DanielG

The finished bird.

Beautiful job.

My apologies, Cliff! Have you done any CMP trucks?

Great looking replicas (but maybe you could paint them OD instead of 'German' grey?).

Watching this closely for ideas to steal!

Nice looking rig. What scale is that? My issue M&P was only about ten inches long, what came in that box?

Good job, Bruce.

Great job Cliff, and nice job on the hinges (quite often I just cut them off and glue the door shut!) Looks so good I got to wear shades!

Camino and Ranchero mash-ups are my favourite projects, you have done a great job here!

Glad that you stuck with it, beauty of a finish.

Hey George, I am not going to be much help I am afraid. I am building this for an ex-pilot and he wanted it flying so it is all closed up and I didn't have to do any of the interior stuff except the cockpit. Some tips though, the figures are very basic and to be frank they are not up to any standard of figure casting. The navigator has no parachute or seat harness and the pilot has only a parachute harness. If you have them under that wide-open green-house of a canopy there is a lot of scratch detailing to be done. The crew hides most of the cockpit detail that is included. The bomb bay doors are too short by almost 1/8 inch, not so noticable if left open. The radiators and flaps are another choke point, I am almost of the opinion that they should be installed after the wings and nacels are put together. The rear fuselage needs beefing up along its length top and bottom. The decals are fairly heavy and forgiving and didn't give me any real problems except for silvering, my own fault. It uses up a ton of paint! It makes up into a large model and is very impressive when completed. My next big task is to cut out the propeller discs and get them mounted, then it will be almost DONE! Richard only flew Mosquitos for a short time but fell in love with it. Dan.

Crew all aboard. Thanks for looking.

Great work as always. Funny, but now, after having a friend do two tours in Afganistan, every time I see a picture of a shot up vehicle my first thought is 'How many died in that?'

Great job on the wagon Ron, I don't know how you manage it on such a small scale (must be smoke and mirrors).

My thirty-ish truck, single rod support for the rad housing, it however negates any thought of blower, stacks etc. You could do the dual rod support either side for more stability than just having base mounts. By the way, Greg, that one one pretty red car.

Man, you are GOOD! But, it was more than a few years ago. Thankyou all, and I want to point out that this demonstrates that I can build a plastic model, well, sort of.

Whenever a new kit, say Spit for instance, came out then out would come the tape measures and rivet and panel line experts to pick it apart. After a while there were so many 1:1 restored Spits around that there were lots of realife comparisons to published dimensions which just did not jive. Then there was the 'correct colour' argument which still goes on even though it should have been put to bed ages ago. After following this for a few years I joined the 'Duck Club'; if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then call it a duck and be happy.

A couple of, believe it or not, Batman and Starwars kits, to be kit-bashed.

I own a shop, so buying and selling is what I do, it is a business. I know people that build replicas for sale, also a business, it pays their bills. I also build stuff, it is a hobby even though I sell some of it, at prices that do not any where near reflect the amount of time put into them, NOT a business. Flipping kits (or realestate or whatever) is not a hobby unless your hobby is making money. It is how some hobbies turn into businesses and if you are lucky you are doing something that makes it worth getting up in the morning AND pays the bills. We should all be so lucky, oh, wait a minute, I am!

After some input from friends, alterations were in order, new, improved versions.

Pilot and navigator modified and painted prior to being 'belted in' to the cockpit and finished off. I am sure that five minutes from now a beautiful after-market sculpt will become available but too late, I will have this finished and not be tempted!

My latest Orkiness, A Scorcha/Trakk buggy with twin-linked shootas ready to take on any friends of the Imperium.

Plastruct, Evergreen or K&S brass for the channeling and basswood for the planking. I did one truck bed using basswood and K&S 'H' shape on its side, the basswood slotted right in.

Update (sigh!) I didn't like the way the door trim turned out so I reworked that and then decided the rear windows were not up to snuff so I popped them out (got them out of the way anyway while other work was done) and shaped new ones. Finished the pin-striping and door trim and hit it with a coat of clear to seal it all before refitting the windows. As I was spaying on the clear, right before my eyes some of the gold went very dark and did not lighten up again as the clear cured so now I have a two-tone gold car. Not good! So the center striping has to be masked and some gold re-sprayed and pray it all melds together. Film at eleven!

Man, no wonder it fell apart, you don't use near enough glue!