MONOGRAM MAFIA II GB

Do335 update

I got the base coat for the camo down, based on pics of the restored example and some other stuff I went with what Model Masters calls RLM 83. Not that I used such I just mixed my own again with the Testors square bottles. It  turned out just a shade too "pea green" than what I was shooting for but I was nervous about adding more yellow as I did not want it turn out looking like a 60s Mopar. My RLM 81 mix went much better and as best I can tell is spot on for MM's RLM 81 and looks fairly close to the above mentioned restored Do335. I tend to have lots of bad luck with masking tape, lifting, bleeding, and all sorts of other stuff, which is funny because years ago I was a painter for a living. Come to think of it I avoided using it back then if I could help it. So with that in mind I snapped the following pic as it might be the last one that looked decent.

Turns out I was worried about nothing after all. No lifting and just one or two really minor spots of creep under the tape. Here is pic of the bird fully assembled and with the landing light I boxed in with some flashing that was on one of the sprue sitting on the wing. Next I installed and masked this and decided to gloss coat the model even though it is a gloss finish to smooth out some of the places I got a bit thick at the taped lines. This resulted in a reaction in some poorly brushed areas that I did not think were a problem for some reason I can not figure out. I may have to do some sanding or something to fix these. Well if nothing else at least I do have one shot of it looking fairly decent.

Hans I didnt like the rear axle that Monogram offers in the sprint car kit so I took liberties with it. I found a drawing of a real sprint car axle, scaled it down and made one for my model with aluminum and brass rod and tubing.

The kit quick change housing is a work of art but needed a good axle to go with it. Does this count as gizmology ??  If you look close the axle is even splined in the proper places.

Cdn Colin

Can I muscle in with with a p-38 and building my p-61 into a small diorama?  I'll probably build a third by next Feb.

 

Go for it...

Which are you going by?  When the company first introduced the kit or when the specific one I'm working on was produced?

When the kit was initially released....   Kinda like if Revell was offering up the Monogram SBD in 2002, but it was initially released in 1965..  Since the kit was first released in 1965, it counts, regardless of the copyright date on the 2002 kit-box...

JailCop:

Try www.canmilair.com.  Lots of interesting Canadian stuff there.

I lived in Comox, BC when they retired the voodoos. Hawk One always looked awesome to me.  http://www.canmilair.com/products.asp?cat=67&pg=4

Can I muscle in with with a p-38 and building my p-61 into a small diorama?  I'll probably build a third by next Feb.

Hans von Hammer

echolmberg:

Is it too late for me to join?  My 8 year old daughter wants me to build the RMS Titanic and I just started the Revellogram offering (1/570 scale).  Please let me know if this qualifies.  I have to finish it by March 26th because that's when she needs it for her school interest fair project.

Thanks!

Eric

 

Nah, not too late.. Get busy Eric... Good luck, too... As for the Titanic being eligible, as long as its initial release was prior to 1 Jan 2001, it should be good to go..

Thanks Hans!  I think the initial release date was 1914 but I'll double check.  Just kidding.  I will check when I get home.  I know the kit originally came out in the '70s or '80s but as for specifically the one I'm working on, I'll have to see the date of manufacture.  Which are you going by?  When the company first introduced the kit or when the specific one I'm working on was produced?

Thanks,

Eric

Hans von Hammer

p38jl:

 

 

What scale?

p38jl

 

What scale?

echolmberg

Is it too late for me to join?  My 8 year old daughter wants me to build the RMS Titanic and I just started the Revellogram offering (1/570 scale).  Please let me know if this qualifies.  I have to finish it by March 26th because that's when she needs it for her school interest fair project.

Thanks!

Eric

Nah, not too late.. Get busy Eric... Good luck, too... As for the Titanic being eligible, as long as its initial release was prior to 1 Jan 2001, it should be good to go..

Got started on my first of 2 (maybe more?) builds.  1/48 F-101 Voodoo, can't decide if I want to mark it in the Texas ANG or the Canadian colors.  Any Voodoo experts out there have a line on any other interesting markings, maybe a NY ANG?

Chris - liking the looks of that Sd.Kfz.232. Is it 1/35 or 1/32?

Eric - you have to build a Titanic in 3 weeks? Ambitious, to say the least!

Is it too late for me to join?  My 8 year old daughter wants me to build the RMS Titanic and I just started the Revellogram offering (1/570 scale).  Please let me know if this qualifies.  I have to finish it by March 26th because that's when she needs it for her school interest fair project.

Thanks!

Eric

p38jl

ok,, Hans, here are my 2 entries...

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The deleted scene isn't in all versions of the DVD, not sure about Blu-ray either. According to the commentary during that deleted scene, the test audience thought the biplane with a missile strapped to it trying to keep up with F-18s was too farfetched and him flying into the belly of the mother ship in the crop duster too comical an ending for such a serious action packed movie.

They reshot the ending with him being allowed to volunteer as a jet pilot and flying his F-18 with malfunctioning missile into the mother ship instead.

Found the scene in You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpXMNTZNMI

Maybe you can tell if it is the same type of plane or not.

Sorry to hear about the hip...seems alot of the vets from either Dessert Storms I know are having to have hip replacements..???. One guy at work was a marine in `91 and he had to have both replaced! God only knows what you guys were wading thru in that s$&*t hole over there. You might want to think about investing in one more tool if you`re still gonna do the bounty hunter thing...a taser...guaranteed to stop a running "Skip".

Yeah, reckon so, Len... The OC stingballs and spray ain't quick enough and have no "knock-down"... Unless I hit the guy with it... Not to mention that the user generally gets it as bad as the mutt does if you gotta lock horns...

Know what you're talikning about with the DS vets.. I'm one of five I know personally, that served in the same brigade, that has had one or both replaced... The necrosis is total, and the onset was gradual with one, immediate with the other.. And it's painful as hell... The first hip just went "bang" while I was at the store one night, second one has been getting worse every day, but I was still walkng on it... That is, until Baby Huey knocked me on my azz.... Been upwards of of 15-2500mg of oxycontin and percoset for almost three years now... Doc put me on two 750mcg patches of fentanyl yesterday to top it off... So, I get 1500 mcg/hr fentanyl with an oxycontin chaser... Gonna need a methadone clinic to get offa this crap when I'm done, lol...

Gotta admit though, that the new one is quite comfortable now, after a year... Still, running other than to save my life, isn't recommended by the ortho..

Thanks, -38 and Tonk... And I won't miss again...

Hans -sorry to hear of your misfortune.....hope you heal quickly.....maybe time for a career change?

Dunno Bob... It's a "feast & famine" line of work, but when I'm "feasting" it's pretty damn good... But, some days you're the Hammer, some days you're the nail, lol...

Hans, sorry about the injury. That Kaydet is a neat kit. I last built it when it was released in the mid 90s as Randy Quaid's crop duster from the movie, Independence Day. In the original, deleted ending to the movie, he wasn't allowed to fly a jet and ended up saving the day by flying his crop duster into the alien mothership with a missile strapped to the plane.

Thanks Rob.. Guess I need to buy the DVDs...

Of course, I don't know if the kit plane is the same as the one used in the movie or if Lindberg just grabbed a biplane from their product line and added it to the other Independence Day models they released (F-18, Alien fighter, Alien monster).

The 1/1 scal ID Stearman was an up-engined PT-17 with a 450 hp engine (Initialy set up as a full-aerobatic-rated, "wing-walker A/C"), roughly double the 220 hp Continetal engine found on the USAAC PT-17... The kit is the 220hp PT-17 version.. The ID movie Stearman was also the same one used by Jim Garner and Bruce Willis in "Sunset" and that Tommy Lee Jones flew in "Space Cowboys".. The chrome spinner is the "dead giveaway' to the larger engine, although it lacks the structural changes made to the empenage and the cowled engine and wheel-pants mains of the "Super Stearman"...

p38jl

Hey Hans.. you missed me... !  lol..

with the Huey

1/24th "Phantom" Huey, 1/24th "Rambo" Huey UH-1D, or 1/48 UH-1C Huey Hog, or 1/48 USAF Rescue Huey?

Lots of parts

but at least I got started.

I have started the Skyraider, I am working on scratch building the wing cannons. I know it does not sound like much of a big deal but getting the flash hiders to look right is the problem right now. Since the Don has said that 5 will get into the big time. I found a 1/48th Monogram JU 87D, Monogram F-4J with decals for Cunningham's mission when he became an ace and I have a Lindberg PT-17 as well. So I think that I am going for 5. By the way I was incorrect when I said that the Sky raider was the Tour of Duty issue it is not.

While paint dries on the space taxi, got some things done on the bearcat and F4B-4

Bearcat is together and ready for prime,

F4B-4 is together and primed.some seam filling still required....I found a Starfighter Decals decal set for Marine birds so of course I will use those long with a set of their PE rigging,,,figured I'd give it a shot, though I seldom use aftermarket 'stuff',,hopefully break out the airbrush in next few days and put some color to the lil birds...The F4B-4 is a great kit, I have 3 or 4 in stash and this one is making me want to build them all..

Good luck on the SR-71 Owl! And nice start on the Dornier Big Dog!

It has been a bit since I did an update as I had to take a break from this to help my girlfriend finish a joint build we were doing for a group build elsewhere. If she would spend some more time building she could certainly be in this, she has more boxes that say Monogram than I do.

Well anyway on to some progress shots. This first one is a bit better shot possibly of the interior bits and my nose weight before I installed it with epoxy, which is something I definitely would have used way back when as I still have some of my old pinewood derby cars with weights epoxied to them. Maybe a 3/8ths bolt with 2 nuts is overkill but I don't want to underweight it and have a tail sitter.

Next mixing up some RLM 02. It has been ages since I have done color matching with paints (like back in the 80s) and it looks like I hit it a little to far on the cool side of things. Oh well this bird was completed in August 44 and I think the German supply system was starting to break down then with color matching so maybe it is wrong and maybe it isn't.

In this last we can see the bird is basically put together now and the bottom coated with an RLM 76 mix. I got this a bunch closer than my 02. this is a zoomed pic so a bit fuzzy but it shows the gap I had under one side of the front canopy. I used some of the flash from one of the sprues that was almost as thick as this gap to kill it. I have also used some of the thinner flash painted silver to box in the opening for the landing light.

I am currently masking the canopy, which is something I stink at, I usually just hand paint my frames but since this is gloss paint I will have to paint and then spray with a flat coat which means masking. I hope to get at least as far as the base upper camo color done next weekend.

Some darn good looking work being done so far. I really like the needlepoint spacecraft interior, it just looks right and is cheap to boot!

@ Hans sorry to hear about your hip. It may be time to leave the heroics of apprehending idiots all hopped up on stupid to the younger bucks.

Ive cracked open the box of the SR-71 and had a quick look-see inside. At some point, I must've started on the bird, because the cockpit was glued into the fuselage already, but its unpainted! DOH!  Silly little me.

I know for a fact we've had this kit for over a decade, and the decals have begun to yellow. I don't know if they will be salvageable, but right now they are hanging in the window in an attempt to get rid of some of that discoloration. Im hoping they will still work, but if not, does anyone know of a good place to get SR-71 decals?

Thats looking good!

I primed the Space Taxi to cover all of the 'junk'....

working on the figs for it tonight...

Nice work all!!

Here are pics of the Space Taxi

Old molds!!!

Lots of white!

Here is after I added 'detail'..in looking for something to cover the interior and look 'spacey' I came across needlepoint material on sale for 99 cents,,so used that. Some old fake gold chain, pieces from scrap box, guitar string and wire,,and a creative license!

The original has a 'pilot' standing on a platform,,I decided to modify a figure and give him a control station..

kenjitak

Cadillac quad carb motor

Ooh, I like that engine!

A little more progress on my Outlaw.

Some Tamiya Pearl White on the body and other white parts. Unfortunately the pearl luster doesn't show up in the photo very well.

Cadillac quad carb motor

I also opened up the box on the Space Shuttlecraft. The box art shows a metal color scheme but the kit is molded in an aqua blue color? I'll have to give some thought to an appropriate color scheme. Maybe a white and black modern-day shuttle scheme or a natural metal finish. We'll see.

Hans, sorry about the injury. That Kaydet is a neat kit. I last built it when it was released in the mid 90s as Randy Quaid's crop duster from the movie, Independence Day. In the original, deleted ending to the movie, he wasn't allowed to fly a jet and ended up saving the day by flying his crop duster into the alien mothership with a missile strapped to the plane.

Of course, I don't know if the kit plane is the same as the one used in the movie or if Lindberg just grabbed a biplane from their product line and added it to the other Independence Day models they released (F-18, Alien fighter, Alien monster).

Hans-sorry to hear of your misfortune.....hope you heal quickly.....maybe time for a career change?

I'm working on clearing up another GB project before jumping into this one-should have that one completed by weeks end.

Ken-I'm looking forward to seeing your Outlaw come together.

Sorry to hear about the hip and the missed jumper!  Heal quick!

Ken: Nice work on the Outlaw...The 'chrome' looks much better than kit parts.

I got a lot of work done last night and tonight will post pics tomorrow..got the F4B-4 closed up and primes,,as well as the bearcat..

Got the Space Taxi detailed inside,, lot of 'imagineering' needed there for a kit produced in 1959,,decided to do a Marine space vehicle,, so needed some scratchbuilding and of course weapons for the figures that came with the kit.  After looking at prices on Ebay should have sold the dang thing..but how much fun is that!