My First Time Group Build

                  Hey Guys,,,  no pics yet but broke the box open ,,, I still have the ship (in different scale)

     that I built on Christmas Eve 1974 ,, yeah the whole thing in one night ,,  and it looks it too ,, it survived mulitiple moves and even a house fire for its present resting place of my 13 year old's shelf.

I figured it would be fun to do some side by sides as the build progresses...

                                More to come ,,, 

Bish: I never thoiught to record their stories. However, i do remember one story my Dad told me. When Dad was stationed in Panama, A general took a liking to Dad. Then one day they got orders to take off and open their orders one hour after take off. Dad's orders said return to base. The rest of the squadron flew on and became involved in the Dieppe raid. And any good historian knows how big of a disaster that was.

Dad always said that flying was the most boring thing he ever did. Maybe he was afraid that I would take up flying LOL

One funny thing is, As much as I like airplanes; I've never been off the ground.

Sounds like he had a more interesting war than my relatives did. My granddad was an ARP warden in Norwich. And my Great Uncle was an AA gunner stationed up in the Orkneys and he says he never saw a German.

I would imagine flying those long range missions would be boring for most of the time. But then being in the forces can be like that full stop.

Bish, I had one of those in the stash –Airfix F-86D, but gave or sold it off when I got my paws on the Hasegawa offering and looks like that was a good call.  I am having the same troubles with my Snap-tite Mustang, especially bothersome since I recently finished the Academy P-51B and used PE and resin on her.

handiabled, it is amazing you still have the original build.  I am surprised I have made it that long, much less being able to keep a built kit that long.  Looking forward to your side-by-side build shots of then and now.

greentracker98, my dad never told many of his stories, I get a small story with each visit now though.  One that sticks out occurred at my retirement, for which I had purchased couple bottles of 18 and 21-year old Glenfiddich Scotch for nearly a year to have as toast and drink at the gathering.  My dad told me didn’t touch the stuff and as a tail gunner on B-52Ds in Vietnam one of the first crews he was assigned to drank Scotch but my dad refused.  They booted him to another crew and on the next mission the Scotch crew was shot down.  He did have a drink at my retirement though.

My build is coming along excruciatingly slowly as I still have yet to locate all of my modeling supplies.  Since the “feels like” temperature has been in the 11°-20° region I haven’t had the drive to dig through boxes in the icebox-like garage.  I have managed to re-scribe all the panel lines and will next start to follow in Bish’s steps and apply some plastic to create considerably more of an interior than what Monogram provided.  I plan to use this as my first try with Alclad paints too.

I am actually rather enjoying it. It makes a refreshing change from all that PE, or the hassle of fitting a resin pit. Though i don't think i will take it up full time, it will encourage me to do a bit more and just add those extra bits that AM sets leave out.

Now, rescribeing, your a brave man. I tried it on my Triebflugel a few months back, but soon gave up before i did to much damage. Thats somthing i need to practice on.

Lookie what I just got!!

HUGE thanks to Ripcord for this!! You sure you don't wan't something in exchange?

I have another project to do before this one, but then I will get started.

Thanks, Budd

Sub, glad you were able to get hold of one of these. Ripcord, your the man.

I am sure that counts as a gift. There must be another GB around here you could fit that into

Have you guys been able to work out the colours.

It's an SR71, it's black!

Just kidding (sort of.) I do have a really good article I found a few weeks ago about how to weather SR71's. When I get back home I will put it on here.

Sub, look forward to seeing that article. As well as a Blackbird, i have a few kits that will be black, or partially black. So will be handy to pick up some tips.

omg....  what did they do to the box....  is it ok?

                              Happy New Years Everyone!   Well here she is ,, all battered and bruised,, I think

                                      this little ship has been thru more battles than it's real counterpart, made Christmas Eve 1974 ,,,starting by hollowing the ends of her main guns,,,,,,,,,,   more to come ,,

                                           Thanks for lookin!! 

Its nice to be able to compared the original to tghe second time around. Nice work so far.

Here's the article:

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Don't remember how I stumbled across it, but the guy on here has what looks like a good technique, and it should work on other black planes as well.

Thanks, Budd

Brent:I'll second that one with Bish. I would love to have my original Dauntless to show comparisons. Looking forward to seeing this one built!

Handi - Looks to be a nice start there.

I am making slow and steady progress; about 90% of panel lines have been rescribed, wing-halves are together, fuel tanks together and I have begun to add a bit of an interior.  I have not scribed any lines near the joints as I cannot check for fit/alignment without commitment given the nature of a Snap-Tite kit.  Progress is still hampered by lack of al my materials and a hobby desk, I carve out a 2’x2’ space where ever and whenever I can.  I have also been using the Testors Liquid Cement on this build and can say I much prefer Tenax 7R.

Got the cockpit finished. I know its not 100% accurate, if at all. But it looks much better than it was. I used some fine wire, styrene rod and some spare parts. Also added the standard issue Airfix pilot.

Then fitted it in and closed up the fuselage and added the wings. Most of the gaps have been filled, just got a bit of sanding to do.

Thats it for now. Hopefully i can get the black primer on before the weekend. I am going to use Alclad on this. 

Bish - Aw heck, it doesn't matter whether it's accurate but, rather the excellent work you put into it. Which you did I might add. Really nice job on the pilot. Well done.

                        Lookin Good Bish ,,,  I've been called away from the Moe for a short while ,, doing a quick build for a vet ,,,  I'll be watching tho ,, keepem coming everyone!

Thanks guys.

handiabled, we will keep a spot open for you. It sounds like its in a good cause.

Bish: That looks great! The pilot looks awesome.

Handiabled: We got your back! We'll be here when you get started on Moe!

Thanks Mustang. Doing that figure brought back memories. Haven't used one of those in years.

Bish - Looks great.

I hope I'm not biting off more than I can chew.

I'm finishing up the GMC Pick-Up  with the Snow Plow for my local model club GB. It's due Saturday January 12th. I'm almost done. I had to wait to get the chrome (bare metal foil) last week. After that I will be able to work on my P-38 a lot more.

I also have a 2012 Camaro in the garage, but It's not a GB, so I can take my time that. Then I have a couple of semi trailers. One is a pup trailer and the other is a 53 footer. This trailer is for Lisa Kelly's Carlisle Ice Road Trucker Kenworth. It's not the Mobius kit. These 2 trailers were/are AMTs 40 footers which I cut up. After I cut and made the 53 footer sides, I realized I had enough to do the pup trailer. All I have to on it is put the doors on the back of it, But their hinges suck; so I'm working on different hinges.

Ken Worth

I know what your talking about greentracker. My son and I are going to be busting the Dauntless back out here pretty quick. The holidays took up a little time and now I have this Fw190 for the GB that I'm fully into! We shoud be getting back into the swing of things on this group build sometime this week.

I think everything has been a bit hectic here lately, but its nice to see things getting into full swing again. I should have some pics of the sabre soon. Been doing a lot of sanding to get it ready for the black primer.

I finished the pick up. Mine wasn't the best, but I think it turned pretty nice I was the only one to put chrome running boards on it, and put the sun roof in it. Now, they decided to do a group build on what you got for Christmas LOL So, it's up up and away with the P 38 LOL

Looking forward to seeing it green. You got any pics of the truck.

Bish, I haven't taken any pics yet, but i will tonight. Look for them in the auto section later tonight.

Thanks

Ken Worth

Hey There Folks, Well, the my vintage Revell 1/72 Draken arrived today. It's pretty much what I expected except for one amazing thing, this old kit actually has engraved panel lines and rivets. Neato! Other than that she's the raw deal. No cockpit detail except for a seated pilot that glues to the bottom half of the fuselage. I will see if I can fit the cokpit tub in there from the newer Draken kit I have. And then of course there is the more than abundant amount of flash to clean up. But, regardless it's the very kit I built as a young raw modeler. I will get some prelim pics on here right directly.

                                Hey Guy's ,,, great work !!!  My project is all done and Moe is back on the bench,, since I am a couple hours away from delivery I can show you why I was gone ,,  USS DEYO

                             More to come ,, Thanks for lookin!!