Covered Market Model painted

This has sat among the detritus on the desk with a basic basecoat for months.  Took to it with a fury in the past few days and ended up with this.  Vallejo basecoats and drybrush, oil washes and pigments.

Also quite happy with my first attempt at a verdigris roof

Galaxys finished

Terrible job on the decals.  Despite what I see others write - I have never needed to put gloss varnish down under decals.  I will always now given the way these came out.

Here are a few comparison shots so you can see the size of the model and how big an aircraft it is.

Firstly with an SHQ German Motorcycle team

Now a few in scale shots.  With a GHQ Sturmtiger and Kettenkraftrad (1/285th)

and a Typhoon and Sterling (1/300th)

Progress on the Galaxys

Both have been painted and decals applied - some silvering going on unfortunately.  Also some uneveness in the camo colours as I needed to apply them with a brush as the masks for spray painting were driving me insane.

Quick coat of Dulcoat in the morning and they will be ready for the build deadline.

ACW equipment build stage

I wanted to do some carts and limbers and thought that if am going to get the spray gun out and paint mixed then I ought to do it for all my equipment at once.

Hence we have:
- 38 Limbers
- 18 Ammo carts
- 5 Battery wagons
- 2 Ambulances
- 7 wagons (plus another 5 on my desk)
- 4 water carts
- 46 guns of various types

This has been hard labour as approx 50% of the wheels had flash between the spokes.

Base coat on the Galaxy

Did some more on the Galaxys today.  Undercoated and then put on first of the three colour camouflage.

Tomorrow will make up some masks and apply the second colour.

Big Little aircraft

On the Guild Forum they are running a "Wings" speed build.  The idea is that we build / paint something that has a wings theme prior to 2 January.

So I am building my C-5A Galaxy - in 1/300 scale that is.


I have had these for a few years after getting them for a few dollars off ebay.  I have no idea what I would do with them - but they are big and it is good to have big things.

Not hard to build - just some fitting issues and quite a bit of flash to get rid of.  There was a need for a bit of filler - much more needed on the underside, especially around the tail.

Just to show the size - here it is with a prop that was handy (one of the few left from Christmas Day).  Don't forget this is 1/300th scale.

I built this one with the undecarriage up - just tossing up whether I should try and brave the undercarriage build on the other one.