Tiny Shida's Mobile

[Tracerfi]

I have a Me163 Komet and a SNJ Texan

[nrshida]

We've had a bad week. Tiny Shida was under the weather but has swam out of trouble again. Haven't exactly progressed very far with his models yet.

Made a start on the Hasegawa Ki-84, want to add a little extra detail because this is one of my favourites, especially to the skin, but first decided to add a bit of detail to the gun ports using an old paintbrush for the ducts. Have to finish this before I join the fuselage halves together:-



At this rate this model should be finished in time for his 70th birthday, lolz. Hope to go a bit faster now.

[Rob52240]

http://www.bedbathstore.com/baopfrabyajf.html

Shida needs to get tiny Shida one of these!

That thing would be so fun to modify to shoot fireworks.

[Wildcat1]

Good to hear tiny shida is showing strong again.

I'm about ready to start painting, I have the engine cowling and propeller on, which pretty much completes it. All i have to do now is paint, then I will attach the canopy. Looking good so far, unfortunately no new pictures 

[perdue3]

Nice looking finishes shida. I am building an old 1/72 Hasegawa Frank right now. I am actually gonna use you lower fuse pic of the Frank to weather mine

[nooby52]

can't wait to get back to it, but for now i need to watch Michigan beat Alabama

 

I'm sorry for your loss. 

<Life-long 'Bama fan>

[Zoney]

I'm admittedly struggling more that a little with this P38 for Tiny-shida.  My eyesight has gotten pretty poor and my left had shakes a bit nowadays.  It will get finished but I'm guessing a 10 year old could probably do better.  Doesn't matter, all I have to to is imagine you pointing at it years from now and the two of you laughing when you say, "yeah, well Zoney built that one for you".

[nrshida]

The finish doesn't matter Zoney, the fact that you would do this for a tiny fellow does 

Perdue3, the Hasegawa's finish is really precise, and the photographs I'm working from tell a tale of a far coarser finish (poor panel work and distortion from riveting), so I hope to do a little work on that. I'm aiming for the 29th Sentai paint scheme which means a lot of bare metal. I've decided to sacrifice my MiG-29 model to experiment with technique & painting.

Danny told me he already finished his Hurricane, Wildcat's Wildcat looks fantastic so far. I've also got a Tamiya Spitfire Mark I which I'll just do a straight assembly and paint of. Sexy looking wings but two of the MGs stick out a tad which is confusing because I thought they put a patch of red doped canvas over them each sortie? Don't have so many reference photos of that 

[JimmyD3]

I haven't built scale models since the 70's, but we had a method of using Aluminum Foil for covering models, saw several nice 1/32 scale F86's. The difference in panels was accomplished turning the the foil over for different panels. I would assume the technique is still available at the hobby shop.

[nrshida]

Thanks Jimmy, I may have to look for that if I can't get on with the Testors that Wildcat recommended.

I finished one gun port on my Hayate but it's been a bit frantic. Hopefully a picture soon.

In the meantime my good friend Danny sent this over for Tiny Shida, meet Algenon the left-handed Hurricane pilot 



How awesome is that?

[ebfd11]

Awesome and  Danny and all the others working on the mobile, now that is proof our AH community can come together.

LawnDart

[JimmyC]

Awesome!!

[Shuffler]

If you say Hayate three time quickly in a public place..... folks will say gesundheit

[pipz]

Rite on Danny!!