Ceiling Queens

[Roadrunner]

Already created prop templates too, one inner, one outer, four sets.

[bismarck]

Love the Warbirds!!! I follow along on your military builds quite a bit!!! Big Fan!!Especially the German stuff!!  I'm currently building(also see "fighting with") the 1/35 Dragon Porsche Hunting Tiger. I got the Fruil track set for it, but I need to zimmerit it to make it look right. There were so few of that make of JT that you only have so many build options.

Edited September 10, 2015 by bismarck

[Roadrunner]

Love the Warbirds!!! I follow along on your military builds quite a bit!!! Big Fan!!Especially the German stuff!!  I'm currently building(also see "fighting with") the 1/35 Dragon Porsche Hunting Tiger. I got the Fruil track set for it, but I need to zimmerit it to make it look right. There were so few of that make of JT that you only have so many build options.

Is it here in this section? I looked, but don't recall seeing it. And I really prefer the Henschel suspension on the Jagdtiger and turret (Krupp?) on the King Tiger, just a personal thing really.

Edited September 11, 2015 by Roadrunner

[bismarck]

No. I haven't posted it. I don't really post pictures of any of my builds due to having too many problems posting pics. I agree 110% about the Henschel suspension vs the Porsche one. Porsche suspensions were overly complicated and too fragile for cross country use. But i figure the overloaded engine would give out before the suspension. Turning it into an immobile pill box .And THAT only it it had the luck to not get spotted from the air and bombed back to the stone age...

[Roadrunner]

Why don't you just drag them off your computer like I've resorted to doing? The attach from URL thing, still gives me the wheel of death.

[Roadrunner]

Love the Warbirds!!! I follow along on your military builds quite a bit!!! Big Fan!!Especially the German stuff!!  I'm currently building(also see "fighting with") the 1/35 Dragon Porsche Hunting Tiger. I got the Fruil track set for it, but I need to zimmerit it to make it look right. There were so few of that make of JT that you only have so many build options.

We will soon (probably this year) have a brand new 1:16 scale Jagdtiger, and that will definitely be on my "to get" list.

[Roadrunner]

While searching for something else down here, I discovered 14 brand spanky new bottles of Aeromaster Warbird enamel paints I'd thought to be forever lost. A little German, a little Japanese, a little RAF. I now have both grays to paint my Typhoon, and will use Model Master (or Tamiya) for the green. Boy, this makes me happy.

[Roadrunner]

Bored out of my mind a few days back, I decided to go scrounging through some of my kits, when I stumbled upon this, a mint Ōtaki P-47 Thunderbolt, perfect cure for the afternoon doldrums. I’ve already tentatively picked a scheme, a ratty looking OD over gray, with partial invasion stripes, blue cowl and rudder. (To be quite honest, I forgot all about the Typhoon, until just now.)

[Roadrunner]

And here’s what I've accomplished to date, the more or less completely assembled kit. I seem to have a definite 1:48 pilot shortage, so I'll be looking to resolve that here soon. Many of the decent pilots from other kits, were out of their boxes, as I was casting multiple copies of them, but I'm afraid they were all lost in a move.

[Roadrunner]

My “spinning prop” standard prop templates for the Jug. I may broaden the blades out just a tad more, still not sure. Sorry about the lousy image, but since part of my Acrobat program went missing, I've had to resort to screen caps, and that's way less than a perfect solution.

[Roadrunner]

I also found this, started (naturally), but appears to be 100% complete, so eventually it too will become a ceiling queen. Once I can get organized here (if that ever happens), I'll assess what kits are missing what, and buy new kits if needed, to complete those that are already well under way, assuming they're actually here at all. I'm normally not all that big on french A/C, but painting this one should be a blast.

[bismarck]

Good find on the paints!! That's gotten to be the biggest expense of my builds. i'm currently building a 1/350 scale model of my screen avatar namesake, and just buying all the paint needed to build the ship in its pre-deployment colors is a real bear. I won't even get into the photo-etch. life was so much easier  before i discovered that stuff...

[Roadrunner]

Good find on the paints!! That's gotten to be the biggest expense of my builds. i'm currently building a 1/350 scale model of my screen avatar namesake, and just buying all the paint needed to build the ship in its pre-deployment colors is a real bear. I won't even get into the photo-etch. life was so much easier  before i discovered that stuff...

Now that I'd like to see. Tamiya kit? And yes, the P.E. can get insane, I have five or six sets for the 1:350 Titanic.

[bismarck]

Now that I'd like to see. Tamiya kit? And yes, the P.E. can get insane, I have five or six sets for the 1:350 Titanic.

Your a glutten for punishment my friend!!! I built the Titanic awhile back, pre- PE days, and that kit nearly made me take up stamp collecting instead.

[Roadrunner]

Your a glutten for punishment my friend!!! I built the Titanic awhile back, pre- PE days, and that kit nearly made me take up stamp collecting instead.

Somewhat ironically, both of my Titanic kits are now gone. One was sold off, and the other (which had been chopped in half, as I was depicting it sinking), was lost during a recent move, yet the P.E. remains.

[bismarck]

I built 2 of the mini hobby kits years ago on commission. They were really nice when done, but I don't think I could have survived the P/E sets too. Had they been available at the time, I have no doubt that the buyer would have wanted that too. P/E really adds to a kits overall looks, but my eyes and fingers just can't do what they used to.

[bismarck]

I still have a Gunzi 1/350 Lusitania to build and am still deciding if if I want to attempt the P/E, or get rid of the kit.

[Roadrunner]

I built 2 of the mini hobby kits years ago on commission. They were really nice when done, but I don't think I could have survived the P/E sets too. Had they been available at the time, I have no doubt that the buyer would have wanted that too. P/E really adds to a kits overall looks, but my eyes and fingers just can't do what they used to.

I rather shamefully avoid most ship models as being too fiddly, but I do have a few of the 1:72 U-Boats, and one 1:144 Fletcher.

[bismarck]

Do you have the new type IX c-40? Not the one with the cut away deck casing, but the issue before it.

[Roadrunner]

Do you have the new type IX c-40? Not the one with the cut away deck casing, but the issue before it.

As far as I'm aware, the type IXC/40 is the version with the cut down forward deck. Perhaps you're thinking of the straight IXC? To answer your question, I currently have neither, but will be ordering the IXC/40 later this year. What I have at the moment, are both type VIIC's, as well as the Gato.

[bismarck]

Yeah, mine is the IXC. I wonder if they'll pantograph these down to 1/144 scale like they did with the type VII's. I'd be in for 3-4 0f each for my bunker dio. I have the Gato too, but i did the late war tower cut down on it. Looks much better. 

[Roadrunner]

Yeah, mine is the IXC. I wonder if they'll pantograph these down to 1/144 scale like they did with the type VII's. I'd be in for 3-4 0f each for my bunker dio. I have the Gato too, but i did the late war tower cut down on it. Looks much better. 

Do you have any photos of the bunker(s) you're building, and what references are you using for those bunkers?

[bismarck]

I'm a tech victim, unfortunately, and i have never understood or been able to post pictures of my builds here. I was stationed in Germany in the Army and did alot of exploring on Uncle Sams dime. I traveled to the French coast to see the D-Day beaches, and made a side trip to see the U-boat bunkers. That's been well over 20 years ago now, and IDK if the bunkers even still exist. The last i heard, the French government was filling in the basins and bunkers with fill. Its a part of their dark past that they would rather forget. I still have the photo's somewhere in storage. 

[Roadrunner]

Same problem I have, Kev. Most of my web imagery, is of the bunkers post-war, and many modifications have been made to those bunkers over the years. The few books that I do have on the wartime bunkers, are filled with soft and grainy images, though I have been able to piece together enough data to scratch build a bunker that is, at worst, an amalgamation of miscellaneous elements from all of the various bunkers. Apparently, no two bunker complexes used the exact same architecture, which is perfectly understandable, but it makes piecing together an overall image of a specific bunker, very difficult, if not impossible.

Attaching images is as easy as clicking on the "choose files" link, navigating to the specific folder where your image resides, then double-clicking it. This is as far as I've progressed to date, but I'd like to finish it this winter, to take to Omaha in 2017. We'll see how that goes.

Edited February 16, 2016 by Roadrunner

[Roadrunner]

I'll use 3" thick pink foam insulation for the roof (generic 18' scale roof thickness), and also build the bomb catching lattice on the roof, even though I don't think the lattice was ever completely finished on any one bunker complex.