Ham's Hobbys!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Dirty!

I wasn't happy with how clean the Corsair was so I took out the pastels and went crazy.
Looks a hell of a lot better now.
I don't want to give it away.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Didn't really weather it so it's fresh off the assembly line. Minus a tailhook that broke and was too thick anyway. Resin flaps, resin wheel wells, resin main tires, Verlinden resin cockpit set, EagleCal decals. Took about 2 months from start to finish.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

F4U-1 update

Getting there. Only 8 days remaining. Not much left to do but the hardest parts are left.

Friday, December 3, 2010

F4U-1 1/32 Xmas present

So I'm building my father a Corsair for Christmas. He built this exact kit probably 30 odd years ago. It's still sitting on the shelf in their basement and still looks pretty good but I decided it was time for an upgrade. I went all out on this kit using a resin cockpit upgrade, resin wheel wells, resin lowered flaps, and a photo etched kit for many upgrades. Been about a month so far in construction and it's finally nearing paint stage. I'm building it as the "Big Hog" from VF-17 Jolly Rogers. This plane was involved in a famous altercation where he was shot by friendly fire while coming out of cloud cover during a battle. You can see the patches in the plane in the photo and where I tried to replicate this with some scrap PE metal on the model. This has been an ambitious project but it's turning out superb and should be museum worthy upon completion.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

B-17s

So I joined a modeling forum, ARC, and since then I've been building, buying, and selling models like crazy. I've wanted to do a 1/48th B-17 for a while now since I built one many many years ago but the kits all cost abour 45$ and I hadn't bought one yet. So on the forum a guy posts that he is selling 3 B-17Gs and 1 B-17f 1/48th kits complete with a bunch of upgrade sets as well. Mine for 67$ after shipping!!!
Box arrived today and I laid everything out in the living room and was blown away. I plan to build 2 of these and use the others for parts and or sell one back to the community.