Completed 5/25/18 Revell 1/48 F-102A Delta Dagger

Everything is nicely bagged without any loose parts at all.

Beautiful, no swirls nor flash at all.

OMG!  I’ve never seen a decal sheet this long in my life!  WOW!!!

I'll drink to that !! maybe I go to HL and buy one. BTW your 109 is stunning

tempestjohnny

I'll be watching. Want to see your magic on a jet

 

Your friend, Toshi

crown r n7

I'll drink to that !! maybe I go to HL and buy one. BTW your 109 is stunning

 

Thank you for the kind words on my 109 Gustav!  I greatly appreciated!

Your friend, Toshi

Here is the joining of the fueselage.  I’ve also decided to rescribe the panel lines.  This is my second time doing this so I should or I am having fun doing this!  Check it out!

Hi Toshi,

That is a good kit, and you will need to build its big sister, the F106.

Toshi,

Good to see you tackling another great subject!

I have this kit in the stash too, and was reluctant to think about rescribing the panel lines.  I have done a few kits, and can say with certainty that I HATE rescribing!  Looking over the kit I saw two potentially difficult problems to overcome.  Firstly, the upper/lower wing join line runs through some fairly busy details on the underside, and the fit is poor.  Secondly, my kit is the one with Case XX (no upturned tips) wings, and Monogram had made the molds to allow the earlier wing tips to be swapped in during the molding process.  My wing tips are thicker than the rest of the wing and they have heavy sink marks marring all that lovely Monogram surface detail.  I figured to properly address both issues a rescribe would be in order, which is why I haven't started the kit.

One tiny detail that will be easy to fix is that there are what appears to be control surface locks on the outboard edges of the elevons.  These need to be removed for an in-service machine.  I only noticed this when I was wallking around a real F-102 at the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville, OR, and saw the locks.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll do a stellar job as usual!

scottrc

Hi Toshi,

That is a good kit, and you will need to build its big sister, the F106.

 

I’ll have to look around got the F106!  Thanks for the tip.

Real G

Toshi,

Good to see you tackling another great subject!

I have this kit in the stash too, and was reluctant to think about rescribing the panel lines.  I have done a few kits, and can say with certainty that I HATE rescribing!  Looking over the kit I saw two potentially difficuly problems to overcome.  Firstly, the upper/lower wing join line runs through some fairly busy details on the underside, and the fit is poor.  Secondly, my kit is the one with Case XX (no upturned tips) wings, and Monogram had made the molds to allow the earlier wing tips to be swapped in during the molding process.  My wing tips are thicker than the rest of the wing and they have heavy sink marks marring all that lovely Monogram surface detail.  I figured to properly address both issues a rescribe would be in order, which is why I haven't started the kit.

One tiny detail that will be easy to fix is that there are what appears to be control surface locks on the outboard edges of the elevons.  These need wigs to be removed for an in-service machine.  I only noticed this when I was wallking around a real F-102 at the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville, OR, and saw the locks.

Anyway, I'm sure you'll do a stellar job as usual!

 

Your friend, Toshi

silentbob33

I'll be watc this one Toshi! I have this kit in the stash, but it's the Encore boxing with all kinds of AM goodies. I can't wait to see what you do with it!

 

You friend, Toshi

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Oh, I am most honored and humbled that you would offer such information and services to me.  That must be cool to be walking around a F-106.  And thank you for the privilege in giving me the information on the wings and outboard edges of the elevons. 

Your friend, Toshi

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Toshi, I am a big fat liar!  I had a look at my kit today and noticed that I had started to try and fix the wingtip moldings.  I was going to post a photo of the offending area, but saw that the control surface locks had already been scraped off.  Anyway, the locks are those small raised rectangles on the inboard side of the wing fences.

Good luck on your build, and hope that your wingtips don't look like mine!

Oops, double post!  Sorry.

I just finished this same kit.  I built it out of the box.  I also rescribed the fuselage but left the wings with raised panel lines.  The two biggest issues I had where the seams where the wings meet on the bottom and the seam on the one side of the tail. 

The intake seams are not too bad.  You can smooth out the inside seam without too much issue.  Overall the build went together well.  Have fun with it!

I just assembled the fueselauge to the wings.   Wow, this thing is huge, but  yet I tried to assemble every thing.  No problems at all.

Your friend, Toshi

Oh, wow !!! That is so awesome! So, were there were issues and concerns.  But it seems you got past it.

Your frind, Toshi

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Here’s something I watched M. Brindos do.  I’m going to copy his technique to the best of my poor abilities as possible.  Instead of spraying just the panel lines black, I AB the entire aircraft black.  The black can be used as a primer as well.  

The Black that I utilized was a Vallejo Model Color Black 70.950.  Next up is a Vallejo Acrylic Metal Color Chrome 77.707.  Below is the outcome of my completion of today’s work.

Doing a few more things and I’ll wrap things up for this evening.  Thank you my fellow members for following my thread builds!

Your friend, Toshi

To my fellow forum members of FSM,

I’ve been extremely ill for over a month.  I was sick at one point yet instead of resting as Mrs. Toshi explained in that I need to sleep and take some medications so that I could feel better.  Now as her husband and being a man, did I listen?  Of course not!!!

So I continued to build my current aircraft.  And the very next day I got so sick, I could not get out of bed.  These were the words from Mrs. Toshi.  “See!  I told you so but you never listen”!!!  

So this illness took me from worst to extremely worst!!!  I could not even get online to the FSM website and do some simple typing.  I lost 10lbs. but that felt great.  Today I’m still recuperating but now that I’m recuperating I was strong enough to do some typing

Mrs. Toshi said if my fever breaks and I eat all of my breakfast, I’ll be allowed to work on my build!  So that’s what’s been going on at the home of the Toshi’s.  Thank you FSM members for your support.  It means a great deal to me!  

Your friend, Toshi

P.S.  I must add that Mrs. Toshi is doing excellentl.  Her MRI shows that there are no infections now.  But she is constantly seeing various doctors for ensuring she stays this way.

Get better!  I too am sick.  Day 7 of a lung infection. 

Heres to health and modeling!

keavdog

Get better!  I too am sick.  Day 7 of a lung infection. 

Heres to health and modeling!

 

Toshi,

Nothing, I repeat ..Nothing!... is as valuable to us mortals as is our health.

Rest, recuperate, relax.

The Dagger (and its Dart progeny) will wait until you're strong enough to enjoy building it (and perhaps it's progeny). 

We want you well so we can enjoy your works in progress. You're a motivator for many of us here. I certainly appreciate the rate at which you've completed your fine builds but sometimes my head spins thinking about how quickly you do them!

Be well!!

tempestjohnny

Toshi I was getting worried about you not posting. Glad to hear you are on the mend. Good luck

 

Your friend, Toshi