You're right, Ken, it was an amazing sight.  The air war had already started and we watched the A-10s and Apaches coming and going from missions on the Saudi/Iraqi border.  The A-10s sometimes came back with chunks and entire flaps missing off their flying surfaces and sometimes their engines were shot up and smoking, making a horrible noise.....but they got their pilots back.  That's when we grunts knew it was a shooting war.

You gotta love those old warbirds.  Just the sheer brute strength and beauty of an era all wrapped up in one beautiful plane.....the stuff of legends!!  Can't wait to see them again.  Maybe if I win the lottery, I'll go up in one of them for a half hour or so!!!

TAD

More progress on the A-10

Looks good Matt!

Nice looking A-10 Matt.

Matt-Joachim

More progress on the A-10

Hi Matt,

I concur with everyone else.  Looking really good!     

So what do you think of the kit so far?  Any fit issues?  Revell instructions are usually pretty good.  Are they helpful on this kit?

Ken

Thanks to all for the compliments.

Ken: The kit fits very well minus sanding the wing pieces where they meet the fuselage for a tight fit. Other than that it's a great! I built one when i was 12, pics in the next post lol

Remember I was 12 years old. However it has held up better than I though over the many years. I guess what they say is true; an A-10 is a TOUGH beast lol

Matt-Joachim

Remember I was 12 years old. However it has held up better than I though over the many years. I guess what they say is true; an A-10 is a TOUGH beast lol

Hi Matt,

Looks pretty darn good for a twelve year old!   

Ken

I don't remember my builds from when I was 12 to look great. Looks like you put a lot more effort into it than I ever did. I almost never painted them and when I did, it was glopped on paint with a brush! Lots of tube glue and seams abound!

Here was an A-10 build from years ago. I don't know how long ago I built it, but it was long before the Gulf war as you tell by the European color scheme, After all, the A-10 was originally envisioned to fight the hordes of Soviet tanks streaming over the border. As you also see, I had a bit of a casualty with one of the pylon/LGB's that need a repair.

It's a Hasegawa kit, with added Sidewinders and an ECM pod from Hasegawa's accessory sets. A decent kit, although the raised panel lines were a draw back.

SoMM,

I'd like to join up with a Tamiya Type 97 Chi Ha which I'm starting for the World at War GB.

Matt and Jim,

Thanks for the A-10 work you've done.  All look good.  BTW Matt, great job for a 12 year old.  I think I had a few 'glue ball' models when I was 12, but so glad that I've made at least a little progress now!! LOL

TAD

modelcrazy

SoMM,

I'd like to join up with a Tamiya Type 97 Chi Ha which I'm starting for the World at War GB.

Sounds interesting-guess I never gave a lot of thought about Japan having tanks and armor. But then, I tend to pay more attention to things that fly.

Welcome!

Jim

Hey all!

For the most part, today was a waste. Supposed to be my day off, but I ended up going in at 7 and working until noon. Came home, couldn't keep my eyes open, laid down and slept until 7 in the evening! One day off shot to hell! So I ended up just chilling at home and working in the man cave.

Progress on the Crusader seat:

Also been preparing all the other parts that will go in before the fuselage gets joined- intake duct/front wheel bay, cockpit, main gear wheel bay, ventral speed brake bay, variable wing bay opening on top, tail hook opening, and the engine nozzle! Lots of sub-assemblies to line up before closing the halves!

Still working on seams for the Academy A-10:

Also here is the Hasegawa A-10 belly up for its repair I mentioned earlier:

Don't know if this is even the correct rails for the Sidewinders on an A-10, but at least I gave it some teeth!

I notice that it looks pretty plain with out highlighting the panel lines and flaps like i do now. Oh, well! This kit was built maybe 20 or 25 years ago!

Cement mostly set, so got her back on her feet for another quick shot!

Maybe I'll do a few more photos topside before she returns to the display shelf!

Jim

P.S. Wish I could show some of my early builds (when I was 12 or so) but I threw them out when I decided I was "Grown up"

J.

Thanks all. I remember hand brushing it with a .99cent testor brush with enamels from wallyworld (the good ole days) and had no idea how in depth modeling really is come to find out; such as shading,weathering, washing, etc

I LOVE THIS HOBBY!

Dang guys take it easy on me, I don't want my A-10 to look childish next to all of your amazing ones!! lol

jimbot58

I don't remember my builds from when I was 12 to look great. Looks like you put a lot more effort into it than I ever did. I almost never painted them and when I did, it was glopped on paint with a brush! Lots of tube glue and seams abound!

Here was an A-10 build from years ago. I don't know how long ago I built it, but it was long before the Gulf war as you tell by the European color scheme, After all, the A-10 was originally envisioned to fight the hordes of Soviet tanks streaming over the border. As you also see, I had a bit of a casualty with one of the pylon/LGB's that need a repair.

It's a Hasegawa kit, with added Sidewinders and an ECM pod from Hasegawa's accessory sets. A decent kit, although the raised panel lines were a draw back.

Nice looking build there Jim!     

Ken

modelcrazy

SoMM,

I'd like to join up with a Tamiya Type 97 Chi Ha which I'm starting for the World at War GB.

Hi Modelcrazy,

Welcome aboard!    The roster has been updated.  We all look forward to you building with us!

Ken

jimbot58

Hey all!

For the most part, today was a waste. Supposed to be my day off, but I ended up going in at 7 and working until noon. Came home, couldn't keep my eyes open, laid down and slept until 7 in the evening! One day off shot to hell! So I ended up just chilling at home and working in the man cave.

Progress on the Crusader seat:

Also been preparing all the other parts that will go in before the fuselage gets joined- intake duct/front wheel bay, cockpit, main gear wheel bay, ventral speed brake bay, variable wing bay opening on top, tail hook opening, and the engine nozzle! Lots of sub-assemblies to line up before closing the halves!

Still working on seams for the Academy A-10:

Also here is the Hasegawa A-10 belly up for its repair I mentioned earlier:

Don't know if this is even the correct rails for the Sidewinders on an A-10, but at least I gave it some teeth!

I notice that it looks pretty plain with out highlighting the panel lines and flaps like i do now. Oh, well! This kit was built maybe 20 or 25 years ago!

Cement mostly set, so got her back on her feet for another quick shot!

Maybe I'll do a few more photos topside before she returns to the display shelf!

Jim

P.S. Wish I could show some of my early builds (when I was 12 or so) but I threw them out when I decided I was "Grown up"

J.

Great work on that ejection seat Jim!      And that A-10 looks great too!

I vaguely remember "some" of the kits I built when I was a kid.  I am sure I have forgotten more kits than I can remember!   

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

jimbot58

Hey all!

For the most part, today was a waste. Supposed to be my day off, but I ended up going in at 7 and working until noon. Came home, couldn't keep my eyes open, laid down and slept until 7 in the evening! One day off shot to hell! So I ended up just chilling at home and working in the man cave.

Progress on the Crusader seat:

Also been preparing all the other parts that will go in before the fuselage gets joined- intake duct/front wheel bay, cockpit, main gear wheel bay, ventral speed brake bay, variable wing bay opening on top, tail hook opening, and the engine nozzle! Lots of sub-assemblies to line up before closing the halves!

Still working on seams for the Academy A-10:

Also here is the Hasegawa A-10 belly up for its repair I mentioned earlier:

Don't know if this is even the correct rails for the Sidewinders on an A-10, but at least I gave it some teeth!

I notice that it looks pretty plain with out highlighting the panel lines and flaps like i do now. Oh, well! This kit was built maybe 20 or 25 years ago!

Cement mostly set, so got her back on her feet for another quick shot!

Maybe I'll do a few more photos topside before she returns to the display shelf!

Jim

P.S. Wish I could show some of my early builds (when I was 12 or so) but I threw them out when I decided I was "Grown up"

J.

Great work on that ejection seat Jim!      And that A-10 looks great too!

I vaguely remember "some" of the kits I built when I was a kid.  I am sure I have forgotten more kits than I can remember!   

Ken

Yes, I don't remember every kit either although some do stand out in my memory.

Looking back, I'm realizing that it was quite a collection. I had several cars, a '56 ford pickup, a battleship ( none other than the Mighty Mo'), an aircraft carrier (or two?), airliners, fighter planes- mostly spinners although there was a Brit Phantom, a sea plane, choppers, an Apollo spacecraft, and a sailing ship-not a great one as it was rigged with sewing thread and had plastic sails. There was even a VW micro-bus!

Sometimes I regret not having those kits anymore, as most are out of production! However, they wouldn't  be worth anything to a collector, being assembled and painted by a 12 year old! Besides, where would I keep them with all the crap I have now?

If I could reach into the past and pluck put two of them, it would be maybe the Husky helicopter and the Kingfisher. Both of these kits were recently re-released, but at the time, budget restraints prevented me from acquiring them.

Now out of curiosity, do any of you still use tube glue for anything? I don't even own one right now.

Jim

Jim: The new kits look great and that A-10 may be old but very nice work on her!

Jim, that A-10 looks excellent! Nice recovery!

As for keeping models built when I was a kid: yeah, I have almost all of them. About 12 or 15 got broken beyond repair back then, but the rest I still have. That is why I have somewhere around 1100+ models finished now. And yes, I do still use the tube glue. I've found that it still gives me great hold without the setting time of CA, which allows me to get the larger assemblies put together more firmly and more evenly. I then use Tamiya Extra Thin, Testor's liquid cement, or Tenax7 for the smaller sub-assemblies and parts.

I am still following this Group Build even though I haven't started anything for it yet. I just finished seven models now and have another 4 or 5 more that are steps away from being completed. Once I get done with them, I'll have some space on the workbench to start up something for here.

Here is what I got done today. I'm going to have to put it aside for the moment though. I ordered a Eureka XXL metal barrel and tow cable AM kit. The kits tow cable was so terrible I just had to. Everything else on the kit is very nice, very detailed.

Steve

Duke Maddog

Jim, that A-10 looks excellent! Nice recovery!

As for keeping models built when I was a kid: yeah, I have almost all of them. About 12 or 15 got broken beyond repair back then, but the rest I still have. That is why I have somewhere around 1100+ models finished now. And yes, I do still use the tube glue. I've found that it still gives me great hold without the setting time of CA, which allows me to get the larger assemblies put together more firmly and more evenly. I then use Tamiya Extra Thin, Testor's liquid cement, or Tenax7 for the smaller sub-assemblies and parts.

I am still following this Group Build even though I haven't started anything for it yet. I just finished seven models now and have another 4 or 5 more that are steps away from being completed. Once I get done with them, I'll have some space on the workbench to start up something for here.

You are working on that many at one time? You are a model building machine!

I thought I was busy with the two!

I use mostly the liquid cement::

or

although I get unclear as to Testors terminology as they are both liquid, only one is more liquid, but it is not called liquid...

Illogical! Help me Spock!

Jim

Jim: Guess it's all liquid more or less- even the tube stuff- it's just a very thick viscous liquid.

Yeah I use the same red label bottle and the small black dispenser. Although here lately I've been using the Tamiya thin cement- it's pretty much the same thing as the red label bottle though.  

Yeah, I use both of those too, but not to the extent I use the Tamiya Extra Thin. I like the small pointed brush the Tamiya glue has; makes for better application.

And yes, I do work on that many at a time. I guess I'm too impatient. Instead of stopping because I'm waiting for the paint and glue to dry, I start another kit to keep going while I'm waiting for the paint and glue to dry.

Tonight was A-10 work. I had assembled the exhaust nozzles last night so I could clean them up and spray the metalizer paint on them. However, as It always happens in the wee hours of the evening, my bottle of Gunmetal was sludge! Now I can't get to the LHS until the weekend, so I figured I would go ahead and order from Sprue Brother, along with a few other misc. items, one of which was another needed bottle of paint for the exterior of the Warthog. I found that paint to be a rubber mass in the bottom of the bottle! Hopefully they will reach me before the weekend, or I will go crazy if I have to wait more!

Why does it seem that only the colors I need go bad? And only after hours! Where is that 24-hour hobby shop when you need them?

Jim

Isn't that always the way Jim. That's why I have a paint stash with at least 5 tins/jars of the colours I use most often. I can only get my paint online so it helps to have a stock of them.

jimbot58

Tonight was A-10 work. I had assembled the exhaust nozzles last night so I could clean them up and spray the metalizer paint on them. However, as It always happens in the wee hours of the evening, my bottle of Gunmetal was sludge! Now I can't get to the LHS until the weekend, so I figured I would go ahead and order from Sprue Brother, along with a few other misc. items, one of which was another needed bottle of paint for the exterior of the Warthog. I found that paint to be a rubber mass in the bottom of the bottle! Hopefully they will reach me before the weekend, or I will go crazy if I have to wait more!

Why does it seem that only the colors I need go bad? And only after hours! Where is that 24-hour hobby shop when you need them?

Jim

Murphy's Law Jim!  At least I do have a Hobby Lobby close by along with another hobby shop.  But their selection of paint is very limited.  75% of the time I still end up ordering the shade I need.

Ken

Murphy's Law indeed! The paint you need is always the one dried up! Plus you always end up shifting though dozens of bottles of paint you don't need to find it.  I have about a dozen bottles of 'Duck Egg Blue' even though I don't remember ever buying more than one or two, I think when you're not looking the paint mutates from a colour you need to one you don't...

Just for something to post lemme throw some of my Revell 1/72nd B-17 photos. Sorry, I'll try to get back to the F4F and F6F when I get more work done on this and the F-86... 

Steve, I'm glad to see you're doing the Type 97 tank as I've been wanting to build that one myself someday. I've never done any Japanese armor but like the camouflage on the box art particularly well. I'll be looking forward to watching your progress. I'm sure it'll look great!