HI ! I have so many extra parts that I have accumulate true the years and finaly decided it was time to give them a little love , So here it is .. the first BABY step to the project !.. If you like to follow the complete WIP on this project , I have set up an GOOGLE page, just follow this link .. https://photos.app.goo.gl/NtNSgh1zJgx9jRSx5 Here an exemple of the one I have completed so far Enjoy ! Jmarc

This next build is a commission build. I have a client who requests/schedules a build every year. He was a Harrier pilot for VMA-214 also known as the “Blacksheep”. For this build he has requested a build of the famous F4U Corsair the Blacksheep flew and it be set in a diorama of a Pacific Island Airfield. The F4U I will be using is the 1/48 Tamiya F4U-1A Corsair which will be mounted in a custom display case From Grandpa's Cabinet's featuring a typical island airfield with a Mini-Art Marston tarmac, a row of palm trees to line the back of the display, a background behind the trees of a beach/ocean view, and mounts that the client can attach the squadron patch and his name tag. I will also be using Eduard photo etch details to add to the realism. Starting off with the cockpit I added the photo etch replacements for the seat and the seat mount on the rear bulkhead. The side consoles were then modified with more photo etch details. The instrument panel was replaced with a placard for the gauges and the photo etch face. The last of the photo etch details and seat belts were installed onto the cockpit halves and then the cockpit tub was assembled. I am now working on detailing the inside of the fuselage halves and the engine. I am hoping to get the fuselage assembled and starting by the end of the next week. You can see all the photos and details from start to finish in the build log at: https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-f4u-1a-corsair/

Just finished #13 for this year, the old 1/48 Monogram AV-8A Harrier, built OOTB except for some Quinta 3D cockpit decals. Did this one quick and dirty just to familiarize myself with the Harrier as I don't build many modern jets. The kit decals shattered on me so I had to substitute some "faux" Blacksheep markings that I won't be using when building the new UMA AV-8B. I also had to home vac a new windscreen as the kit part was cracked. It won't win any prizes, but it suited my purposes! Kit interior with the Quinta placards in place. I used my old Mattel vac machine to make a new windshield after sanding the cracked kit part smooth. And the rest of the pics! On to the next one! Gil

This was done as a challenge. A couple of friends of mine purchased this at the IPMS Nationals and more or less dared me to make it. So being the chump I am, I searched out the needed donor kit and had at it when I got home. The conversion kit consisted of six parts, two fuselage halves and four radiator parts, two tops and two bottoms. You had to cut into the donor kit's wing to inset the radiators. I've seen this conversion done a couple of times and done MUCH better than mine, but I think you can get the general idea of what a Tempest Mk I looked like anyway. I did personalize it in one way, I assumed that since it was a prototype that perhaps it was still being test flown by Hawkers, so I put my pilot in a white jump suit as I've seen on many newsreels of the era. Don't mind the color shift, he really isn't orange. In reality, there were two prototypes built, one of the car door variety and the other with the final bubble top. The shift away from the wing mounted radiators to the more recognizable chin one was due to a change in power plant as the original intended one had development problems.

Was wondering if there was an RSS feed that we could follow when new IPMS/USA news and updates dropped?

I tried to import the Event Calendar into my Google calendar so I could keep track of any events my club members might like to know about. I clicked on the little orange iCal button at the bottom left of the calendar and and copied the url it gave into the import section of my Google calendar. Google says there is no calendar file there to import. Is there another link somewhere to the actual calendar file we could grab?

This is "Sammy" Allard's No. 85 Squadron Hurricane Mk. I in France in the spring of 1940. The Airfix kit is quite nice if you put a little effort into it. The wheels are from Barracuda Studios, the early-style exhausts are from Quickboost, and the decals are from Xtradecals (except for the serials, which I made myself because the font on the decal sheet was totally spurious). The model is lightly weathered with oils - thanks to Steve Husted for the inspiration and instruction (via video!).

This is the Char B1 kit from the Char/FT17 set. It's a pretty nice little kit. Fit was good, if a bit fiddly around the main gun. Tracks are well done but due to their rubber band nature are hard to paint/finish. It even has separate tools, which in this scale and at the time it was released was somewhat of a rarity.

I began this one a few weeks ago starting with collecting parts from previous WC projects. I had molds for fenders, tires and wheels and a frame from a WC-52 that I was planning on building but never did. The frame was stretched by adding a section in the middle for the longer WC-54 wheel base. Springs and axles are brass with the differentials from two part resin. Body sides are 0.030" Evergreen plastic sheet. The cab is diecast and was cut from a '41 Dodge pickup. The doors, dashboard and windshield have been saved for use. Unlike the other WC projects the hood has some slant and curve to it due to the commercially built cowl. So new hood sections will be cut from brass sheet. The top has been the most challenging because of the complex shape and the idea of keeping it open for detailing the interior of the body. A master was made of Renshape from which a silicone rubber slush mold was made. With the mold done two part casting resin was mixed and poured into it allowing it to cover the full inside surface of the mold but without filling it. After 4-5 smaller pours around the outside, I had a well formed roof that was about 1/16" thick. Something I could use to detail the body interior. That's where we are so far. Working on those quirky little returns above the cab doors now.

Just finished the Academy 1/48 F-4J in Blue Angels colors. This was a kit started by fellow club member Larry Goodell that I took off his hands so it could be finished up. The markings were from Mil Spec and were tough to apply on the bottom as none of them were pre-cut to fit the landing gear doors. Some of them also tended to chip along the edges some. There's a LOT of warts on this one as it was a purely "git 'er done" project. It does look good sitting next to my BA Connie though! Now on to the next one! GIL

Hello all! Now that I found a bit of free time, here's the latest pass in review of all the models I finished in August... and the one at the end of July that I never got to post. First, the last one finished in July. This is the Airfix 1/76 scale British Mk.I Male from WWI: Now for the ones I finished in August... In no particular order we have: PST 1/72 scale Russian 37mm AA Gun: Another PST kit, the 1/72 scale Zis-42M Halftrack: Revell 1/72 scale Russian BTR-50PK APC: Back to PST for another 1/72 scale BTR-50PK APC, this one in Egyptian markings: Another Egyptian subject, this is the Trumpeter 1/72 scale SA-6 Gainful in Egyptian markings: Next is a Heller 1/72 scale GMC truck from the "Red Ball Express": I might do something with that cab; I don't like the way it looks. For now it's done. Next up is the Riich Models 1/725 scale M109A2 Paladin done in Italian markings: Finally we have these last two. First is the Attack 1/72 scale German Tatra T-111 cargo truck. I built this one entire without instructions since they didn't come in the box and I couldn't find any online anywhere: The last in this group is the Modelcollect 1/72 scale German FAUN SLT-56 that came with the Leopard 2A7. I'd built the tank some time ago, so it was time to build the transporter: And that is all I have for now. Stay tuned, there's more coming down the pike. Meanwhile, thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

This model is the star of the 2024 film Nosferatu. If you haven't seen it yet, you must. While it's a take off of the 1920s silent film, it is 1000 times creeper. Bill Skarsgard has the title role and boy does he deliver! The 1/4 scale kit is from Pestilence Labs and comes in five 3-D printed parts that are flawless. The hardest part was getting decent sample images of the Count. If you have seen the movie, you know many parts of it are visually dark. I found 2 images I liked, but still had to lighten them. If nothing else it clearly shows that his decrepit uniform wasn't just "plain." Lets get started. Being his skin is a pale, dead color, I started with a base of purple. I don't know if the coat color was an artifact of the lightening, but I thought it looked good enough and went with the darkest blue I could find. After I painted the blue, I found a pic of the costume on display and the coat is nothing like I was thinking. The dark tone of the film hides all the details. But the embroidery and extras on his coat were clear and I painted them a bronze color. Once dry, I dirtied it up. The hat looks dark, so that was an easy part. The skin looked to me as if it was colors of gray, But I wanted to add a little saturation to it. So in the end I mixed V's White Gray with a little bit of Pale Flesh. I thought it gave me that sickly pallor. His hand was done in a similar manner. I also noticed that the fur collar was just one color, so I started dark and then added highlights to the tufts. The painted was based in black, and then highlighted in a dark gray and dark brown. The jewel was done in the style of miniatures ( not all that happy with the result). Then the feathers were done in a very dark red with some lighter red just to draw out the detail. The base was next and I saw in a critique video that the reviewer was knocking bases that attracted more attention that the supposed focus - the figure. So the base was painted with V's Black Gray, and then I added that bronze (to unite the figure with the base) to the adornments and skulls. Dots of Turquoise gave it the verdigris, and then I dirtied it all up. I left the eyes for the end the way his head is slightly tilted down, it told me that he was looking thru his brow. I painted them like I always do with a base of black, and then the 1/2 circles of brown, and corners of that same White Gray. To add to the creep factor I added a dark yellow to the part of the iris that would be lit. Then that was dry A used a Citadel red wash to get them bloody. A few coats of V's Metallic Varnish gave me the gloss and I was done. Thanks for looking.

I have two questions about this as I work on filing all the mold seams off the parts, which are many, seams and parts. 1. The kit would have you put this big "US ARMY" decal down the side of the missile, but I can't find any photos of the real missile with such markings. Are they correct? 2. Does anyone make a 1/110 model of the Mercury Redstone other than the old, now collector's priced, Revell one? It was launched from the same complex and might look kind a cool instead of the "C". I know you can get the Revell Redstone model as it was re-issued many times, but I believe there were some pretty significant changes made when it was used for the Mercury program, plus I'd still need the capsule.

For this build I am going back to 1/48 World War II aircraft. I will be building Tamiya’s 1/48 RAF Mustang III. For this build I will also be using Kagero Decals to replicate the aircraft flown by the Polish Pilot F/L Mieczystaw Gorzula of the 309 squadron based at RAF Andrews Field. This was the aircraft that F/L Gorzula shot down a Me-262 jet fighter on April 9th 1945. Starting off with the cockpit tub I detailed it with some photo etch pieces on the side panel, the rudder pedals, and seat belts. I also used photo etch for the knobs and levers on the instrument panel. I opted to paint the gauges as the kit decal for them did not line up very well with the gauge bezels. On the underside of the cockpit tub was also the mount for the radiator. This and the intake were painted with Vallejo Metal paint in duraluminum. I then worked on the fuselage halves. There are two vented panels on the nose. I decided to drill these out for a more realistic look. The interior was painted and detailed. The cockpit tub and intake were installed. I then assembled the fuselage halves. There are some areas that required a little putty but the halves fit very well together. I am working on the wings and landing gear bays now. You can see all the photos and details from the start in the build log at: https://davidsscalemodels.com/build-log/1-48-tamiya-raf-mustang-iii/

This decal is no longer in stock at any vendor, and I have not been able to locate this decal sheet at any show I have attended. Your help would be greatly appreciated. It is CD 72062: USAF C-130H "Guard Herks", and truthfully, I would be happy with having only the Savannah, Georgia ANG portion of the decal sheet. Please email me: jefboutin at yahoo.com THANKS!!!!