Classic Kit GB [Official Thread]

My P-40E is out of the play, I fowled up the landing gear. (in homer simpson voice) "Stupid Landing Gear!"

Pappy's Corsair still in.

Dave

Hi Arki30 - Considering its age, I think the AT-6 kit looks pretty good.  It will be interesting to see how well it fits together.  The plastic does seem a little brittle, however.  I usually try to cut parts of the sprue as closely as possible, but I took a small hunk out of the first clear piece when I started, so I backed off a little and and shaving the excess off with an Exacto blade.  I'm going to take my time with this one and experiment with some things.  So far I've just futured the clear parts and started filling the sink marks and removing the remnants of the ejector pins.  Which version are you going to do?   Mine is going to be pretty basic - modeled after the AT-6 my wife's uncle flew in his flight training at Perrin Field, Texas.  No guns, bare metal finish, and with the exception of the anti-glare panel, no paint on the cowling.  I know this is supposed to be a stictly OOB build, but can we do things like add masking tape seat belts and bits of wire for brake lines and such?

Barry 

Mikeym_us wrote:

so how much fun did you have drilling out the little holes in the dive brakes.

Oh, drilling out 265 holes was just LOADS of fun. But I have to admit it will look a lot better now instead of just having perforations.

Hey, drdull, that's the same kit I'm doing!  There's an amazing amount of detail in this kit considering it's age.  What do you think of it so far?

I'll be watching yours go together with interest since I won't be able to start on mine for awhile.

Hi guys - getting started on my AT-6.  Here is a shot of the box art and of the sprues fresh out of the bath.

I still use the red Testors glue!  But I supplement it with Ambroid liquid glue and CA. 

Haven't had a problem yet, other than the darn stuff stringing like crazy and pouring out of the tube once the cap is off.  Okay, so maybe it's not the best stuff....

LOL.  I can remember back to when I had the Testors glues.  You had to have the Green [wood] Blue /red [plastic] and then super glue.  Then I graduated to their model master glue with the metal tip.  Loved it....till I found the Tamiya cement with the orange top.  That and the tin cement for windows. I love it.

That tube glue wa horrible.  There was little to no control over it.  Even if you used the little tips. Seems like the tip would always pop off and glue would go everywhere.  And when you first opened it, you had to wait for it to stop pouring out cause the tube had gotten squeezed.  Still have a few tubes somewhere.  I like it for joining large flat surfaces [wings] 

Summit wrote:

That would have been a twist on things, Having to use tube cement. I still have flashbacks of when I was a kid using Ambroid tube glue. Yikes

Well, to be honest, it was the Ambroid tube glue, the white and orange tube with amber colored cement. It's nasty stuff.

ben1227 wrote:

Same here, I never put figures in my cockpits. Unfortunately, the pilot has a seat molded to him with the Revell Dauntless kit, so I have to scratch a seat and perhaps a stick.  I build models, screw them up, throw them at the wall sometimes, but I don't do figures.

Okay, no pics....but I have assembled the tail fin/rudder, and the ailerons, and painted the engine parts for the P-40E, last night. Engine parts might need a second coat of paint though.

Man, this thing has working landing gear, and all the control surfaces move, I just hope I can get them all to work right.

Cheers,

Dave

That would have been a twist on things, Having to use tube cement. I still have flashbacks of when I was a kid using Ambroid tube glue. Yikes
 

Same here, I never put figures in my cockpits. Unfortunately, the pilot has a seat molded to him with the Revell Dauntless kit, so I have to scratch a seat and perhaps a stick.  I build models, screw them up, throw them at the wall sometimes, but I don't do figures.

Actually, I almost had to throw away this kit because I thought I'd be "classic" and use the old Testors tube cement. Not a good idea, and I will never use that stuff again. I pryed it apart, sanded the cement off, and used CA.

What, no pilots? I hope someone, and I think you Navy Mono guys do, have lots of little guys on oval stands with flags in their hands! Viper- you otta award extra points for pilots.

Miss Sunderland is sure going to have her gunners! Otherwise, I have nothing to glue the machine guns to! And yes, they'll pivot up and down.

viper_mp wrote:

Brews- LOL!!  Only 58 parts!!!  Gotta love the simplicity of classic kits.  Not like the modern stuff.  I have a Tamiya 1/32 F4J with the BigEd PE set.  I swear its over a thousand pieces.

Well, they're 58 challenging pieces, particularly since the rule is to make the working parts work.

The nosewheel retracts ... but I was going to make this "wheels up" - on the stand. I'll make it so the wheel retracts, but the doors won't work.

If anyone is interested in a Hunter with working parts, the Nichimo 1:48 model has a working ejection seat

By the way, the ejection seat is missing its headrest, so I'll have to make that. Are we permitted to scratch wheel well and cockpit detail, or do we leave them "as classic as they come"?

bondoman wrote:

Is that an extra AWACS I see?

Kinda, I have the EC-135 Aria and two NKC-135 Laser Labs.  I was thinking of doing one of them as a C-135 [I already did a KC-135].  Or do it as Air Force One.   Though if I could find a conversion kit, I really want to do an AWACS.  I was down at Tinker last year, and became adicted to the C-135/707 airframe.