Monogram Mafia Group Build

Nice work on the Stuka Hans!! Like the dio setting!

Rich the F9 looks great. Seems you made the gear part work!  Its all about the 'fun' of building anyway right?  But that aside its still a great looking model!

Stik-- the figs look great!

I went to the Detroit Area Auto Modellers show today and scored some great deals on planes, tanks and figs...including a 1/48 Monogram B-17G complete for $8!  The other 'Mafia' models were a 1/48 Zero, AH1 Cobra, the Space Taxi and a bagged kit of a Bi-plane that I have not sat down and figured what it is yet,,no instructions on that one,, but all with the B-17 for $20!  So I'm ready for the 2nd Mafia build!

I wish I had known about that show.  It's only about an hour to Detroit from our place.  Oh well..  Yeh.  I had to get somewhat creative with that part.  The glue wasn't holding it all that well, so I made use of one of my used insulin pen needles and made a sort of a hinge joint to hold it together.  After paint, it can't even be seen.  Those little butane torches are a great investment.

The next one is in the fall, I find you get great deals there since the emphasis is obvioulsy on cars. I'll let you know when the next one is. It is about 12 miles north of Downtown, but easy access off of I-94.

Good creative gizmology on the part!

Sparrowhyperion

I wish I had known about that show.  It's only about an hour to Detroit from our place.  Oh well..  Yeh.  I had to get somewhat creative with that part.  The glue wasn't holding it all that well, so I made use of one of my used insulin pen needles and made a sort of a hinge joint to hold it together.  After paint, it can't even be seen.  Those little butane torches are a great investment.

Here`s a few WIP pics of my SBD...

Drilled out dive flaps

Seperated the two piece canopy with a razor saw...(and a lot of patience)

Trimmed off the tab that inserts into the gunner figure`s back and filled the void with sheet styrene on the radio direction finder shelf. I used a transistor and scrap wire to make the radio and loop antennae...

All comments are welcome...especially since I`m just getting serious about scratchbuilding and gizmology and any suggestions and/or ideas would be helpful!

Thanks for looking,

Len

Thanks.  It just gos to show that even the USPS can't keep a creative modeler down...

Rich

tonka

The next one is in the fall, I find you get great deals there since the emphasis is obvioulsy on cars. I'll let you know when the next one is. It is about 12 miles north of Downtown, but easy access off of I-94.

Good creative gizmology on the part!

 

Sparrowhyperion:

 

I wish I had known about that show.  It's only about an hour to Detroit from our place.  Oh well..  Yeh.  I had to get somewhat creative with that part.  The glue wasn't holding it all that well, so I made use of one of my used insulin pen needles and made a sort of a hinge joint to hold it together.  After paint, it can't even be seen.  Those little butane torches are a great investment.

 

 

Love that Panther! Haven't built one yet, but remember climbing around in one that was in a local park for several years. I remember actually fitting into the opening in the wing intake.....those were the days!

Looks good to me; thanks for posting!

troublemaker66

Here`s a few WIP pics of my SBD...

Drilled out dive flaps

 

 

All comments are welcome...especially since I`m just getting serious about scratchbuilding and gizmology and any suggestions and/or ideas would be helpful!

Thanks for looking,

Len

Looking good so far Len, love the SBD, in fact watching "Midway" with the kids now (okay so SBD's didn't drop torpedos, they'll never know)   That kit is what got me back into this.  Except I didn't drill out all 200 some odd holes... which is why I bought a magazine to tell me I should have.

what scale is the SBD?

and what size drill bit did ou use?

the real red baron

what scale is the SBD?

and what size drill bit did ou use?

             Not sure what size the bit was...pretty small....I just eye balled the size.

troublemaker66

All comments are welcome...especially since I`m just getting serious about scratchbuilding and gizmology and any suggestions and/or ideas would be helpful!

Thanks for looking,

Len

I have a spool of motor armature wire. It's like 32 guage,  cost me $ 5 and is nice and fine and has lasted for years.

If you DO decide to sling a fish under the Dauntless, a bic pen makes a good 'un.

Here's today's progress. It is 70 and beautiful, the hunnydo list is sporadic, and in between there's lots of I'm balancing modeling with other stuff like sitting in the sun and reading.

First, the three amigos went to paint last night and today. Left to right the P-6E, the F11C-2 and the F4B-4.

Yellow Wings Yellow works out to be a little pool of Testors Yellow with a look at the black bottle nearby, just a dauber on a toothpick really.

Otherwise all old school, except I am using a $ 9 paint brush instead of the little giveaway we all started with.

Any ideas about how to make Army Air Corps OD? I figure 3 yellow, 1 blue and a drop of red.

Next is the cockpits. Monogram has a pilot who has pins in his knees and fills the hole. I am going to make little chair/ floor girder and stick sets. Grey in the Boeing, silver in the Goshawk which has a fabric fusie, and black in the army bird.

I also ran up a bunch of hours on the 'rod.

Don Hammer, I am having so much fun that I am going to have to go to confession....

Part II- I had forgotten what a joy these little kits are. Right to left the P-6E, F11C-2 and the F4B-4. Put together a set of simple cockpits, using my fav scratch building styrene and a set of Hudson seats for the Navy, an armchair for the Army. Stick and pedals and done until paint.

Looking good there bondo.  Just one question (non-modeling), What's with the bottle of Tobasco on the work bench?

hey guys ! and gal.. All are looking good.. some progress on the Super Sabre, no pics at the moment..

filling the seams on the Fuselage is a PITA...

Been working on the two Navy birds for this GB.  I'm approaching this as a "what you get/what you can do" project.  So the Helldiver is OOB.  For the Hellcat I have taken an old KMC cockpit set designed for the Hasegawa kit and am modifying it and scratch building some details.  I'm not nearly as good as some of you so don't expect the cover of Fine Scale, but it's pretty ambitious for me.

Here are some quick shots.

The pe and the resin stuff is the KMC set.  I took a frame from the spares box to replicate the seat frame seat belt hanging rod.  I'm currently scratching a cockpit floor in panel.  I'm toying with the idea of making it a night fighter too. 

Satch

troublemaker66

Here`s a few WIP pics of my SBD...

Drilled out dive flaps

 

Thanks for looking,

Len

I'm almost finished with mine.  I'm doing it in two passes, because the first bit that I chose isn't big enough  , though my official story is that the first pass was to center the holes

Nice details on the cockpit!

Best regards,

Brad

Bondoman, Nice work on the little Bi-Plane Gems!  I have several and got the Starfighter decal sheets for them. Really nice and at about $6-$7  you can do multiple planes with using the Natl Insignia either from kit or spares.

the Rod looks good, I ahve done some work on mine and now wish I had replaced the tracks...guess its not too late,,,

you hand brushed that bondoman!

what brush did you use and what paints did you use any thinner

Thanks Brad! I still have to clean up the holes a little...my fingers went numb and had to quit for the night! Post some pics of yours!

Reasoned

Looking good there bondo.  Just one question (non-modeling), What's with the bottle of Tobasco on the work bench?

That's for the Bloody Marys.

Ive started to apply the foil, and focused on getting different hues on the mustang. Ive gotten most of the foil on now, just a bit more to go.

OWL

p.s. What makes for a successful GB? Because to say this one hasn't been successful would be fool's talk!  I've wanted to try and host my own for a while now...

?ui=2&ik=321efb9706&view=att&th=12f25c0c18e2f4eb&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=1365254790808862720 1&zw

P38 tacked together with 3M tape; despite age, fits are not horrible.......

whoops, Tal Afar, that didn't work. Do you have a Photobucket account or other online photo sharing site?

Owl, what are u using for foil?

just some cheap aluminum foil that you get at the store in a big roll. I use the Microscale foil adhesive on it.

[View:http://s1124.photobucket.com/albums/l579/David_Wallace64/?action=view¤t=MonogramP47DswithVintageCatalogue.jpg#!oZZ4QQcurrentZZhttp://s1124.photobucket.com/albums/l579/David_Wallace64/?action=view¤t=MonogramP38tapedup.jpg:550:0]

This is a test, and may or may not be, a P38

Looks like things are progressing well for everyone... Thanks for the props on the Stuka and Spitfire, folks..

Now just a little housekeeping to do..

I'm going off the net for a few days starting Wednesday AM and will be off the grid for a bit.  Wife and I bought us a single-wide in the nearby trailerhood and we're fixin' on startin' the move tomorrow.  First thing I'm packing up is the War Room and my bench, so I won't be working on the rest of the stuff for a couple weeks at least.  I can't guarantee when the cable company will have my internet up & running, so I'm giving myself some wiggle-room and hope to be up and hot by next Thursday, but we all know how that works, when one is dealing with a utility... Last time they disconnected me, it took them two weeks to get me hooked back up, and that was just me moving down the hall, in the same building. 

I hate moving with a passion (after 25+ years of PCSs, TDYs, and Deployments you understand), but this's gonna be the last one for a good spell, we're doing it slow over a period of a few days (only going about 10 blocks to edge of town), and I'm really looking forward to owning my own place for the first time in 2 ex-wives... Plus, I'm getting away from the apartment-dwellers and trading a two-floor stair-climb for three steps onto a deck...

So, I'll try to pop in again before I go 10-7 here, but I gotta lotta sh*t to do...

Stik, you have the Con...

HvH

PS: Those are indeed Tamiya kits in the background of the that stack, yeah... I got a Bristol Beaufighter for 18.00 and an He 219 for 16.99 clearance...  Got Tamiya armor too...

Never said I don't buy other manufacturer's kits, lol... Said I won't pay the prices they want for 'em...

That's good news, Hammer! Hope that the move goes well with limited battlefield damages inflicted on your works of art.....maybe by then, I'll figure out how to post pics!! LOL

Good luck with the move Hans.  I used to work upper level support for a big cable internet company.  It actually only takes about 5 minutes at the central office and about 15 minutes at the pole to get you set up if there is existing cable.  They stretch it out to try and justify the over-inflated reconnect fees. lol. 

Congrats on the single wide.  We are finally ditching ours and getting a small house.  The Wifey is out now looking at a few with our Daughter.  Not nearly enough room for three people and my collection of kits.  I hope you got at least a 72x14 trailer.  You may find that even getti8ng a bit small after a while.  Do yourself a favor.  Get a LARGE shed for storage and as a workshop.   Heck knoweth no fury like a Wife who has a headache from listening to an air compressor...  lol

Happy Skies

Rich

Hans von Hammer

Looks like things are progressing well for everyone... Thanks for the props on the Stuka and Spitfire, folks..

Now just a little housekeeping to do..

I'm going off the net for a few days starting Wednesday AM and will be off the grid for a bit.  Wife and I bought us a single-wide in the nearby trailerhood and we're fixin' on startin' the move tomorrow.  First thing I'm packing up is the War Room and my bench, so I won't be working on the rest of the stuff for a couple weeks at least.  I can't guarantee when the cable company will have my internet up & running, so I'm giving myself some wiggle-room and hope to be up and hot by next Thursday, but we all know how that works, when one is dealing with a utility... Last time they disconnected me, it took them two weeks to get me hooked back up, and that was just me moving down the hall, in the same building. 

I hate moving with a passion (after 25+ years of PCSs, TDYs, and Deployments you understand), but this's gonna be the last one for a good spell, we're doing it slow over a period of a few days (only going about 10 blocks to edge of town), and I'm really looking forward to owning my own place for the first time in 2 ex-wives... Plus, I'm getting away from the apartment-dwellers and trading a two-floor stair-climb for three steps onto a deck...

So, I'll try to pop in again before I go 10-7 here, but I gotta lotta sh*t to do...

Stik, you have the Con...

HvH

PS: Those are indeed Tamiya kits in the background of the that stack, yeah... I got a Bristol Beaufighter for 18.00 and an He 219 for 16.99 clearance...  Got Tamiya armor too...

Never said I don't buy other manufacturer's kits, lol... Said I won't pay the prices they want for 'em...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey Hans, good luck w the move ! maybe you can sneek some WI FI from an unsuspecting neighbor for a while ??

Ps,, still going to have the Super job ? of have ya got a new gig ? ..

Pss.. hope the hip is getting better !

[View:/themes/fsm/utility/:550:0]