Down Memory Lane Group Build

Scott, there is a 99.9% chance this one will not be sitting on an M-80.

I got the wings attached wednesday night. It actually looks like a P-51 now!

FrogFoot wrote:

To the dowm memory lane goup build! First thanks to djmodels1999 letting me handle this group build for him. This GB is about trying to find the first kit you built or the first one you can remember. And building it again the right way. Start April 15 2006, Ends can be planned later Join any time you wish Rules no rules Here is the badge made by jwb so thank him for it and please save the badge to your PC so my photobucket bandwith just not get eaten up.

First off, I like the GB badge.

Now, to earn the badge; a Monogram 1/48 scale WWII plane.  Need to go down to the hobby shop to see what they have that I remember getting during the summer that I turned 10.  As a reward for "working my butt off" helping my dad re-landscape the backyard, he and I went down to the hobby shop and he let me "load up" on about 18 airplanes.  Greatest memory I have of my dad and I doing something together. 

Will let everyone know what I find after I go to the shop (same one that I went to that summer 27 years ago - same owners!)

What a coincidence, my PC is giving me trouble too, hehe. I am posting this from school.

Here is the latest on my Mustang. She is ready for paint!

Looking good TAdan cant wait to see it painted.

Only three hours to go till I loose the PC for three days. Hope HLJ does not ask for my money this week.

Jon,

I think you must be a saint just to be building that kit...  I think you're right when you say it was easier back then.  Ny Airfix 109 has many problems that I want to solve but I'm sometimes asking myself if it is realy realistic to attempt to..! Yes, pity about the crooked seat.  Can't you snap it (just the seat) off and glue it back to a more normal position?   Is there a problem with the wings in relation to the tailplanes?  From your pics, it looks as if there is..

djmodels1999 wrote:

Yes, pity about the crooked seat.  Can't you snap it (just the seat) off and glue it back to a more normal position?

You know, I hadn't thought of that. I'll give that a shot. The office is a "tub" so I know the seat won't go rattling off in the fuselage.

djmodels1999 wrote:

Is there a problem with the wings in relation to the tailplanes?  From your pics, it looks as if there is..

I'd tried and tried and tried to get the horizontal stabilizers lined up right, but they never looked right to me. It does show up more clearly in the pic. I think if I adjust the left one (looking aft) a bit that should do the trick.

By "adjust" I mean snap off and re-glue. LOL

Here's proof of my progress:

The fuselage has been thinned down around the area of the 'office'; the office itself is a mix of plastic, metal wire, foil, and bits and bobs from the spare parts (PE and plastic); the instrument panel is scratch, plastic.  I'm opening up one engine 'door', not really because I want to show an engine (more work!) but because that will be the only way to get the radiator intake, on the underside of the fuselage, to look all right: it needs to be patched up from the inside, and re-modelled a little.  Another job for the near future is re-modelling the 'bumps' on the top of the fuselage, just before the canopy, as Airfix got them really wrong...

Looking good dj and jwb, both cockpits look like they were fun.

Gee never knew how much I missed the PC, I was lost for three days with out it. Now I have the fun task of fixing every thing back on here.

Well guess my name is Froggy for the year now. Did not do any work on my kit maybe this week.

Cant wait to see your P-47 jwb.

Well, I made some progress this saturday. I managed to get the underside of the P-51 painted with light grey. I used Testors MM enamel.

Next up will be some OD for the top of the aircraft...then some white squadron ID stripes and she will be just about done with paint. 

Glad to hear you folks have been progressing too.

scottrc wrote:

The only progress I have made has been to take the box from the shelf to the workbench and open it. Scott

Well I took the day off from work today. I managed to get the OD sprayed. Testors MM. I added 5 drops of Dk. Green to the OD. Most of the other aircraft I have seen in this squadron in color pics were somewhere between OD and Dk. Green. I am happy with the color I got.

Next up is to spray the white ID stripes on the wings and tail. I would like to try and spray some Future on this one. I have never tried future, but I'd like to give it a try.

scottrc wrote:

Gee, I paid .99 cents for the kit from Squadron yet will spend $30 on details.

Thats how every model has to be built now.

Here is a quick update. Major paint work is done!

Next up is painting the prop, exhaust, canopy. Final assembly, decals and weathering...