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Hanger Queen 7
MichaelSatin
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AEROSCALE
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Colorado, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 - 06:27 PM UTC
Nice work, John! And your offer is accepted. I'll launch the new campaign on 1/1/18 with your name on it.

Just a few days left on this one, folks.

Michael
Removed by original poster on 12/20/17 - 20:51:50 (GMT).
md72
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Washington, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 - 02:00 AM UTC
Looked all the way back to January 10 to see what I needed to do to finish my Hanger Queen:

Glue up, fill and sand the spinner.
Prime the spinner (yellow stripe), propeller blades, exhaust manifolds and rear tire (made from rubbery material).
Paint the spinner and propeller tips yellow
Paint the wheels in Mr. Color Tyre
Paint propellers black
Paint exhausts rusty
Touch up interior green bits
Red stripes on spinner
Touch up canopy frame
Detail Radios
Install radios
Put instrument panel back in
Add pilot
Wire up antenna and canopy and glue in place
Assemble propeller
Add antenna
Glue up landing gear and install
install rear wheel

Install gear doors
Install exhaust
Add Decals
Install wing tanks
Declare victory?


I'm about 1/3 done with the decals, so the starboard side, prop, drop tanks and the dreaded nose checkerboard (one has already been destroyed in the effort ) are left to decal.

Then on to the final glue ups, clear coat? and victory?
md72
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Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 03:04 AM UTC
Two decals to go, the dreaded checkerboard nose. Only lost one drop tank decal last nigh so I'm feeling hopeful
c4willy
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 05:00 AM UTC
You can do it Mark I have faith in you! Subdue that build!
md72
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Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 09:30 AM UTC
Well Chris, thanks for the support. But I let you down. I cut the bottom half of the decal into 2 parts. Both tore, I managed to get the starboard part on OK, but the bottom of the port side tore off into little pieces and I couldn't get them all placed back together.
Hard to tell from the pics.





Oh well, on to the fiddly bits.
drabslab
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European Union
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Posted: Thursday, December 21, 2017 - 07:10 PM UTC
Unbelievable...

But I finished the MIG-17 on time and uploaded a picture in the campaign gallery. I know, three are required but the gallery does not permit me, I am apparently exceeding my 10Mb threshold.

I can't say that I am very pleased with how this model turned out. It's an old SMEG model. It ended up on the shelve because it was poor quality to begin with and because I made it into a tail sitter by not checking in time whether an additional nose weight was required.

That problem was solved by pushing strips of lead into the front nose. To my surprise these are totally invisible.

I replaced the yellowed and thick SMEG decals with a set from printscale. These turned out to be of much better quality but very very thin, making it very difficult to slide on the model.

Anyway, this one is done!!!

Up to the next Hangar queen (or would it be a king this time ?)
md72
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Posted: Monday, December 25, 2017 - 01:07 AM UTC
Speaking of DONE!




Well, I managed to finish 2 Hangar Queens this year but, I created a new one in the process . Of course those two took since 2010 to get finished.

Well, I still have more candidates for Hanger Queen 8
Bigrip74
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Monday, December 25, 2017 - 08:36 PM UTC
Question:

Any tips on ICM decals?

Bob
Bigrip74
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, December 26, 2017 - 01:21 AM UTC
Mark, nice job on the P-51. I started appling the ICM decals, not sure how they will turn out. Ill see if I am able to finish this before the deadline.


TankerTweaker
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Missouri, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 28, 2017 - 07:41 PM UTC
Ready for gear, external stores and other fiddly bits.

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MLD
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Vermont, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 28, 2017 - 08:11 PM UTC
Very close now Alan. The stripes look great!
Everyone else make sure to get your pics into the gallery.
I'll have to figure out how to/who to talk to about getting everyone their ribbons.

I'll post a list of who is done with what this afternoon or tonight.

Still a little time to finish up, otherwise (like I usually end up doing) there is always HQ8...
TankerTweaker
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Posted: Friday, December 29, 2017 - 07:18 AM UTC
This one's done. Hope you enjoy. More pics in the gallery.

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MichaelSatin
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Posted: Friday, December 29, 2017 - 06:43 PM UTC

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I'll have to figure out how to/who to talk to about getting everyone their ribbons.



No problem there Mike, I can help you out!

Get 'em done, folks!

Michael
MichaelSatin
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Posted: Friday, December 29, 2017 - 10:57 PM UTC
Mike,

Check your PM inbox.

Michael
SGTJKJ
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Kobenhavn, Denmark
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 01:51 AM UTC
Alan, great build. The colored bands really makes a nice contrast to the overall grey Camo. Congrats on finishing!

I am also calling this one done. I still need to finish a separate base. The Bf 110T is a what-if close support fighter bomber.

It has been a fun build and interesting to have fantasy run a little loose on this project. I learned a lot on the pixel camouflage and will get it better on the next turn around.

This bird has been in the works for a long time. Now it is finally finished before the closing line.

Comments welcome

















MichaelSatin
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 02:30 AM UTC
That's, just... weird. But well done!!

Michael
MLD
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 06:27 AM UTC

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Mike,

Check your PM inbox.

Michael



Checking it now, thanks!
MLD
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 06:29 AM UTC

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It has been a fun build and interesting to have fantasy run a little loose on this project. I learned a lot on the pixel camouflage and will get it better on the next turn around.

This bird has been in the works for a long time. Now it is finally finished before the closing line.

Comments welcome



The digi-cam is quite striking. I've got a modern Chinese airborne APC to do in pale to dark blues to get back to..
That big gun though.. Whoa!
That's one of those 'fire more than two rounds, stall the plane' caliber weapons for sure! - grin-
Bigrip74
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 09:04 AM UTC
JESPER, nice 110 I love the camo scheme.

I finished the Yak 7V



EHAM0624
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Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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Posted: Saturday, December 30, 2017 - 09:19 PM UTC
Nice builts!,

On the last day of the year i could finish the kit selected for the 1967 war campaign that unfortunately i could not finish.



Nice kit the revel 1/72 scale mig-21 but it needed a bit of putty.



cockpit details



With a bit of work it turns out ok.




missiles are from Eduard end the decals DPCasper.cz

All good luck in 2018, and keep on modeling!
MLD
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Posted: Sunday, December 31, 2017 - 09:05 PM UTC

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Nice builts!,

On the last day of the year i could finish the kit selected for the 1967 war campaign that unfortunately i could not finish.



All good luck in 2018, and keep on modeling!



Nice finish Jan, in at the wire! A man after my own heart...

Everybody else, you've got until tonight to get finished images into the gallery.

Finishers as of this morning.
EHAM0624 Mig 21v
Bigrip Yak 7
Sgtjkj Digicam destroyer
Tanker Tweaker F-15
Md72 P-51D
John 41494 A6m2b
eman Vf-11B
ltb073 glider
Michael Satin Mercury capsule
mld B-1

If I missed anyone, let me know.
I'll submit for ribbons at 23:59:59, January 1, GMT or asap afterwards work permitting..

Great work all, and don't forget to sign up for HQ8!
Handing the reins over to Michael...

MD
drabslab
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Posted: Monday, January 01, 2018 - 11:11 PM UTC

Quoted Text


Quoted Text

Nice builts!,

On the last day of the year i could finish the kit selected for the 1967 war campaign that unfortunately i could not finish.



All good luck in 2018, and keep on modeling!



Nice finish Jan, in at the wire! A man after my own heart...

Everybody else, you've got until tonight to get finished images into the gallery.

Finishers as of this morning.
EHAM0624 Mig 21v
Bigrip Yak 7
Sgtjkj Digicam destroyer
Tanker Tweaker F-15
Md72 P-51D
John 41494 A6m2b
eman Vf-11B
ltb073 glider
Michael Satin Mercury capsule
mld B-1

If I missed anyone, let me know.
I'll submit for ribbons at 23:59:59, January 1, GMT or asap afterwards work permitting..

Great work all, and don't forget to sign up for HQ8!
Handing the reins over to Michael...

MD



Well, I am finished in time but could only upload one picture in the gallery due to space restrictions that according to Staff_Jim will be solved end January.



MLD
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Posted: Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 07:26 AM UTC
All right gents, stick a fork in HQ7, she's done!

Medals are awarded.
Drabslab, you're good by me. drop me a line if your medal is not there. I've had TONS of trouble with the gallery as well.

If I missed someone or if you've had gallery trouble but posted here in the thread, drop me a line as well.

Thanks to all for putting up with my ham-fisted attempts to 'manage' a campaign.

Passing the mantle over to Michael, and headed back to the bench for HQ8!

Mike
drabslab
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Posted: Tuesday, January 02, 2018 - 11:21 AM UTC

Quoted Text

All right gents, stick a fork in HQ7, she's done!

Medals are awarded.
Drabslab, you're good by me. drop me a line if your medal is not there. I've had TONS of trouble with the gallery as well.

If I missed someone or if you've had gallery trouble but posted here in the thread, drop me a line as well.

Thanks to all for putting up with my ham-fisted attempts to 'manage' a campaign.

Passing the mantle over to Michael, and headed back to the bench for HQ8!

Mike



Thanks Mike,

Staff_Jim is promising a solution by the end of this month for the gallery issues. Lets see Usually, programming and delays are synonym I'll upload a few extra pictures when the site permits.
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