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Posted by modelcrazy on Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:08 PM

Great looking builds John. That's a neat idea.

Steve

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:03 PM

Cool Builds !

I was unaware that any parasite fighters were available in plastic or resin.

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    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:01 PM

Almost certainly!

John

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:00 PM

Hey , John !

Was that Parasite fighter the source for the design of the weird Egg Plane ?

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  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Thursday, July 2, 2015 11:56 AM

Thanks, guys!

John

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    March 2012
  • From: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posted by mustang1989 on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:48 PM

Great builds John! Verrry nice B-36. I was just checkin' out the B-36 GB earlier today and saw this if I remember right.

                   

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Posted by mississippivol on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:42 PM

Very cool little friends!

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Posted by bvallot on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:11 AM

What a lovely little group!  =]

On the bench:  

Tamiya F4U-1  Kenneth Walsh

 

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Posted by BrandonK on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 9:04 AM

That is really a nice 3-some there. I especially love that B36. Well done.

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    March 2015
  • From: Streetsboro, Ohio
Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:38 AM

That's is an amazing build!  You've recreated history with such detail sir.  My hats off to you.

Toshi

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  • From: Olmsted Township, Ohio
Posted by lawdog114 on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 12:29 AM

Looks great John.  Thanks for sharing..

Joe

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  • From: Northern California
Pair a sites.
Posted by jeaton01 on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:32 PM

I know, bad pun.Surprise  Are there any good ones?

After finishing building the B-36 I decided to do the two airplanes that were planned to be carried it.  I made up my mind I would do these fairly quickly, I just want them to show the history of them and the B-36.  I actually saw a GRB-36D fly over once with an RF-84K attached.  

The only RF-84F in 1/72 is the Italeri kit except for the new resin kit which I was to cheap to buy, since I had the Italeri kit in the stash anyway.  I'm a little skeptical about the shape in the cockpit and nose, but I can't really figure out why.  The canopy seems a bit big and the nose a bit small, but it pretty much looks like an RF-84F.  I sanded down the raised panel lines a bit, spent some time reshaping the intake areas and added the gun ports there.  I also lowered the horizontal tail to the 23 degree anhedral to make it an RF-84K.  I made the decals in Corel Draw and printed them on an ALPS and a color laser printer.  There is only a silly seat in the cockpit but I left it as it was made.  There is enough lipstick on this little porker already.

The XF-85 Goblin is the MPM kit, which comes with some pe for the cockpit.  It has no locating pins so a lot of eyeballing went into aligning all those tail elements and getting the wings on at nearly the right anhedral.  It was not a bad build, the one fright was when the canopy cracked as I was cutting the excess off.  The material was somewhat brittle and I should have used the dremel drum sander on it sooner.  Luckily the crack was mostly in the canopy framing behind the windscreen.  There was only one vac canopy in the kit.  The kit decals were Propagteam which I have often had bad luck with so I put a coat of decal film on them before I used them and they were fine using Microsol and Microset.  The paint on both of these is Floquil Old Silver with SNJ aluminum powder rubbed in.  What a tiny little airplane.  It was never actually carried in the B-36 and was very difficult to mate with the B-29 during testing.  The wings folded up and it was to be carried entirely inside the B-36, while the RF-84K was mostly outside.






















John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

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