Thom

Looks loaded for bear and ready to take ass and kick names! Nice job!

That's a great looking bash! Those super parts fit really well with it, and the colors are good too.

1 hour ago, 505thAirborne said:

So a while back I bought some "loose" 1/72 RVF-25 Drones, lots of the little pieces were in a baggie and naturally I lost the baggie. So with a bunch of other spare parts I came up with this. 

 

Wow, love it!

Since it's just a prototype, I'm sure we'll see a more refined version before long. (?)

Looks like we're getting a new carrier model. Really hoping it's 1/1000!

Rocker covers on, clipped wing-tips in place and cleaning up some seams. Moving along!

40 minutes ago, Dobber said:

Just want to say that just because someone doesn’t want woke messaging in their entertainment  constantly doesn’t mean they want or would make them “Hard Right”. Unfortunately, that’s just what people keep getting told it means or take it as though. 
 

Chris

I'm just taking what was said at face value. Like the 'Antifa Nazi' stuff. I didn't get that at all when the character referenced Nazis in the first episode, and that phrase is pretty hard right.

Watched the first two episodes today. Because of earlier comments I was expecting some hard right fanatic stuff, but really I didn't see that at all. It was actually pretty good. Yes, the special effects aren't as polished, but I regularly watch CW shows, and they are above that bar. Didn't mind the flashbacks either as they were interesting and added to the story. Don't understand why the son was being criticized for for killing that bad guy. They were losing, had already lost three of their team and he was threatening to blow all the rest up. I'm all for criminals standing trial for Justice, but sometimes you gotta make the hard call.

I'll be in for watching some more.

@peter A plus about using mismatched parts is that you can model a Valk that had an arm or leg replaced from a machine with a different color. Like the B-17's that had wing or fuselage swap-outs,

9 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

That's Flak Bait isn't it. Makes for an interesting restoration. Restore it to factory conditions or leave all bullet holes and patches it earn in it's 200+ completed combat missions? 

Thankfully, she is in for preservation and not restoration. Too much history to erase there!

Great! Can't wait to see more of your progress.

As to here or the other thread, I'd say leave it as its own thread. 'What's Lying On You Workbench' feels more like a glimpse of current projects, rather than an in-depth look at one.

Got this image off another site. It's the Hero T-70 from RoS going into the Smithsonian. Check who is sitting one space over...

57 minutes ago, arbit said:

I am sooooo happy with this one. Finished the second airlock on my flight deck.

No spoilers for 24hrs please, it's meant as a surprise 

Give me a heart down there so I know you liked it 

 

So, now we really know what happened to Minmay. She got trapped in your diorama!! Looks very cool though.  I'm sure she's quite happy there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swexWob7UH

That is super cool!

@pengbuzz You wrapped it up all pretty-like! That base looks great, and I'm glad that it is so stable.

@joscasle Wow, that /48 Valk is a large bird. Quite the good canvas for a good paint job.

I think he was just envisioning a future where, either, people were adult enough to not ogle or crack jokes, or the times were just too stressful to care about nudity either way. To go a little deeper, we see a police dept suffering cutbacks and shortages, and maybe they just couldn't afford a large enough precinct for both more jail cells and an extra locker room.

I enjoyed it. It's based on one of the series of books I am interested in reading. A nice collection of characters, where none of them left me wondering when it was going to get back to the 'good parts' seeing as most of them were good parts. I felt the ending could have been a bit more 'climactic' though.

@peter Ouch! sometimes, they must be retired to Static-Display Status. Rather than a Gate Guard, you can call it a Shelf Guard.

As for the B-17, do a Bait-n-Switch. Talk up the 1/32 like you can't live without it, then say you'll 'settle' for the new 1/48 version!

Cockpit going together. Since the canopy is going to be closed, I stayed with the kit instrument panel, but sanded it thinner, drilled out the holes and put the dial decals on a thin sheet of stryene which was then glued to the back.

9 hours ago, derex3592 said:

Loving the E shots @pengbuzz!!! Over here, the Runabout puttying, sanding is going well, just have a few very faint light leaks to deal with on that main seam before final painting. In the mean time, my attention is turning to the base for this thing. I'm thinking that this graphic, printed on glass, (my brother in law owns a print shop and he can do that!) , glued to a wooden base painted with black spray paint with little shiny silver bits in the paint that kinda looks like a star field.  Thoughts? 

 

 

 

 

I think that would look really cool.

@peter Those are some good looking VFs! Loved those posed shots.

@pengbuzz Love that last shot! Real nice work. Brought her home in fine fashion!

7 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

UPDATE 1: earlier this weekend, the F-18 I was working on had a wing end pop off. In typical fashion, I repaired it, but miscalculated on the glue...

...I just found that it melted a huge hole down the entire inside of the left wing and fuselage.

So, the Top Gun: Maverick project is cancelled. Parts have been reallocated to the scrap heap. At least I still have the Tomcat though.

But the fun doesn't end there....

UPDATE 2:

Nearly finished with the Enterprise...

*Now, you folks are probably wondering: "How the heck does all this keep happening to pengbuzz all the time?!" The answer is that I was cursed by a cranky gypsy a few decades ago for stealing her fresh-baked apple pie, and well... you know how it goes.*

Seriously though: when I picked the ship up, my thumb ended up going through the shuttle bay doors on the ship. Being that this was a smoothie kit from the 70's, my only surprise is that another part hasn't collapsed from age!

The damage:

This, on top of the Hornet, was a bit much for me to take. But rather than try to bed a new hangar door for the ship out of styrene, I decided to make a more permanent solution to this issue:

I layered 5 sheets of plastic together into a cube, and then machined it down into a new hangar bay door:

Ship fitting:

Primer and final:

On that note: after this project, I am taking a break from doing projects due to fatigue and just too many of them going sour. Part of it is my frame of mind (current events, stress at home and other issues) and part of it is dealing with older projects. The final element is that I may be getting distracted and careless due to stress and stuff, so I need to regroup and rest.

Stay tuned for this season's finale.

Aah! A dastardly Klingon Thumb Attack! Quite brazen of them. But you certainly repaired it in fine fashion. Sorry to hear the Hornet was a loss though. I'm doing a Spitfire for a GB, and have messed up three times already on simple things, and have substituted a pair of upper wings and now whole fuselage halves! Sometimes I wonder why I do it, as I rarely feel relaxed from a build. Can't seem to stop though! Don't stay away for long!

1 hour ago, peter said:

Flat clear on the Bandai Battroid.

Will have to decide how much more wear and tear to add to it. 

Dang, nice looking paint!

10 hours ago, peter said:

WWII aircraft..... My guess...... 

Ding, ding, ding! But post war.

3 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

P-51 Mustang?

In the same class. Spitfire.