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The Whirlybirds
mustang1989 replied to a topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
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Thanks Glenn!!! There was a loud screaming/ siren noise that wasusually came from that little propeller you see there on the left wing on the landing gear spat. Alot of pilots elected to remove them because they were so dang noisy and were called the "Trumpets of Jericho". Youre right though, a god awful noise when diving. Fear factor played as much of a role as the bombing itself with the sirens on these things. I have built alot of aircraft from WWII and like them all but I have a soft spot for the Luftwaffe's airframes as they had some really cool looking birds and narly camo schemes.
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Danny that build looks really awesome. I can identify with seeing the gaps or any other fault when I look at a picture of what I've built. Even so, this is a cool build with alot of attention to shades and weathering. Wayne! Man you're a tank building factory man!! The quality of these builds are amazing and this one's no exception. Great work and great builds by you. Lemme know which pics you guys would like to have posted in the intro and stick around for another round. My next ones gonna be that motorcycle with the sidecar !!!
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Just finished this one up after a long few months. I started with a 1/48 Hasegawa Ju-87 B-2 Stuka kit and added an Aires interiror detail set, oil reservoir and wing mounted machine gun guts from a Verlinden update set,Eduard canopy mask and decals from Tally Ho. I've been wanting to build an aircraft with this scheme now for 18 years and have had this kit for 16 years. I guess after all this time it was finally high time I started on it but I'm glad I didn't because I haven't had the skills to pull this all together until the last two years. Originally I was going to open up the engine bay because I do have an Aires total upgrade kit to do that with but decided against it because it would interupt such a cool scheme. I mean how many aircraft do you see runnin' around with a snake that goes from one end of the bird to the other? All in all I had a complete blast building this kit as I took my sweet time with it as to not have any foul ups. The cockpit had to be the most fun I had with it. The Aires floor didn't fit right and was WAY too small so I modified the Hasegawa floor and transferred all of the floor detail from the Aires floor to the Hasegawa floor. Other than that it was pretty straight forward: As for the rest of the build it was a chore and time consuming with the paint job but in the end it was worth the investment. I began with priming and pre-shading the whole bird, then I continued with the original splinter camoflage scheme of light green RLM 71, dark green RLM 70 and light blue RLM 76 (which I later could have slapped myself because it's supposed to be a brighter blue RLM 65 but it was too late in the game to ruin the work that I poured into it to change it). After that I painted on the field applied camoflage in the form of tan RLM 79 over the original camo. Absolutely NO foul ups here! I moved VERY slowly with this due to the work that went into the original splinter camo pattern. I have had a set of snake decals since the beginning(16 years ago) from Cutting Edge but they were too old to use and kept breaking up so I had to replace them with a set from Tally Ho. These decals evoked a range of feelings here because on one hand they laid down totally awesome and sucked right into the detail but were slightly out of scale. All in all I was happy with their application. LOTS of sweating while putting them on though.......................LOTS!!!
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Steel Jeep
mustang1989 replied to bigair49's topic in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures
I like it! Now that had to be a nice little conversation piece right there! -
Just finished this puppy up this morning. Man I'll tell you guys, this thing took forever to finish it seems like and I didn't even open this one up hardly. Anyhow here she is depicted as T6+CP of 6/StG 2 out of Libya in 1941. She's wearing one of the more interesting and controversial schemes on a Stuka as there is confusion as to wether the snake motif was red or tan. I displayed this one in red as it seems to have a more sinister look to it.
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Thanks Wayne! Your schemes just keep getting more and more intense. Nice job on replicating that pattern. ....and yes I really do dislike pin marks. lol Funny thing about this kit. The only real place Hasegawa boo boo'd with pin marks was on the bombs if you ask me. It did have some fit issues at the nose to fuselage fit and the seam lines on the landing gear wheel spats was horrible. LOTS of clean up there! Will hopefully be finished with this puppy by this weekend. I'm going to put a strong push forward on it. I've got a BMW R75 to build you know........................ Its the good ol' Bandai kit. Man it's a beauty too.
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Ok fellas. Update................finally!! I rolled her over and started on the bottom side. All of the wing mounted bombs had ejector pin marks that needed to be filled and sanded and the centerline bomb (being 8 parts) was tougher than normal but we are getting there. There's just the last few bits at this point like canopy, prop, and all the fiddly bits and this puppy will be wrappped up.
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Got home from a GM Training class in Houston yesterday to find this waiting at my door step. Now for the mask set and some PE...............
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Nice hobby room.....I mean sign!! I believe I saw a guy build a model of his hobby room that looked real similar to this. Do I have the right guy/ hobby room?
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