Hey, I'm all for it, but it's not my campaign so I can't say. I liked the origonal song/video by Genesis but the way Disturbed tweeked it, remade it pretty cool! This coming from a guy, no doubt like many here, who saw the 1st few VH-1/MTV videos........I want my.....I want my........I want my MVT!


Looking at my decals makes me think I should try something else quickly...the question is, "what"?

Gentlemen-

I am progressing swiftly with my build. (There are so few parts compared to ships, really)
The model is pre-shaded (I tried airbrush pre-shing this time, which is new to me) and painted 2 layers of red. Layer one is Tamiya red and the second is Taymiya red with a few drops of red brown. I had masked off the tapes on the wings (sorry for the lack of better words) before applying the second layer.
The model has received two coats of Future.



Next were the decals, which I finished last night, but did not take any photos, yet. I hope to be able to do some mor work tonight and maybe even finish the build by mid/end of ext week.

I have followed the search for the Bluesmobile, which I would relly like build one day myself. I really wonder there is no kit for it including Jake and Elwood to man the seats.

Cheers,
Guido

The build is crawling along...
Indeed I thought it was quite fiddely to get the top wing to sit in position, but it worked out. I haven't however used a lot of colourful language like that in a long time.



Bits, bobs, and riggin g yet to be added and The Baron will be finsihed.

Cheers,
Guido

Gentlemen-
This is it here is my 1/48 Albatross as can be seen in the German mortion picture Der Rote Baron. It's been a build with a learning curve (Lots o' curve, really!). These little planes are a wee bit complicated. The pre-shading bit was nice to do. UNfotunately I chose Tamiya as a colour coat of choice and it dried very grainy when I shot on with my airbrush (too little thinner, I think). As a result applying washings wasn't a choice. Anyway, it's been fun and my son like the red plane on the shelf a lot.









It's been an honour flying with you, gentlemen!

Cheers,
Guido

PS.: There is no campagain gallery to post the pictures to, yet.

Well, music videos are not very successful, but I have the solution. I made a figure of one of the Scot terriers from Coraline for my friend for Christmas in November -that should qualify, right?

Guido, that Alby turned out great! Nice rigging too! Last stringbag I built was my 1/72 HB W-29 floatplane - I think I need to build another from that time period! Oh, I've had issues recently with the Tamiya paint too when using the Ab....mine got all sorts of grainy looking so when I wet sand it down I'll retry with more thinner I guess. The problem is I'm painting a car that needs to be shiney. Usually their paint goes on easy.......

Thanks, Bob!
I have the Alby sitting next to my Wyvern in the same scale, which is basically the culmination of the prop-driven fighter plane development. It is quite interesting to see the developement not only in technology, but in sheer size.
The flyboys of the first day really had to have some brass balls to climb into these stringbags.
This was certainly not my last WWI bi-plane.
Cheers,
Guido

Decals are ready!! I got them finally, from my friend with the ALPS printer. Next to mask and paint the white magnetic sign on the door, and finish the rocket sign being formed from putty, so I can apply them.
Here's the nearly complete truck. (the orange rectangles will become mirror mounts soon.) I also still have the windows to do on the cap (not pictured here).

-Sean.

Thanks, Bob, for the suggestion...
I used Sculpey, first doing my impression of a sculptor-- molding this stuff is tricky-- trying to get one detail without squishing the rest in your hand as you work . When I had a decent shape, I jammed holes in the bottom with a toothpick, for mounting rods later.

Once baked, it was easy to sand smooth.

Then after it was baked hard and sanded smooth, I used a drillbit at a low speed (careful-- it's baked clay!) to clean up the holes.

Now on to painting, mounting, a coat of Future, and decaling.
-thanks,
Sean.

More progress...
I painted and mounted the rocket-- success! That's the good news.
I put a piece of Scotch tape across the tailgate and penciled in the "YO" (took two tries to get that right, or at least close enough), then I cut the tape with an Xacto knife.

What I discovered when I cut out the letter shapes was that, while I always use some heavy primers, I hadn't cleaned off old decal glue (or something), and the paint came up with the tape. I went ahead and painted my letters in, removed the rest of the tape, and dabbed yellow (not the same yellow, but the truck is pretty grungy anyway) around the letter forms. That was the bad news.
I think it turned out alright in the end though.
I found the license number from an internet movie trivia site, and made it up on Microsoft Word, printed it on paper, and glued it on with tacky craft glue.

The rocket did take a while to cure. I was afraid to apply Future as a decal base until the rocket wasn't tacky, which took 3 or 4 days. I may have painted it too soon after baking. Now the Future is on, and I wait to apply decals.
thanks for looking!
-Sean.

Looking good!

That is looking really cool Sean. Now if you could just find some scale Woody and Buzz figures you would be all set!!

Randy

I know, if I kept going on this, it would be fun to make a tiny Buzz, buckled in front next to the pizzas, and Woody sliding around in back with a toolbox, but I'm looking forward to my next build already-- looking through the posts, it's hard to believe I started way back in October.
Every build is like that-- I've got a Dodge army truck looking down on me as I type here that SOMEDAY might get a tarp, but probably never. Each of my builds has something more I could do, but the whim has passed.
thanks Harv and Guido for the nice words!
Should be wrapping this up tonight, then final photos in the gallery. (The decals on are AWESOME-- I tear up each time I look, it's so beautiful.)
-Sean.

Here's the final product. I can't locate a campaign gallery for this one. Does it exist yet?
Thanks everyone.
-Sean

Excellent! Truely a unique model!
Cheers,
Guido

Awesome work Sean, one of my favourite movies ever and you have truly done it justice there !!

"You saved our lives, we are eternally grateful !"

Cheers, D

Here's the Gallery link (if the link doesn't work it's in the AutoModeler Group Build section).

TV and Movie Gallery

Very cool Sean. It really turned out nice.

It makes me want to sit down and watch the movie again!!

Randy

Thanks much, D and Randy!
Guido, you too! In looking back through this thread, I realized I forgot to commend you on that great biplane. (I'm curious to see the Wyvern and Albatross side-by-side.)
Thanks, James, for opening the gallery for this build. Guido's done. I noticed tonight that I hadn't painted the support posts under the rocket yet, so I'll post newer final photos into the gallery soon.
Finally, Bob, hope to see that Ecto-1 finished up-- couldn't a dose of Future under the decal edges save it somehow?
-Sean.

Excellent work there sean, the truck turned out great!
Now, as for mine....the decals are wrinkled and every new set of solva set just seems to make them that much worse - so I stopped! Adding future to them would still leave them wrinkled so I've been trying to tweek some touch-up decals. Seems those decals I downloaded from the web are just a tad too big...excellently made, but just alittle too big.
I will try and see "that one" through, but another idea has been set in a bucket to remove any release agent and I hope to start the build on that one tomorrow if I'm lucky. I'll give yah a hint.........it's black, and it's a Bat-ty idea I've had for a while.
I'm down, but don't count me out just yet!

One of the terriers from Coraline.
(I'm planning to make a "bat-terrier" version as well.)

Cool stuff, Spongya.
Bob, I didn't see that March 5 post before now, but I put your clues into my Bat-computer, and I'm waiting for its printout.
Thanks,
Sean

Anyone have any ribbon ideas?

Simple but effective?



Cheers,
Guido

Great idea, but make the sides more wider (so that it's proportionate in the 35mm film format.)