Life's a beach for the elves this month!
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New priorities abound!
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What's on your Bench?
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Life's a beach for the elves this month!
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New priorities abound!
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What's on your Bench?
Since you are making seaplanes your focus, I will see you and make them mine, too - I have several on my workbench in various states of completion and it's time to finish them! Thanks for the throw-down of the gauntlet:sAprvd:
All the best,
Matt
Received my Mosquito order last week so have a few of them to do. 2 fighters/3 fighter bombers and 3 bombers. The fighter bombers have additional items to add. Drop tanks/bombs or rockets.
This guys may look familiar:
This past Christmas I built the dragon 1/35 panther ausf. f L/100. Well I made a few changes to make it seem more used and more like something you would see in a "1946" last ditch effort environment. I took parts from a Tamiya half-track and added an armored machine gun to the turret, and more stowage.
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Besides that, I've scratchbuilt a mid air refueling station to fit into the bomb bay of a 1/144 b-29. It's completely fictional, and based off an old game I played a few years ago. The idea is that a plane would fly up and dock. It would then get locked into place and the boom would comedown to start refueling. It's still in a somewhat prototype stage right now but here it is:
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It's only a small idea as of the moment, but I do hope to fit it to a b-29 in the future.
That is a loooooonnnnngggg 75 on that Panther, Max! The 'post-war'/continuation war stuff is always interesting...:sAprvd:
Your Mosquito paints will be definitely something to behold, Bob - such a cool plane with so many possibilities of action...:)
Have to get working on my several seaplanes to compete (lamely) with Clipper's efforts...
All the best,
Matt
Nice work on that Panther. :sAprvd:
A few items in the pipeline. A 1/48 Halberstadt CL.II
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And turning two more of these
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Into these
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Also waiting for an Ares SBD-5 that i can turn into Swede Vejtasa's SBD-3 at Coral Sea.
That Halberstadt box art looks nice. I sadly am having airbrush trouble and will need it to get fixed, so no more painting for me. :(
Lovely job on the Panther max.
Aaaahh, besides painting some minis for Prague 2018, which is a great pleasure and a challenge, I do not neglect other wargames, which include Richard Borg's Samurai Battles...but it takes a lot of patience to assemble the units:eek:.
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I did a quick re-paint of a Stark Fokker DVII. I had two and I could not stand looking at that hideous Pink! I don't know if it historically accurate but I saw this paint scheme on a model and really liked it.
I think it is a ZVEZDA game for Samurai. I have the Memoir 44 game and the Command & Colors ancients and Napoleonic. It is because of Andy I bought the C&C game. I have seen guys using that system with 10mm minis.
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Stunning paintjob, Ken. :thumbsup:
Thanks, as normal I do not do the bases for him as we debase them and glue em to clear plastic bases.
Ken those are fabulous. Can't much more about them.
I kinda like the pink. It might help if you Springsteen it and call it, “Pahnk.” Or coral. Or my favorite from over on the Gundam side of things, “Man-Salmon” (for that Pink Gundam that is officially called “red”).
;-)
Edit in: and, oh! Like what you did with the repaint.
Thanks Bruce, I shared the Man-Salmon comment with some friends and they absolutely loved it!
Here is another Camel I did up this week. I found the paint scheme on the web, I believe it is a navel plane. I stripped the model down to bare metal or plastic as I do with most. This way you don't lose any detail with additional coats of paint. Then I airbrush them to get a great even coat on. Small details are brushed on.
Excellent deconstruction! Makes the mini come alive in terms of its design and construction : ) The paint job is exquisite!
Here is an Eduard 1/48 mig-21 MF. It is all built and ready and I'm just waiting to get my airbush fixed to do the painting. This Might will be in East German markings.
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Sigh....looks like the guy I did the figs for is less then happy with them. Been doing his stuff for over 2 years and in that time his tastes have changed.
SOOOOO....looks like more time to do E-bay fodder..:surrender:
I'm liking the idea of an East German finish on that MiG, Max - I look forward to the finished product. Sorry to hear your client sounds like he's not your client any longer, Ken - more time for you to paint things you want to paint, perhaps?
Good looking work here this month - I must get going on some of my projects!
All the best,
Matt
The tip of the iceberg that is my workbench. These are finished.
1/100 Betty - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available for this one.
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1/100 Kate - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available for this one.
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1/200 IL-4 - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available.
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1/200 IL-2 - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available.
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1/200 IL-2M - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available.
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1/200 IL-2 Type 3 - Armaments in Miniature. Miscmini decals available.
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1/600 P-51Ds - Oddzial Osmy via Pico Armor. Miscmini decals in the works.
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Outstanding work, really like the glass in the cockpits.
Your attention to detail and those cockpits is just amazing! Well done! I’m jealous of your skill! :sAprvd:
Great paint jobs as always Kevin. I was going to order some IL-2. Now I know you have the decals for them.
Ken I can't believe that he doesn't like those figures.
Bob,
Been an ongoing effort the last year or so...He wants em lighter but also wants em painted just like the cards. Then gives me alt versions from BGG that are slightly different. Tells me to use my head but then gives me written directions on what he wants. Can not work like that, need more freedom of expression rather then paint by number with the numbers changing and me always not picking the correct one. Add I use the base coat, wash, dust, seal method and then being told I can not dust. I do not dust and am told they are too dark (Yeh...he took away my lightning method) and not as good as the older figs I did (Yeh..took away my choice, lightning method, and joy of painting). Then to top it off talks about how the older figs had flocked and painted bases that really added to the fig but has had me cut the bases off for the last year or so to allow him to mount em on clear bases. Sigh....delt with most of that...but today was accused of screwing up a fig just so he would drop me as a painter....VERY BAD MOVE...I DO NOT screw up figs...even with all the hoops I still try my best, that is what a professional does, at least those from my era.
All three of my major customers are quiet right now so digging into the ready rack for E-bay fodder to paint. Just very upset on how he turned on me. But hey, it happens and after a sale or two will cheer up...smile.
Kevin, your birds are AWESOME!
Ken if that is his attitude about your work you are better off without that attitude. Sit back and relax and know that the people here appreciate what you do. And most important :)
Kevin, your Japanese and Russian planes are g o r g e o u s!!!
Who makes those decals? If I were doing Russian and Japanese planes, I would have to get them:sAprvd: I, too, really like the way you handle the cockpit color - it's what I plan to do when I start painting/repainting WW2 stuff.
Keep up the awesome work - both in your paintcraft and your decal production.:sAprvd:
All the best,
Matt
Thanks for all the comments here and in private...I will get over my funk in a few days. Matter of fact drug out a dozen sprues of Japs for Bolt action from my ready box tonight. Added a MG team, Mortar, 47mm ATG, and an officer I had on hand. Started assembling my next Bolt Action army for Fleabay.
That should keep me busy.
Ken, you just can't please some people. Those ones should be left on their own.
Kevin, more great planes!