Marklo

Yes. Probably only an hour or two left in it. But I broke my ankle on Saturday and am officially temporarily banned from the bench by SWMBO 🤪 but I have progressed the RF84 to just before filler.

No I don’t think so. But I do like it when the more esoteric ones gain traction. My one fear is that we end up just going spitfires and me109s. IMHO the best proposals take us out of our default modelling area eg anything but injection or the entropy GBs @Corsairfoxfouruncle can I sign you up for a star fighter.

That looks marvellous, nicely restrained weathering

my stupid leg and my hospital pyjamas. 😡 sprockets from the Elephant Blue stuff freshly microwaved Squish on the blue stuff and leave to cook Two part resin. I use a weighing scales to ensure a correct mix. sprocket mold ready for another go Poured about twenty mls of resin Cures in about ten to twenty minutes. resin castings before cleanup. So I’ve done 24 road wheels next I have to do two sets of sprockets.

Ankle is broken…. So in that deepest of ironies I may have lots of time in my hands but not be able to get near the bench ….

That looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing the finished results.

Welcome again

Road wheels. Ready for paint. I’m now thinking primer, silver, red oxide then camo. But, I think I need to divert and make the set of wheels for the fifth chassis. More to follow when I can get around. At least I have some company while I convalesce.

Well I managed to slip and sprain my ankle so may not be modelling at all today, sigh.

Plan for tomorrow. 1. Can of grey primer 2. Can of grey paint (dumbo afaik) 3. Can of dark yellow paint ( warm straw?) 4. More roadwherr er le than you can shake a stick at. 5. Some green stuff bluestuff 6. some two part resin Hopefully ready to build a few chasis by teatime 😀🤪

You know it makes sense. They also have a nice multitool from Monday great for wood working projects….

Fair enough. P for Porsch H for Henschel ? Prototype aircraft designations are so much simpler ( except for Fokker)

Two items of note. It appears SWMBO has to work Saturday, alas, however I am now tentatively thinking of it as Tiger day 😬 Second LIDL are selling rather nice rotary tools ( dremel knockoffs) for €24 complete with an extension and some routing tools, seriously good value.

Welcome Ralph. Great progress.

Meh, same end result….

My kit looks to have the same road wheels as the Ferdinand and I’ll probably copy them for VK4501

There are no prizes (although I think we should have a vote) no returns other than the respect an awe of your fellow modellers so go have fun , show us your modelling skill and build something that fits in among the various tiger chassis and we’re good 😀

I agree a lot of parallels with the Sopwith Camel, killed a lot of trainee pilots but in the hands of a skilled pilot superb.

Started getting the road wheels ready for paint one down four more to go. Of course I will have to divert and cast a set for VK4501 From either the elegant or VK4502 Now that I think of it apart from the odd split line what’s so heinous about the Italeiri Tiger I turret? I’ve downloaded and scaled some plans to check it against.

If it helps at all I find a cocktail stick and a black sharpie the best method for doing the rubber rims on roadwheels. Works best in 1/72 scale not sure about 1/5whatever. Method B is to paint em black then break out the DSPIAE circle cutter and some extra wide masking tape and paint the spray the base camo colour. Generally the method I use on 1/35 scale builds.

That’s remarkable detail for a 1/72 kit. Looking very good so far btw.

Ah yes, I use it all the time as an airbrush cleaner.

We try to be historically correct and while paper projects are ok pure what ifs are outside the scope of this GB. Otherwise welcome and have fun.

Ooopsie, I thought it was today……. Oh well both now ready for paint, might as well finish them. im going to have to select another candidate or two for May I have a nice 1/48 I-15 so maybe that and since its may the 4th I probably should make at least one starwars kit. Time for a lot of tiger road wheels I think….

I suppose I am too. I work three days a week two hours a day ( three if you count travel time) and ‘work’ is afterschool science club which usually involves making slime or arts and crafts which is why I tend to put the word in inverted commas 😀