popeye the sailor

it is a "lovable" kit

so this is where you went?!??!........such superb workmanship thus far Chris you've done such great work on planes.......no doubt this will be a beauty as well!

very nice.........

hope you can solve your issue. should you get tired of waiting, there is a repair using brass wire.........a lot of us smaller scale guys use it

nice transformation

back in the day, when I lived in Florida, I built a Guillow's Fokker D VIII. it came to be my best flyer. there was a concrete slab in the side yard, likely for a shed, and it seemed like a good place to take pictures. I laid on the ground in various places around the edges and took some shots.......some using the grass to look through. I was very impressed with how they came out........but I lost them in my move back here. after all these years....I still wish I knew where they went. would have been great to share with you folks

have seat, will travel

I'm still doing some painting on this project.......hope to get more done this week. I have one picture to share with you.......I had better hurry before the admiral has a fit.......she wants to go shopping guess I had better get dressed.................OK, I'm ready! hee....hee.... putt'in the headers on

in regards to your finish pictures.......it might look a wee bit better to be on asphalt or concrete.......but certainly not on a garbage can ......jess' say'in

thanks for the likes folks yea.......I think the time to do any of the deeper weathering should have been done before the decaling was done. god knows that I have a bunch of different hues of olive......heck, even some of the tan colors would have worked well. true on the rubberized tracks...kinda hard to get them to rust. a lot of what I put on there has disappeared...you'd never know that I applied anything....so I may leave it at that I did remember to do the rubberized bogies.........got me a few points anyway it is what it is.........it's an old kit that has stood the test of time. I've even seen a few older kits out there.......this one even newer, since I bought it off the shelf. it is an interesting kit though.......shows the advances and evolutions that the model tank has made though the years. the more modern kits sport interiors and oodles of external details......more than the older kit can provide. thank the good lord for the detail kits......I'm sure there is one for this kit. the formal finish is soon........

your near the finish line silver....silver leaf......no matter how one does it, silver can be a task and a half! I wonder if aluminum paint would be a better choice. she look'in good my friend......great job!

superbly done Kevin.........very sharp the leather work is awesome!

that is the way of modeling Gary........no one is immune. I've been drowning in the same fate.......probably the reason I've come to combining modeling and computer time beautiful work on wood simulation and paint......gonna look great when you get the cockpit assembled!

the exhaust needs to be added before the interior box is placed on the frame......the pipes locate above the torsion bar frame. very tight quarters to do it after. the box is on the frame now.

hello all.......and hello to you Mike....glad you could join in we have a calendar of Iconic cars......this month is the 1957 Buick Roadmaster.....tempted to see if there is a kit out there for it I did make some progress on this project.......I did spend quite a bit of time on the Pro Mod version, correcting a couple of mistakes the prior owner made. but I got them where I can be happy, so on with that project too {I would have been sad if I couldn't}. the engine is pretty much done......the frame was painted and the engine was put in place. don't know why........I decided to leave the air cleaner chromed. other parts were painted.....like the exhaust and the rear suspension.....the tires were assembled as well. the front tires were added... you can see in the background just how warped the sprue with the tailpipes is.....I hope it doesn't reflect in the parts. the interior was next to be assembled. the majority of the interior was painted flat red. in most of the picture I saw of the finished model, there is this white /red trim deal going on. I'm fairly certain that the interior was this way in the movie {the actual car}. the Chevy Bel Air kits I have have decals that reflect a two tone interior, but I didn't think they would fit good, or come out to my liking, so I painted them in. I used a very light gray......it looks white, but a color tint that would fend off most of the ghosting, since white is such a hard paint to work with. note to self....touch up that rear seat

I should post my experience with the 4 cylinder. I need to take it apart because mainly of the same problem you had with the crank shaft. it hits and rubs inside, impeding the electric motor that makes it work. it wasn't too bad timing it up, but the way they have the wires is terrible....doesn't truly represent plug wires like yours does. when I get around to doctoring it up......perhaps. looks really neat!

very nice progress ........the windows look great

thanks OC

I built the Revell kit...........your doing really good so far

darn it.......I just remembered......I still have the Jerry cans on the table here?!?!?! so it's not totally complete I tried that mud stuff I got.......to me it's totally crap! all it does is make the tracks look shiny. I'll just stick to my paints. anyway......I thought these would be the finish pictures.......I guess not the shiny stuff on the bogies is the junk I used.........might as well say I went through a puddle but the decals are on and the painting is done....... maybe I can think of something to put in the rack...... so there will be a few more pictures when I do what I need to do

been working on Christine as well.......mostly paint to start off with. even though {and this pertains to the Earle machine too}, I'll be painting, even though the bodies are already red. with the sanding and cleaning of the parts, it can look hideous with all the marks.......painting will cover all of the nasty stuff over. so it's a combo of gloss and flat. the majority of the front suspension is already assembled on the frame. with that done, the frame was painted in flat black I was working on the engine before I got the other kit. at this point, it was time to assemble what I had painted. there isn't a lot of plated part for this model, so I didn't have to decide if anything was to be dechromed {a first for me}. I'm currently working on this one.......got some ideas from pictures on the net

the tires are all done........I did them as the first order of business got more done on the engine....... got the carbs on and highlighted the throats. added the pulleys......I have another set as a fall back, in case these didn't fair so well in the jar. the plumbing that will go on the engine front is also painted thought I'd highlight the valve covers too the tires were assembled trapping the axle buttons inside......if I was successful and didn't get cement on them, they will roll. the underside of the chassis deck was painted in a darker gray, the same color as the roll cage will be. the chassis frame will be done in the gray as well.....the front suspension will be in silver { my aluminum has gone ka-put} I'm going to highlight a few thing on it before it is assembled. the plumbing is on the engine now.. one of the headers wasn't assembled straight, so I had to take it apart and straighten it out. the differential assembly is in the process of being painted.......all that id left is to paint the wheels on the wheelie bars.

I got more done on this project. I had reinstalled the cross bar pieces back onto the differential, but I couldn't get it to go straight across. later I cut it back out again and fitted a thin piece of round stock form the spare parts box {just happened to be red plastic too}. it will be set aside to totally dry. the top deck was to be painted silver, but I opted to go with flat steel. once the underside is painted, it will lose that reddish hue. it's one of the shortcomings with red plastic........tend to want to bleed through. other colored plastics have this same issue as well. it's obvious.....another problem with the red plastic is how it photographs...comes out look'in like neon...I took another picture of the differential assembly under direct light. I had been working on the AMT engine......and as soon as I got all the parts out of the dechroming jar, I could start on the Earle engine. here is how far I got by the 16th... again, with the silver.......the engine was to be painted silver, but I stayed with a flat red. I broke it up with other colors ...............

these are interesting kits too.........I have the Smithsonian Motor Works 4 cylinder. has a motor that shows the engine in action........I have to take it apart though because it binds in certain places {mold lines and such}. when I first ran it, Gibbs went nutz!

really nice progress OC.........fun part is putt'in the bling on