Egi vandor Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Year ago i finished my F4U-4B and was going to start new build, but for some reasons didn't built any planed kit. But during this year i still put some models on my shelf, Here they are. Hasegawa F-8E. I built it in 1998, but some years later model fell from shelf. Now i found it and restored. Academy F6F-5. Built OOB. NOVO/FROG F8F. Built in early nineties, few times disassembled and repainted. I found it as a pile of debris and restored. Decal from Printscale. Three HobbyBoss easy-kits. My six year old son became interesting in models, and we built these ones together. He assembled kits with some my help, painted interiors and wheel wells by brush, primed by Tamiya aerosole primer and painted by Tamiya aerosole paints. I painted Wildcat. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Forgot about this Seahawk. Old MPM kit, OOB. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Looks like a fun collection of builds! Nicely done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, John Masters said: Looks like a fun collection of builds! Nicely done! Thanks! All these let me keep the good form, and now i will start some new builds, thanks to COVID19 (it was irony 🙂). I didn't decided yet what to build first - Korean war F4U-4 or Indochina P-63. Or maybe something BIG, like a C-119? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Egi vandor said: something BIG, like a C-119 Yes! I built the Italeri kit and it was a lot of fun. Edited April 15, 2020 by John Masters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 1 minute ago, John Masters said: Yes! It will be SLOW build. Now i collect photos, that will help me to scribe and rivet this BIG bird. So i will build something else at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 16, 2020 Author Share Posted November 16, 2020 (edited) Another built kits. This September i caught COVID and spent more than month at home with my family. Surely, i built some kits with my son. I had not all needed paints, so some of kits now are waiting to be painted. I didn't try to build perfect models, just to make "minus one box - plus one model on the shelf". First, Hasegawa RF-101C. My friend built it nearly twenty years ago and painted it by brush. He didn't use the primer, so paint soon peeled off. I repainted it in silver and applied new decal. Forward undercarriage leg was lost, so i used S&C method to make new one. Next, Airfix A-1J Skyraider. I began to biuld it in 1997, but then i got new Hasegawa Skyraider, so this one was abandoned for a long time. Some details like pylons were lost, so i had to make new ones. Together with old Monogram A-1E. And more to come soon: Edited November 16, 2020 by Egi vandor 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Is that really the Hasegawa 1/72 RF-101C or is it a 1/48 kit? Only it looks like it's got recessed panel lines. The kit looks pretty good. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 3 hours ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Is that really the Hasegawa 1/72 RF-101C or is it a 1/48 kit? Only it looks like it's got recessed panel lines. The kit looks pretty good. Martin Yes, it's Hasegawa 1/72. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Egi vandor said: Yes, it's Hasegawa 1/72. Did you re-scribe it? They look like recessed panel lines to me. I've got an old Hasegawa kit in the stash only it's all raised. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Did you re-scribe it? They look like recessed panel lines to me. I've got an old Hasegawa kit in the stash only it's all raised. Martin Yes, twenty year ago i used this kit as a teaching material in re-scribing, so panel lines are deep and wide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 Just now, Egi vandor said: Yes, twenty year ago i used this kit as a teaching material in re-scribing, so panel lines are deep and wide Thanks Egi, I thought there was a finely moulded Hasegawa Voodoo that I didn't know about! Looks good to me! 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Thanks Egi, I thought there was a finely moulded Hasegawa Voodoo that I didn't know about! Looks good to me! 👍 Thanx! I will built two more RF-101C later - this time Valom kits. I want to build one of them in SEA camo and another in NMF as an Able Mable plane, so I will order custom decal for 'Mary Ann Burns' or 'Georgia Peach' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 6 hours ago, Egi vandor said: Thanx! I will built two more RF-101C later - this time Valom kits. I want to build one of them in SEA camo and another in NMF as an Able Mable plane, so I will order custom decal for 'Mary Ann Burns' or 'Georgia Peach' Big fan of the Voodoo. I've tried building the Valom kit but it didn't go together well. The upper halves of the wing have no location point to adhere to the fuselage. I had to add a curved ridge of plasticard to attach the wings to. Adding to that I had a disaster when going through Alclad Gloss black primer & the aluminium. All the aluminium paint came away from the primer. Also the primer refused to be stripped off with oven cleaner, it ended up being thrown in the bin! Next time I'll probably re-scribe the Hasegawa kit! 😆 I've got a couple of Airwaves resin nose cones to do the C version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Big fan of the Voodoo. I've tried building the Valom kit but it didn't go together well. The upper halves of the wing have no location point to adhere to the fuselage. I had to add a curved ridge of plasticard to attach the wings to. Adding to that I had a disaster when going through Alclad Gloss black primer & the aluminium. All the aluminium paint came away from the primer. Also the primer refused to be stripped off with oven cleaner, it ended up being thrown in the bin! Next time I'll probably re-scribe the Hasegawa kit! 😆 I've got a couple of Airwaves resin nose cones to do the C version. As far as i know, Alclad metallics are not easy, so i never ever thought to use them. Now i use Tamiya aerosoles to paint models in Aluminium, than different shades of Aluminium and Chrome Silver to accent panels. I also saw B-29 painted by AK Interactive True Metal and going to try them. About hard assembling of Valom RF-101 - once upon a time i built YuMTK Yak-28 and FROG/NOVO P-39 from late moulds of Baku Plant, so i'm not afraid of Valom Edited November 20, 2020 by Egi vandor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Duvalier Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 50 minutes ago, Egi vandor said: once upon a time i built YuMTK Yak-28 and FROG/NOVO P-39 from late moulds of Baku Plant Brave man. 🙂 I'm curious about the "S&C" method you mention for making a new gear strut for the Voodoo. Do you have a link or more detailed description? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Jackson Duvalier said: Brave man. 🙂 I'm curious about the "S&C" method you mention for making a new gear strut for the Voodoo. Do you have a link or more detailed description? It means "from scrap and crap" i.e. from pieces of plastic, wire, syringe needles and other stuff, that missed the bin It took near 15 minutes to make new gear strup from pieces of trash that i found on my working table Edited November 20, 2020 by Egi vandor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Duvalier Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 43 minutes ago, Egi vandor said: It means "from scrap and crap" i.e. from pieces of plastic, wire, syringe needles and other stuff, that missed the bin It took near 15 minutes to make new gear strup from pieces of trash that i found on my working table Ah, that makes perfect sense. I maintain a varied S&C inventory on my own workbench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egi vandor Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 Another one is ready. I had Revell kit without decal and part of Italeri decal without kit. Maybe kit is undersized, maybe decal oversized, maybe both things together... With Hasegawa "brother in arms" And with Starfix F-5C Skoshi Tiger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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