Chal Done and Popeye Started

Work completed. I added foliage to my tree and a few grasses here and there. Done.

A New Prehistoric Project

This time we have David Krentz's 1:72nd scale Chalcotherium. David Krentz is an artist noted for his work is many movies. He has also done a number of prehistoric sculptures.  Originally he sold them himself, but now you can get them thru his Shapeways Store and also Dans Dinosaurs webstore. 
I never seem to take pics before I start so here's a shot from Dans Dinosaurs of the Chal --
 

Calling the CAM-23 done

This session I took some MIG pigments and mixed it with some water and then ran the mix into the panel lines on the green surfaces. Since I can't find out if this is an experimental plane or not, I didn't want too beat up looking. For the Light Blue on the bottom I tried a little trick that I saw on You Tube in that I traced the panel lines with a 4B pencil and then smudged it with a cotton bud.

I then airbrushed another layer of Vallejo's Matt Clear and the silvering around the decals finally disappeared.
With that done I added the wheels, the canopy which needed a little Kristal Klear, and the propeller. Then there was two little spots on the boom that I painted on some Vallejo Air Steel, and highlighted the pistons (or whatever) with some VA Aluminum.   Its done. Weird, the lights are making my Bronze Green paint look a blue color. Hmmm...

 Thanks for looking.

CAM-23 Moves Fwd.

Moving fwd. with the CAM-23, I feel I'm in the final stretch. I think I left off mentioning that I painted the lower color (Pale Blue), and I started the upper color (Bronze Green) on the fuselage completely forgetting I had already painted the bottom color (the bottom color is almost exactly the same as the primer). After my first shot of the Bronze Green I realized... DOH. 

New Aquisition: Deinonychus antirrhopus

This started out as a Kickstarter a few months ago. The artist's vision was to make available scientifically accurate models.  One of his pledge offers was a 1:5 scale model + a T-shirt. Thankfully the Kickstarter was funded and the other day came to fruition when my model arrived at the door. 
I had forgotten about it being 1:5 scale and was surprised at the size of the box, and even more so with the kit. It's huge! 
The parts are very clean and you can barely see the seam lines. They should be easy to make disappear. The parts attachment points are ingenious in that there are feathers that will mask those points. Here are a few pics --

 Thanks for looking.

Moving on with the Cam-23

I managed to get up to the Hobby room for an hour or so yesterday. This plane is so small that it almost looks like I'm building a 1:144 scale kit. 
I left off with the Cam in 3 major subassemblies and got it all primed.

Getting To My My Hobby Table

Where we left off was that the AD-1's canopy was glued on and now we need to fill the area around it.  I applied the filler. When dried I carefully sanded it smooth only to find that I needed more. :-/ I was disappointed at what I missed as I put the filler on so carefully around  the canopy and sanded it equally as carefully. Dang!  So in a moment of anger, I just glopped it on there --

I'll let you know how this works out.