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Greg Baker autor
Thanks Ralf! There's plenty more to come, so stay tuned!

Lode Schildermans
My favorite Belgian strip and the artist who can bring the stories the best to life. Greg, beautiful what you're making. Your scratchbuilding is excellent

Alec K
I fully support you finding a logical reason to justifying your mistake 👍 😄. Done it meeself…

Greg Baker autor
Thank god the propellers still actually spin! I still need to do a bit of masking/painting for the F-14 nose, but the C-130 is basically done. Just need to add a few small clear bits, a tiny bit of rigging for the antenna and then a coat of Future and some panel line washing and we'll be done.

Greg Baker autor
Thanks Gary. I'll tune it to see if you can manage the forced perspective... it would be nice for this kit to have something to contribute. I should be kinder and not let my hatred for off-scale kits get the best of me... it's just when they lie about their size that I can't stand it. 😉

Meanwhile... we have some grey paint over decals... it's an experiment.

Greg Baker autor
Dragging this one down off the shelf as well.

Mr D
You been busy wiring 👍 l purchased an Led kit that is designed to complement Lego builds, they seem very handy for modeling too.....the wiring , battery and Led,s are plg-n-play .purchased it from AliExpress hopefully to use on an MI-8 Dio build this year.
I don't know much about escape killers??
Good luck on build 👍👍

Greg Baker autor
Most of the wiring is pretty simple. I usually just use USB power plugs as an adaptor - basically your phone's 5V USB can power them. It's just LEDs, DC motors and a few resistors to make sure nothing blows up. The plug and play packs are a good way to get started though.

The "Escape Killers" are basically the "internal affairs" division of the mercenary troops at Area 88 in the manga story. They chase and shoot down deserters. Once I'm finished the project, you'll be able to read the chapter that inspired this build on my blog. 🙂

Greg Baker autor
Thanks guys. Added a few final pics. This build is now up on my blog (strobez.ca/wp/index...inberger-76-area-88/) - so if you want to read the Area 88 manga chapter that inspired this project, you can find it there.

Spanjaard
great job Greg!

Greg Baker autor
Thanks Guy! I also just noticed that I seem to have forgotten the rear wheel. There it is, still on the sprue for safekeeping and everything~

Tom M
That looks very good

Greg Baker autor
Thanks Naram. I usually don't put batteries in my builds. Almost all of the powered ones have a USB plug and I run them off a phone charger. On the rare occasion that I DO put batteries in a project, I hide them in the base. 🙂

Thomas Espe
👀

Greg Baker autor
Well, the solution, seemed to be to just to mask the coloured bits and add a fresh coat… decals next. 🙂

Greg Baker autor
Got the decals on. The Platz ones went on like a dream, but for the larger yellow numbering on the engine cowl, I cut up some decals from the Hasegawa F11F kit I had leftover after one of my Area 88 builds (AREA 88: F11F-1 (Gary Macburn) | Project by strobez (1:72)). The ancient decals disintegrated almost instantly on my first attempt. I got it done eventually. Now just the propellor and a few minor adjustments left to work on.

LucLuke B
I was wondering where you'd been, nice to see you back with more ideas.

Greg Baker autor
Haha! Never fear LucLuke! I'm not far! Had a few life projects to tackle before I could get back to the bench... but we're just about there now.

Greg Baker autor
Hey Amrith. Sorry, didn't see this message before now. I'm still working on the Carreidas 160 but it's no longer a kit bash. I created a 3D model and printed out the parts. It's a bit slow going and part of me isn't quite satisfied with the result so far - a big part of that is because I feel like it's too big. I tried to find a happy medium between what I think the actual size of the jet is supposed to be (based on some drawings which are arguably "official") and how big it would actually be based on the size of the interior furniture. If you make some calculations based of how big the chairs would likely have to be... well, something's off. So now I'm debating trying to re-size and re-print the parts... I just need to convince my wife that I have to buy more resin~ 😉

Amrith Punja autor
Hey Nice to hear from you, a modelling buddy of mine & I have also invested in a 3D printer, Anycubic Mono5, so still trying to work around it and if we get any good files we will share it with you, meanwhile best of luck convincing your wife for more resin, you see i am divorced last year and I don't have that problem anymore.....

Skyhiker
Looking good Greg.

Alec K
Taking a very belated seat. Looks like another winner 👍

Cuajete
Fantastic, Greg... Great job!
Congrats!

Greg Baker autor
Heh. Thanks Cuajete. Now then... about project number 50...

B. M.
Tintin coming alive!
How great of a collection.
Admiration 🙂

Sy Bar
I love your TinTin builds so original and well executed

Matthew A
I keep coming back to this 😊

Greg Baker autor
Haha! That makes me smile!

Bozo
What a wonderful madeleine de Proust

Greg Baker autor
Not only do I take that as a complement, but I learned a handy new turn of phrase to boot!

Greg Baker autor
Thanks Erik! I bet you're right.

Cuajete
Very nice, Greg.
Congrats!

Thomas Bischoff
this is just brilliant 👍

Juergen Klinglhuber
Unbeliveable creative, Respect.

Greg Baker autor
Oh my. Neither one of us would have survived that operation. This was one of those kits I was holding on to "until I'm good enough" to tackle. I doubt that day will ever actually come. For some kits you just have to say "let the water flow" and let it be what it will be. 🙂

Nicolas
Verry nice, congrats.👍

bughunter
This reminds me of an old joke:
A drunken man comes home and his wife is waiting for him with a broom. He asks her: "Do you want to clean or are you going to fly off again?"

Greg Baker autor
On the weekend I was cleaning out the weeds on my driveway and my wife literally asked me where the broom was... I started snickering...

Greg Baker autor
Clearing out these little side projects. Doesn't this one just seem like the perfect start to any Tintin adventure?

Thomas Bischoff
„reduced to the max!" what a great scene 👍
where did you get the figure from?

Greg Baker autor
Another little project that was a request. A funny scene from the album, The Shooting Star - Captain Haddock meets his old friend, Captain Chester and the two begin a strange "handshake".

Matthew A
I'd forgotten this I'll have to re-read it again 😊

Greg Baker autor
I probably wouldn't have put this project on the rotation on my own, at least not yet, but it did bring me back some fond memories of taking my son to school when he was very young. He really liked watching the Tintin animated tv series, and he really got a kick out of this scene. So, for a few weeks afterwards, when I still walked him to school, we used to do the "boodle, boodle, boodle…. Oi, oi, oi!" Handshake to say goodbye before the bell rung. Makes me smile now to think of it.

Villiers de Vos
Very creative.

Greg Baker autor
Another little Tintin "appetizer" project. This one would not really have been on the top of my list, but I got a request from another fan, so here we are. I can't take any credit for the Llama model. I got it off Cults3d.com and modified it a bit (who ever heard of a warrior riding an armoured Llama anyway?!). Fans of the books know this is the scene right before Captain Haddock gets sprayed in the face with water by the Llama - a running joke throughout the album. I actually wanted to depict that scene, but the request was specifically for this panel, so who am I to argue. 😉

Spanjaard
cool 🙂

Matthew A
Great expressions

Spanjaard
wow, excellent !

Greg Baker autor
Updated my final pics. Nothing much changed, but I couldn't stand the "Tintin with one black eye" look. So I carefully re-did his eyes so that they're now the same size.

Eric Thornton
oh cool, including Snowy!

Greg Baker autor
Hah! Erik always seems to find the one thing I'm not completely happy about... 🙂 I did try to add those black lines... nothing really worked. I just ended up making a mess of it.

Cuajete
Good job. Congratulations!

Bas Tonn
great work !! lots of work...

MS K
It's a really interesting and fun concept. Nice work!!

Greg Baker autor
Thank MS K~! I'm still finding small pink bits of paper on my socks, but it was all worth it!

Robert Podkoński
Of course I am, Greg! 🙂

Clifford Keesler
Very nice.

Greg Baker autor
Oh, I'm excited about this one. I didn't think I'd find one of these. Now I've got one to build and one for sale. 🙂