Show your Revell/Monogram builds

Reasoned

Hey stik, wish I could take credit for that beautiful F-84 but it's tex's !

Noted and corrected.... big "DOH!" on my part!

Thanks gents! As my dear old dad used to say, "even a blind hog finds an acorn now and then."  I am that blind hog.

Reasoned and Texgunner:Thanks alot for the good comments. I started this kit in the "My First Time" GB last December and shelved it so I could build my Eduard Fw190 A8 and thought it fitting to finish her up in the Carrier Based GB this year.

There are a few who may have read the following but it says all I could really feel about this plane.

All in all this was a fun build for me. Accuracy was really only there in the paint and there are flaws throughout the build that I would normally take care of. With fun in mind I mixed accuracy with original Monogram intent,however, none of the features that I wanted to work in the beginning of the build work in the name of getting things to fit right and proper. I left alot of Monogram signatures on the aircraft such as the copyright year on the elevators, part numbers in the middle inside portion of the dive flaps and the incorrect centerline bomb and bomb strut. Overall I'm really happy with it and learned alot in the way of painting and weathering and took a cool trip down memory lane to boot. Thanks again everybody!

Just as some added information on the build. This is what comes with the Monogram SBD in ways of cockpit minus the two butt ugly crew members!

This is with the Hasegawa parts:

This is with everything painted and fitted with lead foil seat belts withToms Model works buckles(feeding the belts through those buckles was a pain in the "you know what"!), I first applied silver as a base paint to the pilots seat and after cured out hit it with MM Zinc Chromate. After that semi cured out I chipped the Chromate away to reveal bare aluminum underneath. Seat belts were painted Linen enamel from Humbrol and dry brushed with ground up black pastel. I did the same with the Hasegawa gun turret seat belts.

This is how Monogram represents the IP(and in their defense this was par for the course in the 60's!) and there's the Hasegawa IP that I cut up and trimmed to fit the IP area on the kit fuselage halves complete with the back of the .50 cal fixed machine guns

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 Thought I would throw these in there for some more glimpes of the build.

I don't claim to be a Revellogram fancier. Maybe it was an unlucky encounter with a 1/48 P38J when I had just started modelling as an adult. (It has become my "go to" medical experiment.) But right now I'm doing the 1/48 Ju-52 and the kit's simply brilliant (and an astounding deal for the money). The infamous raised panel lines don't hurt here a bit and the detail is excellent and the fit appears very good. And all of those grooves - this will get some very heavy weather. Thinking of doing a winterized version that might have shown up at Stalingrad.  It will be OB, but a good exercise in creating good RLM colors (not an easy task I'm finding) and using some new "Spanish-School" weathering techniques. And, natch, figuring out the best way to winterize a worn aircraft. Don't know the answer to that one myself.  If anyone's interested I'll post WIP pics.

Eric

This outta be good! I like Ju-52's but don't have the space to display one. Can't wait to see a WIP thread on this!!

Got that one in the stash and have been intrigued by it since I got it.

Me too... and one of those DFS (sp?) gliders that the Falschirmjagers used...

Gliders aren't well represented in styrene for some reason. My build will be a transport so I won't even be putting in the paratrooper's seats. Heaven knows the Germans took chances with their paratroopers (minor catastrophe in Holland in 1940) but unless you were going to model a wreck - say on Crete - I think the early war birds would have been pretty clean. None of that. for me: there will Eastern Front wear and tear coming, and they weren't bringing people in to Stalingrad. (Actually they did - imagine getting that order?)

I'll get a WIP going in a couple of days in the Aircraft forum and let folk know here.

Eric

No the glider troops rides are not well represented in styrene. Aside from some quite dated 1/72 Italeri kit of the Waco and Horsa, thats it. And really the gliders were used to pull off some of the most spectacular special ops coup de mains of WWII: Eban Emal, Grand Sasso, Pegasus Bridge...As well as numerous more mundane (yet just as risky and more heavily opposed) airborne landings from1940 to 1945 all across Europe. I will be peeking in on your Tante Ju build.

None of my "New Posts' are showing up, so maybe I need to reply first.

Revell 1/48 P-38 as flown by Bong, although my son wanted to his friend, Ashdon, to fly it, so I didn't add all the Bong decals.

I like the planes to fly, so I always build with the landing gear up.  But, in the 2 Testor and 1 Revell kits that I've built, the flaps haven't fit well.

I painted with Testor enamels with an airbrush, then tried to weather with a black/thinner enamel washed.  But, I was taking all the silver off the model.  A little finescalemodeler research, and I learned to switch over to an acrylic wash.

I have a 1/72 Mustang to build, then another Revell Avenger that I will post.

I've got a P-51D, P-61, and a P-39Q all with AM decals just waiting for the mafia to start back up!!

Coming soon here... After the new year begins... Stony, one trick to washes is dissimilar layers. Since in my experience acrylics are rather permanent and quick drying as a wash medium, I would suggest using an acrylic base color, and then an enamel wash. Enamel wash excess clean up much more easily.

Carlos, I would've figured it was the other way around.

Whats that Mark?

I'll add one more.  Here's a 1/48 Monogram F-20 that I just finished:

Oh that is SWEET!!!! I am building the same kit now. Won't be done for another month or two though. Love that tiger stripe Aggressor scheme!

Thanks Stik!  What's yours gonna look like?

Mine is gonna be in Mexican Air Force colors. Same as their F-5Es, a wraparound SEA camo scheme. Since these things were never in anybody's service, if you want an operational bird, you can only do a "what if"...

Here's some of my Monogram builds.

1/48 F-14A The first model I built after a few years hiatus. In retrospect not the easiest model to build after a few years break!

y

1/48 F-105G Wild Weasel

1/48 JU-87D

1/48 HE-111 WIP This guy it really fighting me. Its the version that comes with the V-1. And the closed bomb bay doors don't fit very well, along with the canopy and engines.

Mirage 2000 WIP Not a lot to this guy. But for whatever reason its taking me forever to finish.

stikpusher

Whats that Mark?

I would have thought that the Enamel would have gone first and then the weathering with acrylics later since acrylics are easier to clean up than thinned enamels.

Anyway, I have a few 1/72 scale Revell/Monogram models to finish up to post here. I better get right on them.

I have never had much luck cleaning up acrylic washes. The stuff dries up quick and the thinners don't remove it very well. especially after more than a few minutes. Whereas with the Acrylic or acrylic sealed base and enamel wash I can go back even a couple days later and clean it up.

Get those R/M builds poster here ASAP Mr Duke. ;-)

Grey Snake, thank you for sharing your work here.

Ooops - Just made a boo boo here guys . I thought 'New Post' at the top of this page meant new post on this thread. I've just put  a few pics of my Revell/Mono Ju52 as a new post under 'Aircraft'

I'll learn - in the meantime call it an age thing

Tug

Guess I'll post a photo here also.  This is an "authentic" Monogram (from about 1968 or 1969 when I first acquired it).  Reconstructed in all it's glory... sort of.

Gary

Hi again Guy's - lets see if I can get this right this time

I took a few pics of the B-26 today - hope it's of interest. It's a real 'favourite' aircraft - I just wish someone would bring a state of the art version out.

Apart from some Quickboost engines the model is OOB. The paint is Alclad and Tamiya.  After priming, all the raised panel lines were rubbed down to virtually nothing the dark line remaining giving a guide for masking - with two small exceptions (the nav lights) all the panel lines are painted, not engraved. There are no decals used - all markings masked and sprayed.

I guess it doesn't take much to work out I like dirty airframes - now I need a really grubby subject for the PBY 5a

Tug

Any aircraft is of interest to me whether it's real or a model. And that's a nice looking Marauder, Tug. I like how you did the chipped paint.

TUG, nice work!

Although it is not OOB if you add any AM to it.

That's a friggin nice F-20!!!

Thank you, Mustang!

Wow, some great work on this page……..heck, most every page!