John Krukowski

Funny, I'm not an egg plane or a Tiger Meet fan, but I do enjoy looking at 'em when they're posted. Nice pictures, fellas! No predominant theme from me, just a bunch o'stuff, built from the mid-70's to present. A link to my Photobucket album...about 80 models, all are 1/48 unless otherwise noted, click any pictures of interest to enlarge. In pages: Visit My Website Or "View All" for the speedier connections and again, click anything of interest to enlarge: Visit My Website John

Nice work, Tornado, and quite the ambitious project for a weeklong G/B! Looks GOOD. John.

WOW! That really came out NICE, Oliver, what a SLICK little model! That one would brighten up ANY showcase. NICE job. John

Yeah maybe next time, Oliver, although TWO weeks would be kinda nice! If the aerosol-can clearcoats are still cool with you I'd pretty much HAVE to jump in.Set it up as an official G/B, add another week to it, and you'll probably get a much better turnout. This one's fun to watch though! Again, great idea. John

Good looking Spitfire! Almost jumped in with a 1/72 Airfix Mk.I myself but I knew I'd never make it, plus I didn't wanna spend my 4-day Thanksgiving weekend building and painting like a man posessed! Nice job. :lol: John

Hadn't heard of a Matchbox Do-17Z until now, but I'm pretty sure the Monogram is a whole different kit than the Lindberg...sorry I can't help directly but I just think it's cool someone's building the Lindberg! I built one a hundred years ago, wish it was still around...FUN kit from what I remember of it. Good Luck! John

Always nice to see some of the older builds around here. That's a nice looking model. John

I took a look at your photo blog too, nice work! John

Congrats on the tenacity to see it through, wish I had a little more of that. I like it, and that's a nice display case you've got going on there too. John

Your attention to detail has really paid off. Beautiful workmanship. John

Nice work, hope to see more pictures of it once it's sitting on its new base too. John

Fellow readers, a click on the pics'll bring 'em up to full size. Nice looking Spitfire, Patrice. John

I enjoyed reading your article, hope you plan to submit this into the gallery too? Good work on the model, nice job. John

Sharp looking Mustang. Nice job. John

Most commonly, and by far, you'll see either everything tucked up tight or everything hangin' down loose but take a close look through this photo gallery on the "Swiss Mustangs" site and you'll see that almost any combination is possible on a parked Mustang: EDIT~ For some reason the link below converted itself to read "Visit My Website" but this is NOT, repeat NOT "my website"!!! Visit My Website Hope this helps, John

Welcome. I'd go with the wartime photographic evidence every time, as we modelers have a tendency to add more "realism" than the real ones ever had. John

Cool scheme, beautiful job. John

Goose to Maverick after yet another @$$-chewing: "What was the name of that truck driver training school we saw on TV last night? I knew I should've written it down..." John

Nice job on that little Spitfire, took a peek at your other photos of it too, looks good!The Cheapskate G/B and that kit would be a good match for me since I literally bought mine with pocket (metal) change, all except for the "one week" part! Still might start one though, we'll see how I feel after work tonight. John

If you organize this officially I'd suggest maybe stretching it to two weeks, you might get a few more participants that way, since one almost has to cut a few corners to finish in time...speaking only for myself, that's something I'm not willing to do...if something looks like it needs a second coat, I'll give it one regardless of any looming deadline. Just a thought... John ____ OR, screw it, keep it rogue and let's go!

Doubt I'll actually finish anything ("properly") in a week, but I might have to crack something open for this one...tomorrow night is my first and last chance to jump in, so I'll let you know then. John BTW, I don't see this one mentioned in the official GB section below, is this a Rogue GB? Like a Rave party???

Best way is probably to paint something else like a chunk of sheet styrene with all of your previous applications, let dry, then spray it with the Dullcote and see what happens...duplicate the scenario. For example I've had good luck using Testors rattle-can lacquers over Polly Scale acrylics so far (twice) but I found out the hard way (Twice!) that it's not compatible with Tamiya's acrylics. Good luck! John

Phantastic job on a phabulous scheme. Oops! Just saw the second one... Both (or all four) are really nice! John

Thanks for the offer of technical help, but I don't even have e-mail right now...I could probably borrow the wife's laptop for this (after I figure out how to load pics into it, etc...) but I'd rather not get man germs all over it. I'm thinking about it though, as I've been in a modeling funk for months and am looking for a clean way out of it...my current WIP is right at the stage where unwavering fussiness is of paramount importance (Would't wanna screw up a Monogram 1/48 P-51B!) and I just haven't been feeling up to task lately, so a lil' slammer may be just what I need to blow the cobwebs

Thanks. It's tempting, especially knocking out a little 1/72 project, but I've temporarily lost the abilty to load/post new pictures (limping along with an ancient tower here in true cheapskate fashion until we can scrounge up some parts) so I'd have to join the GB "in spirit" only and you'd all have to take my word for it!Definitely right up my alley, though! Maybe next time... John