Badda boom badda bing and ya got a hood scoop. My skills have A LOOOONG way to get to this level. I'm up to try though. Great choice on the color Mustang, gonna be a reall pertty pony.

Thank you Tony, Perry, Nick ( no black on this one--Acapulco Blue brutha) , Robert, Brandon, and Cliff. 

Well.....I knew I was gonna need to have more room topside in the engine bay so that the air cleaner wouldn't contact the bottom of the hood so I got to thinkin..........I've got the AMT GT-350 in the stash with a good factory hood scoop on it but the hood wouldn't interchange with the regular Mustang hood because the nose on the GT-350 is longer which means the hood on that car is longer. So...why not just use the scoop? I went to work and scribed the cut out area that I needed to start removing the scoop from the GT-350 hood.

All cut out and ready for trimming up to all sides of the scoop:

A slight bit of clean up remains but I just sanded and filed up to the sides and then sanded the front from the bottom till I was able to remove the areas right in front of the air intake.

A little more clean up and I'll start working this onto the regular hood after I cut out the opening in the bottom of it for the air cleaner to sit up into.

Mustang: Those aftermarket door handles are a huge improvement!

Steve, that Dornier looks amazing. I would never have thought it was an older Revell kit.

John, the F-16 looks fantastic. Well done.

Joe, your efforts on this Mustang is nothing short of awesome. Fantastic.

BK

Hi fellas. I'm having some technical problems with posting so I have been unable to post your completed pic of the Mig 21 crown. Hopefully this will be resolved soon. Regardless of that there is some very impressive work happening here.

Gamera. Thank you. I used vallejo airseries (mig21) and Ble tac.

Dodgy. Yes that pic is good, thank you.

Tony. I always liked the mig21 and every time BMF or camo what to choose and what markings only on mig21's ? but many thanks

Mustang. Thank you I appricate it. That mustang what an eye for detail wow oh is it going to be black?

Model crazy. Many thanks it is a fun build. The do335 is moving along beautifully...

Keyserj. That F-16 got my attention!

    Holy smokes guys, what an awesome display of modelling prowess, wish I' d get off my duff and start my project for this thread.

    On a side bar question....does this thread ONLY have to be for our friends who have gone or may we post one for a living person?

   Short story behind this ?? I was seeking help from my local Vet Center where an Army Vet set me up for where I am today.....He REALLY likes F-14 Tomcats... I promised to build him one...7yrs ago. Last summer he was almost killed in a car wreck. Today be is back helping Vets and will walk again someday. I started the Tomcat a few weeks ago, just the mission weapons load out and how I'm going to display it.

    May I try to post pix in this thread as I really owe "Joe", as said because of him I have come to be here today.

I've got a couple of books on these aircraft and a Tamiya A-6 in the stash. I don't believe that any of these aircraft ever saw combat from the reading that I've done. I do remember a story I read a quick story about Werner Lerche flying one to to Oberpfaffenhofen and having to evade an enemy aircraft (in which he succeeded in doing so) but no combat missions were ever flown with any of the variants as far as I know.

mustang1989

Steve: I didn't know that Revell made a trainer/ nightfighter version of the 335. Good progress so far on this one.

That's what I thought at first, but it's the A-6 night fighter version. I don't know if they were ever used.

I think I have every available 1964-73 Mustang in my stash except this one. That I know of anyway. THey're worthwhile tips about the fit. Those door handles look so much better, I wasn't aware that they were available. really enjoying your build.

Cheers

Tony

Another area that got some attention was the door handles. In these times of available AM there was just no room at all for these OOB door handles.

So off they came and after smoothing everything out some....here is the replacement resin handle from Fireball Models. Since I've put effort in elsewhere I saw it only fitting that I shouldn't start skimping now.

As of now the nose to body fit has been holding me up in moving forward in a timely fashion but.....this is a holy grail build of mine so I'll be taking my time with this one.

All of these AMT Mustang kits of this year model ( Fastback, GT-350 and the GT-500) have the exact same problem with the nose to body fit, particularly on the drivers side. A little TLC is all that's needed to fix the problem. 

This is the NASTY join on the drivers side of the car:

Sanding the front edge of the drivers side fender ALL THE WAY down from the top of the fender where the side contour of the fender is to the bottom helped the gap throught the top an d bottom edges of the fender/ nose seam. Once that was straightened out I noticed that there was a slight interference fit issue behind the headlight on the no se piece so I took a small file and trued the area where the headlight bucket meets the leading edge of the fender called out as area #1 in the photo below. After that I trimmed out the area behind the headlight called out as area #2 in the same photo. These couple of mods seemed to help things out alot.

another thing that I did that seemed to help was that I used the back side of my X-Acto knife to carve out some of the "meat" out from the drivers side front fender where the backside of the headlight bucket meets the fender from the inside as pointed out here:

Although the passenger side doesn't seem to have the alignment & fit issues that the drivers side does you can see the difference of what I had to cut down on the drivers side as compared to the same area shown here untouched that's on the passenger side.

I'm still working through this issue some but I'm getting closer to the point that I can use a little filler in the gaps and sand it down some. You can see that the top of the headlight bucket is now flush with the fender at the top joint and the sides have a cleaner join between the nose piece and the fender all the way down the sides.

This one area of the build is a true challenge to overcome but a little "lovin'" straightens it all out.

Steve: I didn't know that Revell made a trainer/ nightfighter version of the 335. Good progress so far on this one.

John: I'm right there with Cliff on the yellow. Great job on getting that all laid down as well as you did.

Tony & Steve: Those look great guys!!!

John: My hat's off to you. I HATE friggin' yellow. And you did such a great job with it!!!

Painting the yellow base gave me all sorts of fits but I am happy with how it turned out. Can't wait to put the stripes on the plane.

I love the MiG Nick . Such a fast looking plane.

I started on the Do 335 for Hunter and his father Jeff.

I'm going to make it into a small dio depicting the British captured night fighter version. This is a strictly OOB build using the Revell 1/48 kit. I don't remember if I showed it before or not so I'll recap if I did.

I started by removing the plastic surounding the engines since I will be displaying it with the cowlings off as produced by Revell.

I also replaced the raised panel lines with scribed panel lines. I had a hard time with this but I think I finally got it. After completing the pits (sorry, no pics), masking the canopys, building the wings and attaching the fuselage. I sprayed black primer. After a few more items I'll apply the camo.

Nick I don't know where to start on that Mig.  That, my friend, is a modern art masterpiece. You showing that one anywhere?

Tony: That 263 progress is coming along nicely. What's the scheme? 

Have gotten out of touch around here and hope to make a bit of a comeback. Just crazy stuff happening left and right around here these days gang.

Nick, that Mig 21 really looks the business. I love the camo and 'look' of it.

I'm managed to get a bit more done on my Me 263. The next step is to reinstate some panel lines, then add the canopy.

Cheers

Tony

crown r n7

I would like to add this Mig-21MF for Lewbud. The wip is on the Larry Wolf GB. I was waiting for this kit to be finished, so it could be added. Thankyou.

 

No problem Nick. Is that the photo you want me to use?

Looks cool Nick! Nice work on the camo!

I would like to add this Mig-21MF for Lewbud. The wip is on the Larry Wolf GB. I was waiting for this kit to be finished, so it could be added. Thankyou.

mustang1989

 Every now and then people in business will take the time to listen to a consumer and make necessary changes. I spoke with Eric Oberhofer at Round 2 at the beginning of September in regards to the AMT 67 Mustang Fastback issues. One of the issues involved the tires that came in the kit which were Firestone Super Sports tires instead of the Firestone Wide O Oval tires that were on the box top. He had mentioned that he was going to bring this issue up in the next board meeting. Meanwhile I had received a set of Wide O Oval decals from a friend of mine on the forums. After removing the Super Sports logos from the sides of the tires and had applied those, however, they looked too big and I was left scratching my head at what I was going to do next. I decided to go down to Hobby Lobby and purchase another kit and use the Super Sports tires...........BUT............when I opened the box of the newly purchased kit I found..........a set of Wide O Oval tires now in the box!!!!!! A BIG shout out goes to Eric and the Round 2 team involved in making this change.

Before the change this is what came in the box....

 

and this is now what comes in the box. Here mounted on my newly painted & detailed wheels.

 

BK

Joe, you are just knocking out some truly stellar work. The interior really is some top notch craftsmanship. That is quite the wonderful ordeal with the wheels. Very impressive move by Round 2. They definitely make a difference. Keep it coming Bro.

I'm lost for words, Stang old boy.......

Mustang your car builds are epic! Dang that interior looks great. Factory fresh 

Nice work on the wheels, Joe.  And a definite agree on the tires.

Looking "Simply Marrrrrrrrrvelous". 

Jim 

Stay Safe.

What a build! 

That inteior looks amazing!!!

And great customer service on changing out the included tires. As a non-car guy I'd never have known the difference.

 Every now and then people in business will take the time to listen to a consumer and make necessary changes. I spoke with Eric Oberhofer at Round 2 at the beginning of September in regards to the AMT 67 Mustang Fastback issues. One of the issues involved the tires that came in the kit which were Firestone Super Sports tires instead of the Firestone Wide O Oval tires that were on the box top. He had mentioned that he was going to bring this issue up in the next board meeting. Meanwhile I had received a set of Wide O Oval decals from a friend of mine on the forums. After removing the Super Sports logos from the sides of the tires and had applied those, however, they looked too big and I was left scratching my head at what I was going to do next. I decided to go down to Hobby Lobby and purchase another kit and use the Super Sports tires...........BUT............when I opened the box of the newly purchased kit I found..........a set of Wide O Oval tires now in the box!!!!!! A BIG shout out goes to Eric and the Round 2 team involved in making this change.

Before the change this is what came in the box....

and this is now what comes in the box. Here mounted on my newly painted & detailed wheels.