Alex Gordon
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10 hours ago, Mottlemaster said:
John , i hope no rhinoceros were hert in the processes
Nope,couldn't catch them.They were ahead by a nose...
Looking good so far John.
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Thank you for making me smile.
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Hello again Chums,a spot of progress to show.
Jack,thanks for dropping by.I'm thinking the same for the exhausts but I might have a bit of a play about with some intake trunking.I'm still undecided about which scheme I'm going to go for yet.
Robert,Steve,thanks chaps.
Craig,good to catch up old chum.03190 is in painted silver,the other one,11417,looks to be ADC Gray which would look a bit different and only require a change of serial number decals if I've anything suitable in the spares bag.I'm still undecided on the matter.
I'm a take it or leave it type when it comes to photo etched metal. The kit supplied etch canopy lift rig looks a bit flat,the AFV Club bits have a bit more body to them.
The Eduard etch for the cockpit looks a bit more promising.
Most of what is here covers the flat bits and will look the part.
Mounting such tiny bits could be entertaining so I pinched a method from Dynavector and left the prongs on to be fitted into drilled holes.For me that's half a chance of them staying put,superglue was fed into the holes from the back so there's no glue smears either.Part number 43 in the previous piccie.
Mounting the bits on the seat sides symmetrically was eased by the strategic placement of a strip of masking tape to position the mounting holes.
This is one use of etched metal that does bring something to the party.
In my usual way of doing things I've done a lot of finding stuff,photos and reading material.One thing I did find but haven't fully read yet was a PDF here https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/upload/iblock/528/DCS F-5Е-3 Flight Manual_ENG.pdf that seems to be about as thorough as it gets from a source that I wouldn't normally look at.This http://www.aerospaceweb.org/aircraft/fighter/f5/pics01.shtml was worth a look too.
More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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Hello again Chums,a little more to show.
Alistair,thanks for chipping in old fruit.I've never finished a tin of Matt Black yet and there's been a few over the years.
John.thanks for dropping by old bean.I hope this build gives you a few ideas for your projects,most of the stuff you have seen here has been half inched from other builders but I'm not picky about who or where.
The exhaust cover has had a coat of my approximation of Insignia Red (my tin of Xtracolour had dried out too) and I started to sand it smooth when I realised that it's PVA which doesn't play that game and I ought to think again.
The main undercarriage bay has had some of the pipework picked out
and the beam for mounting the mainwheel doors has been made from a piece of ICM Spitfire cannon bay cover and a length of plastic card strip.
Around four years ago Mike Sweet of this parish sold me some decals,this sheet was among them.
I've had a good dig round for photos of Triple Zilch but I've only found three,this one from f100.org
one on ABPic https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1049478 and one on flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwhitworth/5686428912/ .These photos show two different exhausts and with or without pylons.
The pylons as supplied would benefit from a bit of refinement.The outer ones just need the sway braces shaping,the inner ones have had the sway braces made from the closed maingear doors from the Airfix Pe 2 I finished last year.
Thanks all for looking in,more soon.
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So that's what it looks like on its frames.I hope you enjoy yours as much as I'm enjoying mine,very straightforward up to now.
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48 minutes ago, -Ian- said:
Vauxhall's re-use of the Viva name is an odd one, the original being a rather dull 70s family car.
How dull?
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G'day Chums,I'd like to join in with this one if I may.
This one came my way for not a lot of pennies in an AFV Club box.
In the box is a Monogram kit
a pile of AFV club goodies
various decals
and some odd ends of photo-etch.
The Aggressor markings don't really crank my tractor and the Malaysian sheet is for an RF 5 so not relevant.That leaves the Hasegawa sheet which is for this one
photo from here https://www.airhistory.net/photo/431130/72-1390/01390 .
I quite fancy making this one
which requires a change of serial number and would look a bit different in what I think is ADC Gray.This lot looks a lot less formidable with the stuff I'm not going to use filtered out.
Some of the filler work had been started by the previous owner.
I cleaned off the excess by gently slicing it off while attempting to leave the bit where the raised panel line will run through.
The speed brakes needed a thin shim to make them sit flush and a thin strip of plastic card to make up where the panels were too small for the aperture.
The wing leading edge as supplied is rounded.
It should look more pointed,photo from the BM walkaround
Not the best photography but a spot of filing and scraping has made it a bit closer to how it should look.The trailing edges and the tailplanes have had the same treatment.
The fin had a rough texture on the starboard face.
This was scraped smooth and a tail lamp glass made from stretched and shaped clear runner.
The intakes and exhausts needed a bit of refining.
Some thinning and smoothing will do a lot for the appearance.
More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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G'day again Chums,some more progress to report.
Pete,thanks for chipping in old fruit.Those who seem to know regard this kit highly.The spare aft end option is a useful thing to have,I've been using it to try out a few ideas for the heat stressed metal finish.
I thought I'd have a bash at the jetpipe.
It should look like this
Photo by Bill Spidle,found on Primeportal here http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/bill_spidle2/f-100d_55-3754/index.php?Page=2
I drilled it out.
That's when I realised that if I was going to make a proper job of it I should have done the work before fitting the back end.I decided to make a bag cover instead and,on the upside,the hole is the right size to take the length of wooden dowel that I will use when painting.I started with a square of carrier bag polythene.
This was arranged and taped in place.
Bog roll and slightly diluted PVA glue were prepared.
I placed a decent size dollop of the goop on the polythene and added the bog roll square.
More goop was brushed on around the sides and the bog roll was pushed on to it.The excess paper was then folded back to make a reasonable edge.
More goop was then liberally slathered on,flattening out the paper and generally making all look like it grew there.
This was left to dry for a while.I thought I'd have a play with the canopy.The insert was given a coat of grey at the same time as the cockpit tub.
There were a few wince inducing moments as the four ejection pin marks were filed off the transparency edge followed by the verge of mild panic as the insert was fixed in place using liquid glue and set level so that it all sits right when fitted.There wasn't a lot of contact area between the two bits so a couple of lengths of stretched runner were added to give it all half a chance.
The pylons needed a bit of a clean up and ejection pin marks addressing.I've decided to separate the fuel tanks from their pylons for ease of fitting and painting.
By the time I'd got through that little lot the paperwork was dry enough to lay another square of polythene over the top and smooth everything off with a fingertip without it sticking when removed.
A little more drying time later,not difficult given todays summertime temperature,has given me a reasonably solid cover that will fit and,after a cleanup,should look the part.
More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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12 hours ago, Casey said:
I have a couple of hundreds of paints... what is the threshold between collecting and mania again?
A bit like the buffet at a wake,one of each is neither disrespectful nor greedy.Mania only starts with multiples of one colour and no perceived use for them.Obsession is multiples of all colours with no regard to a future use or not.
I'm now eyeing suspiciously my 300+ paint store and wondering which one will be the next one found to have dried out just when I want it...
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Hello again Chums,some more to show.
Troy,thanks for dropping in old fruit.I have to agree that the basic making the bits line up to avoid later fettling and building it up so that the fettling is where it is easy to get at seems to elude some folks,but there was a time when I was like that and wondered why I seldom made anything presentable.The thing that got me into making life easy was the few months I spent in a steel fabrication works as the grinder monkey,I soon learned the value of a well prepared good fit.I do try with any of my build threads to point out snags and remedies that work for me so that anyone treading the path after me might have an easier run at it.
Steve,thanks old chum.I've only ever seen the one at Newark Air Museum many years ago when my fascinations lay elsewhere so I didn't pay much attention to it.
Anyway,all this whittling about fettling I set about fitting the fin.As it is it sits a bit high in its slot and is slightly too short to cover the full length.
Of course it has to be a curved mating face so bashing off the excess can't be done with a flat file.The edge of a scalpel blade did the honours with several dry fits throughout.I decided to put the slightly too short gap at the aft end and glued on a bit of overhanging plastic card to act as the backing for a spot of filler.
No this is not the same photo as above,the difference is there but very slight.
There are gaps at the wing roots on both sides,upper face
and lower face.Masking tape was laid over the lumpy bits of detail to stop them filling up with the Milliput I slathered on and the smoothing was done using insulating tape wrapped around a small wad of bog roll and a drop of water.
The previous owner separated the two mainwheel bay doors,a suitable piece of plastic strip will cure that one.
The outer door panels were glued on and alignment set up with the aid of the rather natty diagram on the map.
The black striping on the seat handles was next.The black outline on most decal sheets is ideal for this.I haven't a hope of masking and painting this accurately enough so the easy way it had to be.I found some useful photos here https://formulaf1results.blogspot.com/2017/03/f-100-super-sabre-ejection-seat.html
The lining in the above photo broke up on contact with water so I found some on an old Heller Sabre sheet which had a carrier film and used that instead.One side went on easily,the other side just wouldn't (sticking to the tweezers,not staying aligned) so I went for it'll do and that's why one side looks a bit off.
Gloss black paint has been dragged along all the major joint lines to make sure that they've been suitably fettled.
The instrument panel has been drybrushed to pick out the quite superb detail on all the dial faces.I was going to use white paint but the tin had dried up so used a drop of Duck Egg Green instead.
Dear Mr Humbrol,
Why is it that my 40+ year old half empty tin of paint stirs into life with the merest provocation and works perfectly and yet my 9 month old only opened once and resealed properly tin of 34 Matt White has completely dried out in the tin and is unuseable.
This isn't the only tin of your paint that has done this and at getting on for a couple of quid a time this is getting un-necessarily expensive.
Anyway,I'm off to have another look at this site http://www.f-100.org/hun.shtml .More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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On 7/8/2022 at 3:42 PM, Toryu said:
I wonder how long the small antenna mast on top of the rudder will survive...
You could just chop it off and replace it when you're ready with a bit of copper wire
I'm looking forward to seeing this one go together.
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It's not just a recent thing.Back in the days when I worked at Quarryworld I dug up some mud that had been deposited around 120,000 years ago containing a few metallic green and gold snail shells.I gave it to a mate of mine who knew people who could tell me more and I've never seen it since.
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I'm going to say both but if pushed the F 84 has the edge.Here's one I prepared earlier
Whichever way enjoy the build.
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Be proud,you've earned it
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Sounds like lots of fun but twitter links don't show up for us heathens.
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G'day again Chums,a bit more done this morning.
Troy,thanks for dropping by old chum.That scribing template would be a useful thing to have but,noted tightwad that I am,I'd only buy one if I was going to build several of these.I've read a number of build threads on this kit,as no doubt have you,that seemed to imply problems in several places to the point of being fatally flawed and almost unbuildable.I can't remember the specifics in most of them so I'm feeling my way a little and finding that it's nowhere near as difficult as others have pointed out.As you say a little modelling skill goes a long way and is the whole point of playing this game.
The tail section joint has been levelled down and just needs polishing to make the forthcoming metal finish easier.There was a bit of scratching in adjacent areas but nothing too serious.
One problem I do recall in various build threads was the fit of the one piece wing.
Dry fitting showed that one of the four locating pins was a bit tight,the top left one in this piccie.
This was not letting the leading edge of the port wing sit properly.This was cured by shaving a touch off the contact side of the pin thus widening the gap slightly.
The aft end of the lower fuselage needed to be pushed to starboard slightly and a 10 thou shim at the back port corner to level the joint.
The port side intake joint needed a 20 thou shim for the same reason.
There was a step on both side joints to sort out too.
The upper fuselage needed to be spread a little both fore and aft of the wing.The prospect of this is limited by the way the wing fits.I put my SAM saw through the leading edge to fuselage joint and made a gap that the fuselage could be spread into.
A couple of spreaders were then made and fettled until the main side joint matched up without the step and then glued them into place.
Anyway,this is where we are this lunchtime.
Oh,and I dropped it which elicited some pointed Anglo Saxon rhetoric and a clean snapped off starboard tailplane.And a couple of slat mountings.
Thanks for looking in Chums,more soon.
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Hello again Chums,a spot of progress to show.
Steve,thanks old chum.The kit seems to have been issued originally during 1980,Monogram really did do some good stuff back then that still stands up today.
After a dry fit to make sure this would work the intake trunking was glued to back of the mouth.The pursuit of a seamless fit led me to spread the forward ends of the trunking to match the inside of the mouth.
The seat has been painted,it just needs the black striping on the pull handles.
The control column has been glued into the cockpit tub and a spot of Medium Sea Grey has been hairy sticked on to the visible bits with a matt black highlight for the twiddly bits.
The underfuselage light glasses as supplied look like they are at the far end of a cave.
They should look like this
photo found here https://aeroscale.net/list/f-100d-super-sabre-walkaround
The edges of the lenses were trimmed off leaving the centres which were flush fitted into the holes and some fancy finger work with some aluminium foil and a leather punch cutter eventually gave me some suitable looking reflectors to back them with.These were fixed in place with a drop of Klear.
The aft fuselage section has been glued to the upper fuselage half and carefully aligned for minimum sanding and smoothing the joint.This isn't the best photo by any stretch but there is a visible arc at the joint where the fuselage moulding flares out slightly and will need to be levelled down to properly match.The inside of the jet pipe could do with a little extra something too.
The intake trunking joints have been filled and patiently fettled to be seamless.The intake mouth has been glued to the upper fuselage half and lined up for a fettle free joint.
More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.
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The Wikipedia article that image was lifted from says after December 1944,repairs to damage sustained during Typhoon Cobra.
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@Corsairfoxfouruncle Dennis old chum,I'll do you a deal.I'll build this
in the factory scheme
and you build yours in any scheme I'm not going to use.Would that be of any use?
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3 hours ago, Marcello Rosa said:
At what step you did this? I guess, after the first metallic layer was dry but before applying the mask?
The matt black primer had around 6 hours drying time,the top coat had around 48 hours before the masking went on.
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I had something similar in my Percival Prentice build back in 2014.
I was using enamels and I sorted it by gently wiping it over with a bit if white spirit moistened bog roll.
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I've a Monogram one on the go at the moment,it's an easier build than the Dragon offering.
I like that,well done
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for that!
Monogram F 100 in 1/48th Scale.Finished.
in Revell-Monogram Classic Groupbuild
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G'day again Chums,a spot of progress.
John,Dennis,Steve,thanks chaps.
I wiped a thin layer of filler over the exhaust cover.
The fuel tank pylons seemed to sit a little too far to the rear and impinged on the flaps.
The mounting holes were turned into slots
and the pylons now sit where they should.A spot of filler should fill the gap between it and the wing.
There is no marked location for the wing fences but the map is definite about where they go.
The arrestor hook is an odd thing.It doesn't sit well and some light modification seemed to be in order.Finding photos was a little time consuming.The first place I found was a chap who'd restored one http://www.supersabre.com/TailHook.htm .This didn't give me what I was looking for.
Anyway,I chopped off the bit that wouldn't sit properly and had a ponder.
The slats had a coat of silver paint which revealed some ejector pin marks that would benefit from removal.
That done I had another dig around and found some decent photos
here http://yolo.net/~jeaton/century/100/hun.htm .A couple of slips of thin plastic card later gave me this.
The exhaust bag had a coat of paint and looks much better for it.
More soon Chums,thanks for looking in.