80 Years of the Mighty 8th GB

Bish,

My "TBD" has finally been determined.  Put me down for a 1/32 Revell of Germany P-51D-15.  It made it across the pond. 

Gary

Will do Gary.

Martin, my entry is the Promodeler B-24D.

Throw my name in the hat for this one.

I will be doing the Revell 1/32 P51D with updated filleted resin tail in very colorful Contrary Mary markings.

Bish, I'm gonna be dropping out of this GB. I'll still be building the kit, just not on FSM

Right guys, with this years builds wrapped up and the 2 GB's coming to an end, time for me to focus on whats coming in 22. Roster is updated. Some nice looking large scale P-51's there. If i am missing anyone, please shout out. GB starts on saturday.

Wow has the list grown. We're going to see some serious building going on here!

Yea, I did not think this would be a very popular subject.. 

TheMongoose

Wow has the list grown. We're going to see some serious building going on here!

 

Martin, Frank's F-82 entry is the 1/72 Monogram kit, not 1/48.  I wish Monogram had done it in 1/48, instead of Modelcraft, although there is a new 1/48 kit soon to be here that sounds pretty nice, but pricey as all the new kits seem to be.

jeaton01

Martin, Frank's F-82 entry is the 1/72 Monogram kit, not 1/48.  I wish Monogram had done it in 1/48, instead of Modelcraft, although there is a new 1/48 kit soon to be here that sounds pretty nice, but pricey as all the new kits seem to be.

 

Thanks, Jeaton. Yep, the ancient Monogram 1/72 scale F-82 kit is my entry. It will be the third F-82 I've built since I returned to the hobby. I thought about the new Modelsvit F-82 kit but the kit retails around $90+ and I can't justify that expense. I have too many kits in the stash that need to be built anyway.

The Monogram kit builds up pretty nice.  Hobbycraft copied that kit and it isn't as good as the Monogram plastic.  I built the Monogram kit a while back. 

I have two of the Modelcraft kits, maybe someday I will be silly enough to try one.  Right after a Model USA O-1!

Here's mine.  Black can hide a lot of sins, but it doesn't have too many.  I did use vac canopies, the ones in the kit are a little thick.

F-82 corrected, cheers guys.

As its now Jan 1st 2022 here in Blighty, i declare the GB open.

Happy new year & happy modeling!

Bish

As its now Jan 1st 2022 here in Blighty, i declare the GB open.

 

Well then happy new year Bish 

Happy new year Bish. We got less than 4 hours to go here across the pond.

Happy New Year!  My entry arrived a couple of days ago.

With this I can finally build the "Alabama Rammer Jammer" flown by Lt. Arthur C. Cundy.

Pictures of sprues and decals later.

Gary

GAF

Happy New Year!  My entry arrived a couple of days ago.

With this I can finally build the "Alabama Rammer Jammer" flown by Lt. Arthur C. Cundy.

Pictures of sprues and decals later.

Gary

 

NOW THAT I'M EXCITED TO SEE!

GAF

With this I can finally build the "Alabama Rammer Jammer" flown by Lt. Arthur C. Cundy.

Nice markings choice!

Well, still 3:15 to go here is California and I'm looking at the B-24 instructions, but I have this stupid (imagine Calvin and Hobbes here)Italeri B-26K still to finish before I start the B-24.  At least it's almost ready for paint.  I can't even remember what GB I entered it in, but I know there was one somewhere.

4 minutes into the new year here in Central Florida and the resin am tail is on and ready for super glue

I hope you all had a safe New Year celebration. Wishing all a safe and prosperous 2022.

I bought this Revell 1/32 Mustang when it first came out a while back. I was hoping to find colorful markings for a NMF non filleted tail scheme but was unable to find one I liked. There is a huge selection for the filleted Mustangs so I opted to get a resin filleted tail from a company in the UK called  Aircraft Models. 

I superglued the resin parts to the fuselage sides late last night before going to bed.

The resin parts are on solid and have good fit on the fuselage sides.

Preliminary dry fitting this morning revealed a small gap on the fillet spine. Once the sides go together, I will use thick CA and baking soda as a filler on the resin allowing sanding the area to a thin sharp edge along the spine.

Someones off to a quick start. Looking forward to more.

It's officially the first, I'm sitting at home with a cold (No, it's NOT Covid!) so figured today would be a good day to start my contribution to this mighty GB. I'm in with a Hasegawa (sorry, NOT Tamiya) P-38F that will also be a crossover for the Lockheed Martin GB.

I have some resin wheels, an aftermarket decal sheet, and am considering using some turned barrels, but otherwise this will be OOB.

This kit has some pretty nicely molded detail in the cockpit. The only thing I added was some belts made of paper. 

My builds are usually built with the cockpit's closed up, so I don't spend a lot of time detailing the office. (That and I'm not that good at cockpit painting and/or detailing.)

I like to build more than one kit at a time, so this one will share bench-space with a AMT's 1/48 F7F-3 Tigercat for the Animalistic GB. Stay tuned!

Good luck with your builds everyone. I'm looking forward to finishing more than 3 in 2022!

-O

PJ,

I'll follow along with your build as mine is pretty much the same.  I thought about buying an aftermarket tail with fillet too for the early model, but decided to wait for the late version.

As promised, here's some shots of the sprues and decals for the P-51D-15.

This comprises most of the pit.

Fuselage and wings.

This is wing tanks, bombs and rockets.  Three canopies, probably of different types.

And Barracudal decals.  The reason I bought the 1/32 scale P-51D.

Next up is to give the sprues a bath.

Gary

GAF

 I thought about buying an aftermarket tail with fillet too for the early model, but decided to wait for the late version.

I waited a bit but got  anxious and got the resin tail anyway. The fillets started I believe on 10NA frames and the others got field mods. The IPs changed slightly I believe on 20NA frames. I read about some gap issues on the belly area so we will see once the build progresses. I'm kind of stuck till I can paint in the garage again. We are still putting away Christmas things so hopefully I will reclaim my painting area soon so I can get colors on the pit .

Didn't get much done today, but any progress, not matter how small, is still progress...

Today I focused on the booms. I've read that this kit isn't Hasegawa's best fitting boxing, and I saw that first hand today. I'm guessing, as Hase is prone to do, it uses a modular base kit with the bits and pieces to make the variants included in each particular box. Well, I saw today that the coolers on the booms and the intakes under the nacelles had parts that were undersized. 

Here you can see that gaps in the cooler doors...

And the lip on the cooler intake...

It wasn't difficult but after some filling, sanding, shaping, and rescribing...

I was able to get things looking decent...

Next I'll assemble the booms, attack the intakes, and get everything cleaned up. 

Thanks for lookin'! Of course comments, questions, and criticisms are always welcome.

Cheers!

-O

Looking good, Ortiz!

Gary

Nice looking pit O, and you got those intakes well sorted.

Looking good O. 

Made some progress last night drilling out the guns

And the exhaust pipes, before

And after