Revell Monogram Group Build!!!

smokinguns3 wrote:

If your useing tamiya acylics the ones in the bottle and not the spray can ive used denatured alchol. If its out of the spray can i mean decanted id use laqure thinner since there rattle cans are lauqure paints.

Yea its out of the Jar not de-canned.

So any clue as to what this "surface sealer" stuff I read about? There are some swirl marks on the top of the body as well as the trunk area. I want to start cleaning it up.

Also I will be spraying Tamiya's gray primer through a airbrush.. what should I use to thin it out. Its my first stab at using it outside the spray can.

   Yes please put me down.. Looks like a lot of fun!!

I group build is basically a bunch of people who are building the same or similar thing, ad its really informal. like if you read the first few pages of this GB, u will see how nuts we are

if you want to join, you are more than welcome to! anybody can do it, even rookies! rookies are encouraged to do it. want me to put you down?

oh, and welcome to the community

  I was wondering if someone might explain how the GB works and if it might be ok for a rookie to this forum to join? It really seems like a good way to learn. Ive been looking a the F-18 S/H I have other F-18's but this would be a good reason to pick this kit up. 

Since this is a long GB I wont be starting on my B-25J right away, I did however do a bit of shopping to add to the detail on the old kit, I purchased the Eduard PE sets for the bomb bay and the rest of the plane.  Hope to start on it in the next month or so.  I have a couple of builds that I need to finish before starting on another one.

Matt

THanks Doom, As you can tell I figured it out. But not with out you and my wife.

I,m a computer

So, do you have room for another builder in this group?  I am currently finishing up an F-14 (Hasegawa, 1/72 scale) for a couple of other builds, but I have several Revell, Monogram, and Revell-Monogram kits in my stash, and these group builds seem to keep me focused.  Let me know if I am "in" and I will decide on which kit to build, but it will probably be the recently reissued X-15.

Scott

OK so I was sitting at my worktable thingy and nearly scalped myself. on the bottom of the SR... the blackbird not the drone... there is lik an almost 1/8 gap running all along the right joint where the bottom and top fuses come together... and right there, split by the gap, is the most complex scribing job on this project... and when I squeeze the gap together, it mathces up zilch!!!!

CRAP

jinithith2 wrote:

Supraman wrote:  jinithith2 wrote: ok guys... I was just reading the FSM announcements forums and in the forum etiquette post, I saw this "Frivolous and pointless jokes are welcome. Healthy, humorous debate and banter is actively encouraged!"-David Voss heeeeeeeheeeeee how many pancakes does it take to cover a roof?   I will take a guess, one bite??    no you thilly goothe! its blue, because snakes have no elbows!

Jinithith, you, my man are nuts!!. That answer makes zero sense. I think I found my new home

I'm sorry that it took me a while to post, but last night I had really bad migrane. And my sister-in-laws entertainment centre to assemble.

Dumb question though, how in H, E, double hockey sticks, do you get the GB banner in the signiture area???

TGregory wrote:

I checked squadron web site and they (being vendors of Everything for plastic) have no AM parts listed for the F-106  It looks like another OOB build for me. Sorry group leader.

Hey T, I am building this same kit for the GB and I am also going OOB plus my own add-on's with it. There are some things you can add to the cockpit yourself with things you find around your house. I added a canopy lever just using bread tie wire. If you have a Jewelers or Opti Visor it's really easy to make your own PE from scratch and add it on. Thin malable wire, even copper wire and any stiff tin foil from vacume seals on coffee cans or other products will work. If you have PE laying around unused from other kits that can also be adapted for your Six. Look for photo references and add detail where you can.

Air Master

Bleh.. this is the kit from hell lol .. so I was reading online about prepping the body. It says to sand the body toremove any swirl marks left from injection blah blah blah.. then it says to sand it with fine sandpaper, and spray a light coat of surface sealer before spraying first primer coat.

Question: What is Surface sealer. I always thought this would be the primer.

Also the bodylines on the doors are like almost non existent. Im finding it difficult the scribe my own since this is the first time I have actually tried. Since im going for the race kind of look.. I think Ill just smooth them all out, and fill in door handles add a front to the included roll bar, and call it a full blown race chassis haha.

ok now its bed time. 1:30 am is late enough..

Since the group leader started.. ^_^

Just some work on the exhaust. Its slightly bigger than the supplied part.. but wold have to be measured to know the diff. Ididnt have anything exact at work.

TheLastPriest wrote:

Ok sorry nevermind, new here, kinda slow on another note Psychoblue23 where you from?   i grew up in hayward now im in castro valley, good to see another 510 on these boards

Born in hayward but always lived in Fremont. 27 years. I jsut moved to hayward to be close to chabot.

well... MORE INFO!!!

do you live in Ohio? are you at KSU right now?

whoa Mortar. Kent State? Kent State University is 20 mins from where I live! Are you talking bout the one in Ohio?

TGregory wrote:

Yippee starting early!! Delta Dart It's just you and me, mano a mano. I've whupped you once and I'll do it again. You better bring your a gaps this time.

LOL Tony's Putty vs. Delta's Gaps

Yippee starting early!!

Delta Dart It's just you and me, mano a mano. I've whupped you once and I'll do it again. You better bring your a gaps this time.

Ok sorry nevermind, new here, kinda slow

on another note Psychoblue23 where you from? 

 i grew up in hayward now im in castro valley, good to see another 510 on these boards

ygmodeler4 wrote:

Jinith, you said this is the first specific company group build... There is an Italeri group build going on in the armor forum, there was a Revell Monogram group build last year. Sorry if I sound alittle harsh. Anyway once I get $20 I'll go to wolly world and see if they have something besides a P-40 or a F-106 as I am already building that for the 2nd time.

I meant first of many company spefic builds that I will be doing. like a TV series

Jinith, you said this is the first specific company group build... There is an Italeri group build going on in the armor forum, there was a Revell Monogram group build last year. Sorry if I sound alittle harsh.

Anyway once I get $20 I'll go to wolly world and see if they have something besides a P-40 or a F-106 as I am already building that for the 2nd time.