Nacho Z

I thought I would share this old build of a subject that you just don't see too often.  This was built around 15 years ago.  It was a good learning experience for me.

There was an elderly gentleman that I worked with who knew I built models.  He found this at a yard sale and bought it for $1.00.  He asked me to build it for him and I thought "How hard could it be?"  It was a lot harder than I thought.  Lots of filling and sanding.  Tons of detail painting.  32 legs and hoofs.  Painting their manes.  All of the detail painting on their collars - all of the gold is hand painted.  The hardest part for me was trying to get the correct color and sheen on the horses.  All in all, I was happy with the outcome.  More importantly, so was he.

Pardon the quality of the pictures.  They are scanned from good ol' fashioned paper photos, (remember those???)

Here is what I started with.

Here is what I finished with.

I have always loved this plane and while in the USAF, stationed in England, I had the opportunity to see one at an air show.  It did several low altitude fly bys.  WOW!!  So I picked up this kit and thought I would give it a shot.  I know it would not fare too well at an IPMS show but she looks great sitting in my hobby room.  I did not take a lot of in progress pictures so I will just post the finished model.

Here is a picture of the kit I used for this build.

Here are two pictures to show how big the model is.  It is 1:48 1:72 scale.

And one final picture of what I think is one of the most gorgeous planes to ever grace our skies.

I wanted to post this last weekend for the Indy 500 but did not get to.  Better late then never, as they say.  You don't see many open wheeled cars here so I thought I would share this one.  This is an old build, done many years ago.  This car was my first, and to date, only car that was airbrushed.  Nothing special, built straight out of the box.  Sorry for the picture quality.

This model was a quick "slump buster" for me.  Minimal work on the chassis and interior.  I had never used gold as a base coat before.  I wanted to see what it would do with Tamiya TS52 - Candy Lime Green.  I also like to play around with lighting, backgrounds, etc.  Here are the results.  Hope you like it!

Same angle, softer light.

I also took pictures on a black background.  I'll share two to let you see how it changes how you see the car.

This is another older build.  This was built from the RoG 1:24 kit.  This was my selection for a 24 hour build.  I did get the kit finished in 24 hours however I did touch up a few things afterwards.  It was a fairly simple kit and I had very few problems with it.  I hope you like it!