Bikini Island Hellcat decals Arrive

As you may have read a few weeks ago I purchased a Hellcat F6F-5 from Special Hobby and decals for the same after reading a build article on this subject in SAMI. what makes these planes special is that they were operated by remote control!
The decals finally arrived today from Alleycat Models in the UK. what decals they are. By themselves they are just a few star roundels, some numbers and letters. But what Alley Cat does is give you a pamphlet showing all the options and the paint call outs!
There are a number of options - all the planes are painted red, and the tails have different color tails so the remote operator can tell which plane is his. 

This is going to be an awesome build. 
Thanks for looking.
 

Merry Christmas from The Hobby Room

Wishing those who stop in to the Attic a very Merry Christmas. 

I spent a little time yesterday continuing to finish off the open projects I have- the AD-1, Armstrong's F5D, and the Blue Gemini. The Gemini gave me the toughest go trying to get the decals to sit into the corrugations.  But with 3 applications of Micro-Sol it worked out. 
Pics will be coming shortly. 

Have a Merry...

The AD-1 and the F5-D coming to the end

I managed another hour or so in the room today and managed to get the decals on the AD-1. As seen in the pic, the wing isn't on yet. As I imagined - rightly so - that putting the blue strip decal was difficult. But I did get them on and put some micro-sol to get it snugged down. It puckered and while it was drying I moved on the the decals of the F5-D. 
As you may remember these were homemade decals. As you can see I still have a lot to learn about home made decals, but I don't think it's terrible. Here's where I am.
Thanks for looking.
 

 

Busy Day With A few Projects

Since I haven't really been up in my hobby area in a while, I was happy to the opportunity get get up there for a few hours this afternoon and then again after dinner. This afternoon I took another look at the AD-1 I was working on a few weeks back. The problem was that the vac canopy didn't sit right, and no matter what I did, didn't help. Finally,  I just puttied the crap out of it, sanded it down and called it a day and put it aside. Looking at it today, I thought it wasn't the worst thing I ever built and went to put the decals on. Thats when I realized I never glossed it.  After putting the gloss coat on,  I also glossed Armstrong's F5-D, that's been sitting for a few months. I guess subconsciously I'm trying to finish off all outstanding kits for this year. While I was at it, did I think to gloss coat the Blue Gemini for it's decals? No... Doh! :-P

New Aquisitions: Susan:F4 + more

I had a bunch of models get delivered since I posted last.
First  is the first is the Heinkel 178. It was the first plane to fly under turbo jet power.  On 1 November 1939, after the German victory in Poland, Heinkel arranged a demonstration of the jet to officials. Herman Goering, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, didn't even show up. Ernst Udet and Erhard Milch watched the aircraft perform, but were unimpressed. That seemingly was the end of that. 
The kit is by Special Hobby and 1/72 scale. I got it thru Squadron Mailorder. 

Blue Gemini part 3

In this session I got the hatches on --

New Aquisition: The Carver

In my never ending search for "oddball" kits, I came across the website of  Jean Louis Crinon and found a bounty of kits right down my alley. The one I picked up first is The Carver. 
I don't know of any backstories with the sculpts. So what we have is a ragdoll that has carved a Halloween pumpkin, but what the prototype image shows is that the doll has blood splatter on his shirt from possibly carving up something else....   Oooooh.