Nadef Competition 8 homepage is up!

Sorry for the lack of updates, I was busy trying to 'finish' my Fledermaus again as the Nadef Competition's deadline got extended a couple of days. What I did was: find the decals and photo-etched screen wiper given to me by Dainaka and add them into the build, another layer of panel-lining, fix some mistakes here and there, retake the photos with better lighting and tripod, and finally resubmit to Fukky!

Now the homepage is up!

See it here:
http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/


My entry:
http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contes...ma/06.html

Some entries I liked:
http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/03.html
by my friend Steve from New Zealand, very innovative and impressive modifications!

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/01.html
by Catchaser, love the cannons and the air to ground missile, very WWII.

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/04.html
by Jason Eaton, wow is the word for it, now where is that Hummel conversion in YAJ?!

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/07.html
A Moby Dick scratch-build. Very nicely build, clean and simple.

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/16.html
A very creative transformer!!! How did he manage to cut the kit into so many parts?

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/14.html
Another Moby Dick scratch-build. My favourite plane build in this contest.

http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/13.html
Some ship, very massive.

My personal favourite:
http://home.f02.itscom.net/nadefu/contest/08furedama/08.html
Birdcage. I dunno if this is a complete scratch build or another kit I've never seen before, but I absolutely love it!

I am greatly humbled by the entries' creativity and quality.... I am just glad I was in time to participate...If I win anything, it will be a bonus!

Grading by participant : until 25th May (Sun)
Result announcement : 26th May (Mon)

Watch to it! I'm so excited!
:)

Fledermaus on the Nadef site!

I emailed Fukky the pics of my Fledermaus - Tiger Motte (Final Inspections) on the day of the deadline. Now its up on the Nadef site!

Guess which one is my Fled?


Sooo excited now!

SAFS - BBQ

Decided to break out my SAFS today after 'finishing' my Fledermaus...
Seems like once I do a Ma.K, I immediately want to do another one..
Inspired by Maschinen Krueger's (BK) SAFS Reynard MkIII, I checked with him whether I can imitate his SAFS in the kneeling pose and he gave me his blessings.

And also Dainaka's Snakeeye Bis inspired me with his very nice camo, smoke discharges, and snake eye hatch...

Sorry no pics right now...

Plan to do this for the mechamodelcomp
http://www.mechamodelcomp.com/?p=139
which closes in about 7 days.

Dunno why I love such crazy deadlines. Maybe it reminds me of my days at NAFA and NUS (at the same time)

Fledermaus Finished!

Just finished the Fledermaus this morning at 4:30am. Polly, my wife, came out and nearly scolded me for not going to bed. Slept, woke up and took photos this morning 7:30am when the sun came out and emailed them to the organisers...

No time to do the base...

Strange, I'm not tired/sleepy at all... :)
Will post more WIP and in the finished line when competition's over..

Fledermaus Update again

I know I know, I've said no more WIP, but I just can't help myself, help myself..... ;D
Airbrushed base coat on the Fled and going to mask the camo.
Started painting the figures using instructions from the Multiple Model Magazine's issue on Ma.K (one day I'll scan them and share..)
Sprayed tamiya brown on the figures

After that is the crazy/fun part of applying tamiya flesh and mixing brown to get the final result...This took a few layers of handpainting... its not fantastic at close range, but from a distance I think can do lah.
Front

Side

My first attempt at figures painting, almost gave up halfway cos it looked horrific on the first layer of paint.

On a side note, I found the 2 missing Krote mechanic's hands after sweeping the common corridor where I primed my models. Fortunately the cleaner never come to clean yesterday as I've lost them while priming!
I modded the mechanic's hand to hold a torch light instead of a cigarette, in case my pastor decides to visit ;D.
Its a cut-down SD Gundam beam saber...

Also found the missing piece of Fled (2nd and 3rd pic) used to attach the wires at the rear of the Fled.
2 more days left. Think I will cut down on sleep.:lol:

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Fledermaus Update 8

May day holiday and I stayed home trying to finish up the Fled before Ashley comes back home from my mother-in-laws. She's sick, together with my wife and mother-in-law, so everyone is not having a fun time and mood around.
I looked at the missiles I made earlier, and being an anti-tank missile freak, I don't really like them.
Lets be honest here. They don't look right in the Ma.K world.
I took a krachenvogel missile and to my surprise, they fit in the launchers!

Krachenvogel missile and the missile I made earlier

So, while watching TV, I decided to make simpler copies of the Krachenvogel missiles with plastic tubes and sprues. I am not going to use the Krach missiles simply because the kit cost too much to use for kitbashing. Its alot of filing to get the sprues straight at the ends...

New missiles

See how they fit in the launchers...

I've also sanded the rest of the Fled and primed them.
Finally I can start airbrushing...
Deadline? What deadline?! :lol:

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Fledermaus Update 7

Hi all, sorry for the lack of updates, got distracted by all the boxes of Ma.K... ;D
I've sanded and primed the main Fled...



I must say the thruster bells are no fun to sand.

Now left some touchup here and there and the figures, more updates coming up!
less than 8 days to the dateline, or issit deadline..:lol:

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