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Awesome start everyone!, tomorriw is my first day off so I'm hoping to start finishing my SU-7.

Wow ok were 2 weeks in and I have my first completed Shelf of doom model!
ItS the 1/72 Sukhoi SU-7 Fitter.
The nose looked abit too bare so I found a decal with a bird of prey letting go of a bomb.
I'm having issues with copying bb codes using my phone with flickr so I will post pics tomorrow.

As promised:

Nice work Mav. Gotta love an old school speed machine like an Su-7.

I have painted the wheel rims etc. and coated the whole tank in Klear ready for the decals & some weathering.


I've also started work on the tracks. Must admit not having a clue here so I am giving them a heavy rust wash.



I plan to apply a heavy dry brushing with a steel colour and then a very light dry brush with some silver to suggest wear.
Once that is all dry I will fit the tracks and weather the whole vehicle. Does that sound like a plan?

Looking good OT!
I did a small portion of work on the Horton last night but had to stop as I just wasn't in the mood.

Maverick231 wrote: I did a small portion of work on the Horton last night but had to stop as I just wasn't in the mood.

Yes I find that the mojo is definitely required when modelling. So many other distractions these days.
Fortunately this little Panzer has my juices flowing.



Kudos must go to Tamiya as those 30 year plus decals behaved perfectly.
I just need to dirty this up now, paint the commander and maybe add a bit of stowage (if I can find some).
And sort out that gun barrel.

I'm sure it's a lovely model mate but I can't see the pic!

Maverick231 wrote:I'm sure it's a lovely model mate but I can't see the pic!

Bloody Photobucket! Links fixed for $0 not the $300+ they wanted.

Here is the state of play with my little tank.



I'm sure you can see that as Imgur.com are not a bunch of pirates.
I am just painting the commander figure and some stowage to make it look a bit busy.

Crashpilot wrote:If no one objects, I´ll move my "started...ruddy well to be finished"-Caravelle to this shelf of doom SB?!

...So very soon I´ll join in with my Caravelle, here´s a first impression of the state she´s in now:




I scratched some windows, there used to be just gaping holes there before! ...but this is just the little starter kit
of this plane, in scale 1/200, it´s not the bigger one from Heller!
...oops another Heller kit I´m doing! But after the Caravelle comes MB´s MiG-21!

Just a quick note to say I haven't forgotten about the forum, or died, of something similarly idiotic...

I'm proud to say I've devoted 100% of my bench time since my last post here to this project. Sadly, 100% of nothing is still nothing
Real life has really messed up my modelling work for a while, and seems likely to carry on doing so for a while yet...

I'm keen to jump in. Does it have to be only one kit at a time? I have a fearsome shelf of doom at the moment, trying to get the following knocked off it for a WW1 club theme at the end of the year:
- Sopwith Camel 2 seat trainer
- Sopwith Ship's Camel
- Sopwith Triplane
- 2 x Avro 504K

I tend to work on kits in parallel, especially if they are much the same aircraft.

Well, here goes....

Revell Sopwith Triplane is SoD build #1. I started it with some Camels and will be building it into Black Maria using some leftover decals from a Camel kit.

The moulding is ancient and offers no interior detail, so this is what I've come up with.

...so much left to do before priming can start:



...smoothing the joints, fill a few sink holes, that´s it!
Next week the club I´m in comes together for one "modelling evening" from 6 to 10 pm, I´ll take this little planey with me,
should be enough time to make her ready for primer!
It´s a shame I don´t have enough time for modelling right now... I´d be happy, getting my s.o.d. empty

Nice work so far everyone!, I'm hoping to carry on one of my kits tonight so I'll hopefully have a post for you later!