Revell Monogram Group Build!!!

Here are a couple of progress shots of the Revell 1/400 Pine Island. I apologize for the photo setup, when she is finished I'll do better.

The big Future mark under the bow numbers will dissappear when I flat coat her.

The PE set from GMM has worked well. The last big project is to put the boom on the after crane, hang the Mariner from it and add all the little swabs manning the crane, holding the lines to the wings etc. It will go on a base that will be the Pine Island in December 1946 launching the G for George flight to explore Antarctica.

Bill

He Bill, very nice progress on the ship. I cant wait to see the aircraft hanging when completed.

Steve

Bill, excellent work on that ship! I've always liked that one. I've been trying to get the Norton Sound as well, but it's tough to find.

btp, looking forward to seeing your two models. 

since you are allowing double dipping I would like to join this group. My son and I are building Revell P-40s { for the P-40 build} with the goal of having them in a diorama taking off one just lifting off the other slightly ahead with the first wheel up and the second still down

Dan 

Ok, I promised this one nearly a year ago and forgot about it. Monograms 1/48 Hawker Typhoon. This was going to be part of last years Secret Santa GB as well as this one but seeing as how that thread kinda died I'll just post here.

Started the wing. Faired in the wingtip and landing lights and did some general smoothing. Also got the fuse together but it's not pic worthy yet. Still got the clamps on it.

Lenses were placed with CA and sanded smooth.

The cannon tubes were horrid. They were spit in half and longitudally about half way and then slit again on a latitude. Very weak. I glued them with tenax and filled in with CA and accel. Much more work to do here.

I'll polish out the lenses after all the airframe is together and the filling and sanding is done. A little mask and the lenses should become a part of the wing instead of the nasty clump of clear plastic that one normally sees on the box top. That's my plan anyway. 

hkshooter wrote:

Ok, I promised this one nearly a year ago and forgot about it. Monograms 1/48 Hawker Typhoon. This was going to be part of last years Secret Santa GB as well as this one but seeing as how that thread kinda died I'll just post here. Started the wing. Faired in the wingtip and landing lights and did some general smoothing. Also got the fuse together but it's not pic worthy yet. Still got the clamps on it. Lenses were placed with CA and sanded smooth. The cannon tubes were horrid. They were spit in half and longitudally about half way and then slit again on a latitude. Very weak. I glued them with tenax and filled in with CA and accel. Much more work to do here. I'll polish out the lenses after all the airframe is together and the filling and sanding is done. A little mask and the lenses should become a part of the wing instead of the nasty clump of clear plastic that one normally sees on the box top. That's my plan anyway.

a great example of the  northrop FLYING WING       just kidding

i see you put a lot of work into the cannon tubes   thats great   i did this kit about 4 yrs ago had the same prob with them  mine never looked as good as yours will

HEY GUYS!

I just decided to drop by my old hangout place today :D

its been a long time (or it feels like it)...

i'm excited to see that the build is still up and running.

cya all later~

Jin 

jinithith2 wrote:

HEY GUYS!I just decided to drop by my old hangout place today :D its been a long time (or it feels like it)... i'm excited to see that the build is still up and running. cya all later~Jin

Welcome back from Never Never land, or where ever you have been hiding lately.

Darwin, O.F. 

sidure wrote:

Hey Troy, very nice progress on the typhoon and the likhts look great. Hey, I did not mean to push into building this one, hope you took no offence with my comment, I was kidding. With that said cant wait to see how this one finishes up.

Steve, no offense taken. I had been all gung ho about building this one a couple of times but life got in the way in the form of delays, moves, divorces. Before long modeling was back burnered for a while and I forgot about it. You mentioned it at a perfect time as I had just finished a build and was looking for the next project. So here we go! Lookin forward to putting it next to the Jug. The Typhoon was bigger plane than I had realized.

Troy, I know what ya mean about life getting in the way of building. been a simular year for me but things are looking up. At your pace I fully expect to see this one finished ina week or so. I have another in my stash so keep us posted on how the build goes. I would be interested in your review.

Steve

A little more progress today on the Typhoon. Steve, you want advice on this kit? Brush up your seam repair skills! Really though, the kit goes together well. And best of all, the best seams on the plane are the wing roots! Yea! All most of the seams needed was some Mr. Surfacer 500 though there is one on the bottom of the wing at the rear that took some putty. I filled it with CA and accel. One thing a potential builder might do is put a blanking plate behind the radiator. the area is spartan for detail and one can see all the way through the plane without one. Ofcourse, though I found the problem during test fitting, in my zealous effort to get to the seam filling I forgot to add the blanking plate. Go figure.

Obviously, got the primer on a bit ago. I found a few seams that could use more attention. after that, more primer and it will be ready for paint. I'm going to use the kit decals and I hope they work. They look nice for seventeen years old.

Well, Well, Well, there is a shock, Hk just zipping along on this build. It looks great from here HK and the seams look very good. Thanks for the build report and of course let me know if there are any other tricky areas to be aware of. Good looking work.

Steve

Got some paint on tonight but it don't look much different than the primer. Have to let it dry for a while before I put on the green. Steve, I'd advise a new canopy. The kit version is a bit rough. Weird mold defects that need to be sanded out and polished up. And this one had some damage from storage. Some sanding and polishing was needed to clean it up but after Future it looks good. I'm going to mask it and glue it on before I finish the paint so the camo lines will match the rest of the pattern.

Paint and Future.

hkshooter, nice progress I built that one a few years back.  But I scratched some bomb rack so make a RCAF 440 sqdn Typhoon.  They used bombs, not rockets.

Also my Titanic is floundering in early build stage.  I am having problems mustering the desire to mask the decks for the wood/brown colour.  a lot of masking is needed.  once that is done it would go pretty quikc but it is just the effort to mask it that is hard.  grrr.  and I've been sitting at this point since the summer.

Good luck with that J. I didn't bother masking my decks when I built mine. I just painted the decks, and then scraped off the paint along the sides where it went up on the walls. After that, I masked the decks off to paint the white. Less mask to use if taping the decks.

Looking forward to seeing it.

Nice progress on that paint job. I especeally like the faded and worn effect of it.

Steve

Steve, better get AM decals. Mine were horrible, thick, a little out of register and, well, the printing was weird. Like looking at a TV screen up real close you could see the individual dots of ink but you could do it at a distance of two feet. Solvaset hardly touched them and after I had a couple on I decided I could just not do it and took them all off. Now I may have to repair the damaged Future coat while I wait for the new cals to come in. All that nasty white decal adhesive along with the Solvaset turned the future chalk white. I'll let it dry and access the damage.

Meanwhile, most of the kit is done. Gear is on, clear parts painted and waiting install. Just have to get the cals on and do the weathering.

Sorry to hear about the decal wowes. Hope you get a new set soon.

Jay, on the Titanics decking maybee you could try using some pastel chalks on the decking. I have tried this method a few times and it has come out well. I usually try using about 3 or 4 different shades and just vary it's use here and there. Give it a try and if you dont like it just wash it off.

Steve

Computer woes knocked me off line for a couple weeks but I finally got back here to catch up.

 Bondoman is my new hero for doing such a good job with the very old Pine Island

 Being off line does give me more time at the bench though so here's my Monogram P-38.

It was begun about 3 years ago by my son Paul when he was home for the summer from his last year of college. He got the major assembly done but then went back to school and left it to gather dust.

I completed the assembly and did the paint and decal work.

I'm surprising him with it tomorrow........

stikpusher wrote:

Very sweet P-38! Great weathering and Invasion Stripes! Which brand/type OD did you you use for the topside? I like the darker shade that you got.

Thanks!

I used all Tamiya for this one. The O.D. is Khaki Drab acrylic straight from the jar and thinned with Tamiya thinner.

NICE P-38,,, and sweet Ship Bondoman....

I am still lagging behind my builds, almost done with my Revell 1:48 P-51D aka the "test bed", which I used to practice every new technique since I came back to the hobby some months ago.. I figured it deserved to be posted after all the pain I inflected her.... also scratchbuilding some details for the revell PT109 boat Im building for a ship GB somewhere else... will post pics this week I hope...

Here's my mostly finished USS. Pine Island. I'll try to take better photos in daylight. The old Revell kit, which seems to scale out to about 1/425. I always liked this model when I was building US Navy ships as a kid, at the time the Currituck, but it seemed too complex and I never owned one.

My major surgery was to remove the cast railings/spray screens, which meant removing big areas of this ships sides and building back up the structure with styrene strip.

I used the GMM 1/400 PE set extensively for railings, 20 mm guns, radar and crane rigging. I used Toms MW sailors for the crew handling the line to the Mariner. That particular detail was very important to me- its what strikes you looking at operational photos. I also added the hangar bay doors.

I really struggled to get the Mariner to look right being loaded by the crane. Somehow the geometry was wrong, I suspect in the end the boom is too short. But I got things kind of ok.

My inspiration was a good article in an issue of Air + Space this year about Operation Highjump in Antarctica in December 1946 and the lost Mariner "G for George". I'm mostly interested in aircraft, however reading the article I remembered my fondness for the ship too. So I did some research, gathered together photos and the kit, and here you have my first ship model in 35 years.

The idea for the water was to look cold, windswept and forbidding. I thought about ice flows etc. but it seemed wrong so close to an aircraft operation.

stikpusher wrote:

Very sweet P-38! Great weathering and Invasion Stripes!

Very very well done. I'm sure those stripes were a handful over the booms, scoops etc. Great job!!

I think it's time for some Luftwaffe glory in the Espin household.  I've started building my Revell 1/48 Me 410B-2/U4.  I haven't decided which set of markings to do, but I've been doing a lot of research.  I hope to have some cockpit assembly photos for you soon!