JOHN THOMAS Cuajete, Have fun, I like your Bronco. You have done a nice job with an older kit. I am planning on building the Academy Bronco kit soon in US Navy markings in Vietnam.
10. April at 15:06:11
Cuajete I'm glad you like, John. Revell will release an Academy tool with this scheme:
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10. April at 19:52:24
Guy Rump Looking good, I have this kit in my stash so following with interest.
10. April at 19:55:49
Stefan Fraundorfer Very cool nose art. I'm looking forward to see the finished model. Have fun John.
JOHN THOMAS My second project done for 2018. This project was started back in early 2017 and then sat for many, many weeks. In early 2018 I started back to work on it to finish it and now it's done.
28. March at 15:26:53
JOHN THOMAS Just added a few new photos. The A-1 won a Bronze metal at the IPMS Three Rivers Contest last weekend.
JOHN THOMAS Hi all, I just finished installing a new fold up Spray booth in my work area. For years I just sprayed into a cardboard box and wore a dust mask. Not the best way to paint but I made it work. My work bench is in my basement. I have two windows for light but they do not opening. I do have the basement door to the outside that I do open in the summer but it's to dam cold in the winter to open the door. I stop using Enamels and Lacquers years ago. I spray Model Master Acrylics. So this year I used part of my Tax Return Money and got this fold up spray booth at my local hobby shop. The set up was easy and fast. I also got an 9 inch under the counter light that I mounted on the inside of the spray booth. I have not mounted any vent hose to the booth to vent to the outside, it would just be to hard to do. So I will let the filter do all the work. I did stuff the vent hose adaptor that came with the booth full of furance filter material to help clean the exhaust. So far so good the few time now I have used it.
05. April at 15:28:11
Cortex Thanks for pics and feedback, congratulations for your new spray booth : )
06. April at 05:31:28
Alexander G. Great, congratulations! What did you pay for this thing?
06. April at 11:17:55
Olly If you have no hose to the outside, please be careful and wear your mask.
JOHN THOMAS Alexander, I paid 130 Dollars US at my local hobby store. I have seen them cheaper online for around 80 Dollars US but you have to pay for shipping. So paying more and no shipping I thinks it's a fair price and I can add the hose in the future for little cost. The carbon filter is a good idea, I will have to look into it, thanks.
JOHN THOMAS I needed to make some bases for a contest I was entering. I like to give some context to the models that I build, so I did a little demo on how I make simple wood bases.
30. March at 14:51:22
Patrick Hagelstein Wow! Those look really cool! And by the looks of it, they seem simple to produce. I like it!
30. March at 14:54:11
JOHN THOMAS Yes Patrick, the bases took less than a day to make and you can make as many as you like. The photo coping of the Verlinden's cards makes it a very simple way to make a base. I do think they also make them in 1:48 scale. I have not done any Snow, Dirt, sand or Mud but will add them whem I need them
JOHN THOMAS I have posted some found old snap shots of some contest photos from back in the mid 1990's. Not the best of photos. The contest is the Blue Angles Model Fest held at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola Florida in the mid 1990's to early 2000. Saddly the contest tis no longer held at the Museum. The collection is of Grumman Aircraft, the F4F, F6F, F7F and the F8F all at 1/72 scale. the kits used for the collection were Academy, Hasegawa and Monogram. I used a very cheap single action airbrush and hand painting using the old Patra and Testor's first Acrylic Paints. This collection is from around 1995. Most all of the planes are out of the box with a few with folded wings and some posed in flight. The first photos is of my work bench which is my kitchen table, it's a good thing that I am single. This was my work bench from 1991 to 2003. All of the models where built on this table. I will also post parts 2,3, and 4 in the next few days. THe photo are scan you need to scrow down to see them, please do.
Greg Baker That's nice work! I love the F7F with folded wings! Too bad the images aren't larger... guess I forgot what it was like when you had to wait for the end of the roll before you could get some pictures.
01. November 2017 at 05:45:05
Spanjaard when you scan, you can probably place the picture on top and limit the scanned area to just the picture instead of a full page (It will also scan faster since it will not scan a complete area). If the software does not allow that, you can always crop the pictures to the right size then they will look better.
just trying to help
01. November 2017 at 07:15:47
JOHN THOMAS Thanks Greg and Spanjaard. I am going to rescan, crop and repost them. I should have done this before. I said I was going to have parts 2,3 & 4 but now I will just post one large part 2 stay tuned. Greg you are right, all of these photos are before I got a digital camera. Sadly none of the models have survived, I only have the bases.
01. November 2017 at 13:37:52
JOHN THOMAS I have rescaned and crop the photos way better, Thanks Spanjaard for the help.
01. November 2017 at 13:55:34
Greg Baker Oh, heck. Yeah, much better. I'm sad to hear none of the models have survived... there must have been quite a massacre though, 'cause there's quite a few there.
01. November 2017 at 14:58:26
JOHN THOMAS Greg, It is sad, After moving around several times most of the planes got broken. One of the dum things I did was to glue them to the base, Bad Idea. In part two up soon I gave away most the the planes. And I wish I had did detail photos of the builds. I cant remember how I did the wing folds. Will have to reinvent
01. November 2017 at 15:31:11
Spanjaard pictures look much better now. sorry to hear about the fate of those models.
02. November 2017 at 01:30:09
JOHN THOMAS Spanjaard thanks. It is sad but now I dont know were I would place them. Thanks again for the help with the scan info.
Brian Eberle For the next few weeks, I live a few miles from this museum. If you want a photo of something, speak up and I'll try to share it here. The offer runs through the end of May. Beyond that, I am gone.
03. May 2017 at 13:48:20
Rex If you are talking about the pics of LN-19, that is a real scheme,,,,,,,because it is a solid green color in standard Marine helo color. Look at the wall, you can see shadows and highlights all over the room, from the building's overhead windows. Now, I agree completely if you meant that those shadows inspire a Whif of a two-tone camo.
JOHN THOMAS FIFI is the only flying B-29 in the whole world. It is not a War Vet and did not see any action. It was built in late 1945 and was used in training State side. It came to Pittsburgh for a visit in mid June this year and for $600 dollars you could go for a ride. I did not have $600 dollars but it went up full each time. I could not get any flying photos this day as the weather turned bad later in the day. Note how dull the Aluminum Finish is
20. November 2016 at 15:40:24
gorbygould Love looking at your photos John. Seeing a B-29 is the main reason I want to go to the 'American Air Museum' in Duxford (England) I think it's the only one in Britain.
20. November 2016 at 15:56:09
Marcel Klemmer Thank you for the sum of interesting picutures. I think the FIFI is still not the one and only B-29 in the air, the second is the B-29 DOC. And now I have to explanin my wife a trip in the US....
20. November 2016 at 15:56:14
Bill Spargo Great photos of this special bomber, thanks for sharing John
