Adventures in Scale Modeling

By Kasper Fischer

Plamo Tsukurou goes to America.

I found a 'new' modelling show on YouTube. It's really an old show but I have never seen it before. Though show was a bit noobish I can't complain about the quality of the production. They even had their adventures sponsored by Testors so it must have had some street credit.

Maybe it's just because the competition in scale model videos or because it's one of the first real productions I've seen in English but I really enjoy the show. I will only post a couple of episodes on the blog but you can check out the rest here.

Kellerbahn

by Kasper Fischer

Better late than lever. That seems to be my life in a nutshell. I just set up the layout in our cellar and got the brilliant idea to make an Advents calender. A tad late, but what ever. From now on and until the 25th December, I will be posting a new short clip from my cellar layout every day. The 25th December I will release the full length video named "Kellerbahn".

here's the first view of the set up.

Plamo Tsukurou | Battleship Kongō

by Kasper Fischer

Once again it's on. Plamo Tsukurou. All new HD episodes of the fantastic Japanese TV show on model building. I don't understand anything they say but still I feel I can learn from the show and it serves the job of inspiring me good. This modelbuilder makes a fantastic 1/700 diorama of the Japanese battleship Kongō in drydock. Super datailed, with buildings, cars, own railroad and even very very small workers. Very impressive...

Winners in the Weathering Competition

by Kasper Fischer

This was the first time I ever staged a competition so I had to make a few adjustments along the way.
I felt I had to include the audience some more in the competition and decided to make a Peoples Choice Award. This would, of cause, only be judged by the viewers. I allowed everybody to give a vote for the model, they thought was the best weathered model.

My good friend, Dino from Germany won with his awesome Tiger I and really deserved honor form the people.
I got a few pictures from him yesterday because I wanted to post them here. Big thanks to Dino for taking part in this competition. You can see his full video here.

Btw, I sorry for the slow start on the video but viva Atleti...

Wintrack trackplan.

af Kasper Fischer

Jeg har igennem de sidste par år arbejdet en del med at lave en god sporplan til mit layout. Det har sgu været svært men jeg tror jeg er ved at have fundet ud af det. Tre niveauer. En skyggebanegård nederst, et mellem niveau til op og ned stigning og en station på det øverste. jeg starter med at bygge skyggebanegården og bare forbinde enderne. Jeg har nemlig SLET ikke alle de skinner jeg skal bruge. Jeg regner men at det vil tage mig et års tid at samle skinner til det øverste niveau, så jeg har god tid til at finde ud af hvordan det skal se ud.

men her er min plan...

Almost Deadline.

by Kasper Fischer

This was a fun video to make. I recorded most of it at Golden Spike Model RailRoad Club and used the layout as backdrop for the video. The rest I recorded at home. The competition was on it's way and this video was recorded a few days before deadline. I made a quick run-through of all the models in the competition. Some really great models and a lot more that I had hoped for. Because of that I decided to up the prizes one more time...

enjoy the video.

Svinehunden's Weathering Competition

by Kasper Fischer

As I wrote in my last blog, I have re-uploaded the videos from my 'Svinehunden' channel to ModelloursWorkshop and just as promised here are the first one. In this video I presents the judges whom were Modelman Tom, Scott form SMA, ScaleModelMedic and Al Bundy aka MonsteRailroad.
In this video I also show a bit of my layout because I was shooting a new train video at the time.

Horten Ho-229

By Dusan Lekic

Ho-229 V3 was found by American troops at Gotha's Friedrichsrode factory on April 14, 1945.

Initially it was conceieved as a private venture it was to recive revolutionary turbojet as its power-plant... and it was order into production as a front line fighter for declining Luftwaffe...

The only surviving Horten 229 is the V3, which is held in storage in the Smithsonian's Paul. E. Garber facility.

The model is 1/72 scale Revell kit Horten Ho-229 (designed to have two 30mm-MK-108 cannons as A-1 version). Model is painted with authentic German colors(Gunze Sangyo).

Just click on the screen below to view the video.

TOUR of the WORKSHOP

by Kasper Fischer

I have re-uploaded some of my deleted videos from my old channel. All these videos will only be viewable here on my blog. This is a tour of the workshop, I made the 23th. December 2009.
I will release all the videos from Svinehunden's Weathering Competition 2010 over the next weeks.

Stay tuned for more action...

Thunderbolt vs. Bradley.

by Kasper Fischer

OK. Friday I decided to finish the A-10 and my 1/72 scale Dragon M3A2 Bradley over the weekend. I fought long and hard but Sunday night I was still not done. This is as far as I got on the Bradley...

Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 5

by Kasper Fischer

Finished for now. I won't work more on this model for now. I will leave it alone for now and move on to the next model and my diorama. But before I make the revile video for Basic Modelling's Annual YouTube Competition it will get some post-shading and some weathering...

Here's the latest pictures:

Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 4

by Kasper Fischer



No matter what I say about this kit, I really can't complain about the amount of decals for the Airfix A-10. It took 38 decals just to complete the armament. The kit has 69 numbers on the decal sheet but most of numbers are 2 to 6 decals each. They may be off register, by almost 1mm, but luckily most of those I need, are only one color.







I am still not done with the decals but I will finish it all up tomorrow...



I spend all Saturday editing the footage for my new video and didn't get any modelling done.
Stuff have a tendency to take up more time than expected...


anyway fellas


enjoy

Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 3

by Kasper Fischer

My plan was to paint the A-10 in the same Olive Drab paint-scheme as the Apache to practice my airbrush skills a bit on a cheap model but that idea got boring really fast. I spend some hours researching for alternative paint-schemes and found this winter camouflage, which i decided to try out instead.



I airbrushed some pre-shades, using Tamiya XF-1 flat black, onto all panel lines and gave it a coat of very light grey. Mixed from Tamiya XF-2 flat white and a drop of Tamiya XF-63 german grey. After it dried for some time i gave it a final thin flat white coat, still using the Tamiya, and sealed it with a layer of Model Master flat clear acrylic.

Again i let it dry for some time while i cut out some masking tape for the black camouflage. I have never tried this before on any kind of model, so i really didn't know what I was doing. I am/was a camo-virgin...

But, as you properly can see, i did a lot of over spraying because I'm a complete camo-noob. I tried to fix it by covering the black and spraying white again but that made it even worse. I got white dust in the black. Damn it. Now I have now given it a complete over-spray of Tamiya Fine Surface Primer to cover it all up and start over. This time doing what I set out to do in the first place. Practice the paint-scheme for the AH-64D Longbow I'm building next. OLIVE DRAB...

One step forward and two steps back!

and on a side note; I'm not sure why the American Army painted the aircraft like a Danish Holstein but it makes me feel comfy (:

Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 2

by Kasper Fischer

On with the build. I discovered the weakly sculptured pilot's back was about 15-30 scale centimeters from his seat so some fitting had to be done. I got him into his seat after wrestling a bit with it and i give some basic modelling tips on using files on scale models.

Airfix 1/72 A-10 Thunderbolt II - Chapter 1

by Kasper Fischer



Well, there is not really much to say about this video. It's straight forward on the Airfix build. It's all coming along according to planes on the A-10 Thunderbolt. It's always a good idea to test-fit your parts before gluing but it's especially important when you are building an old kit like this. It's all basic modelling tips and tricks but check the video out for yourself...

Avro Lancaster – Dambuster

by Dusan Lekic

Here is my Avro Lancaster – Dambuster - 1/72 Scale Revell kit with Xtradecals set, painted with Gunze colors...