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Hawkwrench

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  1. Gotta have some. Maybe they'll roll out some UH-60 pilots too!!! Tim
  2. Thank you sir. I love this model, even though it gives me fits sometimes! Tim
  3. Last night I was able to do a little bit more work on the 172. Nichimo gives you 2 sunvisors, and wants you to just glue them the the top of the fuselage, but I opted for some more detail. I scratchbuilt an overhead light/map console with the speaker from sheet styrene and PE from my spares box. The speaker grill is a seat cushion decal from a 1/48 F-14. I also uses some lead wire and L shaped styrene for the sunvisor mounts and finally glued both of them together and onto the cockpit ceiling. Till next week! Tim
  4. After a long absence and a forced change of jobs due to my plant closing the doors, I found a new job and finally some benchtime. The cockpit is completely done FINALLY! Until next week! Tim
  5. Probably no chance they redid the kh instructions and fixed all the issues. Tim
  6. After looking at the baggage compartment more, I decided to add a little more detail to the back of the 172. I scratchbuilt a storage case and painted and weathered it to look like a well used wooden box. I found some 1/24 3d printed prepainted oil quarts on ebay and the shop rags are painted lead foil. I also scratchbuilt the fuel sample tool. Now the back looks alot better!!! That's all for tonight. Comments and critiques welcome! Tim
  7. Tonight, I scratchbuilt a tow bar using .035 lead wire bent to shape and painted red and glued it to the baggage compartment floor(where it usually goes). Afterwards, I painted the exhaust headers a hot, rusty look and glued them to the exhaust box. I can finally say the engine assembly is ALMOST done! Comments and critiques welcome! Chow till next weekend! Tim
  8. Wow, 5 months since my last post. Sorry, but life and work has gotten in the way. For now, I'm back. I've been SLOWLY working on the interior of the 172, having to custom mix the interior colors to match the customer's colors. More updates tomorrow night. (Tried to post 2 pics, but it won't let me. Is their a new rule???) Comments and critiques welcome! Tim
  9. How about going off the airplane path and making a set for the 1/35 Takom AH-64E helicopter! Tim
  10. I just don't get why alot of helicopter pilot figures are wearing LPU's around their neck??? They are not part of the daily ALSE gear worn while flying. They are only worn when flying over water ops! Ugh!!!! This drives me nuts!!!!!!! Tim
  11. What a bunch of idiot dirt bags. Hopefully cameras can help catch them. If not, sounds like sniper mode with frozen paintballs!!!! Tim
  12. I could definitely look forward to a new tooled H-60 besides the old KH kits. Tim
  13. They take your money but don't want to give out theirs!!! Tim
  14. Set the engine aside for a few and decided to tackle the instrument panel and center console. For the instrument gauge glass, i used laminating sheet. The layout of the panel is different than the kit part and was supplied by a fellow Cessna 172 model builder. Thanks John!!! The radio stack was custom 3d printed by Arms Corps Models and his work is amazing!!! That's all for now! Tim
  15. There used to be an online store in Florida that stocked it. (That's where I bought mine) Sorry i can't remember the name though since it's been a few years. Tim
  16. Well crap, guess I gotta start over then!!! The scat tubes are going on this weekend along with a few more wires and fuel hoses. Tim
  17. Finally rounding third and heading for home on the engine. I finished wiring the spark plugs and wires and made the engine baffles from construction paper and tamiya tape. It looks rough, but all baffles are like that from the cowlings being taken on and off repeatedly. I also scratchbuilt a oil dipstick tube from spare parts and glued a Anyz 1/32 WW2 knob onto a punched disk to make the oil cap. Just a few more hoses and wires and she'll be done. The firewall is about done as well. I just have to figure out from actual pics where the hoses go. That's all for now! Tim
  18. They go on pretty good. I've come across a couple that were a little thick and so I just thinned it down a little. Tim
  19. Tonight I worked on painting alot of the accessories to the engine like the alternator, belt, starter and the cylinder covers. That was followed up by a dirty wash using Tamiya black panel accent color. The cylinder covers were painted using the new Vallejo Game Color Blue. Comments and critiques welcome. Tim
  20. I did a little bit more work on the engine accessory section. I painted the oil pan gunmetal followed by a weathering using a AK aluminum pencil and white pastel chalk. The oil filter was a big oversized cylinder, so I scratchbuilt one from my spares along with a generic decal and then glued on a resin bolthead. Waiting for my plug wires to come in to start wiring it up. That's all for now! Tim
  21. Thanks guys. I'll look into them. Tim
  22. We need a 1/35 scale Bell Jetranger/OH-58 Kiowa!!! And not the OH-58D! Tim
  23. While painting a firewall aluminum, it hit me. What color do you use to highlight something painted aluminum??? Tim
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