1/48 Trumpeter Westland Wyvern S.4 (Suez Campaign) - Completed

Completed this sometime in Feb 2016 with OOB build
unfortunately no WIP is available although i did snapped some photos of it in progress.. will try to up them later

more picture of the Wyvern is available at my site (www.kumanworks.com)

Enjoy.

Malaysia Scale Hobby Show (MSHS) 2016

The 1st ever International South East Asia Scale Hobby Show ended yesterday (June 4 ~ 5, 2016) and it was a huge success in my view :). A big Kudos to the organizer and all the participants.
Held at Cititel Hotel Penang for the 2 days.

I was there on Saturday and it was a lot of fun and got to "put-the-name-to-the-faces" from all the WhatsApp and forum groups :o)

I'll snapped a few photos and will need to sort through and will share them below and also in my site kumanworks.com  (a bit later)

The handpainted Hind camo!!

The crowd at around 1045am

..and they said DURIANs is not allowed in hotel.. yet someone is eating it in plain sight of everyone :o). Zoom in to see the durian.

The crowd in the afternoon during the Demo session

Those rotors are spinning and the interior lighted..

zoom to see "Megan Fox" in action.. more on this later.

and a pair of DORA guarding the entrance

Another durian

MIG-21 of the world. The owner said he should have bring more if he had enough space to bring it with  :o)

AMK MIG-31... this got me sold and at 25% off i cannot resist...

TUDM workhorse.... 

Kinetic SU-33... wish they have the kit on sale as well.. :) ..

Kumanworks.com updated with new layout

After a long hiatus of blog updates, i'm back (at least for now) to updating the blog.
First order of the day is to announce the reopening of my website www.kumanworks.com with a new layout.

This should be more direct to Scale Models as i think my last website is not so mobile friendly.

Enjoy the new site and this blog will receive regular update via Work In Progress of scale models where the completed models can be view in my website www.kumanworks.com

again enjoy your stay and do regularly visit my blog for Work In Progress updates.

Thanks

kuman

UPDATES...

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Berlin

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Berlin

This i received together with the Prague shotglass..

but this time only the original Orange Circle.. time to hunt the cityshots :D

enjoy

#hardrockcafe
#hrcberlin

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Prague

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Prague

Received this one also back in June 2015 from a fellow visiting friend but he only get the city-shots (better than nothing) .. now i have to find the Orange Circle to accompany this one :o)..

enjoy

#hardrockcafe
#hrcprague

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Ho Chi Minh City

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Ho Chi Minh City

I ordered it from a friend who is on a trip to Vietnam.

A rather nice shotglass with the golden dragon print on the Orange logo glass

enjoy

#hardrockcafe
#hrchochiminhcity

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Uyeno-Eki Tokyo

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Uyeno-Eki Tokyo

Received this from a friend as well.. at around June 2015 but didnt get the time to update here.. so here is the shotglass.. from Hard Rock Cafe Uyeno-Eki Tokyo

#hardrockcafeshotglass

Hard Rock Cafe Shotglass: Los Angeles Hollywood

Latest addition to the collection is from Hard Rock Cafe Los Angeles Hollywood.

A souvenir from a friend of a friend visiting LA in August..

#Hardrockcafeshotglass

Revell 1/35 Panzerhaubitze (Pzh) 2000 - WIP#2

Where is WIP#1?....
I'll get to posting it in a bit.. somehow i thought i've already posted it..but i didnt.. so enjoy WIP #2 first :o)

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Around of updates:

been a while since the last update and i got to the point of doing pin-wash.

The camo been painted freehand (was thinking of masking it, but thought i give freehand a try) with Nato Green (base color), Nato Brown and Flat Black (just because i didnt have Nato Black in stock - shame on me!!).

i didnt take the step by step photo (forget all about it) but only manage to take what you see here..

Before i decal i spray a very diluted Nato Green on the camo, as i read somewhere that this helps to blend all the camo color to the base color... to my untrained eyes.. it actually makes a difference... (to my eyes it should.. anyway..)

Decal also already on the tank, not many decal were used and it goes on the model with no problem with the help of Mr Setter & Mr Softer on a clear coat H30 from gunze.

After all the decal, i spray a layer of Clear coat again to seal the decal in and ready the surface for the next step.. pin-wash ( i think this is what they called) using the Tamiya Panel wash (brown/black) or maybe using a normal oilpaint mix with turps...

Next:
1. pinwash
2.a coat of flat (seal the wash)
3. Dot filtering (again i dunno if this is what being called, where you dot the surface with oil paint of various color and use turps to blend it in)


Until next update

p/s: also i'm in the midst of priming something Swedish tonite as well. 

Trumpeter 1/32 A-10 2-seater N/aw - Completing It- W.I.P #1

It's very rare that someone pass to you his whole stash for you to finish it... and i'm one of the lucky few that was given an opportunity to owned such a stash..

i received around 20 boxes of kits in various conditions and scales and one of those is this BIG A-10A N/AW (2-seater tank in the sky) - (also a single seater A-10, that is for another time :o) )

my friend had joined the fuselage and have all the part glued together... but the cockpit are not in the fuselage yet.. so my task is to get it inside without much the needs for extensive surgery.

Lucky for me...it'll be easy to do so without much surgery... i guess.

A-10 kit is known for its tail-sitting-ness..

this one is no exception... so after using 15 of these fishing weight.. i manage to get it to sit properly.

and the amount of fishing-weight i use in the fuselage..

and cover it with some sticky stuff..

next will be the ejection seat :)


kuman

Hard Rock Cafe Shoglass: Edinburgh

Another updates...

latest addition to the collection..

Hard Rock Cafe Edinburgh.. ;D

until a few more updates.. :)

kuman
#hardrockcafe

Trumpeter 1/72 CH-47A Chinook Helicopter - WIP#5 (decal completed)

Updates


[The rest of the build WIP can be viewed @CH-47a Chinook WIP]

- A very productive weekend for me..

completed the decal for the chinook and a layer of future already been applied to seal the decal..

as usual i used Mr Mark Setter & Softer for decal application over a layer of clear-coated surface..

the decal fit nicely and conform well to the surface with the help of the decal solutions.

Now i let it to dry for a day before another clear coat is sprayed on and ready the surface for the next step...

1. oil wash & a bit of weathering
2. Unmasking of the clear parts.. bulge windows, windows and cockpit..

on to the photos..

 #ch47achinook

until later.. kuman

Trumpeter 1/72 CH-47A Chinook Helicopter - WIP#4 (ready for decal)

UPDATES!!

The rest of the build WIP can be viewed @CH-47a Chinook WIP

Clear coat is on and the mask is off..

After some clean-up (i always cannot get the right masking job) always need to touch-up later on

except for the masking on the cockpit and windows.. the rest is now off and coated with a clear coat..

next step will be the decal...

until then... the photos follows..

oh BTW.. the orange near the fron of the helo is a custom mix.. Tamiya flat red + Yellow

The rotor blades.

#CH-47A Chinook