Revell/ Monogram F-82 Twin Mustang

[phat trev]

Looking to maybe do a 1/72 F-82. Whats the Revell/ Monogram one like and would it be easy to rescribe the panel lines?

[CPNGROATS]

I have a couple of these in the stash since they were originally issued. These were originally molded in black plastic...Although I've never built one I have cut the parts off of the sprues and dry fitted it. It all fits pretty well. As far as resribing the panel lines, the petite raised panel lines would give you a reasonable guide.

HTH,

Cheers,

ggc

[Greenshirt]

I built one over 30 years ago and remember it being a very easy build. I understand it's still the best F-82 in 72nd scale.

Tim

[Don McIntyre]

The Hobbycraft kit is very similar.

Here's a couple pics…

The kit does have the night fighter exhausts molded-in. IIRC form building the Monogram kit years ago, the fit overall was pretty good and seemed to capture the lines of the -82 pretty well.

Edited July 15, 2010 by Don McIntyre

[Steve N]

The old Monogram (now Revell) kit is quite nice. The cockpit is a bit spartan by today's standards, and of course it's got raised panel lines, but they're not terribly out of scale (no more than the trenches on Airfix's latest efforts.) It also gives you a nice gun bay (and the cover fits nicely if you want to button it up.) There's a rather large slot behind the canopies so they can be opened and closed, and Monogram did the same thing as Tamiya on there 1/72 Mustangs..molded the glass separate from the canopy rail. I don't have the Hobbycraft kit, but I've heard it's a rather poor quality copy of the Monogram.

Here's a Monogram F-82 I build a few years back. Unfortunately, the acrylic clearcoat I used came out with a "milky" finish, and the camera flash exaggerates it even more.

Cheers!

Steve

[gingerbob]

Heck, I thought it was just Korean dust- doesn't look bad to me!

bob

[CPNGROATS]

Looks good to me as well. This a/c type, as the P-82, had twin Merlin engines and was being developed as an ultra long range escort. The production a/c had Allison engines.

Cheers,

ggc

[Work In Progress]

Heck, I thought it was just Korean dust- doesn't look bad to me!

I agree, it looks pretty good - just as one might expect to see the aeroplane after it has been out in the hot sun a lot during the day.

As a kid I had the kit as a Christmas present back when it was fairly new, I guess around 1973 or '74. It was my first Monogram kit, having been raised on a diet of Airfix , and it seemed impossibly sophisticated and glamorous. It wa an easy build, I remember - nothing needed major adjustment. Glad to see it still goes together well.