VMA131Marine's Geedunk
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
I like that a lot! Very very smart build
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Jim
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
Your little Hasegawa buffalo rocks! The framing looks so good! Did you hand mask or go precut?
How hard was it to mask up the belly window?
How hard was it to mask up the belly window?
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Thanks for the compliments! I hand masked the main canopy; pre-cut masks would have been so much easier as I am finding out now with the 1/48 Tamiya F2A-2 kit. If you click on a picture to open it up on the Flickr site and then zoom in to full resolution, you'll see more imperfections in the framing. It looks good from a foot or more away though. The belly window on the Hasegawa was really easy: they give you a decal for the framing! The three colour prop tips are decals too. That Hasegawa Buffalo is a really nice kit. The cockpit is a bit sparse, and you would definitely want to add detail if you opened up the canopy, but I can't think of anything else about it to complain about.Softscience wrote:Your little Hasegawa buffalo rocks! The framing looks so good! Did you hand mask or go precut?
How hard was it to mask up the belly window?
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
Lovely work.
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
My bane from War Thunder, and looking very nice too. However, Lilly's Yak-1 is beyond praise. I've made that kit as well, just not as nicely as you did. BTW, if you want to do her YaK-1b, its bort number was White 83.VMA131Marine wrote:
And here's a DML/Dragon 1/72 Do335V-13 (Do335B-2 prototype) Pfeil:
(As an aside, her score might have been as high as 20 kills. Anne Noggle, a woman who knows, mentions that women pilot's kills frequently got credited to their male comrades in the Red Air Force.)
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
Lovely work on the Mig, great paint job.
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Ok I've been meaning to ask for ages - what is a Geedunk?
That Mig looks superb! And thanks for sharing those pictures of your previous builds - They all look 1st class - I really like how you did those black strips.
Cheers
Stuart
That Mig looks superb! And thanks for sharing those pictures of your previous builds - They all look 1st class - I really like how you did those black strips.
Cheers
Stuart
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
A gedunk is a snack bar on US Navy ships. The Marine Corps also calls snack bars gedunks. Candy soft drinks chips are the staple. Larger one may even have a griddle for hot items like hamburgers and fries and such.
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Cool - Thanks for that!dollar19 wrote:A gedunk is a snack bar on US Navy ships. The Marine Corps also calls snack bars gedunks. Candy soft drinks chips are the staple. Larger one may even have a griddle for hot items like hamburgers and fries and such.
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Here's a current work in progress:
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Yep, it's the Airfix 1/76 Cromwell IV! It's funny but it looks greener in the pictures than it does in real life. Airfix called for Humbrol 159, which I didn't have. The closest match in my stock was some Testors Olive Drab FS 34097. The model was base coated in black so I could get a bit of pre-shading effect; this is mostly washed-out in the pictures. There is still detail painting to do and then its gloss coat and decal prior to adding the road wheels and tracks.
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Untitled by Russell Taylor, on Flickr
Yep, it's the Airfix 1/76 Cromwell IV! It's funny but it looks greener in the pictures than it does in real life. Airfix called for Humbrol 159, which I didn't have. The closest match in my stock was some Testors Olive Drab FS 34097. The model was base coated in black so I could get a bit of pre-shading effect; this is mostly washed-out in the pictures. There is still detail painting to do and then its gloss coat and decal prior to adding the road wheels and tracks.
WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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Re: VMA131Marine's Geedunk
Just been admiring your Hurricanes and subsequent models! Beautiful work.
I also built the Cromwell recently - first bit of armour in 40 years or so. Used the starter set acrylics and hand-brushed (including pre-shading) for the full starter experience! Good fun! And turned out respectable.
Keep it up!
David
I also built the Cromwell recently - first bit of armour in 40 years or so. Used the starter set acrylics and hand-brushed (including pre-shading) for the full starter experience! Good fun! And turned out respectable.
Keep it up!
David
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That MiG-15 is a little work of art! The Cromwell is shaping up very nicely and the kit is on my shopping list - most people seem to enjoy building it - my sole example of the tank was built from the 1/35th Tamiya kit, which I can recommend if you do build in the larger scale (my collection of built up military vehicles and aircraft is a jumble of various scales).
Doing - Tamiya 1/35th Universal Carrier.
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nice Meeeeeeeg. These Airfix kits stand better than ok, before Eduard we had only ... hobbyflop and draccoon really so I was quite thrilled when it came out. Like you said, looks ok when solitary . Good enough for Plant No. 153 in Novosibirsk .
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Another cracking little Cromwell! Looking good!
Best wishes
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"