Clunkmeister

I'm mostly 1/32 scale throughout on aircraft. However, I have some exceptions. I've taken to doing modern Russian jets in 1/48, simply because of space considerations and subject availability. I may follow suit with bit US jets as well. Big transports are generally in 1/72. By big transports I mean IL76, An124, C130, An12, An22, etc.. If something I love is not available in 1/32, I'll generally build it in the largest available scale. That means 1/48 Beaver, Otter, Norseman, Caribou, etc.

Yeah, she’s my Right Hand Lady these days. Always there when I need her.

I’ve got over 275 kits, and the only “Romp in the Hay” I’d probably get these days is with Rosie Palmer and Five Fingered Freda.

Sad news indeed. #4 was most likely ok. Witnesses to the bomber on short final said that at least one engine was at a high power setting and that they heard the sound of one engine eating itself up and trying to tear itself to pieces. It’s sad, but it happens.

I hope your FIL’s doing well, Mark. I admire your dedication, this is looking nice. I, of course, will cling to my HPH and if I find a month or two with no other builds ongoing, knock it out so I have an actual Baby MiG on my shelf.

Oh good GRIEF I hate building AFVs! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. But, ze group build requires it, so I finish.

Yes Mikedid his duty and took one for the team.

Nice to see this back on the bench.

That's stupid. half my old builds are on PB and I've thought about rebuilding the pages here, bnut extracting MY OWN PICS from those people is about as fast as watching paint dry. And I mean artist oil paint, not gunze lacquers.

Been working away at this some. Tonight I’ll throw a shot of fresh olive drab on it, then start detailing the running gear with brushes, misting, and a bunch of gunk splattered about. I’m finding ground equipment to be tedious work. We work on this stuff all day long and here I am at home making a motor vehicle in miniature.

Seems like a place to start. I’ll match it to my Gunze and Mission Paint. Im not a fan of the Tamiya mixes we get here in the USA

I believe doubles were carried by -5’s

I'm not a Sci Fi guy. So what's a VF-1? It looks like an F-14 that took a SAM hit. (Iranian F-14, obviously)

OK, venting. The reason I don't do armor is because all the itty bitty little parts that to me look like resin shavings cannot be seen with my naked eyes. I'm going to need an optivisor on my optivisor to do this one. So now a real question. What shade of OD green should I use on this here Super Slick Go-Buggy? When checking possibilities, I see about 10 different shades of various OD greens available on the shelves. I expect this truck would be fairly new and not all that beat up at Normandy, so I'd love some feedback from the gearheads here.

At the risk of being booed and hissed at, I've always wanted to build a 1/72 scale model of a run of the mill Third Rate 74.

Mark, I don't recall ever seeing those pictures before, although I'm sure I have. Truly incredible pictures those are!! The weathering on those is wild and extreme, almost like it'd rub off on the crew's pant legs when they climb in and out.

True that, Ryan. Godzilla, Mothra, and others terrified me as a young kid, but I always went back.

And you're sitting on a ready supply of building material with that chair as well. The 1/64 size will be easier to get moving as well. You could almost blow start that one with a 1:1 scale kitchen fan. Just keep the cord out of the water.

James, that’s exactly why I jumped to WW1 and obscure subjects. Nobody alive can say for sure what color it was and old pics ain’t coloured

The fidelity to scale is amazing! However, I think the builders somehow sourced detailed factory blueprints from McDonnell Douglas for the F-15. The thread originator needs an F-14, and with Grumman's being shut down, he may find a problem there. But, maybe if he goes to the area where the Grumman plant was and he digs in the earth, he may find suitable scraps of paper that might be pieces of old blueprint. With the colorful history of Grumman, he might be able to dig up enough to reconstruct an aircraft with an F6F right wing, an Ag-Cat left wing, a Prowler tail, and a F11 Tiger nose section.

Don't worry, it's staying open. This stuff is golden!

ya know.... we should think out of the box some. Instead of 1/32, 1/24, 1/16, 1/4, or 1/1, why not go the other way? Say .7:1. Make it bigger by a third. There's more than a few corn cob Pratts out there you could use. F ailing to source a decent corncob, you can go with the grandaddy of the big props, a genuine Rolls Royce Tyne out of a Brittania or CL-44. Failing sucessfully sourcing one of those, the Kuznetsov NK-12 is available for use as well. that one will have the added benefit of giving you contra rotating props for that unique sound.

Sluggo, I'm heartbroken. I was looking forward to the build thread.

I expect it’s being done But we can have our own self made comedy hour in the meantime. Like I had mentioned before, the F-14 is just as potent a combat aircraft as it was 15 years ago, and the US Government cut them up for a very good reason.