Looks really good, Mike.
I jumped into an M10 yesterday for another GB, but I NEED to tie up some loose ends…
Hello all here the finished detailed work on my M113 Nagmash Ambulance before I start the paint process to day.
Now the lower hull. An I like the out come of my work.
My interior paint work has started.
Here’s some engine photos. Now iI must tell you all I painted every thing in place.
Truly remarkable work, White – your skill and patience are outstanding!
M/TB379
Thanks “Thunder”. Guys I have bean working on some othere projects, as well as my MkIV APC/IFV and I will have new photos for this GB with in the next two days.
Hi! If you allow Cross over builds, and it is not too late, I would like to jump in here! I am building a F-16A “Netz” and a F-16I “Sufa” for my Viper GB. Please let me know.
Travis
Hi all,
With my Fw 190 finally home and hosed, I took a couple of days rest and then thought I’d like to crack on with the S-199 for IDF II. I thought all I had to do was sort out the canopy and get some interior cockpit paint over the masks…
!(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/MikeTheModeller/Hobbycraft Avia S-199/DSCF7360a.jpg)
This is a bit of a mish-mash. The Galland Panzer rear armour was cast in clear plastic by Hobbycraft so I cut Tamiya tape masks for each side and sprayed it cockpit grey. But then it turned out there were no sockets in the canopy into which the pegs on the armour plate would sit. I filed them in, but foolishly trusted the kit plans’ suggestion as to where they should go, which was far enough back to obstruct the fit against the scratchbuilt detail of the locking bar.
If this wasn’t enough, it turns out the canopy is an attrocious fit, toeing in at the left front by almost the width of the sidewall. [:@] I thought an hour’s fiddling and I’d have that set of previously-used diecut masks into place and be applying paint to this and two other models, but noooooooo…
I’m thinking of posing the canopy open, that way the mis-match won’t be immediately obvious, but it’s a whole lot of fiddling in other ways, and the canopy is fragile, the less handling it gets, the better…
Hmmmmmm…
Mike/TB379
White , the level of detail and the amount of work you have put into your M113 Nagmash Ambulance is absolutly amazing , excellent work Sir …[:D[
Mike , that Hobbycraft S-199 seems to have been fighting you all the way , I build mostly in 1/72 scale but every time I visit the LHS , they have the Academy 1/48 Avia S-199 . I’ve had it in my hands a few times and then put her back on the shelf ; I wonder if it fits better than the Hobbycraft kit ???
Hang in there anyway bud .
John
Hi John,
It’s, um… exactly the same kit! Academy and Hobbycraft have a reboxing agreement. You find Hobbcraft in Academy boxes, the way you find Trumpeter in Hobbycraft boxes…
The overall airframe is pretty good, good enough that I bought an extra one, but this canopy was an unexpected snag. The parts are crystal clear and look great on the sprue, they’re just a different shape to the fuselage! I wonder if a replacement from Squadron might be a good idea… But I’ve heard working with vacform canopies can drive grown modellers to drink (even quicker that working with the kit bits)…[:)]
Cheers, Mike/TB379
Hello guys Im sorry I have neglected posting my new work., so here what I have so far on the Namera Mk. IV-IFV and Achzarit APC/IFV.
Achzarit APC/IFV project:
Here I had to cut the rear down a bit.
White – your scratchbuilding is inspirational and reminds me how much fun it used to be engineering in styrene sheet!
Well, it took two sessions of fiddling, but the S-199 canopy is masked for painting inside and out:
!(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/MikeTheModeller/Hobbycraft Avia S-199/DSCF7362a.jpg)
Now for cockpit grey inside, mask again and set aside for the overall colour on the outside. Speaking of which, I’ll need to hit the LHS for the shades Bondo used (way back in this thread…). I could go with RLM 02, but it just wouldn’t be right, so a mixed “Sinai Grey” it is.
Cheers, M/TB379
Thanks Thunder for the comments, I have a lot more to build and then I’ll have a lot of realy small detailed work to do. I love your masking work keep it up M8.
Ok I repainted the M113’s interior with a lighter color.
An I added grees plugs to the drive sprockets of the Achzarit APC/IFV.
Here’s a look at the real wheels, with colored plugs and whit out color.
Now the painted sprocket… 
Hi guys,
The canopy of the Hobbycraft Avia was a nuisance and so too was the windscreen. As usual, Hobbycraft seems to have been engineered by a committee, and the canopy subcommittee was working from diffrerent measurements to the fuselage subcommittee. The windscreen matches the canopy, so it does not fit the fuselage… All I can do is set up one side correctly and ignore the other! (Replacement vac canopy in future…)
Here is the windscreen masked (from scratch, once again, the dimensions of this canopy are much smaller than those of Hasegawa’s version of the same thing and for which the Eduard masks were designed – masking from scratch really makes me appreciate the precut items):
!(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn48/MikeTheModeller/Hobbycraft Avia S-199/DSCF7366a.jpg)
Also, the small intake/fairing under the nmose is now in place. I had to take a best guess at placement, Hobbycraft certainly didn’t know exactly where it went and that structure is obscured in all my reference photos. The only certainty is that 120.D didn’t have the big intake/radiator under the nose, so by default it was the small one.
I’m starting to think in terms of paint. I picked up Tamiya XF-12 IJN Grey yesterday and will use Bondo’s mixing ratio. While no photos I have show the wheelwells, an underside view of another completed model suggests the wheel wells were the overall camo colour, which would make sense if the aircraft were being prepared as quickly as humanly possible. The gear legs on 120.D in the museum today seem to be a cooler, bluer grey shade, but the inside of the gear bay doors looks like a match for the rest of the aircraft. Likewise, her prop blades are now in overall camo colour, while an older photo shows them black with yellow spinners, and some models are finished in RLM 70, which seems likely for the operational aircraft in 1948.
Aeromaster’s sheet includes the red and white chevron rudder but the decal is much larger than the rudder and seems to be meant to be trimmed around after application. Getting the chevrons to match up seamlessly at the trailing edge of the rudder sounds very dodgy to me under those circumstances, so I’m thinking of painting the tail instead – satin white, mask the six white bands on each side, satin red (and matching spinner cone), then mask the rudder and fin cap completely.
I’m seeing light at the end of the tunnel on this one, and when she’s done I’ll turn my attention to finishing the Merkava II from IDF I.
Cheers, Mike/TB379
Hi Mike ;
Sorry to hear about the poor fit of the canopy ;
Good on ya for perserving with the build though [Y]
I know what you mean about the rudder decals , when I built a few 1/72 IDF Spitfire’s last year , the Chevron rudder decals from the Sky Decals IAF First Fighters sheet were way too big , so I did what you are thinking about and airbrushed white first then masked and added the red bands . It worked out okay .
Best of luck ;
John .
Here’s a bit more work done.
Here’s a nice side view…
More to come…
Here’s a bit of work for this day/knight…
