dhdove Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Hi All My latest addition to the US Navy Cold War jet collection. Bought from an exhibitor at the brill IPMS Gloucester show earlier this year. This 1990 kit went together well and I had fun building it, it's simplicity added to my enjoyment.....tho once again I made a rookie mistake. Having spent a long time getting the fuse internals right and thinking several times about putting the nose weight in I glued the fuse halves together and.....Oh Yes, forgot the nose weights! However the models design rescued me. Folowing advice from the net I'd left the nosegear off and it comes complete with the nosegear bay front bullhead. So I drilled a large hole and sloshed Contacta Clear (all it's good for) in there and dropped my Copperhead 1500 weights in the hole and sloshed in more glue....eventually just glued in the nose gear to cover it all up and hey presto! A first here, after rejecting Tamiya Sea Blue as what appeared to me to be dirty grey I tried my first pot of Revell Aqua Color, 350 Lufthansa Blue. What lovely paint, hand brushed easily and covered well, sprayed beautifully tho it's very gloopy so I thinned it with 60% Tamiya thinners and it went on superbly., I'll certainly be buying more of that. Also tried another new product, "Microscale Micro Crystal Clear" used as a canopy adhesive. At Last! A canopy glue that sticks and as a bonus does dry crystal clear......result! Also tried a new technique for me, dry brushing.....I like it! Did the cockpit and instrument panel details and it worked well, another tool in the armoury thank you everyone. I knew the twenty five year old decals would be rubbish and they were. I bought some Eagle Strike decals for US Marines VMA-223. These decals were great but very thin and VERY fragile as I quickly found. Also, they were VERY tightly packed onto the A5 sheet. Once I learnt how to treat them they went on beautifully and have produced a most colourful aircraft, tho I painted the leading edges as I could not get the decals to form around them, TBH I think it was expecting a lot. Apologies again to all you weathering fans.....I'm afraid this ones straight out of the paintshop too...... So, a most pleasurable build and I'm well pleased with the end result. I think I'm getting a bit of a thing for these simpler historic kits :-) Next up, right up to date, much more detail and something to test newly developing skills, the HobbyBoss A-7E Corsair II, VA-85 "Sidewinders", definitely one of my all time fave aircraft BAR NONE. Happy Modelling and comments and more advice are most welcome. TonyS Edited August 23, 2014 by dhdove 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 The Panther is one of the all-time lookers, IMO, and you've certainly done it justice! Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitok1983 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Very interesting result! I am admiring cold war period warplanes! And I have to set it to my have to build division!)))) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Nice job looks great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philtn Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Very nice Job. Building one too at the moment and it's fun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pascal JMW Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Very Nice work looks great ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhdove Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 Very nice Job. Building one too at the moment and it's fun Hi Phil Just joined? Welcome to you! Good luck with your Panther, I really hope you enjoy making it as much as I did. Whilst these old kits aren't as sophisticated as the newer ones and are lacking in some detail I love their simplicity and ease of construction (assuming that they actually fit together that is!). I had little trouble with this one, it went together pretty well. I'm not a Panther expert but it looks good to me. I would advise that you get some aftermarket decals tho. The originals in my kit had decayed and the adhesive turned to milky mush when put in water...... I'm happy to give you the other decal option from my aftermarket set tho it would mean a different colour scheme for your aeroplane. Good Luck TonyS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philtn Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Hi Tony, just joined this nice community Yes the Panther looks quite good and I liked the cockpit details. After all it's a very old kit. I got myself one from Revell, the photo recce version. But it's the old Monogram one, it's written on the molds used some wire for the ejection seat handles, but no aftermarket parts. I wanted to build it oob, just relaxing... But the Revell decals are from Cartograf and seem to be excellent. Let's wait and see What aftermarket version are you decal leftovers? I will post some pictures soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve27752 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 A very nice Panther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Great build of a classic kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhdove Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 (edited) Great build of a classic kitIs it a classic kit? I'm sorry..........I didn't realise!I very much enjoyed building it in any event! TonyS Edited August 28, 2014 by dhdove Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhdove Posted August 28, 2014 Author Share Posted August 28, 2014 Hi Tony, just joined this nice community Yes the Panther looks quite good and I liked the cockpit details. After all it's a very old kit. I got myself one from Revell, the photo recce version. But it's the old Monogram one, it's written on the molds used some wire for the ejection seat handles, but no aftermarket parts. I wanted to build it oob, just relaxing... But the Revell decals are from Cartograf and seem to be excellent. Let's wait and see What aftermarket version are you decal leftovers? I will post some pictures soon PM sent re decals. TS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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