mustang1989

This is unbelievably cool Claude. Not only is it a good-looking outcome but the brilliance behind the build is worthy of equal praise. Your imagination as well as your efforts are to be commended.

Didn't see this one till just now but WOW.......what a wrap up on that classic warbird!! Got any shots of the cockpit @STU111 ? 👍

A bit late to this build but it's a really good subject to see. Despite your troubles with your airbrush, you still managed a great outcome on that paint and chrome work Stuart. Love the color you chose.

I do love Zeros and this one is building up well. What kit is this Johnny?

Spent a LOT of time with these tracks over the weekend trying to get the right look without messing them all up. I mean.......I wanted 'em dirty but not filthy. Even coming home after being stuck, while the hull would still have some mud on it, the tracks would shed most of that as the vehicle was being driven. I put a light coat of grit on the tracks and wiped the excess off of the track cleats. Then I came back over them with a light coat of Dark Weathering Pasted thinned with some oderless thinner for oils. I believe I have the results I was after now with a perfect balance of residual mud on the tracks. All I have to do is set track tension and this side is done.

Will be watchin' this one Beckham.

Looking forward to seeing this one built Pat.

That is a Yak-3 aircraft fitted with a Jumo 004 engine from the Messerschmitt Me-262 Russ. You can see the similarity of the air intake on a photo of a 262:

This build just goes to show that it's the modeler and not the model that make all the difference in a stellar outcome such as this. Whadda show Dave.......whadda show.

First of all, that Pitts Bi-Plane looks stellar Bruce. Secondly, your placing at a Nationals show speaks for itself. A big congratulations on the win there. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you'll be doing with the classic kit. I've built a couple of Monogram P-51's waaaay back when and can't wait till I get to tackle the Tamiya P-51 that I've got in the stash. Those are supposed to be an absolute dream to build.

Thanks Anton!! Glad you on board man. I sure can Keith. Gimme a day or so and I'll get 'em posted up for you. Thanks for the comments fella. They are 3D printed resin and they are easy as pie to assemble. Not one bit of clean up required. The instructions mentioned running a small drill bit through the hinge holes but I didn't have to do that. Thanks a lot for the comments Tim. I'll post up a picture of them painted up and weathered soon. Thanks Lee. When I was first contemplating this scheme, it was pretty daunting but after laying out the process and looking at it a lot more closely I felt fairly confident that I could pull it off. You'll have to post up a thread on it when you get to that point and if you've got any questions, fire away bud.

I feel that I may have gone a little overboard with some of the mud around the lower sides of the hull but it's all a learning curve for me right now. I can break some of that up with the addition of a side skirt panel or two I think though. I took it a slight bit easier at the back of the hull: These Panzerwerk tracks are the frickin' BOMB!! A little time consuming but these are SO easy to put together that it's almost a dang crime. Got one side done and have it tacked in place with a glued together road wheel assembly on the build. 82 links per side. I am VERY pleased with this:

Blew it on missing the past few updates on this one Dave. You've definitely got no kick coming with the buildup of this ship with all of the modifications that you've pulled off bud. You've made a TON of improvements and it's turning out to be one heckuva good project.

As a few of you know, I haven't been around just a whole lot over the last month or two as my wife and I had been spending a LOT of time with our son before he shipped out to the military last week. It's been fun with a lot of venues, out of town trips, going away parties and all kinds of other stuff but we all had a good time. I am FINALLY back at the bench and have made some progress in the weathering department. After reading a book called Panzer Ace over the past month or so I found out that these things got stuck all the time at the end of the war with some of the less experienced crews so I depicted this one as just getting out of a muddy situation. Things like grit effects, weathering pastes and washes took center stage here.

Good lookin' bike Kaci and the luggage set adds a great deal to it.