My current project(s)

[matrixone]

A few days ago on another modelling site there was a discussion about what-if models and the people who build them, a couple JMNs were poking fun at our type of models and our lack of building skills to produce an accurate model of a 'real' subject. This sort of pissed me off and I decided my next model will be another 'real' model and prove we can build models as good as they can.

Here are some in-progress pics of what I am building now...the 1/32 scale Hasegawa Bf 109G-14 and a 1/32 scale Revell He 162.

The Bf 109G-14...



The He 162



I will be back to building whiffs when I have made my point.


Matrixone

[Shasper]

Hey JHM, can you get me that addy for the Knitten Mag?


Shas B)

[John Howling Mouse]

Hey JHM, can you get me that addy for the Knitten Mag?


Shas B)

Yep, know how you feel, Shasper.  Aiyeeeee!

Matrixone, did someone direct such a comment to you, personally?  I'd find it inconceivable that anyone who saw your What If work would doubt that you could apply equal skills to a depiction of an existing/historical subject if you so chose.

Looking forward to seeing you "prove your point."

[GTX]

Good on you!  And to rub their collective noses in it, you've taken on perhaps the JMN holly grail - the Bf-109 (and in 1/32 too!!!).  But will you be using the correct RLM colour for under the seat?

Regards,

Greg

[Sisko]

Gee matirx you are better than me. I would have just told them to F OFF!

However I am looking forward to see how it turns out.

Cheers  

[lancer]

Looking forward to seeing these as well Matrix. Hopefully, these will smack that pair of dullard JMN's right in their faces, not literally of course, and shut 'em up.

Just because we build Wiffs, we all maintain a hight standard of building skill, in a lot of cases superior to a lot of mouthy, anally retentive, unimaginative numpties!!!
Well, in most cases anyways.

[Brian da Basher]

That's it Matrixone, show those lunkheads how it's done! I love the fact that you're doing it with a 109 to boot! This'll make 'em shut their pie-holes!

Good on ya, Matrix!

Brian da Basher

[matrixone]

Thanks for the support guys!

No, the comment(s) were not aimed at me or anybody directly but I feel it could have been because of a recent posting of my work I made more than a week ago.

I have fun building whiffs and am proud to be a member of this site and I like the fact that we can show our work here and not get sneered at.

These two models I am building are kits I have wanted to build anyway but now I have reason to get them built. I want the JMN types to see that we can build and paint as good as they can and get rid of the ''too bad he only builds fictional models'' attitude.

I am already planning my next what-if and shall return in a few weeks.

Matrixone

[cthulhu77]

LOL...I'll send you my emails, and you send me yours!  Luckily, there are enough of the so called "serious" modelers who can actually use imagination to realize what sort of skill they are looking at when they see your kits.

   Amazing.  Amazing.

[matrixone]

Greg,
I don't know why other modellers will sometimes look down on what-ifs, maybe they were trying to impress each other with their vast knowledge of 'real' airplanes and that the models they make of them are somehow more worthy or better than what we chose to build. What a load of crap!

One good thing for me at least, since my Luftwaffe Zero build I have not had one nasty e-mail. Maybe those guys found someone else to insult or I need to try harder to make something that will stir up those a-holes.

Sorry if you are still getting the e-mails from the jerks out there.

Matrixone

[nev]

I can't believe morons out there would claim that whiffers aren't as good modellers as those who do real life subjects.

I suggest you send them links of completed models by yourself, JHM, Cthulu77, Wolfik and Leigh.  You guys are as good a set of modellers as I have ever seen, consistantly producing models of outstanding quality.

Send them links of models by Alvis & Radish and tell them they're not allowed to laugh - not even a tiny little snigger.  If Alvis's Canadian moon landing or Radish's Very Short Sunderland can't raise a laugh, they've clearly had a humour bypass.

If they still think whiffers can't build models, then stop wasting time on them.  Lifes too short to waste arguing with muppets.


Nice cockpit btw.

[matrixone]

Thanks nev,

I can't say for sure what started the whiff bashing at the other site but don't those guys have better things to do? Like building their OWN models or could they be worried someone might find fault with their work so they talk instead of build?

BTW, My Bf 109G-14 project is already in trouble, Bf 109 G-14s had the battery box mounted behind the pilots head armor and is barely visable with the canopy closed, the problem is the a/c I am doing it looks like there is no battery box from at least one photo of it. Even the EagleCals instructions are not sure about it either.
Also the Hasegawa kit does not include such a part. I can make the battery box myself but if I do build it that way some ''experts'' will say its wrong and if I leave it off the other ''experts'' will also say its not right! :dum:

What-Ifs are more fun thats for sure!

Matrixone

[gooberliberation]

Thanks nev,

I can't say for sure what started the whiff bashing at the other site but don't those guys have better things to do? Like building their OWN models or could they be worried someone might find fault with their work so they talk instead of build?

BTW, My Bf 109G-14 project is already in trouble, Bf 109 G-14s had the battery box mounted behind the pilots head armor and is barely visable with the canopy closed, the problem is the a/c I am doing it looks like there is no battery box from at least one photo of it. Even the EagleCals instructions are not sure about it either.
Also the Hasegawa kit does not include such a part. I can make the battery box myself but if I do build it that way some ''experts'' will say its wrong and if I leave it off the other ''experts'' will also say its not right! :dum:

What-Ifs are more fun thats for sure!

Matrixone

I see that the 'stick of your Bf 109 G-14 has what appears to be a brown leather boot. I'm sure you do know that all G-14s had control stick boots of telescoping black rubber.


Just so ya know




Baaaaah I'm just kidding with ya.  

[matrixone]

Not much of an update this weekend, I am finishing painting some cockpit details on the He 162 before gluing the fuselage halves together.
The Bf 109G-14 needs some putty on one of the seams on the fuselage but is going well...I am using an unused part from a Bf 109K kit that has the battery box on it so my G-14 will be standard after all. I wonder why Hasegawa left it out of the kit to begin with?

Here are the pics...




Matrixone

[dragon]

I can make the battery box myself but if I do build it that way some ''experts'' will say its wrong and if I leave it off the other ''experts'' will also say its not right! :dum:

What-Ifs are more fun thats for sure!

Matrixone

It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words...Show them the pictures.  I have had to do the same when doing Latin American "Real World" subjects (T-34As only have two bladed props...Really?, let me show you the Venezuelan Air Force version, it has three blades...etc).  This is the reason I love doing small air forces when I am not doing whiffs- all the "crazy" things these 3rd world nations do with the "standard" (enter your favorite machine here).  If they still give you grief after you have shown them the picture, then you are dealing with someone not worth wasting your breath on (offer them Preparation H- an ointment for reducing hemmoroids).