Wolf Buddee

Hey Peter, It’s great to hear your feeling better, surviving Chemotherapy, and feeling motivated to get back on to the bench! That’s always a very encouraging sign. I look forward to seeing your wonderful skills applied to the Sufa. Stay safe, keep well, and please extend my regards to Diane. Cheers, Wolf

Harvey, Sorry I’m a little late to wishing you all the best but I’m certainly glad your surgery was a success and you’re doing well! Boy, the things you’ll do for a little attention, eh? I bet, if you weren’t so ticklish, Bev could o’ fixed you up with a pair of pliers and an ice pick. In all seriousness though I’m so very glad you’re doing well post surgery and I wish you a painless and speedy full recovery. Take care and give my regards to Bev! Cheers, Wolf

Jeff, Harv, Rob, Dennis, and Phil, Thank-you for checking in on my post and leaving your kind responses. They’re certainly much appreciated! I hope that 2021 will see a renewed energy and drive to complete a number of builds I’ve set aside over the last couple of years. There’s enough of ‘em on the bench that need doing! Cheers, Wolf

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this post as it's definitely a "Large Scale Model" but I thought this is where it should be. Tamiya's 1/6 Honda CRF 1000L Africa Twin. One of the fastest builds I've done in years. I started the end of this August and finished the end of November. A typical Tamiya kit with amazing fit and lots of metal parts including the front fork tubes, lots of nuts and bolts, and bags of different coloured and sizes of screws.The kit comes with decals for two different colour schemes and masks to complete each scheme. I initially intended to build the Pearl White machine but switched to the Victory Red option part way through the build. The wheel rims should be semi-gloss black for the red scheme but the gold rims for the white option look very nice on the red bike too. The hand guards on the handle bars should be semi-gloss black for a red bike as well but seeing as I wanted to do the bike up as I'd want it I went with red for those instead. Other than adding some additional nut and bolt detail that was missing on the kit I did very little extra. I did, however, add the brake fluid level sight glass and it's bezel to the front brake master cylinder and scribed a line all the way around the top of the master cylinder to represent the lid. I also used thin strips of Tamiya's tape to represent the cable ties as per photos. The tape was permanently secured by very carefully applying extra thin CA and then painting the tape with Tamiya Rubber Black. No markings for the switches on the handle bar controls come with the kit so they were cobbled together from a number of different decals sheets. The white "START" letters for the starter button, for instance, were sourced from a 1/48 Phantom data stencil sheet and applied individually to get "START". The symbol on the horn button was made up of 4 separate pieces of decal. In 1/6th scale it didn't look right to have the buttons bare so the extra work was well worth the effort to me. The rear wheel drive chain is made up of individual links and is a Tamiya Detail-Up accessory for this kit. It's a big improvement on the kit supplied two piece chain. Paint used was primarily Tamiya's spray lacquers decanted and applied with my airbrush. I also used quite a bit of Alclad Polished Aluminium and Chrome. Cheers, Wolf

Thanks once again gentlemen for the best wishes for my birthday! Cheers, Wolf

Gentlemen, Thanks for all the “happy birthday” wishes! I think I’m going to get me a Tamiya 1/6th scale Honda Africa Twin kit to celebrate. Haven’t built a large scale bike in a long time and the kit looks pretty impressive. Cheers, Wolf

Belated Happy Birthday Martin! I don’t know if you got my message on Friday but I called and left you a voice mail message. Cheers, Wolf

Thanks Harvey! Much appreciated. Please extend my regards to Bev. I hope you guys are keeping well and staying safe! Cheers, Wolf

Fantastic build Tim! Thanks also for the HGW wet transfer tutorial. I have them for my Corsair build and have not used them before. Cheers, Wolf

Happy Birthday John! All the best to you. Cheers, Wolf

Comrade, you are mistaken! There is no graphite on this the roof! Cheers, Wolf

What a fantastic piece of work Jeroen! Very interesting subject. Cheers, Wolf

Hi Peter, Simply incredible work! A true masterpiece in every sense of the word. I don't know if this is a detail you were aware of so I posted the pic below. It shows the two small springs that retain the wheel bearing dust cap. If you haven't already you might want to add these to your build. Cheers, Wolf

Hey Harv, nice work my friend! I assume the wings fold in but landing that bugger with that suspension must be a real bugger! It does have wings......right? Cheers, Wolf

Absolutely Harv, extremely elegant lines for a prop liner. From the tip of the nose, the arched fuselage, to the triple tail vertical stabs, she was one sharp lookin’ lady! Cheers, Wolf

Hey Smitty, how goes it? Having a blessed Christmas I hope! Cheers, Wolf

I have to agree with Hubert on this one. After the Concorde, the Connie, and for it’s day, the 262. Without a doubt the B-58 has a place here too. I’ll never forget my flight on Concorde in 1986. Pure magic. Cheers, Wolf

Merry Christmas to you all. Wishing everyone much Happiness, HEALTH, and Prosperity for the New Year! Cheers, Wolf who’s just outside of Edmonton for Christmas this year.

So sorry Jeff! We've had to say good bye to two of our dogs so far and it absolutely breaks your heart. We currently have one left but he's going to be 15 years old in November. I'm not looking forward to the certain eventuality he'll have to be let go too but he's still doin' alright for now. My wife says this is our last dog as she's not going to go through the pain of loss again after he's gone. It sucks, it royally sucks, so I understand exactly how you feel! My thoughts are definitely with you and your wife. Cheers, Wolf

Jeroen, you may not want to remove the vents on your model without a bit more investigation. If removing the metal heat shields eliminated the vents then the depressions stamped in to the heat shields, which form the vents, would have simply butted against the solid wood surface of the wing. What purpose then would the stamped depressions creating the vents have served? Does what I say make sense? It's definitely a head scratcher. Maybe Rick knows someone at Silverhill that can shed some light on this? Cheers, Wolf

Fantastic piece of work Jeroen! Brilliant weathering and great subject matter as well. Rick's photos leave me with a few questions though. If the area behind the exhaust was sheeted in heat resistant metal to protect the laminated wood structure all the way back to the trailing edge, why is the trailing edge of the fuselage looking so distressed? Have the metal panels been removed from the Horten at Udvar Hazy? I wonder if the delaminated trailing edge could be represented by layers of thin paper impregnated with CA, like cigarette rolling papers added a layer at a time and the edges then distressed with an X-Acto knife blade? Just thinking out loud here. Cheers, Wolf

Looks great Carl! I used the Ryefield Models track links on my AFV late Tiger 1. The same as yours, three parts per link, five if you include each track pin. 96 links per side and it took me way longer than a single evening to do both sides but it was so worth the effort. They articulate just like the real thing with a natural drape over the road wheels and drive sprocket. It looks like the box top illustrated camouflage pattern for your model is very similar to the one I used as well. Lots of fun with the airbrush! Cheers, Wolf

Lookin' good Harvey! A little light on the paint in the middle of the Jumos but it's coming together nicely. Ready for Chattanooga? Cheers, Wolf

Counter tops in the bedroom? Harvey you old dog! Still a romantic after all these years eh? You and Bev have a fantastic Christmas and New Year! Cheers, Wolf

C'mon Harv, you've assembled a few compressor blades and you're already tryin' t' figure out what parts you can leave out! You're not supposed to leave any of 'me out. That's why ZM gives 'em all to ya! .........and stay away from that distilled amber pickle sauce! This kit 'll be challenging enough all on it's own without the addition of the two seat conversion bits and the mind altering effects of the Devil's hooch. Remember, you've got less than a year if you want it ready for Chattanooga. Just remember, I'm pullin' for ya but you've got t' keep your stick on the ice! Cheers, Wolf