Well, I was cleaning my hobby room the other week and found one F5 that had never been finished. Furthermore, I was constantly moving my 1/72 scale B-52 H that had come down from the ceiling and had a few broken parts. I looked at these two and finally decided that after more than a year of sitting around unfinished, it was time to complete them.
Well, the pics are terribly fuzzy and poor in quality, but until I get a better camera, I can only show these models off in this way.
My B-52H, which is still sitting down on a nearby flat surface since I don’t have any ceiling space yet to hang it back up. It did not upload so I only have this pic of my 1/72 scale F-5B to post right now:
He’s right now sitting in a display case at USC in the front of the AF ROTC Building along with my 1/72 scale B-2 Stealth Bomber and my 1/72 scale F-117 Stealth Fighter.
Again I apologize for the pics being so poor but I hope you enjoyed them.
Amazing! This is my third or fourth Tiger! I’d say it was long about time dj! [;)][:D]
It is the Italeri kit, and I’d built it a little over two years ago. Then I painted it silver, and tried to hand paint the yellow stripes without masking. That didn’t work, and since I had no tape, I put it on the shelf until I could get some, and promptly forgot about it! [:I]
Fast forward to two years later, I see this model sitting on my shelf, and realize that I had not finished it! [:0] So, I masked off the nasty yellow stripes, canopy, wheel wells, and any other place I didn’t want silver, and then proceeded to spray it with Tamiya Flat Aluminum. Once the paint dried, the tape came off, and it was simply a matter of applying a clearcoat, decals, and another semigloss clearcoat to it. It feels good to finally finish something that I’d forgotten about! [B)]
The nice thing is that I have some extra Canadian decals from this kit that I can use to replace the peeling ones on my Canadian F-5.
Pixilater, rjkplasticmod: Thanks Pix and Rick, I’m glad you like it. I have a way to go before I get as good as you two, but I am working on it. I’ve already started my 1/72 scale Me 262A thanks to your excellent photos Pix!
fightnjoe: Glad you like it Joe. Thanks for the comment on the pic too. I wanted it to come out clearer and more sharp, but that’s the best my software can do with the pics this lousy camera takes! I do appreciate your postive comments Joe.
I’m still trying to get a recognizeable pic of the B-52H. Once I do, I’ll get that posted.
