VW Oval 1956

Time to start another model, and continuing with the VW scheme i will make the MR Hobby's 1956 VW Oval with custom built roof rack, and ski rack complete with the skis.

On the top of the roof rack i will place some luggage.

The kit:

First glance inside the box:

The silhouette:

Additionally the bumpers will be upgraded:

Also the rear arches will get the covers:

I textured the seats to look really worn:

Front tyres are from the kit, but rear are sourced from Ferrari 250 GTO:

It took 2 hours to assemble the floor complete with running gear, and wheels. Nice and easy so far, but i noticed few injection marks on the surface of the body.

I have lowered the whole suspension, and the front beam was made narrow.

Skirts in making:

TBC...

Bytom 2012

Model of Kettenwagen picked the award during the 2012 Bytom International Model Contest.

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.