I think it is part of the Photobucket extortion attempt.  Pay up and your photos can be seen.  If not they will be blurry.

I see them blurry too.

The original thread is a few years old so they may no longer be available?

Whitecloud100

Looks like a nice build, but I'm unable to see the photos.  They are blurred out.  Can you tell me how to 'unlock' the photos?

 

 

 

The only way for the photos to be unlocked is for the owner of the Photobucket account to pay their extortion fee. 

Looks like a nice build, but I'm unable to see the photos.  They are blurred out.  Can you tell me how to 'unlock' the photos?

Thank you again for the kind remarks.  Owl, about 90% of the NMF was achieved through the use of S-n-J metal powder.  I think the stuff is out of production now.  It was picked up briefly by Hawkeye Hobbies but I think it, too, is no longer available.  eBay might have some but I'm not completely sure.  I bought my powders maybe 12 years ago from Venture Hobbies which I think was in Schaumburg, IL.  Note that I said "was" because I do believe Venture Hobbies has gone the way of the Dodo.  I picked up two bottles while I was down there.

I like the powder because it's always been tough as nails for me.  It takes great to masking and I can easily use different shades of MM metalizers to vary the tones of various panels.  It also holds up well to the use of decal setting solutions.  Since the powder goes on mirror smooth, there are no problems at all with silvering.  I just use setting solution to make the decals form to compound curves and settle over panel lines.  

Eric

Speaking of F-89s, I came across something which led me to post this...

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/general_discussion/f/50/t/167285.aspx

and thought of this build... 

wonderful build!

what paints did you use for teh NMF?

BEAUTIFUL!!! And a rarely built aircraft too. Nice job!

Nice job Eric.  Thanks for sharing...

Looks great!  I really liked the plane during its active service time, and then saw one crash at an airshow.

Got this one in my stash and it's huge even at 1/48.  You did a great job at reproducing the metallic panel shades.

Too bad Gerald stopped marketing the powder. I was lucky enough to meet a fellow modeler at the 2012 Nationals who mailed me a bottle from his stash.

Thanks to everyone again.  Johnny, if you can get your hands on some of that powder, I highly recommend it.  Using different shades of gloss paint underneath will give the metal powder different hues when you apply it.  Black, greys, blues, white and other colors will work great but just remember that they have to be gloss paints.

I've  had good luck masking over the stuff, too.  However, in order to ensure it takes to masking, it's best to reduce the stickyness of the tape first.  I always rapidly stick and unstick it to my fingers to cut down on the tacky nature of the tape.  Once that's done, you can pretty much mask with out any lifting of the powder.  I'm really surprised at how strong the stuff is.

Eric

I have  question regarding the  SnJ powder. Did you have any problems with the decals "silvering"?

Great looking model. I need to give the  SnJ powder a try.

Very nice!

Mike

Ohhh, very cool! I too love the different metallic panels you've done there!

They come in a top half and lower half.  After gluing them and cleaning up the seam, you just have to paint one side black and the other side metallic.  Not hard at all, right?  Somehow I found a way to botch it up several times.  At one point, I sanded the seams using wet/dry sanding pads under the kitchen faucet.  Water had filled the tank.  I thought I got it all out.  When I stated airbrushing the black using Floquil paints, that's when some water leaked out and ruined the paint job.  Argh!  It was little gremlins like that which repeatedly tripped me up!

Eric

Nice.  I can imagine how the tanks couldve given you problems.

Very nice, Eric.

Super job. I saw one on display in MI, but cannot at the moment remember what airport I saw it at. Anyone?

I love this kit.  It doesn't have a high parts count at all so, with my limited modeling time, it's the perfect kit for me.  

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.  It's going to sit on my overhead cabinet at work with another of my F-89s.

Eric

We have one of these on display in our local park. It's been on stilts there for decades now. Nice to see someone makes a model of it. You did a great job on this one.

BK

NOICE!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful job. I like it.