Aaronw

Welcome to Crazy Larry's the preferred place to pick up the local gossip, find intel and occasionally Larry can even procure the unobtainable, for he right price of course. Requests for information, help locating a particular part or just general chit chat with other GB participants can go here. Pretty much anything is fair game within the allowed rules of ARC.

This is the place to tell us what you plan on building. Subject, kit and scale plus anything else you want to share about your plans. A photo of the box lid is optional.

Post your completed builds here. A reminder of what you built (subject, kit and scale) is encouraged. You may post a link to your WIP post but please include a couple of photos of the completed model here as well.

Welcome to the Graveyard Shift, a group build for aircraft optimized for operation at night / low visibility conditions. This includes night fighters that hunt other aircraft in the dark as well as bombers and attack aircraft that use the dark for concealment to protect them from conventional fighters / anti-aircraft. The majority of the subjects will be from the early 1960s and earlier, as the capability to operate at night and bad weather became a common feature of later military aircraft. The "all weather fighters" of the 1950s and 60s are typically acceptable as in most cases they were

Here is one I did (mostly, it has been on the shelf of shame due to a move and lack of gettingbacktoitivnesss). A WW2 US Navy fire truck based on the Tamiya LRDG Chevy truck. Converted it from RHD to LHD, swapped the wheels with a GMC 2 1/2 ton and built a fire body for it. Here is a current project. Started with a wrecker kit, swapped a Caterpillar motor for the kit's Cummins and scratchbuilt the tanker body. Still have a way to go on this one. This is what I'm going for.

and we're off. I will set up the GB area tomorrow after work, but feel free to get started in and hour and 2 minutes (assuming you are on Pacific time, a bit longer for some, and a few of you have had a few hours to get at it).

and crossing the line with just minutes to spare, here is the Shelby 427SC. I had my issues with the kit but most were operator error, nice kit overall.

Done with an hour to spare (Pacific time here), more photos in the auto show (completed models area). It has a few minor tweaks before it goes in the case (for one thing the wheels won't stay on), but done enough.

This probably isn't the right one as it does not recommend the use of bathroom or stovetop exhaust fans, but it was a very helpful article when I built my booth. Talks a lot about determining required airflow, and how to figure out how much duct work reduces your flow, useful stuff to keep in mind when building a booth. http://modelpaint.tripod.com/booth2.htm

Almost there, just letting some things set up then final assembly and decals. The kit has some really nice wire wheels, this type of wheel doesn't usually work for me but I like these.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for it to be reissued.

Those are neat. I'm a little surprised there hasn't been more interest from the What if-ers, it seems like this would be great for them.

Sorry just assumed 1/72. It seems like 1/48 is a tough scale for interwar stuff, good luck.

Can anyone identify the type of aircraft in this photo from wikicommons (no not the B-17 I can figure that out ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-17_Flying_Fortress#/media/File:Boeing_SB-17G.jpg I've got the Academy ASR B-17 so if there is a kit of this other plane I thought it would be a neat companion for it. Nevermind, when I checked the link to see that it worked and that time the full caption came up identifying the other as a Stinson L-5.

Visually the two are very similar, but side by side the F3F is a bit larger. Olimp / Pro-Resin have done most of the biplane era Curtis Hawks in 1/72 including the F6C-2 through -4 , nice resin kits.

Another option is to find an older edition of either Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw. You can pick up an older edition cheap, and for the average casual user it makes no difference. Another option if you have children or are in school you can buy a significantly discounted Student / Teacher edition. My personal experience has been more people use Corel Draw, but Adobe Illustrator is very popular as well. The big advantage to a vector based program is scaling and the ability to print in layers for more complex printers such as an ALPS or getting something screen printed. The example has alre

Nearly there.

I think I'm going to need a bigger bottle of glue... September is going to be wild Vietnam, Nightfighters, Test birds, Far East and Floats, the Greek one looks interesting as well, but thankfully I don't have anything Greek in the stash. Plus I've got bleed over from July with the boats thing and was contemplating the big kits small scale Gb.... Anyone have some spare time for sale? :wacko:/> Must focus.

I would love to do a diorama but I've never done open water, that might be getting over my head. This kit is certainly asking for a diorama though...

Starting to look like a car Interior bucket, hard to do much with a nearly all black interior but I think the carpet is set off from the leather seats and dash. I used embossing powder to give the floor a carpeted look. Easy and cheap, the way I like most things... Sorry about the green backdrop, my paint booth doubles as my photo studio. I was in a hurry and forgot to put in the clean cardstock background.

I haven't started mine yet, but just looking at it in the box I'm not sure resin is necessary. Probably ultimately more work, but I'm debating if building up the cowl "feathers" (or whatever they are called) with some plastic sheet wouldn't be adequate to provide that break in the lines required to look right. Maybe cutting the cowlings, reshaping the end of the nacelle and reinstalling. It is the lack of a dip from the nacelles into the cowl that looks off to me more than an issue with the cowlings. The kit http://www.arcair.com/Gal3/2501-2600/Gal2564-Ventura-Fredericks/00.shtm a real PV-

This is the kind of thing we watch for as a possible indicator of carbon monoxide poisoning. Time to get out of the smoke boys. :P

The main issues I can recall hearing about are the cowlings. On the kit the cowlings smoothly transition into the nacelles, on the 1-1 there is a distinct dip marking the end of the cowl. The oil cooler below the engines is also open allowing one to look into the kit which bugs some people. I don't think it is a bad kit, I've got a couple of variants waiting to be built. I haven't decided if the cowling thing bugs me enough to go aftermarket or not.

I like to build fire equipment and very little of that is available OOB, so I'm in.

Ok I'm back. I've had a terrible time with paint, after three attempts I finally got something I can live with. Then I thought the GB ended July 1 and completely lost motivation. Good news is it isn't over for another week and I got a paint job I can live with on the body. I've got a couple of days off, and I'm back at the bench. All of the issues have been operator error, the kit is actually pretty trouble free. I kind of hate to cover up the carbs, most kits just have a blob for a carb but this actually has a nice pair that look like carbs. I was going to try and detail the engine with