Master Models

Picture of the year.

Picture of the 1967 VW delivery van was chosen as the picture of the year on PWM forum.
Heres the link to the thread with the pictures of the competing models.

http://www.pwm.org.pl/viewtopic.php?f=124&t=19916

Sepia 2 Kosmiczny Kuter

As from today the project is no more. My cats got to the room, where the blimp was hidden, and dropped it to the floor causing the filler to crack. The whole blimp lost the sturginess, and it was pointless to continue the build. Shame.

Sepia 2 Kosmiczny Kuter- painting the blimp

First stage of painting- preshading. I used the Tamiya acrylics for the job: black, grey, sky and white.

Mist of Buff over the whole thing, followed with off white for highlights, Desert Sand for saturation, and flatened with light grey to finish the base painting.

Using hand made masks, and hairspray technique i applied the first markings.

Some more markings done. Here the Dunlop sign as the blimps manufakturer.

OWB sign painted utilising the double hairspray technique. It is basically multilayer hairspray painting, where the first layer is of dark base color for the letters. When some of the paint is brushed off, we mask the letters again, and paint patches of lighter shade paint over the top. Key is to make that layer delicate, almost transparent for the trick to work.

Thats how it look now.

Oils were used to tone the colors down slightly, and unify them.

Sepia 2 Kosmiczny Kuter

After very busy autumn im back with little bit more time on my hands, and with few fresh ideas.

One of them being the futuristic looking ship- Sepia 2.

It will be complete scratch build, with plenty of weathering.

Hope to show some progress soon.

Probably the best, and easiest way of making the balloon is by cutting the frame of the balloon out of cardboard, and filling the spaces with low expanding builders foam.

I made the balloon frame using 2mm cardboard, and white glue. Cavities were filled using foam. It will prevent the frame from deforming after the expanding foam is used.

I used the lowexpanding poliurethan foam to fill the balloon frame up.

I filled all the major gaps, and holes using the same foam and spatula.

Now i will rest the balloon for few days to cure completely before i use the car filler.

Note the 2 attach points on both ends of the blimp.

Then it was time for the car filler.

I sprayed the dull black, and started covering the blimp in acrylic filler:

Oil canning effect added:

Blimp in primer:

Microfilling with acrylic filler:

Masking tape was used to make rubber seams, and whole blimp was sprayed with floor varnish:

Helium inlet valve added:

Air inlet, and outlet valves:

Mr. Surfacer is on. Surface is ready for some paint now:

T.B.C....

I did it again- new carp record!

Last night after work i was invited to do the night session- probably the last carp session of the year. I fished single grain of imitation corn on the hair rig.

At 22 hours i had the take, and landed my new carp record- fish of 17.6 kg.

Carp record broken again- twice!

Last night i was invited to fish little private estate lake just 12 km from my house.

The lake was dug about 18 years ago, and theres only five big carp in it- original fish let in when the lake was created. Theres also few smaller carp there, some catfish, grass carp, and tench.

It is very hard venue, as the silt is about 3 feet deep, and full of natural food.

I fished the lake four times before- without any success.

Last night was different!

I missed the take at about 8 p.m.

At 10 p.m i had another take, and this time i landed this lovely fish of 15 kg- my new record for carp.