Revell Monogram Group Build!!!

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

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.

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.

Sweeeet I found my motor for the 240z.. good thing I get my discount from work cuz I will be buying 2-3 of them haha.

psychoblue23 wrote:

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.

if u are decanting it from an aerosol can, then you don't need to thin it. put a large straw up to the tip and then spray into a film canister or an empty paint jar. shake the paint and open the lid often so that the dissolved propellent inside the paint will go away. when it stops bubling, you can shoot it through an AB

williamsfw28, I added you. welcome to the build!

psychoblue, where do you work? hobbyshop? that'd be really cool to get discounts on models

Please add me, if it's not too late!

I've never joined a GB, and have been out of regular building for a few years, and I'm looking for a reason to get back into it.

I can't decide what to build, right now.

The stash is HUGE, and the choices are many.

Can I get back to you when I pick the one I want to build?

Most likely will be a 1/48 airplane, of some sort.

Leon

  Thank you!!!!

  Guess Ill be going to the hobby shop this week...........cant wait to tell the wife

don't tell her about me, cos i might have a piece of lead lodged in my forehead

jk, didn't intend any offense to you or your wifey

   No worries she super cool with this hobby because it keep me around the home. By the way could you teach me how to add the badge?

right click on an image you want to put in, go to properties and then copy the image URL. go to "update profile" near the top of the page and scroll down to the signature sections. paste the URL between [ img] and [ /img] (without any spaces, I just put those there so they would show up).

It'll look like this (without the spaces). [ img]http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n316/MerlinzMajik/FlameWings.jpg[ /img]

you can do the same thing with pictures. 

  Thanks will see if i do it right???

yep. I see it right in front of my eyes

great job!

Since some of you guys have already started, I thought I would also. Not only start but finish 366 days early. Just to remind you fellas I am the Gato sub dude.

so with no further ado here is the pic

jinithith2 this is for you

jinithith2 wrote:

psychoblue23 wrote: 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. if u are decanting it from an aerosol can, then you don't need to thin it. put a large straw up to the tip and then spray into a film canister or an empty paint jar. shake the paint and open the lid often so that the dissolved propellent inside the paint will go away. when it stops bubling, you can shoot it through an AB

I mentioned above.. I am using the liquid surface primer that is in the small square jar. Normally I use the spray can stuff, thats why I needed to knwo what to thin it with. Apparently all I need is denat. Alch.

Yes I do work at a hobbyshop. HobbyTownUSA and I am always willign to offer deals to anyone on the forum. ^_^

this is the stuff... I also picked up .10 piano wire to add for brake lines.. or fuellines.. if I decide to add them

filling and smoothing ^_^

Supraman wrote:

Since some of you guys have already started, I thought I would also. Not only start but finish 366 days early. Just to remind you fellas I am the Gato sub dude. so with no further ado here is the pic jinithith2 this is for you

holy crap how'd u know I was hungry as hell?!?! I need to eat my keyboard now

psychoblue23 wrote:

Yes I do work at a hobbyshop. HobbyTownUSA and I am always willign to offer deals to anyone on the forum. ^_^

ooooh deeaalsss....

what sort of deals are you speaking of here?

Since the GB leader got started already. I popped my Blackbird out of its box and worked on the office.

I am not going to put much work in to it. Since most of the office is going to be hard to see once it is covered up.

jinithith2 wrote:

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

Welcome to my world

jinithith2 wrote:

psychoblue23 wrote: Yes I do work at a hobbyshop. HobbyTownUSA and I am always willign to offer deals to anyone on the forum. ^_^ ooooh deeaalsss.... what sort of deals are you speaking of hear?

Well for anyone thats loacl, or close enough to drive to Fremont, I usually give a discount to the forum members. Also at the end of the year I put a lot of models on sale to make room for new stuff. So like right now... in the store we ahd a bunch of models that were 25% off and I mentioned to the forum members just to come in when I was scheduled and I would doa buy 2 get 1 for free + the 25% off. I posted it a few weeks ago.. but only one guy said he would show up, but never did. I sold a lot of kits regardless...

FrogFoot wrote:

Since the GB leader got started already. I popped my Blackbird out of its box and worked on the office. I am not going to put much work in to it. Since most of the office is going to be hard to see once it is covered up.

don't forget that the cockpit is black good progress so far!

Heres what i've got done, I looked all over the net for dcent cockpit pics and this is what i came up with.

here's what i have done so far.

i want another bag of those...

A couple of hints for those building the Monogram SR-71.  The D-21 drone as carried by the A-12, aka M-21, did not have the two pitot tubes on either side of the air intake.  Those were added on the D-21B as modified to be carried by the B-52H.  Also, the vertical rectangle with the cropped off top corners on the outside of the rudders should be flush with the rest of the surface, not embossed.

Darwin, O.F.

 Also, the vertical rectangle with the cropped off top corners on the outside of the rudders should be flush with the rest of the surface, not embossed.

Huh iam lost.

jinithith2 wrote:

here's what i have done so far. i want another bag of those...

YUM, YUM!!! That's tonights dinner, my mother-in-law always makes seafood for New Years. Oh yeah, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!