Works in Progress???

[Bruce_Crosby]

Hi Guys,

 

I've got so much going on at the moment so I thought I'd do a quick roundup.

 

For starters there are SIX Hasegawa FW 190D variants on the workbench, ever so slightly stalled at the moment. They aren't alone as my Revell Mustang D to B/C is also stalled.

 

I've spent time designing scaleable RAF standard letters and numbers in AutoCAD so I can import them into the Silhouette mask cutter for the upcoming raft of RAF models I intend to build.  Already started on two Tamiya Mosquitos and there are four Special Hobby Tempests in the queue!

 

 

 

 

Then there's the Revell Piper Cub, lovely little kit but somehow I managed to lose the cockpit rear bulkhead which ties together the cockpit structural tubing.  So out with plasticard, marker pen, scalpel and sanding sticks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Bruce Crosby

 

Edited October 3, 2018 by Bruce_Crosby

[DonH]

Yow, how do you keep track of it all?

[Bruce_Crosby]

Hive mind but without the rest of the hive!

[Gerhard]

I struggle with one at a time. 

[Shawn M]

i'd end up with a Merlin powered cub and a yellow mosquito

[Bruce_Crosby]

I’m working on the Mosqitos right now, putting some tiny etched steel flanges onto the central air distribution manifold then later on I’ll be able to airbrush with Mission Models Grey Primer. Or at least that’s the plan!

 

Regards,

 

Bruce Crosby

[Out2gtcha]

5 hours ago, DonH said:

Yow, how do you keep track of it all?

 

5 hours ago, Gerhard said:

I struggle with one at a time. 

 

 

Yes and yes! 

[Bruce_Crosby]

Hi Guys,

 

More on the Tamiya Mossie kits.  I airbrushed some primer onto the engine sub assemblies and here it is.  I used Mission Models MMS-003 Grey Primer mixed 10:3 with their thinner and sprayed thru a badger Krome at 12 psi.  It went on as smooth as silk.  I've been using MMP ever since it was introduced in the UK and its just a really great product. 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

Bruce Crosby

Edited October 3, 2018 by Bruce_Crosby

[Bruce_Crosby]

Hi Guys,

 

I’ve done it again, leapt without looking first! Sounds familiar?

 

Last year  I batch built 4 Fw-190D kits and there are 6 more on the ramp, partially painted and assembled.  Enough for anyone, right? Not this deluded idiot, I just bought a couple more!  Actually one of them used to be mine but the guy I sold it to isn’t ever going to build it, or the other one he bought recently.  He gave me first option on them, plus a 190A, when he decide to have a clear out.  Thanks, Mike!

 

So that’s EIGHT D series to build, which makes a batch of 12. Come on chaps, keep up.  That’s just 1/32 scale, I do 1/48 as well!

 

I was 68 last week and I’m wondering how many I can finish before I pop my clogs.  Not so much a Bucket List as a whole, complete Garbage Truck!

 

Still, lunch and coffee over, it’s back to painting bits of Aviattic’s 1/32 Marienfelde truck.

 

Regards,

 

Bruce Crosby