Well I hope you do well!

One interesting thing about Jugs, I have some photos.

When they taxied out for take off, the crew chief often lay on the wing hanging on to a gun barrel and signaled turns with his arm, because the pilot could not see over the cowl.

Thanks Gmorrison I will surely consider.

BVALLOT, yep, I already had something in mind... 

I wanted to set in stationed in the airfield...so I added my pavement, some turf and ..... since my plane is not perfectly clean...  why should the tarmac??...so I jus throw everything I had...pigments, dust, oil and diesel marks, some grass growing through pavement cracks, etc...still looks boring...hmmm...I wanted to add some figures, but Im just not good at them and dont have time...I have a local IPMS exhibition/contest in one week...so...maybe just add some leafs and a plaque.

Here are the photos:

Without the plane with a birght light to show up details.

See you around. 

The venerable old Monogram Sabre is a classic and a fine kit. If you can find "The Huff", that was our friend Hans' uncle's plane.

GMorrison

So what's next?

Not sure..hmmmmm....... I want to build a Mustang or a Sabre in NFM....but I maybe doing a chopper...decisions decisions..

lawdog114

First aircraft?  Wow, very humbling. Its hard to do an NMF which is all the more impressive...Nice to see an N built for a change.  

Joe

Yep, its my first and as said not the last one for sure.

Now this becomes a problem on what to buy at the local store, previously i only had to choose tanks...

Thanks for your comments, 

Well garzonh:  For a Revell kit...you turned this into a pretty nice P-47!!  Can't beat Alclads line of paint for a NMF.  I love that stuff and you did a real nice job with painting and weathering.

For your wooden base, I might suggest you get a placard made listing who flew the plane and possibly something notable but brief for it.  Maybe at least even mentioning the type of plane and the air group it flew with as well.

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So what's next?

First aircraft?  Wow, very humbling. Its hard to do an NMF which is all the more impressive...Nice to see an N built for a change.  

Joe

Gmorrison, thanks for your words of encouragament and appreciation the are very valuable to me..

mustang1989, yep, I guess everyboy had done an error here and there, specially on your first of everything, first paiting, decaling, weathering..this was just an unexcusable error by me...   Yep, bad instructions are also part of making mistakes, not too clear and too detailed. Thanks for you comments, coming from someone so experienced with aircraft it does mean a lot to me. 

Gamera, yep, tahankfully I did not added any varnish or even glued the decals with micro scale setting solution, so it went away easily. 

theBaron, well, I must sadi its a cheap kit and it shows, I had lot of fitting issues, and the wheels are very fragile, lot of flash not very sharp lines, so all in all, is a cheap, fast, fun kit to build. But not for a huge impression or detailing.

Greenstryene48, thanks, I did looked at several photos of actual planes, in order to understand where things are placed, attached, specially, cockpit interior and others...again thanks to lack of clear instructions. Thanks for the comments. 

So, fixed the decal, here it is...in a not so nice picture.

Your NMF is beautiful, well done!

I have this kit in my stash, because I was curious to see how it's engineered, compared to the pre-merger Monogram P-47D kits.

Yeah, if you want to try to remove the decal it should work if you didn't put a coat of varnish over it. As you said just soak it in decal setting solution until an edge lifts and then very carefully work a soft brush under it and slowly and carefully work it free.

Looks good garzon!! Man I feel your pain on the insignia bud. I put the wrong decal on the wing of my Corsair build not too long ago and after a couple of attempts to remove it (I will admit that I didn't try all that hard as the Revell Corsair is a BIG POS kit and I had a lot of issues with it and didn't want to risk the only thing that did go right which was the paint!) I shot paint over the decal and applied the correct one over it. (I will admit that the kit instructions actually show the decal placement incorrectly!!!)

  Again, that's a good lookin' build there.............especially for your first one!

Hope to see more like this out of you man.

A risk you run is having the original show through the new one.

You could easily put a black circle on the star, then the circular part of the new one over it, should be a piece of cake for you.

Thanks Gamera!

Yep, I will fix it...hmmm...If I use decal solving solution I might be able to remove it, and then apply the one the kit had. I used the ones from the aftermarket.

Thanks for your advice.

Sure. I will build more aircraft. Maybe a P51, I want to use my Alclad paint again...

She looks fantastic- you should build more aircraft!

Btw; If you have a spare national insignia on the sheet you could you just apply it over the one already there to fix the problem.

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OOOOOHHH...now I see it.

You mean the star...yes.. newbie mistake.

HI Gmorrison!

Thanks a lot!!!

Not sure what you mean by upside down??..looks the same as all photo references.

Yes, maybe I will participate...will it be planes also?

Very nice job, Garzonh.

(This guys builds fantastic armor).

One glitch- the national insignia on the right side is upside down.

I like it a lot. We'll be doing another Latin American Group Build soon.