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Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 6:23 pm
by Duke Maddog
Hello all and welcome to the Grand Re-opening of Maddog Manufacturing in 2020. I had a pretty good end of year which has set me up to make even more progress this year. So come on in and enjoy the tours!

I'll start with a reminder of what I finished the last year with still on the bench:

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Today I managed to find some time so I sat down to get some of these moving. This is the results, starting with my aircraft.

The little Russian glider was still mocking me so I re-sanded down the seam I'd filled again for the fourth time. It still wasn't as smooth as I wanted but I'm tired of dealing with it. I shot another coat of green on this bird:

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Later when it was dry, I went back and shot the second camouflage color on it. I free-handed this paint work with my Sotar 20/20 airbrush:

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Moving on, I also decided to shoot the final green color on my Israeli Sufa since it was already masked and ready for it:

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After that, I completed the masking so I could shoot the underside of this jet:

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After shooting the grey, I forgot to take a pic before I masked off the nose and shot the gunship grey on it. So, here's the underside, with the nose still masked off and painted:

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After all of that was done and dry, I removed all the tape and Silly Putty. I'm gonna need to do some touch ups but I'm happy with where this is now:

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That's all I got done with my aircraft for now. Let's look at the progress I made on my armor and vehicles.




Since I had already masked my BMP-3 Early with Silly Putty when I masked the Sufa, I shot the next color on:

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After that dried, I masked that second color and then shot the third one on:

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After that was dry enough, I removed everything to see how it looked. I'm happy; there's not too much to touch up on this:

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Since the T-15 Armata was also masked; I shot the second color on that one too:

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Later it got covered and the third color shot on:

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And once again, when it was dry, I removed everything to find only a tiny amount of touch up needed. This looks pretty awesome in this scheme:

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Now on to my big trucks. First off, the AA-60 fire tender still had issues with the white on the sides so I re-shot it. That is drying now; no need to take pics again. Meanwhile, I decided to modulate the color on the big trucks that will be all one solid color. First was the MAZ tank transporter:

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Next was the KZKT Iskandar:

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Then I shot the KZKT Heavy Cargo Truck:

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And finally, the MAZ Heavy Cargo Truck:

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The last two models had some measure of camouflage on them, only two colors each. First off the Bereg Coastal Defense Gun got it's second tan color. I free-handed this camouflage on this and the Baikal Command Truck still with my Sotar 20/20 airbrush since it would have taken too much tape and Silly Putty to mask off all that green. I should have shot the tan first, then masked that and shot the green. Oh well, I did it in reverse instead and here's how the Bereg looks:

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And finally I camouflaged the Baikal; but it only needed the second tan color on the command cabin so I modulated the drivers cabin:

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And that is all I managed to get done on this; the first building day of the new year. Thanks all for looking in, as always; comments are welcome.

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:04 pm
by Floki
Great projects, them trucks are really cool looking.

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 7:35 pm
by LyleW
What Clint said...

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 8:06 pm
by BlackSheep214
:that:

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 10:45 pm
by Stikpusher
And the production line keeps on rolling!

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Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 11:09 pm
by keavdog
That's quite a lot of progress on some very cool subjects!

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:02 pm
by Medicman71
:shoutout: :shoutout: :shoutout:

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:15 am
by mostrich
Man, the guys from Modelcollect should send you an employee of the moth badge or something like that.
Outstanding!

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:47 am
by Stuart
Superb work all around Mark - great stuff :shoutout:

Re: Maddog Manufacturing 2020 Production

Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:49 pm
by Duke Maddog
Wow, what incredibly motivating and inspiring replies guys! :bow:

Clint, Lyle, Blacksheep, thanks guys! I'm liking those trucks more and more as I get them closer to the finish line.

Thanks Carlos! Hopefully I'll be able to keep it rolling far more than last year.

Thanks Kevin and Steve!

Mostrich, thanks! I am trying to finish as many of Modelcollect's modern armor kits as I can. I have already built about half of ACE's lineup and all of the ancient ESCI line. I want to have the same record with Modelcollect.

Thanks Stuart! Most appreciated my friend!