Down Memory Lane Group Build

Sorry guys I ment to have these up a long time ago, but life has kept me pretty busy! I am making good progress on the old Aurora Fokker D-VII. I am pleased with the way the engine is turning out. The plug wires are made of brass wire and they were a bit of a pain to install, but I was so glad that I it. The paint is all by brush. I hope to have this one finished by the end of the month or the middle of Feb at the latest.

http://www.msnusers.com/EricsModelAirplanes/aurorafokkerdvii.msnw

Cheers ,

Eric

Merry Christmas ya'll and have a blessed New Year. My contribution to this GB will should be posted some time in January if all goes well.

Cheers ,

Eric

jeaton Nice Scorpian. THat is the sort of thing that inspired this GB. Getting a chance to build it again, and do it right

I don't know if this fits the rules as it was built before the start of the thread, but here it is.  This box scale F-89D by Revell was my first kit, which I know I built in 1956, or maybe 1955.  I broke the canopy frame on the first one, and pretty much smeared silver paint all over it.  I probably put some red paint on it too but that I don't remember.  I was 9 or 10 when I built it.  This one was built 7 or 8 years ago, and was my first NMF attempt, using Testor's metallizer paint.

John

Hello mph34, My wife knows that I need my "alone time," and yeah I was a bit cranky, but I am so very loveable the rest of the time .  I tend to relax when I build - I forget all of the stuff I have to deal with for a while. She does support my building and even my collecting kits - I am trying to get most of the kits I had when I was kid. My next phase is to get the Aurora tanks. Anyway, my wife understands that modelling is an important part of who I am. She is a very wonderful lady.

Just before I met her I was at the LHS and saw a pile of oop kits and snagged a couple. I asked the owner about them and she said that one of her other customers was getting married and had to get rid of them. I am happy to say that my beautifl wife would not make do that!

Cheers,

Eric

Glad to see you guys are still working. I have finished a few Memory lane builds since my Mustang, including another 1/48 Revellogram P-40, 1/48 F4F Wildcat, 1/144 B-52 and I am almost done with that KC-135! All of them were "memory lane builds/ Do overs"

flippersdad wrote:

Hello all, I have not had a lot of time for building of late, but tonight I was told to go work on a model by my wife and with a smile I went off to the work bench. Finances being what they are at the moment I decided to paint on the lozenge camo on the interior. While my first attempt on the port side was "a nice try" and looked pretty good until I did a better job on the starboard side - I worked off of a pattern this time. When I showed them to my wife she said to repaint the port side. I was going to repaint it anyway. She encourages me to do my best. Cheers, Eric

You must have been a bit crancky if your wife sent you off to work on a model......  Good to hear that your wife is so supportive of your hobby time.  Mine, she goes in waves.  Depending upon the events of the week, and if I've not been home much, I get that "look" if I go to the work bench.  Other times, she almost pushes me into building/painting.

I must admit my lack of progress on this GB   I have the F-111 built, and I am in the process of sanding & puttying and sanding some more.  The Revell kit that I am using is from the 70's which when I built this as a kid, I thought was a pretty good kit.  How we wise-up when we grow older! 

Hello all, I have not had a lot of time for building of late, but tonight I was told to go work on a model by my wife and with a smile I went off to the work bench. Finances being what they are at the moment I decided to paint on the lozenge camo on the interior. While my first attempt on the port side was "a nice try" and looked pretty good until I did a better job on the starboard side - I worked off of a pattern this time. When I showed them to my wife she said to repaint the port side. I was going to repaint it anyway. She encourages me to do my best.

Cheers,

Eric

The firefly has advanced a bit again. I was originally planning on using filler to level out the wheel wells but had to get rid of that idea and use card instead. Now the fun part is to detail the wells with all those little bits.

Hi all, sorry it took me so long, but I finally got started on my B-17. So far I've gotten the cockpit finished, and most of the scratchbuilt radio room done (man, this thing is a lot of work!). Hopefully I will be able to get some pix posted sometime in the near future.

TAdan wrote:

Harvs73, You are doing a great job on that Firefly! I almost feel like kicking myself for building the Mustang OOB.   I cant wait to see how it turns out!

I agree Harv73, keep up the good work!

Scott

Harvs73, You are doing a great job on that Firefly! I almost feel like kicking myself for building the Mustang OOB.

 

I cant wait to see how it turns out!

Here are some images of the interior of the 1/72 Airfix Firefly I am building. I spent a day having fun doing it all, especialy the seats. I have yet to add the radios iin the rear compartment and some further detail in the cockpit.

flippersdad wrote:

Hello all, I am still working on the D-VII, but my eBay aurora kit came without an engine and the landing gear struts - and they said it was complete. Anyway, I had to "borrow" the engine and struts from a Smer kit and they are taking lots of time to clean up. The detail on the Smer engine is bad at best, and some if it is missing altogether. I ended up adding the cam shaft, rocker arms, and valve ends on top, and fixing the intake manifold on the side. I'm having a great time doing all of this. I love the old Aurora kits, especially if they are complete! Cheers, Eric

S

Sounds like a pretty interesting topic your building.

Scott

Hello all, I am still working on the D-VII, but my eBay aurora kit came without an engine and the landing gear struts - and they said it was complete. Anyway, I had to "borrow" the engine and struts from a Smer kit and they are taking lots of time to clean up. The detail on the Smer engine is bad at best, and some of it is missing altogether. I ended up adding the cam shaft, rocker arms, and valve ends on top, and fixing the intake manifold on the side. I'm having a great time doing all of this. I love the old Aurora kits, especially if they are complete!

Cheers,

Eric 

I have finally started the Airfix Firefly as I received the replacement canopy from Airfix. I have started to sand back the surface rivets and am trying to find my book on the firefly so I can do a bit of scratchbuilding in the cockpit, wheelwells etc to fill the areas out a bit.

I'm buying a new camera today or moday so I should be able to do some excellent shots of the kit in progress. I'm buying a Panasonic DFC FZ-30.

So, anyone still working?  I'm hoping to get a few hours in the morning and finish up.  Hopefully get some pics of my build in the forum this weekend.

Cheers,
Scott

Rob Gronovius wrote:

I think I may build the old Revell 1/40th (the box listed scale) M4 Sherman. A real conglomeration of Sherman variants: an M4A1 hybrid hull, horizontal volute suspension system, early 75mm turret with a 76mm gun. Real strange version of a tank that probably never existed. I believe the actual scale of this kit measures out to 1/36. Since there are no rules, I may replace some of the undetailed or omitted parts with some parts that are more detailed.

I was doing some cleaning of my basement model storage space and discovered a box of an even older tank model. The kit I will build is going to be the old Lindberg JS 3 Stalin tank. The old  Lindberg kits had one piece track/suspension sets and underneath was powered by a small rubberband. If you turned the rear wheels backwards, it wound up the rubberband and the tank would roll forward on the floor.

Got all the portholes drilled, now putting on on a few doors and other little PE details and getting ready to paint.

Been pretty busy with other things so this GB has really slowed down for me.

Scott

FrogFoot. I am just poking at the Wildcat right now. Not sure if I am going to build it just yet.

 

I look forward to seeing your build completed.

No update for me, hard to go out in the garage and paint in close to 100 degree weather.

Got you updated Jaypack and TAdan.

How are the builds going?

 

I took a 1/48 Monogram Wildcat out of the box and started to play with that. I still have my KC-135 waiting patiently to be finished...

Welcome JayPack55. I presume this is the famous 1/48 kit?

 

I built it a few years back, and was very happy with it. Not much interior detail, but the outside looks great. I look forward to seeing it.

Okay, I FINALLY found my first "glue together" kit, the Revell B-17F, so I will probably be starting it soon. sorry I haven't been involved in this thread (I just got the kit last Saturday, and I have had kits that are already started from a while back to attend to...) I'll probablt start the build sometime within the month though.

Camo it is then, out of forty tanks I have in the stash only three are one color

TAdan wrote:

FrogFoot, I would vote for Camo.

Don't be one of those people who paints it a solid color, like OD Green...



Seriously- camo would look cool.

Camo it is then will paint it later.

FrogFoot, I would vote for Camo.

TAdan wrote:

Great work JWB! That cockpit looks good hiding in there. I really like the paintscheme on the P-47. What is with the landing gear doors? (I'm assuming it's just because it is a lindbergh kit, lol!)

Yeah- I always add the legs and pants last. I test fitted the struts, then the doors. The struts are waaaaaaay to long. The mounting post for them is really deep- I could've just cut it off. But when I test fitted, it reminded me of when I was in elementary school, and at the years end kids would be walking around in jeans that were way to short- spindly ankles sticking out.

Honestly, the more I looked at it, the funnier it seemed. So I decided instead of fixing it up-leave it! Maybe I'm just lazy, but part of the appeal of it was just how much I loved it as a kid- warts and all. I've nicknamed it "Shorty", since the "pants" are so short.

So now it sits on my shelf, the other planes snickering about it's "high-waters"......

It's got a few other warts. I placed the roundels forward of the side vents instead of aft.... I literally looked at the pic on the computer, and by the time I got to the model desk, I'd got it wrong. (They say memory is the second thig to go..... can't recall the first). And I tried to print the correct tail number, but I couldn't get it to show up clearly when applied to the plane, so I used one from a set I had. The stripes are a bit too far forward, also.

But the wife saw it and said "Oh, sweety, it looks just like that airplane on your wallpaper!" so that was good enough. LOL

It's not exactly like the real bird, but it's close enough to sit on the shelf. Main thing is I had fun!

Thanks for the kind words!

By the way TAdan- that -51 you built looks great. That was the first kit my little brother built!