Pics of finished hanger,

[matrixone]

Here they are, pics of the hanger...




















Matrixone

[John Howling Mouse]

There is only one glaring problem with your hangar:


Um,



It's sitting in the wrong house.   :dum:





I'll, ah, PM you with my home address later:    

[Brian da Basher]

A wonderful piece of work that hangar, Matrixone! It seems every bit of plastic you touch turns into modelling gold. Maybe you should change your handle to MidasOne. Those b/w pics look like historic artifacts.

Brian da Basher

[matrixone]

Thanks John and Brian!

Here are a few more pics, hope you like these too.






This pic is of the back of the hanger, it is painted in a special ''tree'' camouflage pattern as seen in a picture of a German hanger on page 11 of ''Wings of the Black Cross Vol.3


Matrixone  

[Jeffry Fontaine]

In my former line of work as a photographic interpreter/imagery analyst, the black and white imagery provided the most intelligence information available since there are so many variations of gray between absolute white and absolute black.  I really like your black and white images as it really makes your subjects stand out in much greater detail than a color image can provide.  

[lancer]

I am speechless at the quality of the build of that hanger Matrix. It's stuning. he B&W photos look like the real thing.  

[elmayerle]

Most excellent!!!  Further superlatives are un-necessary.

[BlackOps]

How can I even begin to describe what a great job you have done on this?

Fantastic job all the way around!

Jeff G.

[matrixone]

Thanks for the kind words Jeffry, lancer, elmayerle, and Jeff G.!

This will be my last picture post for a while as I have nothing left to photograph and I am building a model for somebody else right now so it will be weeks/months before anything new will be available to photograph.
I had planned on building a 1/32 scale He 162 in real markings but I will probably do a 1/72 scale model or two first so I can pose them next to the new hanger in some new pics. I want to have plenty of new models built and ready to photograph by summer, around here summers can be short so I need to take advantage of nice weather whenever I can.



Matrixone

[John Howling Mouse]

Yep, well your last hangar pic just fooled my wife.  I tricked her by saying, "Wouldn't it be cool if I could build a diorama based on a hangar like this?"

She replied, "Sure, that would be great but probably too hard to do."

Then, I admitted that your pic was actually of a scale model and not a full-scale building.

It doesn't get any more realistic than that, my friend!    

[matrixone]

Thank you for the encouraging words!

Now that the hanger is done I need to build better small scale models to go with that hanger and might try and build a model with the engine cowling open or removed to show the engine being worked on by the ground crew.
Also some battle damaged a/c would look good too.



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[Brian da Basher]

That shot is magnificent Matrixone! How in the world did you get that FW to look like it's on fire? Firecrackers? Sparklers? Gunpowder? Wow impressive!

Brian da Basher

[matrixone]

Thanks Brian!

The fire on the Fw 190A is all digital, no models were harmed in the making of that picture.

Someday I will build a shot down airplane with a lot more detail and add digital fire to that one and it should be much better looking. The picture above was my first attempt at such a thing and with some practice I think I could make a convincing looking image.

Matrixone

[matrixone]

Thanks Wooksta!

Agreed, the Heller Fw 190A is not a very good kit. But at least most of the parts fit and it did not require much putty to fill the seams.
The DML 1/72 scale Ta 152C I built a few weeks ago was really awful with most stages of assembly needing much care in dry fitting and in some areas putty/sanding was needed and it took a long time to get a good finish, when I was nearly done with the model I tried to get the tailwheel strut installed in the fuselage and no matter what I tried it would not fit. After looking at some drawings of Fw 190 tailwheel struts I could easily see what the problem was...the strut was molded front to back and was unusable so I snapped off the tail wheel on the Heller Fw 190 pictured above and glued it in place. Not very good looking I know but it was better than the DML kit part!

Right now I am building a DML kit for somebody else and am concerned about the fit problems I might face building this one too.

Matrixone