Monogram Mafia III

the Baron

9 hours, 10 minutes to go, here in the East Coast....

Those west of the International Date Line are already in the 4th now... 

AJD, you are added to the roster. I presume that P-39 is the 1/48 Monogram kit? IIRC, Revell also did a 1/72 kit of that bird way back when as well.

Rex, i know what you mean. I thought that I would be all clear of my B-26 project by now and ready to start my Gemini, but life here has been really cutting into my bench time since late May. I suppose wild hair ideas such as wiring up the engines dont help either... I may be with you on the kick off on the 7th or so as well...

Ok guys, for those of us in the USA, we have only a few hours to go... those to the East... well time is relative...

Pulled the eagles from the nest. Just waiting for the kickoff time.

Shady J!!!!!  My first base and the one I went to Desert Storm with!  Oh you are going to make me start having flash backs!

Eagle90

Yup when I went TDY to Seymour I was pretty taken back by the number of F-15's there

The lid comes off in the morning!

This is the 1989 release. The box has caught a bit of strife but the innards are perfect.

I always thought it was funny having the KC-10's there, but that was at the beginning of the "Composite" wing concept.  Always had the friendly fighting between the fighter jocks and heavy pilots. Gen. Yeager was stationed there!  He was the Wing King when they F-4's.  All kinds of stuff about him in HQ and the squadron rooms.

Eagle90

Darrin!  That is one of the kits that is on my "Youth" wish list!  Can't see paying what they want for them today when I bought one in the 70's for $25!!!  LOL!  Can't wait to see that big boy come together!

Eagle90

Wow that Buff is gonna be sweet !

Good stuff showing up gentleman... almost July 4th on the East Coast... it already is across the Atlantic...

I got a whole box of the 'young builders' kits from eBay.  They are the same identical kits. Same paint schemes and decals. I think some of the instruction sheets omit the Monogram logo for some reason.....

Well i suppose you can go ahead and put down a 1/48 Monogram P-51D as my other one, considering i flipped open the lid around 12:30AM EDT. Had some work right out of the box, as its a 1985 boxing, and the fuselage was badly warpped. She's soaking in hot water as we speak. I'll have to download the new photo bucket app tomorrow (new phone) and update ASAP.

I got started on the Plymouth Duster dragster....

the frame

the engine

the water & fuel canister pieces being dechromed

they should be done in a few hours.  Now it's time for bratwurst, potato salad, deviled eggs.....

Well I woke up early just to get started on this group build. Here is where I am at so far.

Started and almost completed the cockpit of the F-15C. The blank seat sitting next to the cockpit tub is the original kit seat. I used one of the seats from my 1/48 B-1B kit and the associated PE parts for it and modified it for use on the F-15. 

It is a much better improvement from the kit seat.

Started rescribing the panel lines.

B1: Nice job on the cockpit.

Greg, looking good so far.

B_one, looks good as well...I don't envy you on the rescribing job

Sorry Stik, the Kit is a 1/24 Revell Mercury 2 Door woody Wagon.  

Nice work everyone!

Opened the bags and took inventory. All parts accounted for. Parts cleanup and assembly commences soon!

Here is the fuselage and wing tops laying on top of a regular 36" yardstick. My wife saw this and said "oh my...."

Yeah! I am looking forward to that Buff !!!!

It's always good when you have to use a yardstick to measure your build!

Alrighty, long progress post after a full day's work.

I've got MOST of the cockpit done, only thing that is done in the cockpit, however, is the IP so I will only post a picture of that as of now.

Next up are the weapons, the kit gives four AIM-4's and a Genie....in my research I found out that the two carried in the front of the weapons bay were AIM-4F's which were radar seeking and the rear two flanking the Genie were AIM-4G's which were IR-guided. The only difference modeling wise that I can think of is the tip is going to be different as seen in this picture. F in the back, G in the front.

Also have the drop tanks done...

And I have the fuselage halves close up...

That's pretty much where I am at now...I don't know if there's anybody else building an F-106 for this build, but I found this website and it has proven helpful and knowledgeable as well as full of interesting stories...

http://www.f-106deltadart.com

Josiah, that's coming along nicely. From my experience with this kit, you'll want to be careful aligning the upper and lower forward fuselage halves, they can create steps that will take time to work out.

Nice ! Thanks for the reference. I will use it for my f-106 in the other build.

Thanks guys....yeah I've built this thing two other times and that seam is a pain in the butt anyway I've done it...third time's the charm though eh?

Here is  my entry. I picked this up a while back on Ebay as a package deal along with an F-100, an F-102 and a 106. They came out to about $18 each including the shipping. I also have another one I picked up at Hobby Lobby with a 40% coupon for a little over $12.

Started cleaning up the seats and cockpit parts and are ready for painting. The seats have real nice molded details as the rest of the cockpit. This will paint up very nice.

Outstanding start fellas!!! I see lots of great plastic taking shape already! Lets show em that it does not take a high end kit and beau coup after market add ons to make a beautiful build!

Here are the two kits that I will be starting very, very soon (after I finish my Dora):

The 1/48th Monogram kits of the McDonnell-Douglas OA-4M Skyhawk & the North American Aviation F-100D Super Sabre.

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The contents of the F-100D kit............

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And the contents of the OA-4M kit.

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After looking at the kit decals for the Skyhawk, they don't look as though they've held up well through the years. So, I might have to find another set of after-market decals, preferably for my old squadron, H&MS-32 (later known as MALS-32). I'm very much looking forward to getting started on these two kits. 

I'm very impressed with what I've seen so far on this group build. Keep up the great modeling, folks!!

Gary Mason

You are right stik, this Voodoo has some really nice molded details like all the belts on the ejection seats and lines etc in the gear wells. Will try to keep it OOB not to complicate things.

Dawg

I love that F-100 and makes an excellent model. Got that one in the stash along with the included patch.

Thanks, plasticjunkie! Looking forward to seeing your Voodoo, too. I built this kit way back in 1986 for my dad, and remember it being a relatively easy build. Hope it goes the same almost 30 years later.

Devil Dawg decals for the MARStian

www.cybermodeler.com/.../decal_fad_48010.shtml

don't get drool slobber all over your keyboard, now, lol

Rex (the other kind of MART-Dtian)