Steve
Fantasy of Flight is actually half way between Tampa and Orlando in Polk City, a few miles SW of Orlando. Kermit Weeks had his Museum in South Dade County at Tamiami Airport south of of Miami but Hurricane Andrew destroyed the museum bulding in August of 1992. He relocated the facility to Central Florida soon afterwards. This is trully an awesome place to visit.
Dog
Doing a spectacular job as usual. [B]
I almost got a 96" RC model with working shock absorbing gear and flaps from a German Model Company back in the mid 1980’s but it had a hefty pricetag.
Thanks Guys.
Tanker, I have an Iwata Revolution CR that I’ve been using for about a year now. I think it’s their middle of the road brush. I like it but it’s a pain to clean the tiny nozzle. I spray around 15 psi for detail work and 20 psi for general coverage stuff (give or take).
Cool! I have a buddy who flies those. I’d be too afraid of wrecking it. I’m better at building than flying…
I went ahead and finished this turkey…er Storch up last night. Although not even close to my cup of tea, it was probably one of the easiest kits I’ve ever built. It practically built itself. Tamiya really did a nice job on this kit. I wish they would give us a P-38 with this engineering. Anyways, I digress, it’s in Afrika Corp markings from the spring of 1941. The unit is 2 (H)/14 and may have been Rommel’s ride at one time. I don’t know much about the Afrika Korps nor will I pretend to.
I concocted my own RLM 79 over 78 with my own mixes of Tamiya paints. These truly are my favorite paints and I wish they would come out with RLM exclusive colors that don’t need mixed. I can never get them right to eye. The decals are a mix of Avi Print and the kit provided ones. I found the Avi Prints to be somewhat fragile and had to replace a few with Tamiya decals. I must say Tamiya’s decals seem to be improving in their later kits as they worked great (the crosses and Swastikas are Tamiya). Weathering is a mix of Flory Washes and AK Interactive enamels. I’ve been having success using them both.
That’s about it. Thanks for following. The 1/32 Tamiya Mustang in Preddy’s blue nosed markings is next. I can’t wait to tear into that one.
Wow that turned out really nice. Such an interesting gangly airframe. Well done
That’s a lovely job you’ve done there
She’s a real beauty lawdog hope mine comes out that nice. From what I’ve read in Rommel’s time in command he had three different storches with up to five different camo schemes. Two in Afrika core markings one of which having the light blue sprayed in squiggles over the standard two tone dessert camo. That one has also said to have been seen in Italy.
Beautiful work as always Joe, I enjoy how you present everything in your posts. I too had the pleasure a handful of times to see this plane fly down at Kermit’s place in Polk City during the daily demonstrations.
She has come out great LD, really nice woprk on the weathering.
Will be looking forward to your Bodney Mustang.
Beautiful job ! I really like this model, so much so that I wanna build one even though I’m not into german stuff. I wish Tamiya would come up with a Piper Super Cub of this quality.
For the most part I find Tamiya kits to go together really well. I have built several F-14s from HB, Hasegawa, Revell, Testors/Italeri but the Tamiya Tomcat was simply a pleasure to build having parts fitting like a glove and details were above the others.
Both the Storch and base are stunners! Super job dog. [t$t]
Wow! That is a great build and base!!! Super work! Looks awesome!
Looks great! Like the base too.
You really knocked this one out in a hurry. Super nice looking build. I think it’s really cool to get these out of the ordinary builds posted. It adds some variety to the kits we always see. Well done, Sir!!
BK
Great work,really looks good.
That looks fantastic, Joe. I can’t wait to see your work on the Mustang next.
-BD-
Thanks guys, like I said, not much into recon stuff, but it was certainly a fun build none the less, particularly trying to weather the desert camo scheme. At least it has one machine gun sticking out the back!..
Excellent job on a cool kit. I’ve been eyeing this kit for a while. Saw a real one at Dayton. Innovative craft and you certainly did it justice. Always enjoy your fine work.
Maxie
Thanks Max. I love that museum. It’s only about 4 hours away me. I want to go see the Memphis Belle someday…
