Michael, That Raiden office looks nice, It would take me a month of sundays to get that done!

Fortunately for me Italeri had the forethought to keep the cockpit of my Macchi simple so that it wouldnt hold me up all thats left at this point is to decal the instrument panel and slap the fuselage together. When I looked into italian cockpits I read light gray was a more likely color for my c.202 and decided to go with it using tamiya medium gray with various silver, black, dark gray and blue details. Some gray brown oil wash was applied and followed by some dry brushing. What little will be seen through the framed canopy should look the part IMHO, my main effort on this build will be the smoke ring camo decals I recently ordered from mike grant. Im looking foward to their arrival.

Gary, your shiden is looking really nice. Your work with foil is going to eventually convince me to try it out one of these days!

Thank you, Mike! You continue to amaze me with the level of detail you get from a 1/72 pit.

A couple in-progress shots:





Banzai!

Some nice looking builds so far.

Here is my selection started





More to follow.
EE Lightning 2a Not sure what markings or finish yet. Want to do the alluminium but I am seriously thinking Green over Grey

Pete

Nice all!

Some movement on the 1/32 Hasegawa Raiden:







Getting close to the point where I have to choose a marking scheme. I mean, everyone does the lightning bolts (but there's a reason for that: it's cool!)

Michael

Gary the weathering really looks good, especially on the underside.

Thank you, Bill.

Hi Fellow Campaigners,
I've finished this one.








The photos were uploaded to the campaign gallery

Thank you for hosting this Campaign, Michael!

Gary

That's unspeakably lovely, Gary

Now a rules question: What about the SAAB Viggen? "Viggen" in Swedish can be translated as "Thunderbolt" (well okay, also as "Tufted Duck", but we can't have that). Is that acceptable to our Leader?

Another very fine job Gary!

As I'm doing a Raiden, I can hardly object to a Viggen Jessie. Nor would I. Go for it!

Michael

Thank you Jessica and Michael.

Hooray. Gonna be interesting to see your Viggin, Jessica. Now I can add 1/2 words to my slowly expanding lexicon of Swedish.

Is IKEA even a word?

Hey guys its been slow but here is more work on my EE Lightning






Pete

Photos not showing Pete.

Michael

The 1/32 Hasegawa Raiden is still alive:


Ready for decals.


Have a good look at the engine. Once it's installed, all you'll see are the ends of the exhausts. But it does all fit!

Michael

Very nice looking, Michael! That green looks too pretty to weather. Shane about so many engines...they all pretty much disappear.

Thanks Gary! I'll admit I'm not big on weathering, just not my thing. Thus my armor models don't quite make it. Anyway, I'm adding this one to the "finished" pile. The Hasegawa 1/32 J2M3 Raiden (Thunderbolt):







Lt. Susumu Ito, 302nd Naval Flying Group, Atsugi Airfield, March, 1945.

Michael

Looks sweet, Michael. I don't mind 'straight-from-the-factory' finish, either. Cockpit detail looks great!
Lol...cockpits aren't my thing.

Gary

Some nice looking work happening here people
I really liked the campaign ribbon for this one so I put a F-84 Thunderjet on my Christmas list and Santa delivered

I love these Korean War era jets the markings are so colorful
Here is some progress

Time to get moving on this one!:

Hi Richard that Minicraft kit looks decidedly like the Italeri kit I built recently. Any idea if it is the same plastic?

Funny you should ask, I can see that the wing moulds have had been ground with a die grinder to remove data so could be.

Am starting in on my P-38 today.

Progress so far on my EE Lightning



Pete

Wow, great work on the ejection seat!

Thanks Gary.

Pete

I am in for this one. I will be doing a 1/48 thunderbolt II. I have not decided on camouflage and markings yet, but I have an extra set I might use.

More to follow when I get started.