Yikes, you guys are all making such great works, and mine is not-so-great. Nonetheless, I'm soldiering on with a home-made Boeing 747.
Here's the fleet I started to make, but when it came down to details, they bogged down, and I'm taking one to the finish...


Here I'm working up engine shapes.
I have what, 8 days as of tomorrow, but looking forward to making a decent finish to it.
thanks!
-Sean H.

Any chance of getting say 2 more days out of this campaign?
-Sean H.

You bet Sean! Extention approved.

Mike

Then I'd better move!
Here I made some landing gear...




I'll have to go back with some heavy paint or thin filler to smooth the balsa texture and do more on that big seam in the toy egg.
More to come.
By the way, here are the other two, painted by my kids...

thanks for looking!
Sean H.

Sean, you are sooo close. I like the gear! Windows? Cockpit? Heheheheheh...

The engines look great too...just need a bit of front work. And the wing connections.

Finish it!

Mike

Home stretch boys and girls...You have until Sunday, January 6 January 2013...unless you ping me before hand. I'm showing four done...FOUR? Let's go peeps. I you've started, and it's not done...we'll work it. IF you haven't STARTED, too late (if their isn't a "start" pic prior to 1/1/13, I can't/won't bend any).

Mike

Tada...



Okay, it's pretty "craft show" quality, not a fine miniature, but it's hard to say that an egg-plane can be too silly, I guess. I rushed myself and didn't give a proper coat of spray enamel for the blue, using craft acrylic instead. That was a mistake, as I couldn't get a uniform hue.
Anyway, I went ahead with a mock Air Force One, using whatever decals I could fish out of my left-overs stash.
I hope it makes you grin. Overall, it is pretty funny.
thanks for the campaign! I'm posting to the gallery and calling it done.
-Sean H.

Hi Sean!

I like it; makes me want to scratch a Jumbo myself. My grand son got a couple of cars that came in Eggs, so...

I really like the landing gear. What did you use for the engines? The cap (top of the plane) came out with a nice shape...dying for the windows.

Mike

Thanks again, Mike.
The landing gear was sprue with a groove sanded down the middle, then simple wire legs, superglued into holes in the bottom of the egg.
The engines were each two diameters of styrene rod, with a sheet styrene attachment. (look again at my Dec 22 post above.) The front was painted black, then finished with a silver painted ring and a dot in the middle.
The windows are also just black paint-- hard to discern in the uneven blue, but they're there!
See you in the next campaign down the road!
-Sean H.