Clearwater Models

Saturday, 16 February 2019

TRICERATOPS

Terrible Lizards! This is an unknown scale dinosaur model from an unnamed Chinese toy company which I bought at the Dollarama for $2. It is a triceratops. She lived in what is now Canada from about 68 000 000 years ago to about 66 000 000 years ago during the late Cretaceous period (about 2:15 in the afternoon).
I stripped down the pieces and sanded or cut off all seam lines and flash, then carved out the ribs and built up the top bone stubs on the vertebrae. I also cut off the jaw hinge and gave the skull a better shape.
It was then airbrushed white and aged white. To finish I added a sepia wash, and finally some light grey dusting.
It took one day, and made for a fun weekend project.

triceratops

This model placed third in the giant CAPCON biennial model contest on 28 September 2019 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. (Collections - Theme (5 models of dinosaur skeletons and fossils))

STEGOSAURUS

Terrible Lizards! This is an unknown scale dinosaur model from an unnamed Chinese toy company which I bought at the Dollarama for $2. It is a stegosaurus. It lived in what is now Portugal and the western USA from about 163 000 000 years ago to about 100 000 000 years ago during the late Jurassic (Albian) period (about 9:30 in the morning).

I stripped down the pieces and sanded or cut off all seam lines and flash, then carved out the ribs and built up the top bone stubs on the vertebrae. I also cut off the jaw hinge and gave the skull a better shape.

It was airbrushed white and aged white. To finish I added a sepia wash, and finally some light grey dusting. It was done last Sunday.

stegosaurus

This model placed third in the giant CAPCON biennial model contest on 28 September 2019 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. (Collections - Theme (5 models of dinosaur skeletons and fossils))

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

SOVIET NAVAL ASW DETACHMENT (Dragon)

Soviet Naval Anti-Submarine Warfare Detachment in the Black Sea, circa 1984.

I think I built this over 20 years ago from two different Dragon box sets of 1:700 scale Soviet naval vessels.

The main ship is a Project 1134B Berkut B (Golden Eagle) "large anti-submarine warfare ship" named Nikolayev. It was the lead ship of the Berkut-class large ASW ships. It was commissioned new year's eve 1971, and would become a Ukrainian Navy ship after 1991. It did not continue in service and was soon scrapped in India in 1994.

The Nikolayev is escorted by two Project 1234 Ovod Small Missile Ships.

It is all hand-painted. The base is wood with an artists oil paint water surface.
The photos are scans of old printed photos. Sorry about the image quality.

Soviet Naval Anti-Submarine Warfare Detachment

Thursday, 31 January 2019

TYRANNOSAURUS REX

Terrible Lizards! This is an unknown scale dinosaur model from an unnamed Chinese toy company which I bought at the Dollarama for $2. It is a tyrannosaurus rex. It lived in what is now Canada from about 68 000 000 years ago to about 66 000 000 years ago during the late Cretaceous period (about 2:15 in the afternoon).
I stripped down the pieces and sanded or cut off all seam lines and flash, then carved out the ribs and built up the top bone stubs on the vertebrae. I also cut off the jaw hinge and gave the skull a better shape.
It was airbrushed white and aged white. To finish I added a sepia wash, and finally some light grey dusting.
It took one day, and made for a fun weekend project.

tyrannosaurus rex

This model placed third in the giant CAPCON biennial model contest on 28 September 2019 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. (Collections - Theme (5 models of dinosaur skeletons and fossils))

Monday, 17 December 2018

SU-122 ASSAULT GUN / TANK DESTROYER (Tamiya)

This gun kills nazi scum.

This is the 1:35 scale SU-122 kit from Tamiya (circa 1986).

It was completed in 11 working days. It is shown in winter camo in the spring of 1944. A tree and metal straps and a chain have been added.

The SU-122 is a 122mm M30S howitzer mounted on a T34 tank chassis. Designed by F. Petrov, some 1150 were built in 1942-1944 at UZTM (Uralmashzavod – Uralsky Machine Building Factory), for the fight against nazi scum. It was mostly used as a very effective assault gun against heavily-fortified positions.

SU-122 ASSAULT GUN / TANK DESTROYER

under construction in the UZTM (Uralmashzavod – Uralsky Machine Building Factory),
which just happens to be in my spare bathroom

The real one...

SU-122 ASSAULT GUN / TANK DESTROYER

MiG E-8/2 (Art Model)

This is a 1:72 scale kit of the MiG E-8/2 from Art Model of Ukraine.

The Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) E-8 was an experimental supersonic jet fighter under development to replace the MiG-21. Only two prototypes were built in 1960-61. The original MiG-21's air intakes were moved under the fuselage, freeing up the nose where a larger and more powerful radar, able to deliver longer range air-to-air missiles, could be built in. Canards were built to both sides of the nose.

The two prototypes flew in 1962. Twenty-five test flights were made (24 were completed). The design was abandoned in favour of work on the MiG-23 and the MiG-27. The basic problem was that the highly modern and advanced airframe exceeded the power and ability of the computers to control the aircraft. This shape and configuration are now common, putting the E-8 a few decades ahead of the competition.

On 11 Sept 1962, the Tumansky R-21F-300 engine, then under simultaneous development, exploded in midair at a speed of Mach 2.15. Test pilot Georgy Mosolov, a leading Soviet test pilot, was severely injured by debris from the compressor and had to eject at Mach 1.78. The cause of the crash was disk destruction of the sixth stage of the compressor.

Mosolov lay in a field not far from Moscow for three hours until found by a farmer. Despite massive injuries to his head, left arm and leg which would leave him hospitalized for a year, he had the farmer memorize all the details of the flight so the information could be passed back to the MiG design bureau in case he died. He died in early 2018 at the age of 92.

Paint is Alclad white aluminium. Green and blue and red are Vallejo acrylics. Nose is Tamiya paint bomb. The base is 100 small rectangular magnets painted to resemble concrete blocks. The canopy is coated with future floor wax.

MiG E-8/2

The actual MiG E-8 at the Zhukovsky test facility at Ramenskoye airfield near Moscow in 1962

Georgy Konstantinovich Mosolov (1926-2018), Hero of the Soviet Union, and Honoured Master of Sport of the USSR, shown in 1960, and recently in Moscow.