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[Sgt. Scream]

Since there were some tragic events taking place in my family, progress wasn\'t as much as I had expected to achieve over the weekend.
Anyway, the modelling always helped me to clear my head and so here are at least two pics of the little progress that I made:

Cockpit canopy added, base fuselage completed (I also completed the whole flyer base, but I won\'t show until the bird is done), ready for the paintjob...

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Finished painting the low-viz camo.

Next steps is painting details, weathering the fuselage, adding final payload and of course decals.

Starts to look like a helicopter finally. :-)

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Panel wash, exhaust smoke and weathering completed. Next step: adding decals and a few touch-ups here and there.  :dance3:

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I have finished my 1/72 scale AH-1Z Viper, call-sign \"Starwolf 1-4\".

[Muswetyl]

WOw, die ist ja endgeil geworden,man könnte meinen, du bist damit schon öfter unterwegsgewesen!

Sieht echt top aus!

LG
Stefan

[Sgt. Scream]

\"A Few Blocks Of Hell\" - a Force On Force game

Two players, infantry units only. Regular forces vs. regular forces.

Scenario played:
\"A Few Blocks Of Hell\", US Army in Fallujah, out of the FoF (Osprey) rulebook.

Optional rules used for the scenario: \"Juba\" (a sniper for the Jihadists) and \"Raindancer\" (a FO with medium mortars on call for the Army).

Forces:
Haymaker 1-1 (Squad Leader 1)
Haymaker 1-1-A and 1-1-B (two standard fire teams)

Haymaker 1-2 (Squad Leader 2)
Haymaker 1-2-A and 1-2-B (two more fire teams)

Raindancer (FO)

versus

Local Jihadists troops 1-5 (JD1 -JD5)
Syrian Street Fighters (SY1 and SY2)
\"Juba\" with spotter (Sniper Team/ weapons team with SVD rifle ( not suppressed), team starts hidden)








More about it  h e r e.

[Sgt. Scream]

After finishing off the AH-1Z my next project for the \"Battle For Skira\" campaign is some ground vehicles. I picked my AAVP7A1 amtracks, call-sign \"Gator\", to be the next in line.

The models are one Dragon die-cast, expanded with EAAK made from resin (Black Dog CZ), and two Dragon Amtracks w/EAAK kits that got single pieces of stowage from Black Dog and other brands (S&S for example) glued all over the place. :-)

The diecast and one of the plastic kits are shown below in various stages of the current build. I need to assemble the next kit and will start painting when all are completely assembled.

[Arndie]

Die beiden Helis waren schon sehr cool, aber die Amtracks sind für mich ja noch viel besser. Sieht toll aus bis jetzt! :thumbup:

[MacGuffin]

Grüne Packesel :thumbup:
Aber schön, die Reise weiter zu verfolgen. Bin auch hier auf die fertigen Modelle gespannt.

[Sgt. Scream]

Grüne Packesel :thumbup:
Aber schön, die Reise weiter zu verfolgen. Bin auch hier auf die fertigen Modelle gespannt.

Na erstmal schön weiter bauen.  :thumbsup:

Die beiden Helis waren schon sehr cool, aber die Amtracks sind für mich ja noch viel besser. Sieht toll aus bis jetzt! :thumbup:

Ich hoffe ich kann weiterhin begeistern.  ^^


I promised there would be more and I shall keep that promise. :-) A long afternoon of kit building later:

Gator #3 assembled and #2 received its primer

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It took me ages to finally find a copy of the Warrior Model 1/72 scale vacu-formed/resin kit of a NanChang Q-5 on ebay. This one came to me from a guy in Poland.

The Q-5 is a close air support/ground attacker aircraft, currently deployed by both, PLAAF (Chinese Air Force) and the PLA Navy.

This one is my first vacu-formed kit that I am ever going to assemble. That means its going to be interesting...   :blink_1:

If you look at the box contents, you\'ll see that the main fuselage and wings are vacu-formed white plastic, while weapons, cockpit and parts of the landing gear are either resin cast or white metal. The metal parts I won\'t need for the most part since I am going to assemble the kit \"in flight\" on a flight stand. I am also planning on exchanging the resin cast FAB-250 bombs with plastic ones from Dragon Models\' Soviet Aircraft payload kits in 1/72 scale. I might also use my Dream Model chinese LGBs to put them under the wings instead of the 57mm rocket pods. The modern Q-5 can carry up to two of them.

Check out the pics:

Contents: decals, instructions, painting guides, resin payload and detail parts, white metal landing gear etc..


Box: includes one kit, several decals for both, PLAAF and Pakistani Air Force

[ModernCombatScale72]

Die AAVP7A1 Panzer sehn ja mal verdammt geil aus, die Bilder sind mir irgendwie durch die Lappen gegangen. Ist ja schon eine Weile her. Hast du mittlerweile mal gemalt?
Der Chinesen Bomber ist auch mal interessant, dass du auch Flieger machen kannst haben deine letzten Projekte ja bewiesen. viel Spaß
Gruß Ben

[SiamTiger]

Superbes Projekt. Tolle Auswahl an Figuren, breites Spektrum. Schick

Habe es auf WarSeer gesehen,find es top dass es aus Deutschland kommt.

[Sgt. Scream]

ne, die Amtracks sind noch nicht recht viel weiter bemalt... :whistling:


Following a few guides on the internet on modelling vacu-form kits, the first steps I took was using a black marker and draw it around the parts in an 45° angle. I tried to mark 50% of both, the actual parts and the styrene sheet around it.


I then used scissors and hobby knife to cut out the parts. I tried not cut too close to the parts before they have been freed of the styrene sheet left overs around it. Next step will be cutting them out very closely using my hobby knife and then the sanding process will kick off.

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Today I have sanded the first parts of the Fantan. I started with something small to try it and so the smaller rear wings were first to go.


The first pic shows the already sanded parts for the left rear wing. Above those you can see how the parts were looking like on top and from underneath before sanding.


After sanding them with 120 grid and 180 grid sand paper, they became really thin but to my surprise still very stiff.



At first I thought the wings will be hollow on the inside but after sanding it became clear that the two halves will have a large surface to put glue on top.

Tomorrow the sanding process will continue and I might already have a wing or two show off with. :-)