Monogram Mafia Group Build

Plaster of Paris is great stuff.  If it didn't crack and scratch so easily it would make perfect for casting parts.  Hmmm Maybe I'll see if I can get some to weight my F4EJ build..

Rich

bondoman

 

Hans von Hammer:

 

 

 

The only thing that didn't go as planned was the fact that 40 grams of weight in the nose, as instructed by revell wasn't nearly enough so i am dealing with a tail sitter.... So i am forced to make it a parked aircraft with the little stairs attached to the belly at the back. Just might work....

 

All is not lost yet, even though you've gt it at 100% built... Your can put BBs or small lead sinkers in the nosegear-well, and in the forward area of nacelles, as well as inside the cowls, if needed...  I'd use the laed, m'self...  You can smash 'em up into shapes that fit into the available space with a good channel-lock or vice-grips...

 

You all think too small. Drill a 1/4" hole in the underside of the forward gun compartment, and pour in a pint of plaster of paris. Which by the way is a totally underated modeling material. I have made box cars, ship hulls and boob casts out of the stuff.

 

just my

Guys,

Thanks for the tips! I have used plaster before and even silly putty with ball bearings in it so i know how it can work out great for one's build. I did end up just supergluing the wooden stairs to the aft access hatch and the Mitchell now sits nicely on it's three wheels and butt-end aid.

Almost done with her. Just a bit more weathering and i will be able to present it to the Don as a token of my loyalty.

Richard

Don,....Paisano's....

My Mitchell is officially done. I give you.....Lazy Daisy Mae:

This kit was fun guys! Yes, it is aging, yes there are gaps to take care of.... But on the other hand it has excellent detail for a 1977 mold. Recessed panellines, detailed interior and bomb bay... tires with texture... you name it, it's there. A better modeler than me can go berserk with superdetailing; she's worth the effort!

Hope you guys like her and the somewhat heavy exhaust staining that goes with it. I just felt it was "right" for this lady. Painting was done with revell aqua acrylic paints, drybrushes with humbrol white enamel and weathering with watercolor washes and tamyia weathering sets.

Richard

Great job, Kermit!!    A fine looking Mitchell!  I'm sure the Don will be proud.

Ken

Great job on that Mitchell, Kermit! Gotta love those Indian head tail markings!

Glenn

Kermit:  Sweet!  Up to your usual high standards.

Ooooooh, sweet! Hope you had the Eduard canopy masks for this one...!

Looking Sweet Kermy !

Excellent job, Kermit, and another example of what can be done with Monogram kits, and why we like 'em.  Speaking of why we like 'em, what did you do with figures?

Best regards,

Brad

Thank you all! It was certainly alot of fun to do and i am glad i built it after looking at it for two years lying in my stash area.... The canopy was painstakingly masked and cut out by yours truely...not top notch but better than i expected. Took me hours and hours too

And ummmm.......the figures...... well.....

Could have been this particular kit but the figures were really heavy on flash and the facial features were kind of "worn"... I did make an attempt to clean em up and wanted to use em but i gave that up after a while. Sorry...

Richard

Hi ya'll,

Got a little bit done this week on the B-36. All the fuselage seams are filled, and I need to replace some panel lines. Looks like I'll do that before attaching the wings. A light scribe will do the trick. Then on to gluing on the wings.

I shot some red paint on that Red Baron kit, and it crazed the plastic. I  had it laid on smooth. I'm not liking this new plastic they're molding kits with nowadays.

Glenn

I had that crazing issue with a newer repop of the F100 1/48 Monogram kit.  Model Masters spray cracked all over.  I had to ELO it off and use Tamyia.

mississippivol

Hi ya'll,

Got a little bit done this week on the B-36. All the fuselage seams are filled, and I need to replace some panel lines. Looks like I'll do that before attaching the wings. A light scribe will do the trick. Then on to gluing on the wings.

I shot some red paint on that Red Baron kit, and it crazed the plastic. I  had it laid on smooth. I'm not liking this new plastic they're molding kits with nowadays.

Glenn

Sparrowhyperion

I had that crazing issue with a newer repop of the F100 1/48 Monogram kit.  Model Masters spray cracked all over.  I had to ELO it off and use Tamyia.

 

mississippivol:

Hi ya'll,

Got a little bit done this week on the B-36. All the fuselage seams are filled, and I need to replace some panel lines. Looks like I'll do that before attaching the wings. A light scribe will do the trick. Then on to gluing on the wings.

I shot some red paint on that Red Baron kit, and it crazed the plastic. I  had it laid on smooth. I'm not liking this new plastic they're molding kits with nowadays.

Glenn

 

That's a real shame. These products are made for this hobby, but won't work properly b/c the kit makers are using cheaper plastic. I bought a repop of the Monogram '87 Ford Tbird Turbocoupe a couple of years ago. Advertised as molded in color. It was a really translucent silver color. You could see the shadow of your fingers on the other side of the plastic. If it was fine china, I would've been ok with it (the kit cost as much as china nowadays), but that just screamed: Cheap!

Glenn

Yeh with what they charge for them, you would think that they would use the best plastic available.  But even some of the newer mid to high end kits have thin cheap grade plastic.  Kits like the Testors Phantom are really thin.  Maybe 1/2 to 2/3 the thickness of the Revell kits of the same subject.  Oh well, I guess that .01 cent they save per kit adds up after the first million kits they sell or so.

Rich

mississippivol

 

 

That's a real shame. These products are made for this hobby, but won't work properly b/c the kit makers are using cheaper plastic. I bought a repop of the Monogram '87 Ford Tbird Turbocoupe a couple of years ago. Advertised as molded in color. It was a really translucent silver color. You could see the shadow of your fingers on the other side of the plastic. If it was fine china, I would've been ok with it (the kit cost as much as china nowadays), but that just screamed: Cheap!

Glenn

Ahhhhh Richard that Mitchel is fine as frogs hair man. You really did pay attention to the look of the build and IMHO nailedf it. The shot of the nose ( the last pic) looks as close to real as one can get I guess, between the engines and canopy. I like the hand painted touch of the red on the cowls too. Another Kermified build well done sir.

EDIT Richard make that the next to the last picture, thats my favorite shot of your build.

Lots of great stuff going on here, Don Hammer you nailed a great group here man

Kermit, freaking amazing job on the Mitchell. This is the perfect example of what a lot of us say about Monogram kits, with a little work and patience you can put up award winning models. Now I have to go and hide my Mitchells in shame .

kermit the B-25 looks fantastic!   You have set a high bar with that one, congrats.

Hi folks

Okay, well here it is.  My second Panther is finished..  I also have 2 P-39 Airacobras with their decals drying inn the other room.  Please pardon the bad quality pics.  My good camera battery had once more decided not to hold a charge so these were taken with my cell phone.  Here we go.

I hope the Don is pleased.

Rich

Okay.  Here they are.  Definitely not my best work, but I am so sicck of seeing P39s, that I am just happy to have them done.  1US and 1 Soviet.  Basic OD paint and minimal markings.  The shadowing made the gun on the US bird look all screwy, but at least it's done.

I got the Camera working again but it makes them look nasty.  I am going to have to play around with ISO settings tomorrow.  I need to find better settings.

Thanks guys, Appreciate it

Sparrow,

Are you using flash on your camera? Or maybe a lamp light pointed at your subject? It has a nasty tendency to flatten out your pictures... Try indirect light and use the macro setting on your camera and step away from the model while taking pictures.

My own camera has this neat "food" setting on it. It will activate the macro and have extra options while photographing to switch between the red and blue spectrum. When my artificial light looks too yellow i can easily add some blues and the pics come out great

Richard

Kermit,

Nice work on the B-25.  Saw one in similar markings at Kermit Weeks' place several years ago.

Sparrow,

Nice work on the Panther and the Cobra's.  For a moment I thought I recognized your Russkie from a photo I took years ago.  Could that be a young Don Hammerloni standing guard?

Taken at Randolph AFB mid 80's.

It's not an expensive camera, and yes I used a flash.  It has a smart mode which usually does a great job, but sometimes it just doesn't want to cooperate.  If I try it on manual mode, it's even worse.  It doesn't have a macro setting.

Thanks for the advice. :)

Rich

kermit

Thanks guys, Appreciate it

Sparrow,

Are you using flash on your camera? Or maybe a lamp light pointed at your subject? It has a nasty tendency to flatten out your pictures... Try indirect light and use the macro setting on your camera and step away from the model while taking pictures.

My own camera has this neat "food" setting on it. It will activate the macro and have extra options while photographing to switch between the red and blue spectrum. When my artificial light looks too yellow i can easily add some blues and the pics come out great

Richard

Hi everyone, here's a pic heavy update of what's going on over here. The work on this GB is outstanding, I hope my work is at least to standard. The Bf-110 is just about finished, I have to do some weathering,put on the canopy,etc and it'll be done.

Comments and criticisms welcome!

Mike 

Wow, that B-36 is big...

Yeah, go ahead with the Baron, Glenn.. I'll make the changes..

Outstanding work, Kermit!!!

Here's some background on it..

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-25/43-36012.html

Praise from the Don is what makes modeling worth it

Yes, i have seen that same webpage while researching the subject and the history between all the decal options i had. This particular story though tragic kinda kept with me and made me decide to build this particular bird. I also thought that "lazy Daisy Mae" is an excellent name for a bomber

Anyways, thank you for your comment and sharing the link.

Richard

Don Hammer-

My 6 yr. old daughter would like to partake in "the business". Here is a snap 68 GTO she did:

Also, could you change the F-8 to a F-14. I stumbled across two damaged Tomcat kits and decided to do one from them instead.

Mike

Hans von Hammer

Wow, that B-36 is big...

Yeah, go ahead with the Baron, Glenn.. I'll make the changes..

Thank you, sir!

I thought that I would be able to show the Devastor sometime later in the weekend, that is until I started the decaling process........ the very old kit decals have fallen apart. I was able to find a Yellow wing set online, it looks like it includes the same markings that I was going to use. I have ordered them. So it will be at least next week now. Maybe I will start on the Tigercat that I found and add that one to list to go along with the Mustang and the Devastator. You gotta love this hobby

The Navigator

Don Hammer-

My 6 yr. old daughter would like to partake in "the business". Here is a snap 68 GTO she did:

Also, could you change the F-8 to a F-14. I stumbled across two damaged Tomcat kits and decided to do one from them instead.

Mike