The Avenger / Skyrocket

[John Howling Mouse]

Keep in mind also that you are showing your PSR on a black subject and at about 400% of actual size.  Taking that into consideration, you'll have this baby all smoothed out by the time a Canuck is President of the US of A!!   It's looking great btw: completely and totally overwhelming.  Can you imagine this behemoth coming at you, guns blazing out of the black nightsky?

[B777LR]

This thing's gonna go on as long as Morsair

Cant be, JHM has a copyright on builds lasting this long

[ysi_maniac]

Hey, I love this concept. Looks really menacing and aggressive

[sotoolslinger]

Thanks guys ,putty is drying now, new photos in a few hours.

[sotoolslinger]

New stuff, what little I can do. I don't have all my stuff but I did add leading edge slats to improve low speed handling.


Lower wing

Lower wing with cool goth thumbnail

And of course more PSR(gotta get more sanding sticks)

QUESTION:
Were WW II night fighters gloss or flat black?

[John Howling Mouse]

The hotel folks must just loooooove you.  Can just imagine the remnant outlines of model aircraft silhouettes spraypainted all over the place!

As for gloss, I don't know but I think you could gloss it up with Future for the sake of decal-application, then hit it with Testors matte spray finish afterwards.  Should leave you with a subtle (scale-realistic) semi-gloss.

[sotoolslinger]

John Howling Mouse , my hovercraft is also full of eels.

As much as I complain about PSR you'd think I would quit carving this beast up.
Todays project ,wing leading edge  oil coolers.




More PSR tomorrow. I was distracted by a new project. 

[jcf]

Something you may find of interest.


Grumman Design 55, proposed uber-torpedo bomber.
Span:74'
Length: 52'
Two .50MG and a 75mm cannon in the nose, two .50 MG in each wing and two .50 MG in each turret.
2,000 hp R-2800-22 radials.

Cheers,
Jon

[sotoolslinger]

Wow cool , thanks Jon. I had never seen that. 

[sotoolslinger]

Very little work done lately as I have been slammed at work. I have been trying to PSR the oil cooler install . I hit a cool LHS Eddie M told me about and bought a cool set of micro flex sanders and danged if I didn't leave em at the jobsite, so this is half(arse) sanded.But I am making progress.


Man , that section of wing is pissin me off
The top is looking smooth though


Well sort of.

[Brian da Basher]

Nice progress, Toolslinger! Those oil cooler inlets look the real deal! Is there any way I can convince you to keep that sweet all-black scheme?

Brian da Basher

[sotoolslinger]

BdaB  done sort of I have a P-61 kit I have been scavenging off of and everyone loves the nightfighter scheme so much that I am going to complete the build as a fully marked and weathered night fighter using the BW  decals. I will then post a full photo set.  I get to go home to Dallas tomorrow so I will have access to my airbrush and I think nearly a week off. I fully intend to have this a completed build next week.

Then when no one is looking after completing it in black I will completely repaint and remark it as a 3 color sea green New Zealand day fighter.

Jon C, really enjoyed the x-tbomber profile , it just so happens I have the cool wing mounted radome off a Corsair. Since it is going to (initially) be a night fighter that install goes just starboard of the leading edge slat.

[Eddie M.]

Very little work done lately as I have been slammed at work. I have been trying to PSR the oil cooler install . I hit a cool LHS Eddie M told me about and bought a cool set of micro flex sanders and danged if I didn't leave em at the jobsite, so this is half(arse) sanded.But I am making progress.

Looking good! Glad to hear you made it to King's. What did you think of the display case?
   Eddie

[sotoolslinger]

Eddie, that was some cool stuff, loved the whole store.  except they wouldn't GIVE  me anything
Here is some quickies before I get to go home tomorrow.
I have the PSR PRETTY MUCH complete on this one.

I am not puttying this again dammit

Here is what I threw together for the bomb bay instead of a torpedo
90 MM automatic recoiless revolving cannon

That is still a WIP when I get it like I want it I will post a thread(in the correct topic)

[John Howling Mouse]

Do you have a license for that thing?