhouse going up:

Finally, a little entertainment for the workers here; we have the old Airfix Zoo set under construction for them now too:

That is gonna be fun!

That's the end of this tour for today, thanks all for looking in and remember comments are always welcome. 

[Ron Bell]

Duke, I will say that your interest are wide and varied and your ambition boundless. Keep on keepin' on. 

[Jmarc]

WAIT FOR ME , WAIT FOR ME......Just love the tour , my favorite is the ZOO, USN MARINER and of course the LUNAR LANDER ... that is quite something ..

I'll take another tours , way to much fun !

   Keep them coming 

   Jmarc

Edited February 28 by Jmarc

[Mark Deliduka]

Thank you Ron! I do like to keep things varied. 

 

Thank you Jean-Marc!

[Mark Deliduka]

Happy St. Patrick's Day, it's time for another tour. It's gonna be a short one, but hopefully a fun one. All aboard the trams and get settled in. First stop is the Hangar....

In the Hangar, we got started on an SH-3C Sea King helicopter in Japanese markings. The cockpit and interior were built up first:

Later the interior was painted. Once thew fuselage parts are painted, this will be closed inside:

In the next bay, our tiny Spad got all three colors painted on:

That's all for the Hangar, it's not much but we still need to get the paint booth worked up to airbrush so many projects. Hopefully soon. Now on to the Shipyards....

Here in the Shipyards a little more has gotten done. In this first slip the HMS Revenge got her hull taped off for painting, some of her final details added; and the forward mast was added using styrene rod since the parts for it were missing. It is a Distressed Kit from the Auction after all:

In the next slip, the USS Alaska got many of her finer details added and the superstructure was cemented into place. However; until I find all the missing parts that disappeared when the box full of sub-assemblies fell over and scattered them, this is as far as I'll be able to go on this:

Since several ships had been launched, we had some free slips ready for more projects. This next slip, we laid the keel for a modern Japanese landing craft. This built up pretty fast as the model is only about 6" long:

It doesn't show well here but the deck was painted:

Now the hull and superstructure was painted and additional detail parts were added:

This one is getting close to launch...

In the next open slip, we laid the keel for the IJN Shokaku, a Nichimo 1/500 scale model of this famous carrier. This had been in the stash for decades and the time was right to start it. The first things done were the fore deck and aft deck details:

All the side sponsons went on next on one side:

Followed by the side sponsons on the other side which can be seen on the far side of this shot:

While those were all drying, the tiny island was built, sans antenna:

Here's a shot of the whole thing with island and flight deck dry-fit:

 

That completes the tour of the Shipyards, now let's head over to the newly opened Motor Pool where we have a few projects started now.

In this first bay, we have a British Austin Armored car. I got this to use the decals from it to complete another Austin car for a commission, which had the wrong decals in it. Now that the commission is done, I'm building this one for myself. The suspension was built first:

Later the upper hull was built:

That is it for that so far. 

Next up is the WC-18 ambulance by ACE and the chassis and suspension were done first:

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Next I built up one side of the body, adding the interior of the cabin inside, leaving it this way to paint it later:

After checking references, I chose an interior paint scheme and painted it up:

This allowed me to close it up and add some more interior details:

Finally in this last bay, I couldn't resist starting that little locomotive that my friend gave me. I started with the upper body first:

Once the wheels and linkage were done, I got it painted:

Next up will be decals and some detail painting.I'm looking forward to seeing this done.

That completes our tour of the facilities today, short and sweet. Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ghodges]

Good looking progress as it seems Duke Inc. is doing it's part in the "re-industrialization" of American modeling!  😁

 

Gil 

[Mark Deliduka]

LOL! Thanks Gil! I'm trying, but I need more modelers to step up and help! LOL! 

 

Stay tuned, more to come!

[Jmarc]

I,m here , I'm here .......Another pretty cool advance... keep them coming ...

 

GO,GO,GOOOOOO 

[Mark Deliduka]

Thank you Jean-Marc. Still going......

[Jmarc]

15 hours ago, Mark Deliduka said:

Thank you Jean-Marc. Still going......

CCCCCCCool .. That what I want ot hear ...GO,GO,GOOOOOO.. Now my turn to ROCK the place ...lol

Edited March 21 by Jmarc

[Mark Deliduka]

Now with a new month looming, here is another tour showing what we got done these past few weeks.  Everyone who's ready, all aboard the trams and buckle in, there's some good things to see here. 

As usual, we start the tour in the Hangar, where a little bit has been done. Actually, the only thing done was the painting of the underside of the Russian An-2 Colt:
 

 

Now that that quick view was done, we move on to the Shipyards. 

In this first slip we have final details added to the HMS Revenge:

She should be wrapping up soon, hopefully. Until then, in the next slip we have our little Japanese LST which was painted up here and final detail parts added:

Final painting and decals went on next. This one is close to being launched:

In the following slip, the USS Albany has finally been completely built up the deck and superstructure are dry-fit together:

Next the deck and superstructure were given their base coats:

While that was drying, the bottom hull was painted with the red anti-fouling paint, then after it dried, it was taped off. The black boot stripe was then painted:

That was then masked off and the upper hull was then painted the same grey as the rest of the superstructure:

While that as drying, the rest of the detail parts were painted. Once dry, all the tape came off and the final result was revealed:

That concludes the tour of the Shipyards, now on to the Motor Pool.....

Here in the Motor Pool, the first bay has the WC-18 Ambulance all assembled and ready for paint:

A base coat was then laid down:

Followed by the camouflage pattern and then decals:

Final details were then added. This one is almost done after some touch up paint and weathering:

Moving to the next bay, we see the start of a German 128mm twin anti-aircraft gun. This is as far as we can get due to a couple missing parts that can't be fabricated or replaced:

In the next bay there's another Ambulance, a WWI-era Model T ambulance for the US Army. Decals were finally applied. This one is also almost ready for deployment:

In the next bay over, we have a Japanese 917t cargo truck that had been started. This one came with a driver too:

The truck bed and cab were then finished and added to the chassis:

Later, after the driver and interior were painted, the whole thing was assembled and painted a base coat:

I tried as hard as I could to get that elbow to rest on the window, but no avail:

That's as far as we got on that, the next bay has some more Japanese vehicles started. These are from a two-in-one kit of Japanese tracked APC's. The main hulls were built up and later the wheels were all joined in preparation for mounting on these hulls:

And in the next bay, we started another vehicle, this is a variant of the Striker engineering vehicle. The main body was built up with most of the detail parts added:

In this final bay, the little Saddleback Tank shunting engine got the decals on. These are the original Airfix decals from the early 1970's and I added no liquid decal film or anything to them:

That one is also close to completion.

That concludes the tour of the Motor Pool but it's not the end of the tour. We have a lot going on in the back lot and the Miscellaneous Workshop.

First, in the workshop, we are working on these 1/1 scale models of some 1800's era dueling pistols. The main stocks were built first, and the barrels after. Then they were dry fit to see how they fit:

Later I tried to come up with a better color for the wooden parts, while painting the metal parts with Vallejo Metallics Steel. Then I assembled all the parts to complete the two guns, save one: one have of the butt plate is missing so I built the second gun with everything but that. There were a lot of sink marks and blemishes in the trigger guards to I slathered a good amount of Mr. Surfacer 500 over then to fix that:

Now in the back lot, we finally moved along on a project that had been languishing for years. This is the Italeri 1/72 scale church I built several years ago. I ordered some stained glass window transparencies for the windows, which I promptly put away (i.e lost) until recently. I found the transparencies and immediately added them to the church windows. They can't be seen very well here:

I tried to get better pics, with a light source inside but they are still difficult to see:

Here's the last shot showing the windows as best I can:

So yes, Virginia, there is stained glass in the windows....

Moving on, the Farmhouse needed some touch up work, but I was out of the blue I originally used. So I tried a different one to see if it would look better:

I wasn't happy with it, so I found a better blue and repainted the whole house:

Next the garage was painted with a brown trim on the doors and windows:

That's gonna need some touch up as well. 

Finally I continued to work on the Zoo animals, getting half of them down and removed from the sprue.  A lot of touch up will be needed:

Later, a lot of that touch up was done and even more animals were completed:

Now to work on getting the enclosures built and make up my Zoo!

That concludes the tour of these facilities, please exit the trams in an orderly fashion and thank you for stopping in and remember, comments are welcome.

[ghodges]

Excellent progress Duke! I'm guessing both of the LST's are "modern" ones as they seem to be the same type so that the Japanese one will merely be a difference in numbers and name? Also, why does the WC truck have a Brit roundel on the hood but says "American Field Service"  on the door? As usual I'm stunned by the amount and variety of subjects you're able to keep track of and work on!

 

Gil 

[Jmarc]

CCCCCCCCCCCool, quite an assortment this time... just love it as usual and will make another pass !...Keep them coming never get anought..GO,GO,GOOOOO

[Mark Deliduka]

Thank you Gil! Actually, there is only one LST, I was just showing it before and after the details and decals went on. The WC-18 ambulance had a British roundel on it because it was an American ambulance attached to a British unit in Italy. They added it to avoid "friendly fire" incidences.

Thank you Jean Marc. A good variety helps me keep things fresh.

[Jmarc]

On 4/2/2026 at 5:36 PM, Mark Deliduka said:

Thank you Gil! Actually, there is only one LST, I was just showing it before and after the details and decals went on. The WC-18 ambulance had a British roundel on it because it was an American ambulance attached to a British unit in Italy. They added it to avoid "friendly fire" incidences.

Thank you Jean Marc. A good variety helps me keep things fresh.

CCCCCCCCCool, that what I like to hear .. same for me..!!

[Mark Deliduka]

Once again, another tour is in the making. Some started projects, continued work on others, there's lots to see. All those wishing to see this tour, please board the trams and buckle in. Tour is starting......

Here in the Hangar, we have the Russian An-2 Colt finally getting the engine and cowling on as well as some additional detail parts:

The complicated canopy went on next, I don't think I did a very good job on this but it's staying as is:

Later, when it was dry, filling of the prominent canyons and steps was done:

That was all for that, so moving on to the next bay, we started a CH-47 Chinook that will eventually be delivered to my Italian Forces. The cockpit and interior was built up first:

Later the interior was painted up:

That completes the short tour of the Hangar, now on to the Shipyards....

Here in the Shipyards, further progress was made on my two Japanese capitol ships under construction.

In this first slip is the Japanese carrier Shokaku, which received it's first coat of paint. I apologize for the washed out look of this, the light slipped lower and really brightened everything too much. Anyway, the hull got it's grey and the deck was painted a tan color:

Later the deck was washed with a light brown wash, details were painted and the lower hull was masked off and painted:

Finally, the flight deck and island were glued into place:

Next will come the armament, antenna, additional detail parts, and decals, before the air wing gets done.

In the next slip, we laid the keel for the Japanese battleship Nagato; which I found out later;, I already have this model built. Oh well, it's getting built again since nobody ever bought it from me. First, all the deck guns and additional parts were added to the main deck and a very rough painting was applied:

Then the main bridge and superstructure was built up:

Additional smaller sub-assemblies were added to the main deck and a more refined paint job was applied:

You can see above how warped this main deck was. The main bridge and superstructure was then dry-fit to see where and how it fits:

In this pic, you can see even more how warped the main deck is. The first two and a half inches were glued together and set aside to dry before trying to glue the rest of it: 

Once that was dry, we slowly went down the side of the hull, gluing down a few inches at a time to make sure the two hulls lined up properly:

Eventually, we got all sides of this glued down, all lined up. Despite being fully dried, the bow section still pulled up a bit so a small amount of filler will be applied. The main superstructure is still dry fit in place. I'm gonna paint the details on it first, before gluing it down to the main deck:

That's all we got done on that, there's a lot more still left to add, so hopefully soon we'll have this finished.

In this last slip which just opened up earlier, we laid the keel for for a Skipjack Oyster Boat. The deck and cabins were built up and installed, the bowsprit was added and some additional details were done. Some preliminary painting is slated to be done soon:

That concludes the Shipyards portion of this tour, now on to the Motor Pool....

Here in the Motor Pool, a lot has been happening. To start with, in this first bay is the Stryker engineering vehicle. The mine plow in front was assembled, waiting to dry before being attached to the vehicle itself:

While that was drying, the additional detail parts were added to the vehicle:

The wheels were added next; the plow was then installed; additional painting was done and now this is almost ready for weathering:

In the next bay, we started a Canadian 15CWT Ambulance, starting with the chassis:

Wheels were later added so that additional part for the chassis could be installed, like the sideboards, fuel tanks and other accessories:

The driver's cab was built next, leaving it partially open to receive paint:

Next the rear cabin was built:

Paint was then applied to the interior of both before closing them up:

Once they were closed up, they were installed on the chassis and the photo-etch parts for the spare tire holder and fuel can holder were built and the mud flaps were installed:

All that is now drying and later the windows and decals will be applied before this is weathered and delivered.

In the next bay, another vehicle was stared, this one is the UM Sherman with the dozer blade. All the bogies had to be built up first:

Everything was then installed on the lower hull afterward:

While that was drying, the upper hull and turret were worked on:

And then the dozer blade was built up:

Here it is all mocked up to show what it's going to look like:

Later on, the photo-etch track slides were bent and cemented into place. I had also added the lower run of track to help keep the bogies steady:

And that is as far as we got on that one, so on to the next bay.

In this next bay we started the Foreart M19 Gun Motor Carriage. First the suspension was added to this:

You can see that some of those posts were too delicate to handle installation and needed a replacement. Naturally these tiny, delicate pieces made aligning the wheels up properly almost impossible:

Later the upper hull and turret were built and installed on them lower hull:

Because several wheels had fallen/broken off, I installed the tracks to help hold them into place. Here you can see the near impossibility of aligned wheels:

Here it is all mocked up with the tracks in place:

After that the gun mount itself was built. This kit gave me the option of using the supplied metal barrels so I chose to use them:

After that the gun mount was added to the turret. Yes, it does elevate as it should, being an anti-aircraft vehicle:

Now this vehicle is ready for paint:

That concludes our tour of the Motor Pool, so we'll take a small detour into the Miscellaneous shop to see that the two Dueling pistols are almost done. The only thing keeping me from declaring them done is the missing butt-plate piece that you can see missing:

That concludes this tour, I appreciate all those who stop in to see this. Comments are always welcome too. We'll see you on the next tour.