ErnieL
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I build a Westerfield CN wood stock car. White and oxide.
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I cut my teeth on F&C X29 boxcars, and some of the 32 pattern as well. Back in the days before Museum quality ready to run freight cars, the only way to a proper 40s-50s freight car roster was to build them yourselves. Yellow resin (pre white resin) Funaro cars. You look at them the wrong way and they shatter... As a CP in New England modeler, I built the heck out of the F&C Big Otis kits as well. No coaling road would be complete without them. Remember the Sylvan wood caboose kits? The white metal bolsters were so warped I carved them from wood and laid lead on the floors instead. They always turned out a bit heavy...
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Mark, I just found this build, and you, Sir, are doing a fine job. The bow has a few little niggles, but a bit of sanding will make it perfect. I take it you wont be coppering the bottom, then? Much can be hidden under some nice, tarnished copper. -
Lovely work!
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Stunning work in a medium I’m unfamiliar working with. A masterful job in every way.
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Yep, all of that. The 1/48 B-36 is 5 ft. B-52 somewhat smaller. The 6 engine An-225 in 1/72 is 5 1/2 ft
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Roden 1/144. It has an option for having all the high lift devices deployed. I decant most of what comes out of rattle cans. The rest I tend to wear. I cant get a good finish with a rattle can, so I go a Dixie Cup it goes along with a bit of Levelling Thinner and gets run through the airbrush. Much more precise that way.
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Gotta do Speedy, the the Fifie and Zulu, then hopefully Chris releases a frigate or even a third rate.
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I loike it! Time for some sawdust. Less toxic than resin dust
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That’s what happens when you buy kits over 30 years and don’t build any. These last few years have been mostly trading. Not much buying. The closet pics are a couple years old. Some of the mainstream kits have been traded for resin HPH, Fisher, etc.
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A sickness. LOL. And except for the WW1 stuff is 95% resin
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I’d build it. I love transports. And WW1 stuff, especially RNAS. I have a few Russian transports as well. I try to stay away from common stuff so not many Spittys, Mustangs, or 109s in my future, except Spanish, Israeli, and Swiss 109s Id say a big C-5 might come. We’ve already got a 1/72 An-124 and they just released the An-225 in 1/72. That thing is insane. Almost a six foot wing in 1/72.
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Pretty much all 1/32 except for 1/72 An-22, and 1/48 B-36, B-52, and XB-70.
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That C-5 is 1/144. It’s almost as big as a 1/32 scale B-25. I have a big time stash problem. I should be able to build all my kits by the time I reach 739 years of age.
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This is a full cast resin kit. Not a stitch of polystyrene in her. She’ll have cast brass gear legs because she already weighs well on to 2 lbs. I just had a very good friend of mine cast me four sets of P&W kits for Sea Furies, so I can make several racers. I had asked and received permission from a friend of mine, Paul Fisher, who mastered the original patterns. All his stuff was lost in a California wildfire that took out the entire City of Paradise a few years back. Paul and his wife list everything they had, but managed to escape with their dogs.
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Good deal! She’s been invading the corners of Speedy’s pics, so it was mentioned that I might post some pics. Here she be. He Sea Fury is, in my opinion, the finest piston driven carrier fighter to ever serve in ny Navy, and yes, that includes all the wonderful products from Grumman and Supermarine. The navalized Spiteful was a runner, but only a handful of copies were produced. Nothing came close to knocking what started as the Typhoon and finally matured into the Sea Fury off its lofty perch.
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I’ve been plugging away at this for a couple or three months already, and I’m hoping to finish her off as something completely different. Shes certainly not for the purist of Royalist hearts but this particular bird has clipped wings and a big ol’ American hunk of Pratt & Whitney iron hanging off the nose in place of the sleeve valve Bristol Centaurus. She’ll be a smooth unit when done, with a wild paint job.
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Speedy, so far, has been a pleasure. Now comes first planking. Oh joy!!!
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We’re a bit crowded tonight with three ongoing builds
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A bit soon I thought, but FIrst Blood. Apparently this is a sickness in which we are required to pour everything we have into it.
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F-5F by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
ErnieL replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
Manchestah, huh? You weren't but spittin' distance from me. -
Looking splendid so far. I have the Encore version with all the goodies as well. It's a great kit, and if I'm not mistaken, it has enough goodies to build a production Dr.1 as well. What keeps blowing my mind is how incredibly small the Dr.1 is. You almost wear the thing, and the look is amplified by those stubby wings. If I recall, some were a sky blue color, with a few shades of green streaked over the blue? Forgive me if you all mentioned that already. Mr. Levelling thinner will safely remove paint and not harm the plastic if you wish another go. Ask me how I know. Hehehe I'm a master at paint, strip, paint, strip...
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VERY nicely done. I remember that kit as a kid. Super nice when built, but if I recall, it was super fiddly as well.
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T-28s by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
ErnieL replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
yep. I remember them as well as a kid. Yellow C's doing practice traps on dry land. -
T-28s by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
ErnieL replied to ErnieL's topic in Completed non-ship models
shhhhh.... were those the ones with the rails to slide new national markings on over the painted on ones? I saw pics of that, and it was injenious. Kept the NVA thinking..
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