Steve's Models - Page 50

Aktungbby · 12-27-14, 09:49 PM

How could you overlook Buddahaid's and my faaaaavorite?!!! I even played it in college

Sailor Steve · 12-28-14, 09:59 PM

Crew in, gun mounted, cabanes on and exhaust stack in place. I had all the decals on two days ago, except the serial number under the tail. I wanted to print my own again, but I couldn't find a font that looked right. Today I finally scrounged some from my spares box.

Buddahaid · 12-28-14, 10:34 PM

I like the gunner position and the whole look of this one.

Sailor Steve · 01-01-15, 05:23 PM

After four days of doing other things (including getting set up to play SH3 again) I finally got the top wing on.

Aktungbby · 01-01-15, 05:45 PM

A deceptively fabulous paint job!

Sailor Steve · 01-08-15, 04:10 PM

And the last one I started in 2014 becomes the first one finished in 2015.

Aviatik C.III

Buddahaid · 01-08-15, 05:56 PM

Nice looking model. I can almost smell the castor oil.

Sailor Steve · 01-09-15, 08:59 PM

Next up: A DFW C.V.

It was a rather unremarkable aircraft on paper. Others were faster, climbed better turned better. The men who flew it, however, commented on its handling, saying it was a joy to fly. Whatever else may have been involved, the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (German Aircraft Company) C.V ended up being built in greater numbers than any other German aircraft during the Great War. DFW built 2005 of the type, Aviatik 1400, LVG 400, and Halberstadt 150, for a total of 3,955 C.Vs. At the end of the July-August 1917 reporting period there were 1057 DFW C.Vs at the front; 51% of all German aircraft in combat service. Though the numbers dropped later in the war they still averaged about 40%.

With the aircraft in service for more than two years and being built in such large numbers by different manufacturers, there are a great many possible variations in paint schemes and markings. Also, somewhere between 11 and 20 of the first aircraft were built with a different nose and no spinner on the front. I wanted to do one of those, but they only amount to one-half of one percent. I would still do it, but kits are few and far between, and if I can't do a later version as well I don't want my only one to represent a very rare variant. I find it odd that there aren't more kits available for one of the most common German aircraft of the war.

The model is another old vacuform I acquired last year.

em2nought · 01-11-15, 12:34 AM

The rigging sure does add to the model, and that prop came out really nice.

Sailor Steve · 01-18-15, 09:23 PM

I photographed the kit on a Friday. Saturday I cut out the fuselage halves. Sunday, a week ago, I fabricated a floor and put in seats. Monday I put the fuselage together. I didn't take any pictures because the interior was so basic I didn't think it was worth it. Tuesday I cut out and sanded one of the stabilizers. Wednesday I did the other. Yesterday I did one lower wing. Today I did the other and put it together. The rest of the time I've been fiddling with mods for SH3.

Sailor Steve · 01-19-15, 07:33 PM

Landing gear installed.

Sailor Steve · 01-20-15, 08:46 PM

Cabanes, tail struts and game tube in place.

ReallyDedPoet · 01-20-15, 08:48 PM

Nice

Sailor Steve · 01-21-15, 08:49 PM

I spent a couple of hours today sanding the top wing to the proper thickness. In the end I barely had time to put on the first coat of paint.

Sailor Steve · 01-26-15, 09:52 PM

It's been five days since I reported on this. Let's see...what have I got done? That was last Wednesday. Thursday was game night, and I didn't do anything that day. Friday I spent recovering from being up all night. I had decided some time ago to do the early one without the spinner, so Saturday I glued a piece of plastic sheet on the nose and let it dry for 24 hours. I spent a lot of time yesterday sanding it to the proper shape, priming it and resanding until it looked the way I wanted.

Today I sprayed the topside paint on. The earliest versions seem to have been all one color, and the experts seem to agree it was probably green. I don't know anything, but you can never go wrong with green.

12-27-14, 09:49 PM	#736
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,591 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	How could you overlook Buddahaid's and my faaaaavorite?!!! I even played it in college __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

12-28-14, 09:59 PM	#737
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Crew in, gun mounted, cabanes on and exhaust stack in place. I had all the decals on two days ago, except the serial number under the tail. I wanted to print my own again, but I couldn't find a font that looked right. Today I finally scrounged some from my spares box. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-28-14, 10:34 PM	#738
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,939 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	I like the gunner position and the whole look of this one. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

01-01-15, 05:23 PM	#739
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	After four days of doing other things (including getting set up to play SH3 again) I finally got the top wing on. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-01-15, 05:45 PM	#740
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 28,591 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	A deceptively fabulous paint job! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

01-08-15, 04:10 PM	#741
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	And the last one I started in 2014 becomes the first one finished in 2015. Aviatik C.III __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-08-15, 05:56 PM	#742
Buddahaid Shark above Space Chicken Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,939 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 0	Nice looking model. I can almost smell the castor oil. __________________ "However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light." Stanley Kubrick "Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming." David Bowie

01-09-15, 08:59 PM	#743
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Next up: A DFW C.V. It was a rather unremarkable aircraft on paper. Others were faster, climbed better turned better. The men who flew it, however, commented on its handling, saying it was a joy to fly. Whatever else may have been involved, the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (German Aircraft Company) C.V ended up being built in greater numbers than any other German aircraft during the Great War. DFW built 2005 of the type, Aviatik 1400, LVG 400, and Halberstadt 150, for a total of 3,955 C.Vs. At the end of the July-August 1917 reporting period there were 1057 DFW C.Vs at the front; 51% of all German aircraft in combat service. Though the numbers dropped later in the war they still averaged about 40%. With the aircraft in service for more than two years and being built in such large numbers by different manufacturers, there are a great many possible variations in paint schemes and markings. Also, somewhere between 11 and 20 of the first aircraft were built with a different nose and no spinner on the front. I wanted to do one of those, but they only amount to one-half of one percent. I would still do it, but kits are few and far between, and if I can't do a later version as well I don't want my only one to represent a very rare variant. I find it odd that there aren't more kits available for one of the most common German aircraft of the war. The model is another old vacuform I acquired last year. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-11-15, 12:34 AM	#744
em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,461 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The rigging sure does add to the model, and that prop came out really nice. __________________ em2nought is weird

01-18-15, 09:23 PM	#745
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I photographed the kit on a Friday. Saturday I cut out the fuselage halves. Sunday, a week ago, I fabricated a floor and put in seats. Monday I put the fuselage together. I didn't take any pictures because the interior was so basic I didn't think it was worth it. Tuesday I cut out and sanded one of the stabilizers. Wednesday I did the other. Yesterday I did one lower wing. Today I did the other and put it together. The rest of the time I've been fiddling with mods for SH3. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-19-15, 07:33 PM	#746
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Landing gear installed. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-20-15, 08:46 PM	#747
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Cabanes, tail struts and game tube in place. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-20-15, 08:48 PM	#748
ReallyDedPoet Canadian Wolf Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Canada. The one and only, East Coast Posts: 10,801 Downloads: 946 Uploads: 5	Nice __________________ Back in the Day

01-21-15, 08:49 PM	#749
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I spent a couple of hours today sanding the top wing to the proper thickness. In the end I barely had time to put on the first coat of paint. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-26-15, 09:52 PM	#750
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	It's been five days since I reported on this. Let's see...what have I got done? That was last Wednesday. Thursday was game night, and I didn't do anything that day. Friday I spent recovering from being up all night. I had decided some time ago to do the early one without the spinner, so Saturday I glued a piece of plastic sheet on the nose and let it dry for 24 hours. I spent a lot of time yesterday sanding it to the proper shape, priming it and resanding until it looked the way I wanted. Today I sprayed the topside paint on. The earliest versions seem to have been all one color, and the experts seem to agree it was probably green. I don't know anything, but you can never go wrong with green. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo