Kbuzz:

Excellent work, show quality!

Dom

Thanks, Russ.  I've tried about four times now to get the pics up and I see them in the preview but they don't show in this post !!??

Kbuzz

EDIT:  Disregard - finally got them to post by moving one pic at a time! 

kbuzz01

Man, that's a real ambitious scribing job, Russ - good luck with it!

I am calling the TF-102 completed for now.  I'm not satisfied with the canopy and windscreen, but am not going to fight it any more now (maybe I'll revisit it another day, I do have another set.)  The form provided with the conversion kit has very bulky non-glass areas   Anyway, here's how she is at this moment.

Hi, Buzz. Welcome back! Thanks for the good luck wish - I'll need all the help I can get .

Hi guys.  Hope things have been going well here.  Sorry for my absence.  My modeling activities are pretty well shut down in the summer with too many other things to deal with, so I haven't been very active in here.  Maybe later without travel and golf and other family problems, I'll find more time at the bench.

Nice work on the Corsair, Rich.  

Man, that's a real ambitious scribing job, Russ - good luck with it!

I am calling the TF-102 completed for now.  I'm not satisfied with the canopy and windscreen, but am not going to fight it any more now (maybe I'll revisit it another day, I do have another set.)  The form provided with the conversion kit has very bulky non-glass areas   Anyway, here's how she is at this moment.

Here she is with her sister F-102

And here's the original troublemaker:

Thanks for looking,

Kbuzz

Your're welcome, Ken! Hope it works for you.

It is a big job, but it's my own fault. I kept messing up the raised lines and it's a lot of trouble to repair them. Also, the scribed lines will just look better. I'm in no hurry and it's a good opportunity to learn how to do it before I deal with smaller models.

Russ

Striker8241

Guys,

I’ve been removing the raised panel lines and re-scribing my B-52. I found I needed a light but flexible scribing guide that I could move around easily. I do use Dymo tape, but it’s expensive and can only be used a couple of times. I tried the metal banding that is used to strap heavy boxes but it’s just too heavy. Some plastic strapping might work but the only type I have doesn't have smooth, hard edges.

Recently, I took apart an old retractable tape measure to cut off a section to use for a flexible ruler. In the process, I found a smaller steel tape inside that was used for the coil spring. This tape is light, flexible and already slightly curved. It's flexible enough that you can tape the ends down. It turned out to be ideal for a scribing guide. I cut mine into a number of different lengths. Be sure to trim or round off the ends as they are sharp.

Cheers,

Russ

Thanks for the tip Russ!  I happen to have a tape measure that is bent that would be a great candidate to use.

Wow, that is going to be a big project re-scribing that big bird!  You really are going all out on this!

Ken

Thanks for everyone's compliments on the lithographs!  I feel pretty lucky to find them and at the great price.  I can't wait for them to arrive so I can frame them and hang them up in my "Man Cave".

Ken

Scorpiomikey

Hey, great tip russ. Thanks for that.

Hey Ken, don't know what happend to my original reply about your new lithograph - it seems to have disappeared. Anyway, very nice win there, bud!  You're building quite a collection of 101 memorabilia.

Russ

Hey, great tip russ. Thanks for that.

Guys,

I’ve been removing the raised panel lines and re-scribing my B-52. I found I needed a light but flexible scribing guide that I could move around easily. I do use Dymo tape, but it’s expensive and can only be used a couple of times. I tried the metal banding that is used to strap heavy boxes but it’s just too heavy. Some plastic strapping might work but the only type I have doesn't have smooth, hard edges.

Recently, I took apart an old retractable tape measure to cut off a section to use for a flexible ruler. In the process, I found a smaller steel tape inside that was used for the coil spring. This tape is light, flexible and already slightly curved. It's flexible enough that you can tape the ends down. It turned out to be ideal for a scribing guide. I cut mine into a number of different lengths. Be sure to trim or round off the ends as they are sharp.

Cheers,

Russ

Rich: What's wrong with her? Nice job, I like it!!! Then again as I've said I like pretty much any blue (US Navy) plane...

Ken: Nice score there! Somehow you can't beat that '50s - early '60s artwork. Somehow it had an exuberant, joyful, futuristic attitude that died in the late '60s and really hasn't been seen since then.  

This this was meant for the ANZAC GB.

No idea man, but theyre Rinzaf markings.

...Metal wire?

Now why the heck did I think you sent Aussie markings...?  I swear, ever since they put all this metal wire in my brain, I completely veg out sometimes.

Hi Everyone,

I scored another lithograph:

Ken 

Its easier to ask forgiveness than permission

Thanks Ken.  I'm never happy with my own work...  I should probably get some fine thread and put an areal wire on it.  I should have taken a front shot to show the engine detailing I did.  I did kill my last can of Dark Sea Blue on it.  lol  Now I have to replace it.  Deb's gonna pitch a fit. lol

  Rich

Son Of Medicine Man

Hey Rich, it looks like a Corsair to me!    Nice job!    

Ken

Looks darn good to me too, Rich. Good job!

Russ

Hey Rich, it looks like a Corsair to me!    Nice job!    

Ken

Well.  I know it wasn't officially part of the build, but I did it while working on the group build.  This particular little Gem is the 1/32 Revell kit.  This kit hates me.. It really does.  I have tried to build this kit over and over, and this is the first time I was able to bully it into submission.  Between the lousy fit, the snapping hinges, the landing gear that can barely hold it's weight, and other factors, I am happy just to get one done this well.  I have a Trumpeter in storage but I can't get to it now.  I can hardly wait to do that one and put it next to this one for comparison.  Here's the pics.  (Sorry, no WIPs, I was too disgusted with it to take any.)

And the other side.

Not my best, but as good as that one is going to get.

Rich

I've been working on my F-4P intake ducts and found a way to cut some

small spars to support the flimsy vac-sheet I cut the tunnels out of.

Once i get those done, I have a kit again, 12 years of tinkering between careers. I bought this kit before 9/11, it was a warped wonder, probably should have thrown it out. I spent the first 8 years just straightening out the pieces.

When I bought this kit, I was paying for my own education as a part time student

working through the week, my dying company in hand, losing all my capital, molds, designs,,,,

The government taxed my ashes all the way through......it's okay, they gave the dough to

others......and that's okay......lol....I am not bitter.....it's okay.....

I,m also still working on the tax bill they gave gave me as i went out of business to go to school.....the tax man, he really needed my cash......

......the government slammed me for unsold inventory as though it was sold, gave the money away to folks they said needed it more than me, ....

Actually, I would have preferred to finish this F-4P kit 6 years before I signed onto these threads.....I'ld straiten out a piece with a hair dryer and put it away for another year....

Well, i still have this kit to finish, and another tractor trailer exam to write to keep my license.

So it is hard to complain. I'm still employed. I'm back on track. I'm up to my arm pits in tax-debt....

I am very happy I wasn't in New York 11 years ago today, but my family members were.

After calling them for over 3 hours, I told them the WTC had collapsed over the phone, they were working from home that day, and didn't have any idea what had happened when I called.

I feel lucky.

Funny thing is guys, the kits keep me going. Every time i put a few more hours into a kit, I look at the plane and remember....those other guys, the guys that gave everything up, those guys gave everything they ever had.

The air this morning at 6 a.m. was just as crisp as it was 11 years ago today.

Many thanks Ken:

There's another 30 buck$ out'a pocket with priority shipping.

I gotta have one.

Bockscar

Ken:

Any more around?

I have more pics in my picture pool, but it would be nice to have the book.

Dom

PS: I read Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Swahili, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.

Funny thing is, I can't read a word of French.

Too funny Dom!

Here is a link to Hobby Link Japan that sells it:

http://www.hlj.com/product/BUNFA101 

No, I have never found a 1/32 Voodoo other than the one you found in vac.  I keep hoping!

Ken

Ken:

I forgot to ask;

Have you heard anything about a 1/32 Voodoo, other than the Vac-Pac?

Ken:

Any more around?

I have more pics in my picture pool, but it would be nice to have the book.

Dom

PS: I read Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Swahili, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.

Funny thing is, I can't read a word of French.

Bockscar

 

Hi Dom,

I actually recently scored this book on eBay for $14.50!  It has another picture of a Voodoo from the "Cotton Pickers" 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron that my Dad was in.  The text is all in Japanese is the only drawback, but it is full of pictures of Voodoos from different squadrons.

Ken

Yeah, wax paper sure beats using warm pizza anyday!

Hey thanks, Rich. That sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a try as well.

Thanks again,

Russ

Russ, I sometimes use Glue Sticks to hold pieces lightly for stuff like that.  Get a piece of wax paper, put a light coat of glue stick on a sufficiently large area of it to hold the pieces together.  Then lightly press the pieces down into the glue-sticked area in the correct order, then just apply the CA and carefully peel off when dry.  The advantage is the glue stick is a weaker hold than masking tape, so it's less likely for the pieces to fall apart when you are removing the dry piece, while also making the pieces have a good tight fit for the CA.  Just remember, a very light coat on the wax paper.

Rich

Bockscar

Striker8241

Bockscar

By the way Russ, how did you hold the little pieces in place while

you cemented them?

Dom

 

Not very professionally, I'm afraid. First, I glued the two bomb bay doors together at the angle I figured looked about right, then I traced the end of the door assembly onto a piece of paper. I used that as my reference for cutting and laying out the pieces. Once I completed the first assembly, I drew an outline around it to use as a pattern.

 

While I was piecing together the first assembly, I discovered the pieces were sticking to the paper. I was about to correct this when it occurred to my dull senses that this might be a good thing, if I didn't overdo it, so I let a bit of glue hold the already completed parts while I glued on the next ones. Once the assembly was finished and the glue dry, I inserted a sharp knife between the paper and the part and carefully cut it from the paper.

 

What would be nice would be a clear material that super glue wouldn't stick to that you could lay over a pattern and build the assembly on top of.

 

Russ 

 

Russ:

You've managed to re-invent the wheel, your precision looked too good to be a random

glu-it-together.

Wide tape works, like a masking tape with thick stick-um.

Even if you do get some CA on the tape, it doesn't soak through the stick-um on the

tape so you can separate it, at worst, with a bit of varsol or lighter fluid.

a very fine point X-Acto or riffler to clean up the excess CA.

Also you are using patterns, a technique, don't laugh, I learned from my mom when she used to buy

them to cut and sew her own clothes back in 1962, also the cereal boxes used to have cut out rocket ships and planes, and my dad gave me an old acetate drafting guide to trace curves and circles.

My first real job was as a draftsman, go figure. I ended that gig cutting circuit boards on Compaq computers back in the early 80's......

I swear by patterns to this day, especially for guaging the inside of kit parts that need spars.

That is a very good process you have going, time tested and sound.

I can still smell the ammonia from the big blue print machine......lol

I took some drafting classes when I was in high school. In fact, I still have my old Post drafting set. It was for a different reason though - I wanted to be a cartographer. But the Viet Nam war caught up with me and I went into the Air Force instead. After I retired, I worked for Harris Corp. here in Melbourne, and they had a large drafting and printing facility with one or more blueprint machines. I remember going in there and smelling that ammonia .