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Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV


Urashiman

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I haven't posted on this board in a long time, or worked on models much in the last few years. But my sons' recent interest in the Battle of Britain, as well as a sale at our local hobby store Hobby Bunker in Malden, MA, has brought model-making back for my family. So yesterday I had a great experience--I wondered if this could ever happen--I sat down with all three of my kids and we worked on models together!

So I thought I would share our collective workbench.

First, it is my youngest son's Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Pegasus Hobbies 1/48 snap kit). He is just six, and really could not do this kit himself, but he still feels a great sense of ownership and accomplishment. I found out that he can paint better than his siblings could at this age--he did all of the black painting without any help (except to help him wipe off a couple of mistakes)! I did a quick & dirty camo with Krylon spray primer.

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Next it's my daughter's Chevy SSR (Revell). We started this together last year, but she lost interest. Yesterday she found she is good at decals, and after she chose the color scheme I got to try out clear colors over silver :-) she is really excited to see it coming together. She had fun painting and assembling the interior. Unfortunately I found out this morning that she must have laid one of the sprues on top of the hood and scratched some of the blue off before I could put a protective clear coat on. Argh! I hate the fragility of Tamiya acrylics...!!!

Live and learn.

(Personally I still always use enamel if I can for this reason.)

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Next is my oldest son's Y-Wing. I used this kit to help him learn how to use the airbrush and do weathering this summer. He still needed help with the decals, though. He had chosen a basic Testors sky blue for the canopy and it looks exactly right. He had fun scratching off the paint from the blue canopy after we painted it yesterday.

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I helped them a lot and didn't get much of my own work done, but I can't complain! I started a battroid that I plan to paint as Max as Skull Leader from DYRL.

Oh, and I finally got a Dremel recently and have been able to start fixing up King Ghidorah's wings in my horrible G-vs-KG "Big Wrap" recast. I can't wait to be finished with this one... it is a lot of work.

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Started on my 1:100 Glaug yesterday. Trying to really work on my seams on this kit. Something I have never been very good at getting rid of completely. The 2 cannon halves seam is the one I worked on yesterday. It's really not a bad fit for a 1992 kit. B))

On another note....anybody tried Model Master Acrylics??? I am sooooo DONE trying to find ANYWHERE that has FREAKING Tamiya product in stock on line.. :angry: (I have only 1 hobby lobby and 1 small hobby shop semi locally and they don't have sh*t) .. <_< . Sorry-----rant mode OFF.

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Hello everyone. Im Ben and this is my first post on here I would like to show you my still unfinished and unpainted VF-25F, it's my first ban dai kit, and my first variable fighter. Ill see how I go with this one. Its very far removed from what I usually make!

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Started on my 1:100 Glaug yesterday. Trying to really work on my seams on this kit. Something I have never been very good at getting rid of completely. The 2 cannon halves seam is the one I worked on yesterday. It's really not a bad fit for a 1992 kit. B))

On another note....anybody tried Model Master Acrylics??? I am sooooo DONE trying to find ANYWHERE that has FREAKING Tamiya product in stock on line.. :angry: (I have only 1 hobby lobby and 1 small hobby shop semi locally and they don't have sh*t) .. <_< . Sorry-----rant mode OFF.

Looking good so far man, you can still see a little seam on the top of the overhead gun though.

That will build up into a very nice kit I think, good work on it so far and good luck with the seams.

Cheers,

Jase.

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We will see how my sanity fares upon the painting. I am looking at this thing and thinking, where the hell do i start painting. its got me stuffed. But i have painted the basecoat dark gray and will go from there with the other colors and weathering. Cant wait to complete it.

More of the 'background flanker'

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