Monday, November 30, 2020

Help! with my ADMD

I am waiting for some supplies to arrive, so I was rummaging around, and came up with these candidates to advance from a Box Of Stalled Projects. Help me choose one...save them from the ignominy of going back in the box yet unfinished...
1. 1/56 Panther. Needs camo, decals and weathering. 
2. Old Monogram DO-335 in 1/48
Strip and refinish. Would require decals I do not possess.
3. Rudel's Stuka in 1/48. Paint canopy framing. Dullcoat, weather. 
4. 1/48 Bachem Natter. Finish the launch platform and mount the ship.
5. Dragon 1/48 TA-152H. Finish painting, decal, weather. 
6. Special Hobby 1/72 BV P.212.03. Finish painting, decal, weather. 
Cast your votes in the comments below. I'll create a post for the winning model.
Postscript: Facebook netted 2 recommendations for the Panther and one for DO and JU (misunderstanding that the DO is in the queue for a complete redo).
So what I did do was:
1: finished the horse and barding and basing for this knight wearing the livery of William Marshall, the greatest lance in Christendom;
I had found the green and yellow penon while tidying up and thought "wait, I could finish this...)
3. Masked and completed the Stuka canopy:
Still need a white spiral on the prop spinner.
And then, what to my wondering eyes should appear (in the mail), but...
4. I am hopeless.
The truck now has its own post, so back to the original #5 of 6. Completed the launch tower and base, finished the decals on this operational Natter:
What's next? Well, the paints I was waiting for arrived, so I predict another pause in the narrative ...
Update: while the USPS sits on my decals for several days without delivery, I went ahead and...
5. ...painted the Panther. At this stage it lacks a good matt varnish followed by weathering:
I admit I like ambush camo, and I wanted a "Bulge Panther" and this fits that profile. Nice model except the radio antenna is rubbish and was replaced, and the gun barrel is a bit too slender.
Here we are after an overcoat of Testors clear flat. Much better.
 Now for weathering.
Also, 6., I have cleaned, un-decaled, and made replacement bits for the DO335.
Decal-free
Nose gear door
Main gear door actuator 
Rear engine air intake
Now we are waiting on USPS  to deliver paints and decals (drumming fingers). 

2 comments:

  1. 1. Get out the Shake&Bake and finish the Panther
    2, The DO 335 is my kind of rehab - You know me I would probably paint the decals.

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  2. No food products on my armor, thanks ;-) I'll stick with oils and dry pigments.

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