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Knb.1451

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  1. You really turned a sows ear into a silk purse. I am very impressed.
  2. I'll wait patently for a real update then. I hope your Bucc and phantom turn out well.
  3. Good evening, do you have any updates on thos project? I've been very interested since I saw it the first go round. Or did you find yourself in the impervious horrors of a lee shore?
  4. I've been well, handling some 1 to 1 scale planes that have been a bit of a pain, and went to see my dear battleship Texas in dry dock. How have things been on your end?
  5. Heck yeah, I've been waiting for your reappearance! My compliments from Texas.
  6. Sir, this is a very impressive piece, she will be magnificent when complete.
  7. This build is looking great! Are you going to mark and drill the windows?
  8. I think that would be the best bet, it would be very tedious however. As for the rips in the shell plating just behind the well deck those you could probably get away with cutting a small sliver of hull out, maybe 3 of 4 mil and graft in .002 plastic sheet into the rest of the kit plastic. Everything from the gymnasium back will be a exercise in extreme patience and low heat.
  9. This is turning into quite the build! What's the brand of punch you used to make those little disks? I have been looking for a micro punch.
  10. This will be a cool build, are you gonna remove all the molded on railings?
  11. This is a very clean build, you should be proud of your work!
  12. Your work is fantastic, it looks great even under a dreaded all natural metal!
  13. First update since I moved house, upon finding some really great frames in season 3 I was able to revise the belly of Airwolf to better portray the stiffeners and associated structure of the ADF pod, as well as some rather curious round exhausts on the middle lower fuselage. With those added and my well trained eye still seeing low spots it's back to putty sand repeat till I'm happy with it. I also ordered some rivet decals so it will be interesting learned to use them. For those of you in the States, happy 4th of July! (Even if this post is two days early.)
  14. @ArnoldAmbrose I have been to U.S.S. Kidd in Baton Rouge, Luisiana and i can confirm the decks amidships and fantail are really crowded, it doesn't quite help that the ship is very small. Some passage ways on the interior are only about shoulder width. Keep on keepin on she's looking great! 😎
  15. Thank you, it's pretty pleasing the first time you can get a uniform color on a model. 😎
  16. I haven't forgotten, I've just been packing up house for a move this weekend. I got the fuselage halves together and have been trying my damnedest to fill seams and make it smooth. I've also scribed in the door for the ADF pod and added the incidentally real antenna with the same name. I keep watching the show for some good references unfortunately it seems I'm only watching the show. https://flic.kr/p/2oHgkVu
  17. This weeks update, I was able to paint most of the main rotor and painted the whole tail rotor. Instrument panel was thrown together a little quickly and painted since it will be so hard to see, but it's there as well as the over head console. Not pictured was the paint test of Tamiya smoke over gunmetal to get the right hue for the paint. The extendable guns were painted gunmetal as well. In a set backwards however I've removed the upper and lower windows since the lower were short shot and the upper were undersized for the 222 I'll fill them with UV resin when it comes in the mail later this week.
  18. Well, after a week or so working on real planes, I can finally return to my favorite Lady. This morning I sat down at the desk and thought, how am I going to make these exhausts, I have it, I'll heat form some thin styrene. Well no dice, it heated and shrunk in strange ways, back to square one. This time I just took a piece of that same styrene and formed it around the handle of a paint brush, taped it on one side and then glue it, put it in a clamp to hold it till the sprue goo I glued it with cured, and that worked well. Next up was a new center console to go with the soon to be updated instrument panel, here I just stacked styrene to the desired thickness and sanded it flat, faced it with thin stuff and put sprue goo on a particular spot that was unsightly.
  19. To answer about changes to the kit, I've removed the extremely heavily molded panels around the windows to clean up the look, since the real thing is pretty slick aerodynamically, I'll add intake trunks for the real engines since you can see through to the other side and extend the original exhausts to give it more depth. Eventually I'll reapply the rivets with a riveting tool for some surface detail, modify the kit instrument panel with a fan design I found that fits the feel pretty well. I may even test my soldering abilities by scratching up a new ADF pod. I may motorize it, but I've yet to come to a conclusion on that decision. Thank you for your interest!
  20. I finally decided to snag myself the old AMT Airwolf kit after finding the show in Tubi. I started it and decided that the over sized window frames, huge raised latches on the upper engine doors, boiler plate rivets, and Desth Star trenches on the fuselage needed to go (I forsee quite a bit of parasitic drag) I've started the kit. It's a bit simple but it is Airwolf
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