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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: JHerne on March 02, 2010, 12:39:57 AM
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When I'm not getting my tail feathers shot off in AH, I'm a professional modeler by trade. Stuff in museums all over the world, and lucky enough to have a client list of some real high-profile folks.
I build whatever the client wants, but I typically do 1/32 WW2 aircraft for my own personal collection...here's a few if anyone is interested...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/Avia023.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/Avia066.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/100_2891.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/spitxiv_001.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/ju87_001.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/190d9_002.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/p51d_003.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/warhawk/p40_2.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/100_3129.jpg)
If anyone cares to see more pics of a particular model, lemme know. Enjoy!
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Holy @#&!, Sweet.... How is the cockpit detail?
Cheers
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Very nice. I can see how you earn your living from modelling - you are a craftsman :aok
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I would love to know the cockpit detail aswell. Also, do these start as any kind of kit or are you using wood/metal and shaping/fabing parts by hand?
Beautiful work no matter how you do it. I wish you continued success doing what you love!
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You got anything in the F4U variants but to be more specific something along the lines of a VF-17 ride? Just curious.
Also I have a few models that is sitting here and I just need to find the time to do them. I have an A-36 Apache (Accurate Miniatures), Me-410 (Revell), AC-130H (minicraft) to build. My oldest son picked up an easy one that I did years ago and we are going to build it soon...the Testors 1/48 F-19 Stealth that was kind of disinformation way back in the cold war days. I remember that one being relatively easy to work on when I did it 25 years ago so we are going to do it and let him start his own collection.
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Cockpits are usually hard to show in photos, but here's some examples of what's inside.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/warhawk/100_3134.jpg)
This is the instrument panel of the P-40.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/warhawk/100_3144.jpg)
P-40 cockpit just before I closed the fuselage up.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/190d9_003.jpg)
Cockpit of the Fw-190D-9
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/100_3033.jpg)
Ki-61 cockpit
I've got a couple of Corsair projects in the works - an F2G, a FAA Corsair KD-431 (working in conjunction with the FAA Museum in the UK), and an F4U-3 with Beirman supercharger slung underneath. Here's a VF-17 bird for you...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/100_2887.jpg)
Most of the models I do for myself are kits - some are altered heavily (like the Avia and Ki-61), others are pretty much box kits with a few added details. I try to keep this part of my job fun, as much of the work I do for pay isn't much fun. Here's a model we did a few years ago - a cruise ship model. It's 9 feet long, weighs in at 400 lbs. The hull is hammered brass, with wooden decks, even a caged-in tennis court. That's not me standing behind it - that's the guy I partnered with to complete the job. The model was so big we had to work on it in the dining room, the hull wouldn't make the turns in the stairs to the workshop, so we did final assembly upstairs. The model was then passed through a window to the outside. Last I knew it was on display at the American Express Building in Manhattan.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/DSC02369.jpg)
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Love the F4U-1a model for obvious reasons! :aok
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Nice work all around. I like how you get the panel lines to show up there in them. What sort of wash do you use to get the look? I have had a guy tell me that he used "Finish" floor polish on that to make it look that way.
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Amazing! Have you done any Jugs or Hellcats?
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Nice work on the Hog, although she's a tad bit clean and immaculate for a REAL Hog pilot. :D
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I'm not far as good as JHerne, but willing to learn a lot
here is what i do when i got killed to often in game to calm my nervs :cool:
(http://forumld.dark-ones.de/download/file.php?id=32&mode=view)
(http://forumld.dark-ones.de/download/file.php?id=35&mode=view)
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When I'm not getting my tail feathers shot off in AH, I'm a professional modeler by trade. Stuff in museums all over the world, and lucky enough to have a client list of some real high-profile folks.
I build whatever the client wants, but I typically do 1/32 WW2 aircraft for my own personal collection...here's a few if anyone is interested...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/Avia023.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/Avia066.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/100_2891.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/spitxiv_001.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/ju87_001.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/190d9_002.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/p51d_003.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/warhawk/p40_2.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/100_3129.jpg)
If anyone cares to see more pics of a particular model, lemme know. Enjoy!
Very impressive collection and attention to
detail. If you don't mind me asking, since yr very advanced in yr field - is it like other industrial art where a work is comissioned and you have a set scope yr working from with specific levels of detail? Is this area particularly lucritive or is it very niche for collectors and display lobby's?
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Herr Reschke,
My finishing process is pretty simple...primer, basecoat, gloss coat, decals, wash, flat coat, weathering, flat coat. I use Future Floor Wax - its the best clear coat I've found in all my years of doing this. Granted, Future dries glossy, so I add Tamiya X-21 Flat base to the Future to flatten it. The washes are my own, I own a mail-order modeling supply business called Modeler's Warehouse. Product line is called Warpigs, both acrylic washes and pigments, and we're working a new line of paint masks at the moment.
However, on the cheap, if you want to do an acrylic wash, here's what you need...distilled water, dish soap (Dawn works best), and an acrylic paint of the color you want. Mix the three, I typically go 4:1:1, but you can mix to your own personal tastes. Once the gloss coat on the model has dried and cured (at least 48 hours), apply the wash mix to the panel lines. Hit it with a hair dryer or allow it to dry naturally. Using a damp, soft cloth, wipe the excess off the model going in the direction of the slipstream. This will remove the wash from the panel surfaces but leave it in the panel lines themselves.
Sorry Saxman, I simply haven't gotten around to dirtying it up....wait until you see this FAA Corsair I'm doing...scratches everywhere!
Caldera - these are for you...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/Avia026.jpg)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/DSC_0009.jpg)
Wolfala, this is a strange business to be in. For the most part, you have to get to the point where you're doing something that others cannot. I've built models for customers and had them complain to me later that my prices were too high, that they could go to Walmart and buy a 1/18 airplane for $59.00. At that point, I tell them to have fun at Wally World. Businesses are a little differnet, since most of the time you're building something from their drawings and to their specs. I've managed to survive by retaining customers who have more money than common sense, and like the work I do. Without them, I'd be SOL.
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i had a 110 model from revell i hadnt even started on it and i lost the instructions and cant find another instruction packet anywhere :(
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They are of awesome quality work, lots of modelling discussion on the aircraft of WWII forum if your interested
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/modeling/
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JHerne sir, you have the Midas Touch. The folks in Japan should invite you over to paint this bad boy:
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Yamato_model_AA_guns.jpg)
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/YAMATO_Moder.jpg)
I had tons of WWII models as a kid - Revell ships and Monogram 1/48 planes, but I was awful.
Fell in love with Liberators after seeing this:
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Monogram20B-24_heading.jpg)
Unfortunately, my skills peaked about age 5 when I had this exact kit:
(http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/drac.jpg)
This pic is from Ebay. This is a 1969 kit still sealed and he wants $700.00 for it. Wish I never opened mine. :cry
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I got a few like that....
Jay - I have a Revell 110G....send me an email addy and I'll scan the instructions for you.
J
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Nice looking work! I haven't been able to model for a couple of years since I lost all my equipment in a fire and haven't had space to start accruing stuff again. I like that you don't have that overly shaded panel line look that I just don't much care for. It doesn't seem to look too realistic to me either, but it seems to be all the rage these days. Really nice clean lines on your canopy frames and the wheel rims too.
What do you use for the natural metal? A couple of those looked like silver paint and one or two others looked like Alclad perhaps? Really excellent work for certain. I just love modeling. Love it in a big way.
Just this past weekend I had to restrain myself from hitting my really excellent lhs and picking up some stuff. I was halfway through a really good Hasegawa A7E Corsair2 with resin cockpit and wheel wells and intake and all the pe I could get for it, and a big Mustang project as well, using parts from the Hase and Tamiya pony and as much resin and pe as I could get my hands on, rub on stencils aftermarket decals and the whole ball of wax. Going to have to start that guy all over again, but it'll be fun when I can. As much as I try to avoid it, I always end up coming down with the advanced modeling syndrom. I stare at something and fixate and just can't leave it alone.
Very impressive stuff man, post all you can. I love seeing well built kits like those, thanks for putting them up.
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Thanks Madda. The P-47 was Metalizer, done back in the day. The Ki-61 and P-40 are both Alclad, done over black primer. I stopped using the Alclad primer awhile back as it was very tempermental. Now, I simply spray flat black over the model and then polish it down. Works like a champ.
I'm not a big fan of the heavily-weathered, heavy-paneled model. I spent 10 years as an aviation museum director and spent nearly all my time around vintage aircraft - they simply don't look like that.
My other pet peeve is seeing aircraft with ord hanging off them, and all the panels opened up. Its been standard policy since the start of combat flying, you remove anything that can go boom before working on an aircraft.
The key to AMS is simply moving on before it stops being fun. There are some cockpits that have every bell and whistle (like the Ki-61), and there's others that don't even have seatbelts. It depends (for me anyway), how the model went together, whether or not it'll be competition quality, etc. I have modeler buddies who will spend an entire year working on one model, and in the end, it looks no different than the model I spent 3 weeks building.
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Thanks Madda. The P-47 was Metalizer, done back in the day. The Ki-61 and P-40 are both Alclad, done over black primer. I stopped using the Alclad primer awhile back as it was very tempermental. Now, I simply spray flat black over the model and then polish it down. Works like a champ.
I'm not a big fan of the heavily-weathered, heavy-paneled model. I spent 10 years as an aviation museum director and spent nearly all my time around vintage aircraft - they simply don't look like that.
My other pet peeve is seeing aircraft with ord hanging off them, and all the panels opened up. Its been standard policy since the start of combat flying, you remove anything that can go boom before working on an aircraft.
The key to AMS is simply moving on before it stops being fun. There are some cockpits that have every bell and whistle (like the Ki-61), and there's others that don't even have seatbelts. It depends (for me anyway), how the model went together, whether or not it'll be competition quality, etc. I have modeler buddies who will spend an entire year working on one model, and in the end, it looks no different than the model I spent 3 weeks building.
I'm one of those one year guys. I think a big part of that is because I'm under such deadline pressure every day at work, so I take every bit of time I want to, so I can get everything just exactly how I want it. I can work at my own pace and to the level of my abilities, and that is fun to me. I know what you mean though about stopping, there is certainly a breakover point. I've seen dudes who can just crank out really nice models in no time flat. I've always been a teeny bit jealous of them, but just a teeny bit.
I enjoy the dry fitting process and being able to make stuff fit just so before feeling like I've got to move on just to be moving. I enjoy the paint prep process and the weathering, and all that really, so I just don't ever feel in any hurry to finish it any sooner than I want. It makes me feel good. I like taking all my time and painting very carefully and in the thinnest possible layer over and over. It's all just so fun to do. Not woohoo kind of fun really, but deeply satisfying in a way that I can't describe. Hell, I even like messing with photoetch stuff, it just looks so cool when it's put together well.
That said, I have built a number of kits just out of the box and left gaps where parts just don't fit right inside wheel wells and such, and that didn't bother me much at all. Maybe it all depends on the mood.
Man, I've got to get a room cleaned out and put some tables and lamps in there. Just reading and typing all this stuff gets me all antsy.
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Very nice work.
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:aok :aok
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Hey Madda, the IPMS National Convention will be in Omaha in 2011 (Phoenix this year). You want to talk about motivating, check out of those shows.
Caldera, that 1/10 Yamato model is simply amazing. Unfortunately, she's already painted in Kure Gray!
I jump around in terms of moods, right now (and for the last year or so), I've been into 1/32 aircraft. I also do armor...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/LEM_stuff/DSC_0022.jpg)
This is a 1/6 Jagdpanzer IV/L70. All metal, weighs in over 100lbs., 4 feet long from barrel to exhaust pipe.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/t34_02.jpg)
Here's a 1/16 T-34/85...full interior, gearbox, wired radios, etc...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/E25/100_2923.jpg)
And a 1/35 German E25 'paper project'.
I've got a 1/6th Tiger I on the bench at the moment, and a 1/6 SdKfz 250/3 after that....lots of projects, so little time!
Thanks guys.
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I'm an Armor Guy also (plus 1/32 1/35 Helo's for Air Support :lol)
This is just a real tiny portion of what I have in my Hobby Room, I have been doing 1/35 for about 30 years.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul8.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul9.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul3.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul5.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul6.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul6.jpg)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/rstel/models/ul2.jpg)
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That stuff looks great, especially the halftrack! I like armor modeling, but I don't do much of it because of my airplane obsession. I can sure see the attraction though, it's awfully fun to dirty those things all up, not to mention the stuff you can scratchbuild that just sits there begging to be checked out. Nice work man, thanks for sharing!
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Thanks JHerne that is what I was thinking about. I had forgotten what the name of the floor polish was. I will give my Me-410 a good wash when I get around to working on it. I used to do a lot of armor and way back in the old days I had a few Panthers, and Shermans done with a smattering of T-34s as well. They all went the same way that my ships did when I was a teenager....fuses and fireworks made for some great battle recreations along the creek banks and in the yard of the homestead.
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JHerne, do you have any models of the Mosquito (any variant)?
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Great work! Great models!
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:aok Amazing work
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Thanks guys. Mr. Denholm, I'm in the middle of a Mossie project at the moment, it got put on hold when I decided to open it up completely and scratchbuild the engines, motor mounts, etc.
I'm using the Mosquito up at the EAA Museum in Oshkosh as a my reference, they've been nice enough to grant me access to the aircraft.
At present, I'm doing a vacu-form SB2C Helldiver in 1/32 scale. Fuselage, wings, tail are all done, I'm scratchbuilding the interior at present.
Jeff
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I'm not a big fan of the heavily-weathered, heavy-paneled model. I spent 10 years as an aviation museum director and spent nearly all my time around vintage aircraft - they simply don't look like that.
(http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/wiki/images/e/ec/883.jpg)
:P
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Now, to keep this photo in context, we were talking about the heavily-done panel lines and artistic shading that was applied to models, not environmental effects. And yes, there are always exceptions to the rules. USMC PTO aircraft were some of the nastiest, snarfiest looking aircraft to be seen. This is, however, the exception and not the rule.
In the scale modeling world, if you were to build this aircraft and replicate the weathering as it appears, you'd be placed in the Junior's category. Sorry, that's the slewed perception of the scale modeling community at the present time.
And yes, I spent tons of time around vintage aircraft, both museum and airworthy examples. We didn't see panels with color differentiations of 30-40% on a single panel. Its not how it looks from a distance, its not how it looks up close.
This is from a real P-40 -
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/oshkosh/DSC_1065.jpg)
So that on a scale model - and you've misapplied the decals (called silvering) and your model is out of contention for an award.
The latest trend in scale modeling is to create this completely war-torn, weather beaten model. In some cases, its acceptable, but in most its grossly overdone. The idea is not necessarily to depict accurate environmental weathering effects, rather, its to create this artistically derived artifical contrast.
My logic has always been simple... aircraft, whether factory painted or field applied, at one time or another, were immaculate and spotless at some point in their lives. It may have only been a few days, but they were clean. Unless we have specific photogrpahic evidence (such as you provided), we have little to go as to how beaten and battered an aircraft has become.
Here's an example....
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/jherne/jeffs_models/190d9_002.jpg)
This Fw-190D-9 was delivered to Stab./JG301 on December 28th of 1945. I have been told that this model is far too clean, not weathered enough. This aircraft was lost on January 14, 1945. It was a new aircraft less than three weeks old. I've seen modelers build this same aircraft and it looks like your Corsair photo. So who's more accurate in their representation? I could say this a a model of an Fw-190D-9 as it appeared on Dec. 29th, 1945. There in lies the difference between model builders and model makers. When I do an aircraft model, I try my utmost to base it on an actual aircraft. Most modelers don't do that.