Show your Revell/Monogram builds

I remember that build... classic touch with the HvH pilot!!!

Wow, some very impressive, high detailed builds in here. This got me thinking, it is evident that there is much less AM (e.g., masks etc.) for these classic (and very plentiful) Revellogram kits.  I guess they figure if the modeler is "serious" enough to put in the extra work, he will only be buying the Ed-Hase-iya kits (excepting of course a few Pro Modelers).

I've noticed that too Reasoned.  I love my Revellogram kits, but sometimes I want just a little bit more in the cockpits.  Just not much out there for them.

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Wow, some very impressive, high detailed builds in here. This got me thinking, it is evident that there is much less AM (e.g., masks etc.) for these classic (and very plentiful) Revellogram kits.  I guess they figure if the modeler is "serious" enough to put in the extra work, he will only be buying the Ed-Hase-iya kits (excepting of course a few Pro Modelers).

Well ya gotta remember that most of these kits came out before AM existed. Before the Promodeler line, Monogram had their "Hi Tech" line, which came out early in the PE era, that was essentialy some of their kits with a PE fret to dress them up. Eduard did do sets for many of the older Revellogram kits, and other companies did as well- Verlinden, Medallion Models, Model Technologies, etc. And until the past 5 years or so. Many of the Monogram classics were the only game in town for their subject in that scale. Some still are.

I put a Medallion Models resin and etch set in the Monogram Dauntless and it made that kit as good as the Accurate Miniatures kits that came out a couple weeks after I started mine.  I also got the set for the Me-262.  Of course that was almost 20 years ago so it may have turned to powder by now.  The way I'm building these days I'll be powder before I finish something ; 0

I have the Medallion Models sets to backdate the Monogram Wildcat into a -3. One of these years I'll get around to it....

My latest completion- the classic 1/48 B-26B

Ok, I guess I like my latest enough to post it in this thread. 1/48 P-47D Razorback "My San Antonio Rose", flown by Flight Leader Capt Leeroy Chadwell of the 310th Fighter Group 58th Fighter Squadron. It saw action in Saipan, New Guinea and Okinawa to name a few.

Terrific job, Brandon!

Holy wow that is one beautiful Jug!! Where did you find those markings, if you dont mind me asking?

Wow stik, that's got to be my favorite build yet of yours!  I think it even tops your Devastator.

I am digging that B-26 ! The Jug is pretty sweet too !

Here are two monogram's I completed earlier this year:

1/48 Hustler SEA Camo

1/72 B-1B

1/72 F7F Tigercat as a fire bomber.  Lone Star Models slurry tank and Red Gecko Decals.

The decal set on the Jug are from Thundercals. I ordered mine from Spruebros. There are 3 sets in that series, I think, and 3 planes from the 58th Squadron, all with similar paint but different nose art.

Oh those are some great builds! The Jug, Bearcat, Tigercat, Hustler, and B-1 all look great... All showing what a good modeler can do with these kits! Keep it up guys!

Looks great, Stick!

Ajd, is that for real?! Tito's partisans had aircraft during the war?

Yeah, the NOVJ included air units supplied and trained by the RAF, and even had Hurricanes and Spits, if I'm not mistaking.

I never knew that... Most interesting! I am going to have to read up on this... Nice build, BTW...

Thanks! I got the decals from a Serbian company, Lift Here!, you can look them up online. Decals were really thin and took form very well with alittle setting solution.

This one came in a Revell box (but suspect it is from an old Matchbox mold?) - straight out the box, this is my take on the RAAF Sea Venom. Its 1/32 scale, the shape looks good but the cockpit and landing gear are very basic, in fact primitive. Untitled by need12beers

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Cool scheme there, Adj!

This thread has made me view Revell/Monogram kits in a different way. I always thought R/M models as old-fashioned and non-cutting edge. They look awesome. Did you guys scribe panel lines? I see clearly recessed panels lines on many photos.  

Nice looking Aussie Sea Venom you got there, NeedBeer!  Hard to believe that its probably a Matchbox repop!!!

I used to play down the RM kits but I've seen some amazing kits here and since then I've managed a few nice ones thanks to this thread's motivation. I have a complete new respect for the RM kits now and I don't fear trying them anymore.

Chris, most R/M kits released since the early 90s have recessed panel lines. They even went back and reworked a kit or two to rescribe them on their own. I personally rescribed a few of mine that you see here. And of course there is the debate over which represents overlapping skin panels more accurately? Raised or recessed? neither is dead bang on.  And lets face it, nobody gives you more bang for the buck in 1/48 bombers than R/M. Not to mention that even their older kits were very much cutting edge in their time

NeedBeer, that Sea Venom is indeed originaly a Matchbox kit.