Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) I recently got a craze to reclaim some of my old kits. Thinking they were nice once upon a time and now maybe just touch them up a bit to make them better after 30 years of dust collecting. However I realized quite fast that buying a new kit is the easier way to go. But I decided to continue with at least one old kit just for the complete experience for maybe sometime in the future when I would have to get a 2nd hand kit like the special hobby U-2S in 1/72 (Which I REALLY want! hint hint ) I started cleaning up a Heller S32 Lansen, Airfix Mosquito NF.IV, ESCI F-4E and a Italeri F-16A . The details were all crap and it wasn't really worth the effort. So trying to come up with something to do with them I got the idea to make them in AMARG relics, aka the boneyard in Arizona. There are plenty of F-16A pictures online to choose from, many very interesting IMO. I think I enjoyed researching about the subject much more than the actual hands on work. I will try to write a better post in the future on how aircraft's are prepared, stored, parts reclaimed and how all that effects us as model builders. As an example the protective spraylat that covers the aircraft's would be more and more removed and ripped the longer an aircraft stays in storage.. This is similar to what I want to do. My F-16 will have wings and canopy, most of the top covered in spraylat, engine and elevators missing, standing on its wheels, no wingdroptanks, maybe centerline droptank (haven't decided yet),: Photo from http://www.f-16.net/g3/f-16-photos/album38/album128/ads [Photo by Phillip Kovaric] \\Dan Edited November 3, 2016 by Zippo the Zipdrive link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) Subject at hand 1/72 Italeri F-16A finished 30 years ago as FSD article no 5 (?) if memory serves me correct. Before: Top underside Edited April 17, 2018 by Zippo the Zipdrive photobucket problems. switched to postimg.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) I let it soak in Isopropyl alcohol for 24 hours and the old paint was easily sanded. It's rather messy, but the kit turns out smooth. I forgot to photograph it. To show you what it looked like here is my 35 year old Lansen kit: Cleaned and filler added: Edited April 17, 2018 by Zippo the Zipdrive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) Pretty bad fit for the exhaust even with filler so I decided to remove it since some boneyard F-16s are missing their engines. I also wanted to keep the Block 10 elevators for kitbashing so I removed the aswell. Edited April 17, 2018 by Zippo the Zipdrive photobucket problems. switched to postimg.org 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Cool idea, nice progress so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 3, 2016 Author Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) Rescribed the panel lines that would not be covered with spraylat and added some detail to the wheelwells. The nose gear strut was at an incorrect angle so I gently but firmly applied force to it until the old crappy glue let go. Right now I am trying to figure out how and what to do with the wheels and struts... Edited April 17, 2018 by Zippo the Zipdrive 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom216 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Great idea. Very outside the box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Brilliant idea, looking forward to your progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stever219 Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Interesting idea! It looks like the legs are off the example in the heading photo, with the carcass supported on stands at either end. It also looks like some of the fuselage skins have been removed around the intake, but every example in the boneyard will be different as they are robbed of parts to keep others flying. I have the incredibly horrible Merlin Models kit of the TSR 2 lurking malevolently in the loft which I've always considered fit only to be used as the subject of a "Project Cancelled" diorama (or a source of "plastic soup"); you might just have prompted a resurrection of the idea! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zippo the Zipdrive Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 9 hours ago, stever219 said: Interesting idea! It looks like the legs are off the example in the heading photo, with the carcass supported on stands at either end. It also looks like some of the fuselage skins have been removed around the intake, but every example in the boneyard will be different as they are robbed of parts to keep others flying. I have the incredibly horrible Merlin Models kit of the TSR 2 lurking malevolently in the loft which I've always considered fit only to be used as the subject of a "Project Cancelled" diorama (or a source of "plastic soup"); you might just have prompted a resurrection of the idea! Good to hear! keep me updated when you start the work At AMARG the aircrafts are classified in four different ways depending on what they want to do with them. Long term storage, kept in flyable condition, cannibalized or scrapping. I have figured out that there is a general rule of how an aircraft would look like and then like always there are variations. Offcourse the more parts are reclaimed the less of the aircraft is left. Gear taken off and standing on wooden support etc. work in progress making some spraylat schemes and tryin to explain the process... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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