Monogram Mafia Group Build

Ha! finally!! a minor success! Thanks Doogs for the info!!! Your instructions prove that you can train an old dog with new tricks!

Ok, now I will try a message with a picture.........[View:/themes/fsm/utility/:550:0]

haha, it seems like you've got the picture posting thing down now, TalAfar! 

and hammer, good luck with the move! But be gone too long, and who knows what mischief your Mafia will get into without your watchful guidance!! 

Getting up to speed, slowly, but surely! 

mischief ? us  ???..

Good luck with the move Hammer, I got a pickup but it's a bit of a drive to give you a hand.   BTW, although we're not in Kansas, you better see about a cellar (or deep fox hole) when the winds start howling this spring.

Reasoned

Good luck with the move Hammer, I got a pickup but it's a bit of a drive to give you a hand.   BTW, although we're not in Kansas, you better see about a cellar (or deep fox hole) when the winds start howling this spring.

ooh.. thats right... !! Tornadoes and stash = BAD !!!  make sure that home is tied down ! We don't want Don Hammerloni flying round in the breeze.. Beware the Flying Monkees !!

Everyone's builds are lookin good!!!

Sorry for no posts for a while, a little thing called life got in the way, but I got some more work done finally on the ZR-1 'Vette!

Got the body painted.

As you can see, Monogram made the model as exotic as the real car, molding the roof into the window assembly. This is great actually, as the top of the C-4 ZR-1s were black regardless of body color. I have that left to paint though.

I also got the base color sprayed on the interior.

Thanks for letting me be part of this, and I am sure assembly of this kit and the F-15 will go smoother now, along with more frequent progress updates!!

Thanks and have a great day!!!

Don Hammerloni,

Good luck with the moving! Hope to see you back and up to speed soon Oh, i did some cleaning in my mancave and stumbled upon that missing fuselage half (yayyy). So i would like to finally start on that after the mig (RoG 1:48 B25J)

Tal Afar Dave,

Good for you m8

Kustommodeler1,

Good progress on the car. Never done a car before myself. Looks like fun though

No progress pics from me at the moment but i am busy painting on my Mig15 by now. I might have chosen a scheme that is a bit more than i can chew but i am really trying.... All the NMF migs i've done are getting old so i am trying a camouflaged one.... Pics soon!

Richard

Looing good kustom, I always wanted a ZR1... but w/3kids, it's minivan world, perhaps that kit will have to do.

Ok, I gotta few minutes before I pull the plug on this thing... I'll still have the wife's computer available to check up on things, but I can't get to it as often as my own.. We decided to have the internet and cable installed in the new place BEFORE we unhook here, that way there's no real down-time, except that I'll need to re-route things at the trailer..... She takes internet college courses, so she can't afford a day without internet access..

Kermit, you're good to go...

So, I'll check in here in the AMs, but that's about it.. 

BTW.. The park has a tornado shelter right across from my lot...  It's better than what we have here at the apartment building, lol...  Don't have to worry about three floors falling into the basement...

Except for a few deployments and a couple OCONUS PCSs, I've lived in Tornado Alley all my life...  Nuthin' to it.. It''s flooding that bugs me around here...  Luckily, the new place is on high ground so it's not an issue...

ahh... Hammmer take the high ground !

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My Wife does the distance learning thing too.  She is ¾ done with a Bachelors in Medical Office Technology, and plans on going for an RN very soon after she get’s this finished.

A few words of advise on mobile homes.  If it is an older home, make sure to check for two things.  First make sure that it doesn't have the old style plastic plumbing they used to use.  I don't mean PVC, I mean actual polyethaline plastic.  Most older ones had it and it's bad.  This brings us to number 2.  Make sure that the wood used in the floor has been pressure treated.  If it's not sealed, it will disintegrate the moment it gets wet enough.  I know this because it is exactly why we have to move out of our single wide.  The old style plastic plumbing (Which is no longer allowed under code) started to leake and spray water up under the trailer.  We didn't notice it for months until it got bad enough that we could hear it from inside the trailer.  The floors where it was spraying were totally saturated and now we have big spots of soft wood that we can't walk on.  Repairing it is more expensive than the Mobile Home was, and with a leaky roof, and bad electrical, it's time to get out of it into a real house.  Make sure to check these two things if it's an older home.

Good luck

Rich

Hans von Hammer

Ok, I gotta few minutes before I pull the plug on this thing... I'll still have the wife's computer available to check up on things, but I can't get to it as often as my own.. We decided to have the internet and cable installed in the new place BEFORE we unhook here, that way there's no real down-time, except that I'll need to re-route things at the trailer..... She takes internet college courses, so she can't afford a day without internet access..

Kermit, you're good to go...

So, I'll check in here in the AMs, but that's about it.. 

BTW.. The park has a tornado shelter right across from my lot...  It's better than what we have here at the apartment building, lol...  Don't have to worry about three floors falling into the basement...

Except for a few deployments and a couple OCONUS PCSs, I've lived in Tornado Alley all my life...  Nuthin' to it.. It''s flooding that bugs me around here...  Luckily, the new place is on high ground so it's not an issue...

 

 

after Rich's advice... I'll throw out some Fire Chief advice..

WORKING SMOKE detectors everywhere !!

I hear y'all...I lived in a mobile home for 10 years, saving to buy a house.  It was built around 1970 or so, so, ugly paneling, shag carpet, no insulation.  I had my share of aggrvations.  It was heated with an oil burner and forced-air system, oil tank was outside.  Got some water in the feed line once in the winter, and it froze.  I woke up in 20-degree temps.  Had to go underneath with a buddy of mine and gently warm the line to thaw it.

Another time, the chimney stack had rusted to the point where the weight of the cap on top of it collapsed it, sealing the chimney.  Fortunately, it was not overnight.  But you can imagine my alarm when oily black smoke started coming out of the vents.  Switched the burner off immediately, opened the windows, and went outside and saw that the cap was about 6 inches lower than it had been.  D'OH!.  Off to the farm bureau to buy a new pipe.

There was the time that the old burner wore out; the heat exchanger cracked and vented CO into the trailer.  Switch it off, open the windows, swallow a bottle of aspirin and call the oil company.

Then there was the time that a bird flew down the stove's chimney.  I heard something in the vent, removed it, and out flew something like a sparrow or some other small bird.  Open the windows....

The best was using the spare bedroom, which was about 12 x 10, as my modeling room, with my 4 x 8 bench set up there, and racks of shelves behind it.  It was like climbing into a space capsule.  But still, those were good years.  Summer evenings sitting on the front porch, listening to the Phillies on the radio and having a beer or two.  My neighbors were all retirees, too, nice folks.

Best regards,

Brad

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ahh... Hammmer take the high ground !

HvH aka King of the Hill

Here is where the mustang sits now that I have finished the foiling. I got lazy toward the end and didn't want to foil the entire plane. SO I adjusted the paint scheme, and I must say, I'm glad I did! It looks really sharp!

Paint fading and decals are next!

Really liking that green Owl, interesting paint scheme

Looks great OWL.

Nice NMF, Owl!  Encourages me to try using foil, too.

Echo the above comments OWL,, I like the green with the NMF. Going to have to try the foil technique one of these days also!

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am gone a few days and you all go crazy building, and Don Hammer is moving an wow !!  Playing catch up will take a week, great work one and all.

Hans love your Stuka, I cant say I have seen one in winter camo. It gives me ideas for my Stuka I have on the shelf. Hey I am trying my first, well, its a mini dio finally, and have been reading some on Shepard Paines site.

CallSignOwl now being an official member of your fan club, your Mustang is turning out to be a show stopper. Beautiful work you are doing with the foil and paint scheme. I can say at this point that I am not too sure it would be wise for me to follow your P-51 build with mine, I fear I will now have to be trying to keep up with the level that you have set.

Crazy work on that Mustang, Owl! Looking forward to the progress!

thanks everyone! and vetteman, don't be too hard on yourself. I'd love to see what you can do with your mustang!

Most impressive Owl I bet you need shades to look at that one is direct sunlight. You are a true artist with NMF finishes.

CallSignOwl my 51 wont be NMF will be my first OD P-51D, I will however try and give ya a run for your money 

But first WIP pictures of the Streak Eagle are in order. She is all ready for masking and paint. The nose probe I made on my little lathe from 3/32 brass, didnt think I could still spin diameters that small, the small dia at the tip is .040 dia. The antenna in the cockpit on the rear deck is made from a bit of evergreen plastic I had layin around, sanded to shape. The fits on this old Monogram kit have been very good as you can see from the small amount of Mr Surfacer I used as a filler. I did use some bondo in a few areas to clean up sealed hinge points, and vents that we sealed. Oh and the gun port on the right wing. And the canopy fit very well, I usually have to fight with the crystals  a bit on these kits.

Just doing a quick perimeter walk... Pony's lookin' good Owl.. Dunno what paint scheme you're after, but I'm a big fan of spurious markings and paint schemes, just to mess with the rivet counters, lol...

Then they can't do ya with somethin' like, "You painted  'Bad Penny' as she appeared in August of 1944 with the Upteenth Fighter Group, but the kill markings and pilot-name you have are wrong for that month, as Colonel Soanso was still a Major then, and also didn't score his 19th kill until November of '44.. 

Prior to that, his crew-chief had painted the Varga Girl pin-up from the August '43 issue of Esquire (to go along with the nameof his girlfriend, Penny), back in September of 1944, after he took command of the Group in October. However, he changed the name of the aircraft to 'Bad Girl' after getting a 'Dear John' letter from her announincing she was marrying a guy that was 4-F, from Bugtussel, Tennesee, who was the shift supervisor in the munitions factory she worked in.. So your rendition is completely wrong for that kit... A little more research on your part would be in order before you go decaling a kit" ...

Yeah, I've met those guys at shows...

The trailer's no new one... It's small, 10 X 60, 2BR, but I only paid a thousand bucks for it, so I ain't too worried if'n I gotta bail on it down the road..  That's less than two month's rent for a 2BR apt in my building... The lot rent's only 175.00 so I'm ok, especially since I'm keeping my job here as the apt building super...   Instead of the free rent, I'll get paid now, and it's more than the lot rent & the trailer's average utility bill combined...

My Master Plan is get the park super's job (the folks doing it right now are an older couple looking to become either Arizona or Florida permanent residents), and they got a double-wide with a big yard that comes with the job... I figure by the end of summer I'll be completely out of the chair and/or crutches and can handle more of the work.. Right now, I still need it in the house after a little bit of walking with the cane, but the hip's getting better every day.  Getting the second hip replaced this fall, probably in November/December , and then I'll be 100% by next Spring...

PS: I got smoke detector's hard-wired, along with battery back-ups... This ain't my first trailer, just the first one ever in a park, lol.. 

Good for Hammer.. sounds like a good plan.. !

and same on the smoke detectors.. I'm on a bunch of fire emailing lists, and I dont want to read about some guy out west's trailer burning down and they can't get close enought to put the fire out 'cause of all the burning plastic.. HAz Mat teams had to be called in...

ps.. Been there.. done that.. it sucks...( wasn't sprue tho )

Heh.. When a HazMat team gets called to a trailer park fire around here, it's a meth-lab...

Scariest thing in the world to me... Rednecks dabbling in BOTH science and chemistry... Makes me start sweatin' like Lindsay Lohan in a liquor store...

Did somebody say "meth lab"?

In case folks here dont know what one looks like, here is an easy identification guide

Yesterday I was able to get the fuselage glued together on my F9F. Once I get the seams sanded smooth I will take and post pics. The F-86 is running just a tad bit behind. I was not happy with the kit exhaust and am looking at modifying or taking the intake and exhaust covers off my Academy F-86 for use on this one... decisions decisions...