The Official 2014 "All the Rest" Community Build-Extended to April 31st

[mustang1989]

Wayne: You are not allowed to stop building here until the GB ends!!! WOW!!! I'm going to end up PMing you for tutorials on painting figures. I have some 1/48th scale mechanics that I would like to paint for my Stuka.

Ben: Man that color and those decals go together like peas in a pod man!! Nice. Did you use any setting solution on those decals?

[Agent G]

Well I do have a Iwo Jima Sherman waiting to be built. I suppose it can be here and in another GB at the same time.

PM away, I don't know what I'm doing either but we can figure it out together!

G

[formula1129]

Thanks Guys. Yeah Joe, I used Micro Set, and it worked like a charm. I have the Micro Sol, but didn't need it. Those decals are very user friendly.

Being the big Kiss fan I am, when I saw this pic..................

It reminded me of this one......

[Agent G]

Ben, I knew there was something familiar about the picture I took. Then you posted KISS, I haven't stopped laughing yet.

G

[mustang1989]

That'll make two of us!!!! LOL

[formula1129]

Ben, I knew there was something familiar about the picture I took. Then you posted KISS, I haven't stopped laughing yet.

G

Watch out. They will sue you for copyright infringement.......LOL.

That thing is coming out Awesome!!!

[mustang1989]

Watch out. They will sue you for copyright infringement.......LOL.

That thing is coming out Awesome!!!

Man you got that right. It a wonder that half of the reference pics we post on these forums havent' been the target of that kind of stuff.

[mustang1989]

Well guys we are starting to wind down on the cockpit here. I've got the rudder pedals in stalled. What a hoot that was if I would have done that the way the Aires instructions would have had me do it. Basically there are two PE arms that come off of the pedal bracket and are SUPPOSED to be glued one on the L/H fuselagea and the other on the R/H fuselage. I chose to make a styrene section and glue both of the pedal bracket mounting arms to that and then the whole styrene section to the L/H fuselage. Kind of like this:

one last shot of the interior before we move on here:

and now she's sewn up!

[Zarana-X]

I'll admit, I've been slacking and haven't even started yet. I had another build I was trying to get in the final stages before I cracked open another one, but I Haven't done much with that either.

The work you guys have been doing is incredible.

[mustang1989]

Not to worry Jason. I think we've all had those times. Thank you for your encouraging words and look forward to seeing you in here pal, Joe

[Agent G]

C'mon Jason get at it my friend!

Joe those rudder pedals are the schnizzle, or should I say schnitzel?

Guys we post here with impunity when on other forums you are required to give credit to the origin of the pic. That's why I stated what I said about that diagram. I simply don't know who to give credit to so it is there "for discussion only".

Moving on, she's finished!

I'm planning on small desert bases for this and the Pz III L. I'll incorporate them into clear display cases. Next up I believe will be a USMC Sherman flame tank from the Iwo Jima campaign.

G

[mustang1989]

Man it looks like it should just roll on outta there Wayne! This is true model building at its finest here sir! The tank, the figures, hell everything! There's just so much right about this build that I don't even know where to begin!

[mustang1989]

It's been about a week here since we've posted last so I'll post an update to get it started. I cut out the port wing machine gun access panel opening and test fit the machine gun receiver in the wing here.

and here's the guts of that operation,

and here it is all painted and weathered up:

[HNTR]

Sorry, Mustang 1989. Back to building and would like to change my build from the dollhouse to a Yamaha XV1600 Roadstar if you will still have me? Thanks.

Here are pics, I did glue the frame halves together but that is all.

[mustang1989]

You're on Mark! I'll get you entered in on the intro post dude!

[mustang1989]

I've got you down in the intro Mark!! Looking forward to the build here.

[mustang1989]

Next up is the cowl oil tank reservoir. This is another Verlinden piece from WAAAAY back when! Back when Verlinden was one of the only suppliers for resin that I knew of. This and the wing mounted MG17 machine gun internals were all I felt like using out of that set! I guess a decent build could be had out of the rest of it but it would be ALOT of work. Here's what I started with:

Well this didn't exactly line up with the fuselage too good. Go figure! It's time to start integrating the resin detail with the kit supplied stuff again!!

Pictured below on the left is the OOB part with both halves glued together. On the right is a OOB part from my spare Stuka kit with the L/H side panel cut out:

Now I had to cut the "compartment" out of the resin block and get it ready to install under the assembled cowl halves:

and here we are with the oil reservoir compartment tucked away under the cowl piece. Still some minor clean up and trimming to do.

This is it installed onto the fuselage with the compartment and oil reservoir painted up and weathered. Still have some clean up to do but it'll turn out ok.............

[Agent G]

Nice.

Good save.

Verlinden was the only one for quite a while wasn't he?

G

[mustang1989]

Thanks Wayne. For the longest time it seemed like he was the only one indeed. I'm going to be finding out this year how the Eduard brassin stuff stacks up when I build Eduards new Bf109G-6. There's alot of hype over that kit and I've seen an article review of it already. Hell I've already got my decal sheet for that build and the particular kit I want is months away from release. Supposed to be really killer kits from what's going around and from what I've seen in the bulld pics.

[Agent G]

I've used Eduard PE on a couple of tanks now. Not bad for what I did, easy to deal with. They tend to add all sorts of details that frankly don't need to be replicated in most instances, but hey, they try hard.

G

[HNTR]

Believe it or not I actually accomplished alot today. My son is sick and laid around resting all day so i did some work on my bike. I think I might actually finish this one too. Check out the pics and let me know what you guys think.

[Agent G]

Looking good!

G

[mustang1989]

Man that just looks freakin' cool Mark! You really brought that motor out dude. If I didn't know anybetter I'd say that you had a beat up 4x8' sheet of plywood in your garage and was building a real bike! I'm all eyes here watchin' the show...........

[mustang1989]

Well guys I've got the cowl compartment/ piece put on and most of the body work completed on the fuselage. So far so good. Just need a little "clean up" on the oil reservoir compartment and I'll call that done:

and for the real cool development (at least I'd like to think so) is the addition of a landing light to this sucker. I have yet to figure out why a model manufacterer would put a "hole" in the leading edge of a wing to install a lens over..............absolutely nothing! But that's what they did! Here's what we normally would have:

You see, I just can't let this slide, so....................

I went to work making a scratchbuilt landing light. I do have car models in my stash (don't worry, I'm not going to hack up anything-I want to build this kit one day) I have Mark Martins 1994 Thunderbird in the stash and used one of those "cutaway" tabs you always see on the windshields:

The right hand one is gone and is being used here. I trimmed the clear part up quite making it just a hair smaller and not as thick. I painted the back of the "light" silver and added one drop of future to the face making it concave in appearance and giving it a true glass shine. I had a piece of resin stock from all these add on resin kits I accrue and cut that down so that it would fit between the wings halves and painted it RLM 02 gray, then stuck the landing light to the base and put it in the wing.............

The foam below the wing MG17 gun compartment is for a "push" from the bottom when the wing halves are assembled. Ever have something like that looking really cool and later on in the years or with just the right jarring the whole thing falls inside? Aint gonna happen folks! Just a little insurance is all.

Anyways this is what the whole thiing looks like now instead of a "hole":

and it comes fairly close to my references:

Edited April 27, 2014 by mustang1989

[Agent G]

Nailed it.

G