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  1. In December, one of the guys in a modelling group I am part of, gave an idea - let's do a "One week wonder" group build - you've got the first week of 2024 to start and finish a kit from your stash. I was up for the challenge and picked up HobbyBoss' easy kit F-84. It's not a bad kit per se and it has a few weak points but for a price for around 5€/$, it's hard to complain.

     

    Decals come from Hi-decals and represent one of the 34 of Imperial Iranian Air Force F-84Gs.

     

     

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  2. About a year ago, me and my buddy Mitja decided, we should build the same kit from our stash but do it in our own ways - we picked GWH F-14D in 1:72 and picked VF-101 Grim reapers squadron, me going high vis, Mitja low vis. There was some aftermarket used - I used metal pitot tube, resin wheels and burner cans, while Mitja went with wheels and ejection seats. For the purposes of my vignette I also used excellent Reedoak figures. 

     

    My vignette is called "Last season, baby!" and shows preseason photo shoot of one of the two display aircraft for the last Tomcat airshow season in 2004.

     

    Happy New Year!

     

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  3. On 12/9/2023 at 8:48 PM, drake122 said:

     

    Fascinating! I read your build article, also watched a different modeler on YouTube do a video build and you both had the same issues - upper fuselage and belly panel fit being the worst. The person on YouTube didn't use filler, instead he reduced the plastic thickness of cockpit floor and also sanded and scraped the intake trunking upper portions so that fit improved. 

    Yeah, I think you are talking a build from Ugur Kenel. Yeah, I was thinning the parts as well, but couldn't get them to fit without the filler. You could almost see through the cockpit floor. But it was interesting to watch that vid, because he had the same exact issues.

  4. Thank you everyone for you nice comments - glad you like her!

    I also apologize for the late reply - got covid and was away from PC for a few days...

     

    On 12/4/2023 at 10:03 AM, dimaADA said:

    Congratulations!

    It's really hard work, I know that. But you did it!

    Great result!

    Thank you Dima! Your work was a great motivational start when I started mine - was try to add some mods and improvements but in the end the plastic started defeating me and I only concentrated on the finish, rather than all the minute details.

     

    On 12/4/2023 at 12:05 PM, IGKent said:

    Looks nice! Great MIG! :yes: What brand is the model kit?

    Thank you! It says in the title - Clearprop

     

    On 12/5/2023 at 7:55 PM, drake122 said:

    That is very good, but why would you want to bin it during assembly?

    The complex multipart design of the fuselage creates some rather complicated challenges on how to actually build it - at one moment, I was actually considering sawing the top part in half... Got it described on my webpage - check the signature below.

     

  5. 2 hours ago, Bertie McBoatface said:

    There's always an open cockpit option. It's called a saw! 😂

     

    Nice model nonetheless

    Actually, it's a little more complicated than that as I was considering it. But the front sliding part of the canopy is overlaping the mid section and the way, canopy is made, even by cutting (sawing?) it away, I still couldn't slide it back, but would either have to thin both clear parts paper thin and somehow recreate the framing on the mid portion or, what would be the easiest choice, find somewhere  vac replacement... though I wasn't prepared to go that way, at least not this time.

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  6. Thanks to everyone!

     

    On 11/8/2022 at 3:37 AM, Gazontipede said:

    Superb work! It really looks convincing on that diorama.

    I was under the impression that Tamiya kits almost assembled themselves, what problems did the kit give you at the start?

    I have one of these lurking in the stash and I'd like to know of any pitfalls that may trip up my fat fingers when I get around to it!

    There was some fiddling with the wing to fuselage join, but what troubled me the most was short shot plastic sprue - worst being back gunners bulkhead and fuel tank.

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  7. Excellent Tamiya model, which made me a few problems at the start of the build, but luckily, I could remedy the problem. First time using Quinta 3D cockpit decals only to realize, that there is no option of open cockpit. Oh well, at least the canopy has the clearest clear plastic I have ever seen in a model.

     

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  8. On 11/3/2022 at 12:19 PM, RussellE said:

    Fantastic! This might sound like a novice question, but where can we find the codes for the planes that flew at Midway? 

    A good start would be here - the Order of battle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway_order_of_battle#Carrier_Strike_Force
    Then it's easy - just image search for specific squadrons and you should get plenty of results. If you check my page, you'll find a complete VB-6 list in the SBD article.

    Hope this helps.

     

    13 hours ago, David Koktavý said:

    After some in-box reviews I had not good impresions about the kit. Surprisingly the finished kit looks really nice 👍 .  As I see, I suspect the brake holes in the flaps are a bit smaller 🤔 just compared with some random photo

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    yeah, the holes are a bit too small, but I'd say that's the major downfall of the kit. Don't know what the inbox reviews said, but this is one of the best WW2 kits I have built so far.

     

     

     

  9. On 10/31/2022 at 10:49 AM, Pete in a shed said:

    My thoughts exactly, what a beautifuly made model.:clap: How did you do the dip in the aerial wire?

    Pete

    I first attached the upper wire between the mast and the tail. Then I superglued the vertical line to the fuselage and when it dried, I (with the help of a 3rd hand tool) guided the wire over the top one with the self closing tweezers and started to "lower" it on the other side of the fuselage, thus creating sag on the main line. When I was satisfied with the result, I superglued it and removed the remainder of the wire.

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  10. Thanks to everyone!

     

    On 10/31/2022 at 10:43 AM, Shorty84 said:

    One question though, do I see that correctly that the kit features raised rivets? Are they a kit feature or did you add them using aftermarket rivets? They look to be in scale so they must be quite delicate.

    Markus, they are indeed a kit feature. I was a bit worried at the start of the build, as I still had vivid recollections of disappearing raised rivets on the kits from the '80s, but Flyhawk's engineering of the kit is such, that the fit is great and the danger of eliminating those due seams clean up is minimal.

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