Steve,

Your B-36 built is taking shape and I must say that is hugh even for 1/72.

Though I know it will never happen I would like to see a B-52 in 1/48.

DoogsATX

I think the ultimate redneck bling would have to be a Christmas wreath on the MiG's nose cone!

Now that's funny, yet so true!  I would so do that just for the laugh I would get every time I would see it.

DoogsATX hey I was tryin to be polite and PC an stuff Stubbornness can be a huge asset in this hobby

vetteman42

 

 

Gamera would those Christmas lights on the MiG be considered Redneck Bling ??

CallSignOwl hummmm........... yes,.............yes I would say you most defiantly have the hang of this modeling thing.

DoogsATX man your painting troubles are driving me nuts and I am not the one suffering them, my hat is off to you for your persistence sir.

I think the ultimate redneck bling would have to be a Christmas wreath on the MiG's nose cone!

Agreed - OWL is knocking it out of the park with the scratchbuilding!

As for my paint troubles and persistence...some would call it stubbornness...

Thunderbolt379

Aggie -- if I remember correctly, the Monogram 1:72 B-36 remains the largest injecion aircraft model ever made, still beating the Trumpeter 1:72 Tu-95 Bear (it is 1:72, right?) on total span and mass. However the largest injection kit of any description I believe remains the Nichimo 1:200th battleship Yamato, at nearly five feet long.

Anybody got any other candidates? I could offer the 1:35th scale Dora railway gun (which coincidentally is the Internet Hobbies commercial in the right hand column as I type this!) as a candidate for greatest sheer mass, plus over 2000 parts, in the same category as some of the Heller 1:100th scale ship kits.

Cheers, Mike/TB379

You could add the 1:72 type VII's and Gato class subs to that list... Friggin huge! The VIIC/41  (slightly ove 3 feet) looks very impressive on it's shelf in my mancave The GATO with 4 feet is even bigger and i have it, but no space to put it once it would be finished....

Richard

Gamera

Gamera - LOL at the Christmas-light bedecked MIG! But if you want to go total redneck you'd have to replace the tires with swampers and take it mudding! With the requisite Calving pissing on Sukhoi sticker, of course...

Gamera would those Christmas lights on the MiG be considered Redneck Bling ??

CallSignOwl hummmm........... yes,.............yes I would say you most defiantly have the hang of this modeling thing.

DoogsATX man your painting troubles are driving me nuts and I am not the one suffering them, my hat is off to you for your persistence sir.

Sanded the Wildcats (again) last night, using wet 600, 1200, then 2000 grit paper. Everything is oh so smooth now. Unforunately, I've got several gray patches here and there, and as I discovered, the Gunze orange yellow seems semi-translucent. At least enough so that those gray patches are EXTREMELY evident. Guess I'll be laying down another white coat tonight. Now do I want to go Model Master, Tamiya + Mr. Color Leveling Thinner, or Vallejo + Future?

I noticed the nose gear well ended up shifting when I glued the two fuselage halves together, resulting in a bit of a gap.   I shimmed a bit of styrene to fill the space. I think I am getting the hang of this stuff!

OWL

Gamera - LOL at the Christmas-light bedecked MIG! But if you want to go total redneck you'd have to replace the tires with swampers and take it mudding! With the requisite Calving pissing on Sukhoi sticker, of course...

Ok, Doogs now you had me cracking up.

Thanks for all the comments guys. The Mig sold for $59,454.00NZD.

Sign, thanks Scorpy for bursting my bubble. Guess I'll have to look for another MiG now. Or if I could find one of those 'Bear' bomber/recon planes with the awesome turboprops it'd be even more impressive... hmmmmm.......

Owl, Doogs, Aggieman- great work ladies and gentlemen. After all the paint problems I'll stop whining about the dust in my paint now

Aggie -- if I remember correctly, the Monogram 1:72 B-36 remains the largest injecion aircraft model ever made, still beating the Trumpeter 1:72 Tu-95 Bear (it is 1:72, right?) on total span and mass. However the largest injection kit of any description I believe remains the Nichimo 1:200th battleship Yamato, at nearly five feet long.

Anybody got any other candidates? I could offer the 1:35th scale Dora railway gun (which coincidentally is the Internet Hobbies commercial in the right hand column as I type this!) as a candidate for greatest sheer mass, plus over 2000 parts, in the same category as some of the Heller 1:100th scale ship kits.

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Yes, the B-36 dwarves even the B-52. B-52 rings in around 185ft and the B-36 at 230!!!!

Excellent work all round peoples!!!!

Steve, I remember wanting that kit untill I found out it was bigger than even the 48 B-29!!!! If I remember, the box said 38 inch span, even in 1/72!!!!

OWL/Anna some excellent work on those gear bays!!!!

Doogs, I got a book with that pic and it amazes me every time

Aggieman

 

Aggieman - Wow I bet that thing will take more paint than my 1/48 B-17 I did for NMF 1!!  Good job on painting

Thanks.  But even in 72nd scale, the B-36 is a bigger kit than the 48th scale B-17.  I think when the Peacemaker was first released in around '80, it was proclaimed the largest scale injection molded model kit ever produced.

 

This got me curious. Surely it can't be bigger than the B-52? Still trying to find the answer there...though I guess maybe the swept versus straight wings could make the difference.

But along the way, I found this shot of a B-36 next to a B-29. Holy cow! I knew the B-36 was a big ol' bomber, but I never had any conception of just how big next to its predecessor. And considering the -29 dwarfed the B-17...geez.

Aggieman - Wow I bet that thing will take more paint than my 1/48 B-17 I did for NMF 1!!  Good job on painting

Been away for a while, I was finishing up my 109 for the BoB build

OWL - Nice sctratch work on the landing gear bays!!

Aggieman - Wow I bet that thing will take more paint than my 1/48 B-17 I did for NMF 1!!  Good job on painting

Doogs - If I need a white under coat I just use MM white and haven't had any problems with using it.

Well I went to place a metalizer sealer on my 757 and the sealer attacked a portion of the paint Which is weird cause I've done many NMF birds and this is the first time its done this, maybe I got a bad batch or something.  Well I cleaned up the bad part and resprayed the NMF and its drying.  Hopefully this week I can put some sealer on it (which hopefully won't attack the paint this time) and then get the AA marknings on it.  I did get her on her landing gear in the mean time.

It is big.  I have difficulty just getting into a position where I can paint.

As for painting, I was able to put down the coat of magnesium today after church.  Went on nice and looks good although it doesn't seem to look like the magnesium in many of the photos I see.  I am using the book "Magnesium Overcast" as a reference guide - the areas that are indicated as magnesium don't appear to be the same color that the paint is.  The paint looks more like burnt metal to my eyes, but then I am by no means an expert.  In any event, the magnesium paint is certainly different than the white aluminum and provides for good visual interest, so it gets to stay.

And I tried putting the magnesium directly over krylon black again today on the bomb bay doors, that I neglected to paint white aluminum last night.  The alclad seemed to cover just fine today.  Perhaps my lighting is not good enough to work late at night like I did yesterday.

OWL - it's looking really great. IMO the nose cone is what "makes" that plane!

The paint troubles...yeah...frustrating beyond belief, but it's my fault for going back to the Tamiya white again and again trying to make it work. Strange because I use Tamiya grey all the time for small interior parts and such, and it works great...

sheesh, Aggieman. That thing is huge! But its looking good!!

DoogsATX, I'm sorry to hear about the paint troubles. IT gets frustrating really quick..

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I got a bit done yesterday...not too much because of a double shift at work and then watching the Huskers dominate on the Washington Huskies 56-21!!

I attached teh nose cone, but it was a smaller diameter than the rest of the fuselase. A bit of sanding and I was able to get it smooth.

OWL

what scale is that peacemaker its HUGE!!!

iv finally found the model im gonna go with its a 1/48 scale tornado with about 50% nmf i started it today

its the iteleri  black panther ids no 2688

Steven - man that thing is looking epic! It's interesting to hear that the Magnesium doesn't cover over Krylon. Was considering using that or Steel Alclad for the La-5's exhaust plating...good to know.

More progress and a nice little hitch last night. Got the tails and cockpits masked, sprayed the interior color on the canopies (let's hope I did the masking right!), then decanted some Tamiya white primer to airbrush onto the wings, forward cowl, and where the yellow fuselage ring will go.

By the end of the night, the Tamiya white ended up in the trash. Doesn't spray on well, and I found out last night that it doesn't seem to airbrush very well, either. At various pressures and distances, it seemed to "congeal" after maybe a few minutes and then spit a dusty finish all over everything. Clean up was awful, too. The stuff gummed up the airbrush worse than anything I've ever sprayed before.

Maybe it was just the can...but I think next time I need a white undercoat for yellow or what-have-you, I'll just overspray some Mr. Surfacer with Vallejo or Tamiya white.

Guess I'll be wet sanding tonight!

Pictures!

I finally got the paint I'd been waiting on and then, as important, time at the bench.  And after tonight's painting session, it is almost time to order more paint (although this will not delay my work unless I have massive touch-up requirements).

I left all of those areas unpainted over the Krylon primer coat reasoning that there was not much sense in wasting the white aluminum paint on areas that I knew would either be magnesium or dark aluminum.

Here she is all taped up and ready to go (back to the painting bench, that is)

Then I discovered that the magnesium alclad paint doesn't seem to cover the black Krylon.  So it was back to the white aluminum (which is why I'm not on the verge of running out again).  Now letting that paint cure before I return to the bench in a few days to resume magnesium painting.  And while it may appear that I'm getting close, I don't feel like that is the case.  There are going to be many more painting sessions preceded by massive masking sessions - there will be dark aluminum and polished aluminum panels I will pick out, and the tip of the rudder, the front landing gear cover, and the engine intakes will all require first a coat of white then a coat of red.  And I plan to paint the wing walk lines.

Thanks for all the comments guys. The Mig sold for $59,454.00NZD.

OWL - Nice scratch work in the gear bays! Never thought of using paperclips...hmm...

Gamera - LOL at the Christmas-light bedecked MIG! But if you want to go total redneck you'd have to replace the tires with swampers and take it mudding! With the requisite Calving pissing on Sukhoi sticker, of course...

The Wildcats continue their slow progress toward paint. I got a few rare moments of daytime modeling this afternoon, and got some final bits installed (though, since these are going in the kids' rooms, I decided to fill in the pitot tube holes...they'd just get broken off anyway). Also got the cowls stuffed and ready for priming, and managed to mask off what will probably be the single hardest mask line on these birds - the colored tails.

I'd been hoping to prime tonight, but it's raining, so I may have to divert over the to Soviet planes again if it doesn't clear up...

haha! You guys are a hoot!!

I got teh main gear wells detailed a bit.  I used sections of a paperclip and some styrene bits.

OWL

Scorpy: sorry meant to compliment you on the foil as well but the MiG distracted me. It really looks terrific.

Sorry about your pants guys!

I love the story about the lawn mowers! That's one of the differences I make between a 'redneck' and 'white trash'. A redneck will go though some pretty extreme measures for a great looking lawn. Hank on 'King of the Hill' was a great example and I can certainly see 'pimping out' a mower. On the hand most of what I'd call white trash either don't own a working mower or are too lazy to use it since most of their lawns don't look like they've been mowed since the Eisenhower Administration. 

BTW: If I should get a MiG to go in the yard I'm going to put Christmas lights on it and turn them on 365 nights every year.......

Scorpiomikey thanks for taking the pictures and posting them, I too will be saving them just in case I see you decided to foil the tough parts first, nice foil work you have dun there keep it up. Your Super Sabre is gonna be a show stopper for sure.

DoogsATX vacuform canopys are the only time I use foil for masking, can't see the frames when I use tape. The masking looks well done, cant wait to see them on the cats and all painted up.

Gamera

 

'You got three buicks up on blocks!?!!?! HAH!! I got a friggin' MIG!!! BEAT THAT!!!'

Gamera I was laffin so hard I spotted over this comment, kinda the ultimate Redneck dont ya think ? Reminded me of when I lived in Texas, Boyd Texas actually, the thing at the time was how nice and shiney your lawn tractor was. There were lots of fancy ones around with chrome rims and nice seats an all. I think most took better care of the lawn traqctor than they did their pickup trucks. Then the California kid shows up and puts a nice high backed leather chair on his lawn tractor, along with a sun shade, stereo cassette player, with a large beer or ice tea cup holder, couldn't find room for a small cooler on it, and a windshield.  Was told I fit right in after that LOL. Of course the ultimate was a John Deer with a brush hog on it.

Guys and young Lady I cant say I have ever had trouble with Squadron, my shipments usually take about a week, my only trouble is they sometimes don't have what I need in stock and it takes forever for them to restock.

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Doogs- yeah masking canopies - ick! I generally just buy the pre-cut masks from Eduard and others now days. They're expensive but I swear they're worth it.

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Totally agreed. The masks aren't perfect, but they're better than I am. Unfortunately, I can't get masks for any of the four kits I've got underway. Eduard theoretically makes masks for the Wildcats and their Yak-3. I've even got part #s, but the only place I can order them from is Eduard - and I'm not dropping $20 for shipping pieces of paper.

Gamera

'You got three buicks up on blocks!?!!?! HAH!! I got a friggin' MIG!!! BEAT THAT!!!'

AAAHAHAHAH!!!  I think I peed my pants!

Great work all around guys and gals!

Doogs- yeah masking canopies - ick! I generally just buy the pre-cut masks from Eduard and others now days. They're expensive but I swear they're worth it.

Scorpy- great photos! Now I want my own MiG-21! I could be the ultimate white trash if I put it up on cinder blocks in the middle of my lawn!!!

'You got three buicks up on blocks!?!!?! HAH!! I got a friggin' MIG!!! BEAT THAT!!!'

Still moving forward slowly. Keep getting dust or lint or something in the paint and having to sand it out and repaint. Thinking I should invest in a 'clean' room like they use to build computer chips. I wipe the model with Polly-S Prep which is supposed to be anti-static with no result. And I've become a nut about cleaning my airbrush but still the krap gets in the paint (sigh).