Wow, I've been so busy I don't know how I got this work done, but here it is, my latest progress from the past couple weeks. All of this is armor again; as well as one car. I'm just trying to get a few things off the bench and on the shelf. I'm getting eager to get back to my Antonov; but I need to clear a few things first.
Before I get to them though, here is something I found while I was cleaning the bench up. This was a raffle prize I got that had three Monroe Perdue bases inside for 1/72 scale models. Here they are after priming and painting the black border on them:
I won't be displaying my M-1070 or eight-wheeled Russian trucks on any of those, but they will be nice photo bases for my more regular armor.
The first model I worked on was the WWI MkI female tank. I finally completed all construction sans tracks:
Later, after stretching the tracks a bit, I installed them on this tank:
That little thing is now ready for paint. Easy peasy.
After finding my clear sheets of plastic, I went ahead and added the windows to my Japanese Isuzu fuel truck:
I had also added the windows to the Olympia staff car. I didn't get a pic of that one though.
Next I added the inside wheels to my Nagmashot APC:
Later I finished off the upper construction of the detail parts and add-on armor:
There was a lot of detail on this model to add:
I also decided to work on my M-41 Walker Bulldog. I assembled the .50 cal machine gun ammo box. There are five pieces in this tiny assembly:
After that I completed the turret and then added the torsion bars and other suspension parts:
There is a ton of photo-etch that has to go on this. That's gonna be interesting....
After this, I decided that since I was so close to finishing the AT-1 Snapper, it was time to put it over the finish line. First, I added the rubber tires to the wheel hubs:
That meant I needed to add the hubs to the axles to mount these wheels:
While they were drying, I added the Snapper missiles to the launch rails:
You can see the wheels in the background waiting to be installed.
When the hubs were dry, I added the re-loads to the interior. I only put in two since I'd lost the last one (found later, three days after I'd finished the model!) Here you can also see some of the additional detail parts I added:
Wheels on and touch up paint done:
Then I added the launch rails:
Finally a dullcoat, the roof doors and the start of some dusting:
That puppy was finished after a little more work.
Finally after while, I had some time to get to my spray booth. Despite issues with my airbrushes again, I managed to get some paint shot. First was Ole' Bill, the Type B bus inducted into the Army. I gave it an olive drab coat:
Since I was doing buses, I changed to red and shot the other civilian Type B bus:
That is a Humbrol red on that bus. Later, this needed some additional paint work so I went on, painting the lower body and suspension:
I need to re-paint the dark brown. It is a gloss color going over a gloss color. For now I set this aside to dry. Since I also still had the red available, I pulled out my too-orange Coke Delivery Van and shot it with the red:
Definitely a rough job that will need to be smoothed out. Someday that will start behaving and I can finish it. Until then, I'll just have to keep on working on other models. as I do this.
That's all I have for now. Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.