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(DONE, pics pg 16/17) NATO Reporting name "Bull." Cuban Tu-4 Heavy Bomber

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TheChronicOne

#225
May 14, 2017, 09:59:39 PM
Done!!!! just got to take pics
-Sprues McDuck-

TheChronicOne

#226
May 14, 2017, 10:00:35 PM
You see the time stamp! I had 21 seconds to spare and taking pics don't count as construction!!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D


-Sprues McDuck-

TheChronicOne

#227
May 14, 2017, 10:08:39 PM
Here we go.... and as further proof that I stopped when I was supposed to, look at some of the turrets.... yeah... I ran out of time to come back and do touch ups.  Roundels, too...  and ya know what? I'm going to leave the stuff exactly as it is.. years from now I'll look back on those "mistakes" and remember fondly the time I made this for a GB and finished up with seconds to spare, etc.




Better pics, more angles, etc... are inbound!
-Sprues McDuck-

Gondor

#228
May 14, 2017, 10:49:21 PM
Absolutely fantastic!!!!!  :wub: :thumbsup:

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

TheChronicOne

#229
May 15, 2017, 12:01:16 AM
Thank you Alastair!!!!  I'm glad you like it!   :laugh:       

Man, now that it's done, I'm filled with joy and so happy!  This was, maybe, more ambitious than my SEA Vietnam U2 plane. I keep looking at it across the room sitting over there and I grin every time.  :laugh:

I wish I had a cool diorama or at least a nice setting to take pictures. Going to try to do so outside, anyway, within the next few days (need to take some of my Tucano as well).

Either way, I tossed this thing back in the corner and took some (more) pics with my phone.. 








When overhead and bills stop trying to assinate me I plan to buy a legit digital camera, build a decent diorama tarmac "base" and also buy something suitable for a background.










-Sprues McDuck-

loupgarou

#230
May 15, 2017, 12:06:18 AM
Congratulations. Glad you managed to finish in time!  :thumbsup:
Owing to the current financial difficulties, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.

TheChronicOne

#231
May 15, 2017, 12:36:06 AM
Quote from: loupgarou on May 15, 2017, 12:06:18 AM
Congratulations. Glad you managed to finish in time!  :thumbsup:

Thank you!!   And... right?!?!   I totally enjoy this jive but damn....  I need to budget my time more efficiently.   ;D
-Sprues McDuck-

zenrat

#232
May 15, 2017, 01:22:38 AM
Well done Brad C.
:thumbsup:
She looks great.  I love the patriotic bomb bay doors.
I wouldn't worry about missing guns.  After all, IIRC Enola Gay didn't have any in her turrets.

Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

NARSES2

#233
May 15, 2017, 06:26:38 AM
Well done mate  :thumbsup:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Librarian

#234
May 15, 2017, 06:42:33 AM
That is a stunning achievement...just so nice to see a colourful non-nm Tu-4/B-29. Loooooooong wait but well worth it. :wub: :thumbsup:

Old Wombat

#235
May 15, 2017, 07:43:24 AM
I kinda liked the PR Blue look ... :unsure:


Great job, mate! Getting better every time! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

TheChronicOne

#236
May 15, 2017, 09:52:03 AM
Thanks y'all!!! 

I had half a mind to leave it with the PR blue!!  I knew it might look neat so I'm glad I stopped for a couple pictures at that stage. That color.....  I absolutely love it! It gets better under gloss, too, if you ask me...  a shade darker and slick looking.   I might whip up a Mustang or Spitfire or somethng as an escort for this kind of like I planned and paint it in the three colors... the weird "off" green of my cowlings, the PR blue and the gull grey. 

I have to try to get better pictures of this...   there's some little features and stuff that might deserve hilighting.   

NOW, what next!!!!   Going for a stroll through the stash to find something for the one week GB.
-Sprues McDuck-

DogfighterZen

#237
May 15, 2017, 06:47:49 PM
Looks so good... the camo looks great on that big beast, very nice work, Brad! :cheers:
"Sticks and stones may break some bones but a 3.57's gonna blow your damn head off!!"

TheChronicOne

#238
May 16, 2017, 04:25:36 AM
Quote from: DogfighterZen on May 15, 2017, 06:47:49 PM
Looks so good... the camo looks great on that big beast, very nice work, Brad! :cheers:

Thanks, Brotha!!!   I want to get more pics today. I think it's damn cool and if I could just up the quality of my pics and pic taking I'd be in a better boat! Still, I'm going to try to use the stuff I have at hand and get outside later. I have a million things to do today so we'll see... 

Man, ya shoulda seen me at 11:59 and some odd seconds as I was still gluing things and clamping with my hands, etc.....   had just enough time to set it down and make that short post.   Good God, that's cutting it close! 

Next time I either try not to do so many builds (I had like 5 more planned!!) or at least do the "big" build FIRST and work my way down to the "easier" stuff. 
-Sprues McDuck-

DogfighterZen

#239
May 17, 2017, 06:11:52 AM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on May 16, 2017, 04:25:36 AM
Man, ya shoulda seen me at 11:59 and some odd seconds as I was still gluing things and clamping with my hands, etc.....   had just enough time to set it down and make that short post.   Good God, that's cutting it close! 

Next time I either try not to do so many builds (I had like 5 more planned!!) or at least do the "big" build FIRST and work my way down to the "easier" stuff. 

Been there, but it was because of the backstory... :angel: ;D http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,42615.msg740496.html#new
"Sticks and stones may break some bones but a 3.57's gonna blow your damn head off!!"
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