Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV

[derex3592]

Thanks Mechtech. They are yes. The decals are all new and they are the main draw of these kits. The ships are all repops from the 80s and 90s minus the NX01 and maybe the Ent. B. The only problem it has really is that the nacelles are sitting on the pylons at a funky angle... 

[MechTech]

Thanks Derex. Yeah, I do remember building those. - MT

[pengbuzz]

On 1/12/2020 at 4:51 PM, derex3592 said:

Thanks Mechtech. They are yes. The decals are all new and they are the main draw of these kits. The ships are all repops from the 80s and 90s minus the NX01 and maybe the Ent. B. The only problem it has really is that the nacelles are sitting on the pylons at a funky angle... 

If you buy the movie 3 pack of the refit-e, ktinga klingon cruiser and reliant, they refit e is a new tooling. i used that in my diorama for WOK

 

[electric indigo]

I'm chewing through the Su-57's comprehensive decal sheet. The distinctive patterns for the back of the plane are in large pieces, and getting them in place without wrinkles is a quite nerve-wrecking affair. The Zvezda decals are the best material I worked with, though. Super thin but not tearing, they go down without setting agents.

I also spent some time on the signature metal pattern on the Sukhoi engines. Fortunately, on the 509 the major part of the engine section is painted and you only have to deal with the exhausts. I used Vallejo's metal acrylics as a base and dusted them over with Tamiya flat acrylics for the different colors.

[wm cheng]

OMG, your painting is always so smooth and flawless!  Absolutely amazing.  Now I want this kit.  That digital camo, is that all masked?!  Its amazing, but looks so labour intensive.  Can;t wait to see it finished.  The tailcones look so thin and detailed, did they come with the kit or are they resin aftermarket?

[Return To Kit Form]

Wow there are some great builds in here! I don't get a lot of build time in these days (the molding and casting bench is a slave driver) but am trying to turn that around this year. 

Here is a build up of our 1/72 soldier kit that we call Warren in the workshop. The face is buggered and he isn't going to win any beauty pageants! Not far to go now and he will be the first kit that I have finished in a while. 

 

[arbit]

3 hours ago, Return To Kit Form said:

Here is a build up of our 1/72 soldier kit that we call Warren in the workshop. The face is buggered and he isn't going to win any beauty pageants! Not far to go now and he will be the first kit that I have finished in a while.

Warren looks awesome. The build looks perfect and the weathered painting is great too.

Weak us through this: What is the base kit and what customization did you do? Don't tell me this is the old Arii kit.

[Return To Kit Form]

3 hours ago, arbit said:

Warren looks awesome. The build looks perfect and the weathered painting is great too.

Weak us through this: What is the base kit and what customization did you do? Don't tell me this is the old Arii kit.

Thanks Arbit. Wazza is a build up of our recent re release of the Moscato Hobby Models 1/72 Soldier kit. 

[Bolt]

Looks cool !

[derex3592]

2nd of 7 reporting in... Overall considering the fact that the ship is very small and basically decals cover literally the entire thing, I think it came out ok. Tons of Microsol.. LOL. Went with a semigloss coat to seal it.  Yeh, I know the bottom saucer ones are off center. Won't make that mistake again.. OG Enterprise is decaled and just needs a couple of details hand painted. Pics coming soon on that one! Stay tuned!

Edit : forgot the buddy shot! 

Edited January 20, 2020 by derex3592

[sketchley]

2 hours ago, derex3592 said:

(...)  Yeh, I know the bottom saucer ones are off center. Won't make that mistake again.. (...)

Good news: it's completely unnoticeable at first glance!  (like Tom Cruise's "middle tooth".  )

I don't think anyone will notice it if you display it so it's mostly viewed side on.

 

[anubis20]

Quick little kit I built for a friend. This one was pretty simple aside from the seam line on the back of the bike. That led to having to mask the lights, then the tire, then the exhausts... Could've finished in 10 days but I got real sick last week. Now I can get back to working on Gunpla, last three kits I've worked on have been for other people 

 

[electric indigo]

Wow, Zeatrans, Starfleet and Drangonball - the new modeling year is on full steam!

On 1/18/2020 at 9:45 PM, wm cheng said:

OMG, your painting is always so smooth and flawless!  Absolutely amazing.  Now I want this kit.  That digital camo, is that all masked?!  Its amazing, but looks so labour intensive.  Can;t wait to see it finished.  The tailcones look so thin and detailed, did they come with the kit or are they resin aftermarket?

William, I cannot recommend this kit enough! If you are willing to wait, though - Kitty Hawk and Zvezda have announced 1/48 releases for this year.

Yes, the exhausts are OOB parts, no need for resin here. For the camo, I used a masking set from Arma-Models (Ebay listing), they're absolutely sweet to work with.

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With all decals on the kit, I felt that the no step area markers looked pretty irritating. They're hair thin on the original plane and barely noticeable, but on the model they fight for center stage with the pixel camo. 

I decided that I could live with the appearance on the darker areas, but they needed to be dialed back on light background. I didn't want to put masking tape on the decals, so I carefully cut masks from transparent paper that would also give me the chance to create some kind of transition here. 

I then took a deep breath and applied a light dusting with the light blue:

You can see the difference on the right wing vs. the original lines on the left wing.

Repeat on other side:

I'm much happier now with the overall look. Stay tuned for the finishing touches...

[electric indigo]

Almost there

[wm cheng]

WOW!!!!  Absolutely fantastic.  This is how the F-22 Raptor should look!  I hate the upward turned nose of the F-22, but this has great nose proportions.  Great call on toning down the panel stenciling, it looks great. 

Yeah, I'm only sticking with 1/72 scales, 1/48 are too big to display for my tiny house and I would take too long detailing them up because you can see so much more.  Any rivets on the molding?  I like lots of surface details even when it probably wouldn't read in real life at 1/72 scale.  Any chance of a Hasegawa, Fine Molds, Academy or GWH version?

You've inspired me to get back into real world aircraft - I might get one of my many F-14 stash to start on to get back into things.

[Return To Kit Form]

@electric indigo that is such a nice looking plane very well executed. Nice work man!

-Brett

[arbit]

electricindigo, Very smooth finish as always. You definitely have an air brush style of your own.

I would say that the paint finish, color palette, pixel camo and decals are very nicely balanced.

Everything works together very nice and fits beautifully.

Most real world aircraft are severely weathered with oils, which is cool of course, but your's has the new look I prefer for a change sometimes. 

[arbit]

Oh, and more photos and close ups please 

[Urashiman]

6 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Almost there

woah - nice build man. Awesome!

[MechTech]

Lots of great builds guys! There's a lot of cool builds going on.

Electric Indigo, that is coming along nicely. It's smooth, nice n clean. - MT

[Thom]

11 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Almost there

That is a great looking plane!

[derex3592]

OG 1701 reporting in. 3 down... 4 to go.. 

[electric indigo]

Derex, your collection surely deserves a newer mold TOS E, it looks like the same kit I built in my teens. Looking forward to see the complete fleet on display.

@all, thanks for the flowers for the Sukhoi, you greatly help me to actually finish something once in a while, and it's always a pleasure to keep you entertained.

Two more for now, need to get a pilot in there and build a proper stand.

@wm cheng The only planned releases of Su-57 kits that I know of are the 1/48 ones. If you're looking for rivets, maybe Trumpeter will jump in sooner than Hase; the Zvezda kit is very basic in that regard, but the engravings are well done.

And I'll get my popcorn ready for your build of the F-14. 

[Urashiman]

Messing around a bit. 

The Aoshima DeLorean kit has some kind of mechanic installed to make the wheels switch to flying mode. I have to develop a gearbox and the wheel suspension for the back and the front.

Edited January 27, 2020 by Urashiman
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[pengbuzz]

A couple of my latest:

1) I revisited my figure of Rom the Spaceknight:

I decided to make him skew a bit more closely to the comic version (1979), but had to make some necessary compromises. On a side note: I recently found out they sell a replacement sound board for the original figure! I wish I had the money to get it, so i could incorporate it into this one!

2) the Emperor of Destruction himself:

I rebuilt MP-05 after determining that it had way too many issues. I also decided on a separate alt mode (seen at the feet below on pic), as honestly, I really do not fancy having a gigantic handgun replica lying around the house where I live!

A group shot of some of my work:

 

 

Edited January 29, 2020 by pengbuzz

[Bolt]

Nice. Loved ROM. Some of my first comics.

[Big s]

Its been a while since I’ve posted anything since I don’t really have a good work space currently. But I was really curious about the upcoming 1/35 Obsolete kits coming in I think may. So I bought the basic frame kit with the February hobby Japan issue to see what the base kit is like. It’s very small, but has a large range of motion for its size. There are some missing details probably due to the fact that it’s supposed to be a base kit with armor added over it. The pilot has some odd seam lines on her back, but I don’t think that will be a problem.

[electric indigo]

Time for some shiny stuff - I recently put the finishing touches on my Hasegawa Fighter 1 kit and just got enough sunshine to snap some pics.

More in the Crusher Joe thread

[joscasle]

Tamiya 1/48 F-14A Tomcat

 

Marble Coat!!

Final coat

[joscasle]

Continue!!

Top final coat applied and ready for decals!!

As a side note, the tails are resin, same the chin pod and the gun vent and the beaver tail, this because I need to updated the kit to a later block.

Phoenix and and Sparrows already with decals  

 

Next proyect!!! Bandai 1/48 X-Wing (Red 4), the other one is Fine Molds 1/48 (Red 3)

 

As always, sorry for my really bad photography  

Edited February 5, 2020 by joscasle

[arbit]

4 hours ago, joscasle said:

Top final coat applied and ready for decals!!

Really nice work. I think you hit the target for what you were aiming. And that's probably the best photo of the bunch.

Looks like you started with a base coat, then speckled the whole thing, and then a top coat, before the gloss. How much did you dilute each step? I want to do a valk with this method, but a bit concerned.

[arbit]

On 1/31/2020 at 3:25 AM, electric indigo said:

Time for some shiny stuff - I recently put the finishing touches on my Hasegawa Fighter 1 kit and just got enough sunshine to snap some pics.

More in the Crusher Joe thread

Relatively flawless.

[joscasle]

4 hours ago, arbit said:

Really nice work. I think you hit the target for what you were aiming. And that's probably the best photo of the bunch.

Looks like you started with a base coat, then speckled the whole thing, and then a top coat, before the gloss. How much did you dilute each step? I want to do a valk with this method, but a bit concerned.

Thanks Arbit!!

Yeah I started with  a black base coat and then with several very diluted coats (80-20 thinner-paint) of several tones of grays, for the upper fuselage I use a mixture of the final color with darker grays and others with different amounts of withes . For the lower fuselage I use browns and some yellow, then the final coat with the Light Ghost Gray very very diluted. I user MRP paints and Mr Color.

[electric indigo]

Joscasle, the pics of your great work almost make me pick up my Hase Tomcat again. But I also have a Skyhawk incoming... what to do?!

13 hours ago, arbit said:

Relatively flawless.

I'm on it 

and I also have a Minerva incoming....

[Chronocidal]

19 hours ago, joscasle said:

Phoenix and and Sparrows already with decals  

 

 

Next proyect!!! Bandai 1/48 X-Wing (Red 4), the other one is Fine Molds 1/48 (Red 3)

As always, sorry for my really bad photography  

The bad photography doesn't dilute that amazing paintwork, don't worry!  That F-14 is gorgeous.

Can't wait to see what you do with the Bandai X-Wing!  I've got three of those to do eventually, but I'm really not all that interested in the electronics, so I'm trying to rig up an alternative way to open and close the wings.  I'm still kind of salty they never released a non-electronic version, since all I really want is a way to open the wings without batteries.  

Best option I've come up with so far is a pop-out handcrank that's hidden behind the back greeblie panel, and manually turns the motor mechanism.  I'd love to remodel the entire thing as an upscale of the 1/72 kit, but duplicating the mechanism's precision would be iffy, and I can't deny the worm gear-driven mechanism is a solid way to keep the wings from sagging or rocking.