Hi All!
This is my first post and I wanted to thank everyone on this board and espcially the FSM folks. [:)] After returing from Iraq I picked up a copy of FSM at the bookstore and was hooked on modeling after a 20 year absence. Everyone’s knowledge that they have shared here on the board and their own webpages has most definitely rekindled a long-long lost love of modeling and I am most appreciative.
Below is a picture of my freshly completed B25J from Hasewaga’s new kit…[:D] my first “grown up” model that took me 4 weeks to do. I wasn’t happy with the Factory fresh look so I weathered her down and added the 2 HF and 1 VHF antennas that were missing from the kit. And oh, i’m starting a diorama to show her off. Everyones help with masking, washes, coats, salt chipping, staining, sprue stretching…et al was very very useful. [:)]
Again THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. I hope that I can contribute more to the community in the future and become consumed into my new hobby!
----ken
Welcome to the Forum[#welcome]. Very nice build of this very nice kit. A great start after a long lay-off. Hope to see more posts from you. Keep em coming.
Welcome back. If that is your first model after 20 years than I am very impressed. What a beautiful job you have done. Can’t wait to see what you do next.
Sweet B-25, The weathering is very well done. Welcome to the forums, and also a thanks from me for keeping us safe.[bow][bow][bow][#ditto][#welcome][tup][C):-)]
Wow! Thanks to everyone for the VERY kind comments. [8D] My B25J is my third model…my first was a generic Bradley (I know…it’s tank) but it was a safe way for me to figure out this is what I wanted to do. Learned how to wash and dry brush but it is more or less out of the box.
Next I built a 1/48 F-86-J30…Not too fancy but I played more with masking and washes and coats this time.
Then came Jaunty Joe…and I had to take my time and pour lots of love into her…4 weeks and all my free time and I’m hooked! detailed the cockpits, weathering, this is great fun!!!
Anyway thanks again! More will come! (going to the hobby shop today to find a new model [:D])
–ken
Welcome to the forum and back home… I built the same plane from the Monogram line and I have to say seeing yours make me want to strap bottle rockets on the bottom of mine and use it to study theories of flight
great job, looks like Im gonna be building another Mitchel [:)]
Thanks for sharing
btw… your second post, all I see is red X’s for picks
Hey Ken,
First off, WELCOME HOME…!!![;)] And second [#welcome] to our FSM family.
Man I love your Mitchell!! Over all appearance is great.
For your weathering, what style did you use or did you combine all methods?As for the gas truck, who makes it??
Again great build, lookin forward to more posts
Flaps up, Mike
Mike,
Thanks! [:D] I used a combination of methods…I used Swanny’s tips for using salt crystals for “chipped paint” but instead of dusting her with the salt I made a think salt soup that I applied with a wet brush (great site, btw Swanny!). Doesn’t show real well on the picture but I did this on the canopy frames too (I used FSM’s article on masking last month)…for the oil stains/gunpowder marks I first applied a very thin base of Jet Exhaust, then a thin layer of engine gray followed with a layer of dark gray pastel chalk. The wash was a 30/70 black gray and i left a really light coat of it on top of the olive drab and decals to weather it a little. I used a grey wash to weather the propellers but kept one new looking for that just replaced look. I even experimented with the yellow pastel trick on one of the panels…Really just doing what “looked” right with my reference picts and am happy with the results [:)].
The fuel truck is also a Hasewaga kit that i bumped into at my hobby shop and thought it would make a great start for a dio. I had to make the windows and added some fuel hoses with some wire I had and need to muddy it up some. It came with some figures that I am going to setup as if “on break”…once i figure out how to paint people in 1/72d scale!
Sorry for any red "x"s…don’t have my own dedicated webserver space to play with yet and it might not work for everyone. Will fix soon!
Again…THANKS to everyone!
—ken
