Frank, your Pershing is looking great already!!![t$t] Really looking forward to seeing more!!! I would like to put you on to a thread that I followed not long after he started the project. It is an entirely scratchbuilt 1/6th scale M26!!! This mutha is BIG!!! Have a look!!!
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Pershing looks great!! I plan to get back onto mine later in week. Nice Work!![Y]
Here are my pics of the final 120MM Marine Bar Gunner,I call it " Memories of Home - Mail Call"
It is now complete and in the cabinet! Glad this build got to me finally finish it!
Notice his right eye has a small wound above it…
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Tonka,outstanding finish mate!!! He invokes the miserable conditions whilst having a break. [t$t]
Tonka , excellent work on the 120mm figure , [t$t]
I’ve made a little more progress with the two PB-1W’s
The wing and tail plane halves are glued together and tonight I’ll glue the fuselage halves together .
I have also made a start on the Mach 2 PBM-5 Mariner ;
I dry fitted all the small fuselage windows , then airbrushed the interior green and once the paint had dried I glued the windows in .
I like the way Mach 2 have molded a nice recess where the wing fits into the top of the fuselage ;
The fuselage halves are ready to glue together tonight as well , so everything is going along nicely .
John .
Excellent progress John!!! Looking forward to seeing progress on all your builds!!![t$t]
John,
Very nice work, wish my builds were as organized as yours. Look forward to seeing them come together!
kevin
Paints nearly done. will post photos tommorow. just been going over it with a torch to catch any imperfections. Hopefully have her finished by the weekend. God a hate blue lol
I picked up the new release Airfix 1/72 Mig-15
The kit has a nice cockpit with instrument decals , a wedge shape intake insert and North Korean markings for 1952 . I also like the camouflage scheme .
Should go nicely with the Yak-9P I have on order .
John .
For those uninformed, torch refers to a flashlight.[;)] LOL saying torch and referring to a plastic model makes me cringe.[proplr]
John, how is the detail on that Mig-15??? I saw that kit and was hesitant bout buying it. Any fit issues noticeable???
ooohhh hehe woops. didnt think of that. yes i meant a flashlight. ive got a little keyring one i use to go over paint and it picks up all the colour variations
Kevin, your figure is fantastic. You can actually see exhaustion, and emotion in him.
Looking good John, I would love a report on the Airfix Mig too. My LHS has them very cheap. So, unless it is hideous, I plan on buying one. Actually, I will probably pick up a couple of different Airfix kits. I don’t expect perfection, but I would like to support them because I applaud them (Airfix) for trying to put out affordable kits. As the Chinese and Japanese prices skyrocket, they are trying a different route. Enough of my soap box! I just wish they would re-release their 1/48 Seafire FR.47…
I am still trying to find an adapter for my airbrush, so I am at a standstill.
Looking forward to seeing your Corsair Mike, and with the others. Back to Airfix, has anybody built their FAA Corsair in 1/72?
Cheers,
Greg
The Airfix 1/72 Mig-15 is a vast improvement over their original offering ; The new release has nicely scibbed panel lines all over .
The cockpit tub and seat look rather good , there’s decals for the side consol panels as well as the main consol ; The landing gear struts look really nice , as I mentioned there is a insert for the front intake , the underwing tanks look good too . Hats off to Airfix for improving the Mig-15 kit .
The Skyraider PE just arrived at the front door , there seems to be enough PE to possible do two AD Skyraiders , an AD-4N USMC and a AD-4Q for the Navy
My Korean War bird stash has grown to 30 kits , with six builds nearly finished and another four 50% completed , I better get cracking !!!
John .
Welllllll now, looks like I might just have to pick one of those up!!! That awesome camo job did it for me too. Thanks for the valuable info John!!![t$t] I have the 1/72 HobbyBoss kit and it isn’t bad either.
Two more close-up sprue pic’s
HTH ,
John .
tonka- That figure is fantastic! I sure do wish I could paint figures like that. Well done! [t$t]
Tonka, your Chosin Marine looks superb! very impressive results there!
Helo, I jus t dont know what to say, another one??? You are a one man GB here. I built a Monogram 1/48 MiG-15 in those markings two years ago. I am looking forward to seeing that one done.
Yeah ; I guess I took the concept of this Group Build to the “Extreme” , to say the least , [:$]
I’m having lots of fun with my builds and watching what everyone else is doing , that’s the important thing I suppose . The Korean Air War and Armor books are quite imformative with accounts of different battles , It’s definatly a part of military history I haven’t given much attention to in the past . 30 builds is rather ambitious but with a full twelve months build time , I’m fairly confident I can get built some of the more unusual types of aircraft used during the Korean War .
John .
These three kits will probably be the last additions to my Korean War bird stash [whstl]
The mach 2 B-45/RB-45C Tornado has a lot more interior detail than any of the othe Mach 2 kits I have built .
There is a qiute extensive review of the B-45 Tornado on this site…
http://www.swannysmodels.com/B45.html
Only one set of decal markings are supplied for the Tornado , so I’ll have to check around the net for pic’s of an RB-45C which flew over Korea .
The special Hobby Fairey Firefly kit comes with markings for the Royal Navy HMS Glory , March 1953 , Korea
The OY-2 Stinson looks like a fun kit ; I just remembered I have a Revell PB4Y-2 Privateer and a F-82G Twin mustang on order , so that will definitly do me for the time being .
John .
Helo,You are making us look bad!! [;)] Seriously,great new additions, Cannot wait to see that stinson,I just got the same kit , thinking of doing it in the OD version, since few USMC birds are that color.
Good luck on them!
I have to agree Tonka , the olive drab finish on the OY-2 Stinson is certainly unusual for a Marine Corps bird;
I’ll go with the overall Sea Blue scheme , as I stocked up on 8 jars of Gunze H-326 [FS.15044] , I mistakenly bought quite a few paint jars of Gunze H-55 and H-25 to mix together for the aircraft builds with the Gloss Sea Blue finish but I wasn’t happy with the color on two H03S-1 Helicopters , so I tried the H-326 instead and was a lot happier with the results . I can still use the H-55/25 jars of paint on the two PB-1W’s and PBM Mariner , these three are fairly large aircraft , the last two coats on each I’ll switch to the H-326 color .
I’m finally about to start decaling the A-26B Invader , two H03S-1’s , two P-51D Mustangs and the Royal Navy Sea Fury ; I’m very happy with the paint results , so I shouldn’t be long before I can get the first 6 finished build pic’s posted , then I’ll only have 36 builds to go !!!
John .