SPA Modeler

Thanks Medic! I'd say go for ti. I'll be looking forward to seeing how yours turns out.

I gotta get the kit first. I'll look at the show next weekend.

I have a friend and fellow IPMS OC member who says he has an extra. Maybe he might be willing to part with it. I'll try and find out. If you can find it at the show first, go for it.

Okay, I have a very short update here but I'm gonna get it posted now. After all this, I hope to get back to the workbench later today to have more pics to show next week.

I'll start with my little Toldi II. I finally got the tracks on this tank:



Later on I finished painting and weathering them and now this little tank is on my display shelf. It was the last model I finished in April.

Moving on....


Since I finished up my Space Shuttle with Boosters, I decided to continue my foray into Real Space. I had intended to start these right after finishing the Space Shuttle anyway and now I can. First is the Horizon Models 1/72 scale Mercury Redstone. I assembled the main body of this rocket, and then the launch stand so I could stand it up:



That went together surprisingly well, such a smooth and easy build at this point. I had also noted the similarity of the fins underneath the engines to the old V-2 rocket and found that interesting.

After that was set aside to dry more; I started the Horizon Models 1/72 scale Convair Atlas. This one had to have been done by the B Team at Horizon since the fit was nowhere near as smooth and easy to assemble as the Redstone!



Even that tape wasn't effective; I had a lot more manipulation to do to get this rocket to fit well enough. Even then, there were a ton of seams to fill. That you'll see in subsequent pics. I got tired of fighting that so I moved on to something else.

This next model is one that has been fairly screaming at me to build for quite some time. I finally found it buried underneath a number of models I hadn't moved in a while. I pulled it out and got started right away. This is the Italeri 1/72 scale Church that went together exceptionally well and fast:





In the background you can see most all the models I have waiting for the spray booth now. After assembling the walls, I used them to glue the top roof pieces together in the proper position. The other roof pieces on the tower and side building are just dry fit for the pics:





There's a tiny cross that goes on that small pedestal at the front; I'm going to replace it with something larger and grander.

Next up was a Japanese Float Plane Group Build that was started by some of my Orange County IPMS club members and is going on completely through E-mails. That reminds me, I need to send this to all those guys to show my progress so far. It ain't much; I just assembled the cockpit and also the halved sections on the floats and other split pieces. Here's the cockpit so far:



Finally, I had started a model that a friend of mine also started at roughly the same time. It was the Pershing II with the MAN tractor pulling it. He had finished it at the end of April while I had barely made any progress. He then passed away at the end of April after completing it. In his honor, I've brought mine back out to continue. As you might recall, I had finished the Pershing II missile itself some time back:



Now I moved on and got the chassis and suspension completed so far:



There's great detail on this beastie, I'm loving this already. I just hope mine turns out half as great as my friend's model did.

That's all my production completed so far. Life and illness kept me from doing more. Hopefully now that things seem to be improving I'll be able to make even more progress.

Stay tuned, more to come. Thanks for looking in.

Yee hawww!!! Great stuff!

More modeling madness! Everything looks good to me. I’m really liking all the rockets/missiles. And that church... reminds me of the Ste Mere Eglise church. Although the roof on that one is more sharply pitched.

Very nice Duke! Loving all the rockets.

Thanks for the awesome replies and compliments guys!

Thanks Carlos, I can't wait to get done with all those rockets. The Atlas will be a real challenge though. I must look at the St. Mere Eglise church; maybe most of this was patterned after it....

Thanks Medic! I'm anxious to finish them so I have a (almost) full collection of real space models. I think I need a Titan missile next. Or I could get another 1/72 scale Saturn V with the Skylab space station nose....

Duke Maddog wrote:
Thanks Carlos, I can't wait to get done with all those rockets. The Atlas will be a real challenge though. I must look at the St. Mere Eglise church; maybe most of this was patterned after it....

Im looking forward to seeing those rockets completed Mark. And as far as the Ste Mere Eglise church goes, if you’ve ever seen the movie The Longest Day, you’ve seen the church. They filmed those scenes of the movie in the actual town.

Thanks again Carlos. I did see "The Longest Day" but it was awhile ago. I do remember the church now. Cool!

Now if they did an actual model of that church that would rock even more!