Here in the Hangar, we have a few things going. First up, we have this little shelf queen that needed nose weight before I could add the engine cowl to. Thanks to a friend; this one got the nose weight and is now sporting it's nose:
This later got decals, but I didn't get any shots of it. I did lose two landing gear too, so it's probably going back to the shelf of doom until they show up.
In the next bay, the cable on the Jake's catapult was finally cemented on the launching truck of the Jake:
Later that got glued onto the catapult and this bird is about done:
Moving on to the next bay, the Yak 28R got all the camouflage pattern painted on:
Later the landing gear was added as well as a few more detail parts and this got that much closer to being done:
The next bay holds another Russian aircraft, the An-2 Colt. I've been wanting to build this for a while, so out it came again. After having assembled the cockpit, it was painted and closed up inside the fuselage:
Later the wings went on and some more filler was applied, but I didn't get pics of that.... yet
In the next bay over, I pulled out some paint and mixed a color that I felt was closer to all the images of B-2's and airbrushed one of them to see how it looks:
Hopefully I'll get both of them painted soon and I can get them finished up!
In this next bay I started an F-35 that was gifted to me by a friend. He also later provided me with the nose weight I needed to move forward on this. The nose weight went in and the forward part of this model was assembled:
Later after additional details were added, the fuselage was closed up and the wingtips, tail feathers and uprights were all added:
That concludes the Hangar portion of this tour, now on to the Shipyards.......
Here in the Shipyards we've been busy. This first slipway has the HMS Tiger all assembled and sporting painted decks:
After this, the hull and superstructure, as well as all the guns and deck parts were painted in the grey color.
Speaking of decks painted, in his next slipway, the French battleship Jean Bart got her decks painted as well, after the smaller caliber guns and other details were added:
The superstructure, also got most all of the details added and decks painted:
A test fit to see how this looks was then done, also to see what other attention this needs:
Finally, the upper hull, superstructure, and all the details got the final coat of grey:
Now about all that is needed is the addition to all the main batteries and the masts....
Moving on to the next slipway, the German carrier Peter Strasser got all the deck-edge details added, as well as some superstructure details and photo etch:
All this was later painted:
With the carrier completely done with assembly, work was started on his air wing. Once assembled, I checked out how it was going to look on the deck:
You can see some additional painting was done on the stern. Later the decals were added to this while the air wing dried:
Moving to the next slipway, the USS Mount Whitney was fully assembled, painted and ready for decals:
After applying the decals and being ready to call this done; I noticed this: The main mast in the center was missing, as can be seen where the white dot is on the deck. I have no idea when or how it broke off and disappeared. After a fruitless search, I had no choice but to pull out my spares box and try to scratch build a new mast:
I don't think I did very well, but it looked well enough to put on this model:
Later that got painted and this ship was launched.
In this last slipway, I got all the decals on the Marine LCAC, that as harder than I expected it to be:
After that, all the remaining detail parts were added and painted and this beastie was launched as well.
That concludes the Shipyard portion of this tour, now on to the Motor Pool where we were working on only two subjects.
In the Motor Pool here, the first bay has the C-911 HET sporting it's camouflage pattern:
Later the start of the weathering was done and the last details were added, most notably the rear view mirror frames:
After having done that I saw that one side mirror frame disappeared, so a scratch-build was done to replace it using spare parts from the spares bin:
Later that was painted, the rear view mirrors added, and final weathering was done. This was then rolled out to the disbursement yard for delivery to my US Army.
In the final bay here, we have the Japanese Panther 6x6 fire tender mostly built, so the decals for the windscreen and windows were added to the clear parts:
Later they were added to the cabin, and the remaining detail parts were added to this truck:
Finally the details were painted:
All this needed after that were the decals and some touch up painting and it was rolled out to the disbursement yard for delivery to my Japanese forces!
And that concludes this tour of the facility here. I hope those who chose to join the tour had a good time. Thanks for looking in and comments are welcome.
