Classic Kit GB [Official Thread]

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.

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.

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] 

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....

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.

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.

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.

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 

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

Do you know that a majority of the SNJ's and AT-6's were used to make the Tora Tora Tora aircraft. And that of those Tora Tora Tora aircraft 10 were used in the movie Midway as Vaught Vindacators.

drdull wrote:

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

Cool, thanks for the heads up on the brittleness.  I'll have to watch that.  I have no idea what markings I'll be using.  I'm assuming at this point I'll use the kit markings, but that's also assuming they won't disintegrate on me.

Well it looks like the Dauntless will have to be built in-flight and mounted on a stand I wasn't reading the instructions and apparently you're supposed to put the gear struts on BEFORE you put the wing halves together, but I already have the wings joined. So the gear will be retracted which I already have worked out. I plan to have some sort of base with a rod attached to the model at one end and the base at the other.  Have any of you ever done this, and do you have any good ideas?

if you haven't joined the wings to the fuselage you could try to pry open the wings enough to slip the landing gear in.

Question for you working on the Monogram AT-6:  What are you going to do with the instrument panels?  There isn't much relief to the raised gauge details and my first attempt at painting them black and drybrushing silver resulted in a dull smear.  I stripped the paint and am going to try again, but I wondered if there were other methods to use.

Also - does anyone know the purpose of the hole on the port side of the fuselage just abaft of the cowling above the air intake?  Its molded in but no part seems to fit there.

Barry