Lippisch Li.P.13B part 2

Moving right along with the Lipisch I finished painting the rest of the camo colors and also added the vertical stabilizers.  

I also needed to add a skid ski to the bottom of the craft. This apparently replaced any wheels on the plane. 
This was easier said than don't because it installs at an angle, and there was no easy way align it correctly without sitting the plane done and letting it find its own angle.  But when you do that the back of the skid wants to lift off the ground. Ugh.  But in the end I did get it to sit flat on the ground, albeit with a slight twist. But I wasn't going to mess with it any further.

A little tough to see the skid, but it's there. ;)

Next is to gloss it for the decals. Next time. Thanks for looking.

A new SOLO ship?

From a trailer from the SOLO movie. I don't remember seeing this ship before...

Aradia's Charon

This time around I will be digging into the Charon kit from Aradia Miniatures. This was one of the levels gotten from their Kickstarter talked about HERE. 

A first look at the kit, it's is pretty intimidating. There are many parts and no instructions. You have to constantly refer to the box art which IMHO is a bit dark and hard to see.  Here are the parts - 

Taking a look at the parts in trying to separate them out, I was a little disappointed to see that in the largest part, the waves, it looked like the new mold slipped a bit leaving a lip - 

This though was in the back and remedied with an exacto knife and sanding sponges.  The 2 parts of the wave were glued together and the boat bow (which was one piece) was just placed on top. The fit was good, but I will need to add a bit of Aves in a few spots - 

Besides the two demon heads that are swirling in the water, the figures include Charon, two other demons, and a female "victim." Some of the figures need to be build so I further separated them into subassemblies - 

Let the painting begin - but that's for the next time. Thanks for looking.

Lippisch Li.P.13B

Needing a breather from the Me. 1092/3, I opened up Anigrand's Lippisch 13B kit. Having previously looked at it, I knew with minimal parts it's should be a fairly simple build. 
From Anigrand - 

In early 1944, due to the fuel shortage in Germany at that stage in the war, Dr. Alexander Lippisch and his design team though to use other kind of material be the alternative fuel for the power of his ramjet fighter designs, such as P.13a. They tried "coal" powder and designed a hexagonal / round shaped chamber which was suitable for coal combustion, and was refilled from top center. However, the fuel chamber could not fit into the P.13a fuselage. It was led to the follow-on design, the P.13b which was started in November 1944. It also featured a delta wing plan design as Lippisch's favorite. The cockpit was moved forward for better pilot's visibility. The double rudders were chosen to provide steady flight. The main landing gear was the retractable landing skid, and rear rested on the reinforced wingtips. No actual craft was built as end of the war. It only stayed in stage of concept sketches.

Here are the minimal parts - 

Fitting the two main parts together to see, before I applied glue, it's noticed that there are no engines. So the first thing to do is to darken the openings to make sure no ones looks in and notices no engines - 

One thing I did miss, was the opening at the other end. It wasn't obvious and just an oops.

Gluing the two parts of the fuselage, the kit was essentially just about done. Looking at the instructions, there was no specific color callouts (b/c the plane never really existed) so I used the typical RLM 81 and 82 for the top, and RLM 76 for the bottom. The camo shown had hard edges, and it was at this time that I noticed the painting images looked to be the same size as the model. I then cut up the painting image to make stencils for the model. But first I airbrushed the darkest color in to the approximate locations - 

You'll notice I also painted the cockpit (which is just a seat and stick) a dark gray. After this I sprayed with a matte poly, and left it to dry. 
Thanks for looking.
 

Me. 1092/3 part 3

Getting the Me. together from the last episode, I took a good look at the panel lines. In some spots they really look like mini Grand Canyons. So I've decided to fill in the ones that really offend, and then take a look at the rest. Here's what we have after filling -

While I was waiting for this to dry, I too a look at the previously Futured canopy. As is with too many canopies, in an effort (I'm guessing) to keep things in scale, they seem to make the details too faint.  I have been using the Tamiya Tape to cover the glass panels, but a member at my modeling club suggested I use Bare Metal Foil as it's thinner and makes the canopy frames easier to see. Which I did, and the frames are *still* barely visible -

After seeing this was the best I was going to get, I put the kit down for a few days. In the meantime I opened up the Lippisch kit. see next. Thanks for looking.

McDevitt's The Punisher

This time around I worked on Troy McDevitt's The Punisher. It is one of his Comics series. Each bust is sitting on a stack of comics having to do with the busts subject. To date Troy has about 10 busts in the series. I recently heard that he has seven more coming out shortly. So if you're a model and/or comix fan, check 'em out. 
The kit comes in three parts - the bust, the stack of comics, and one standing comic book - 

It was very nicely casted with no bubbles and only one fine seam line along the stack of comics.
Things went so smoothly that I only remembered to take a few pics - 

Here the figure is just base coated

Starting to add detail

He had a heavy brow, so he's tilted back to see the eyes

I just kept tweaking the details, until I was happy, then started in on the stack.  In the time it took my to build the model, I had no idea what I did with the decals for the comics. Emailing Troy, he gladly sent me another set. I cut the first one out and had it in the water a number of seconds before I realized that they weren't decals but just cutouts. Doh!! But it made installing them a whole lot easier. I used Tacky Glue, and they went on 1, 2, 3. Once dry I used Army Painter Light Tone to shade the pages of the comics and I was done. Thanks for looking.

Vault Boy

For those not familiar, Vault Boy comes from the series of games called Fallout. 
From Wiki:

Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games. It was created by Interplay Entertainment. Although the series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, its atompunk retrofuturistic setting and artwork are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, and its combination of hope for the promises of technology and the lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. 

Vault Boy:

The Vault Boy character is Vault-Tec's mascot, and is a frequently recurring element in Vault-Tec-related items in the world. This includes the Pip-Boy, where Vault Boy illustrates all of the character statistics and selectable attributes. From Bethesda's Fallout 3 onward Vault Boy models all of the clothing and weaponry as well. The character was originally designed by Leonard Boyarsky, based partly on Rich Uncle Pennybags from the Monopoly board game, and then drawn for Fallout by George Almond for the first few cards and then by Tramell Ray Isaac, who finalized the look of the character.