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Monogram 1/48 F-4j And F-8e Wip| twong |
Posted: Mar 29 2011, 03:00 AM
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The Monogram F-8E was built some 15+ years ago and I stripped everything down and am redoing it. It was rescribed.
The F-4J project was scrapped. Here is the Monogram 1/48 F-8E. Again, this was stripped and rescribed. I am using Eduard PE detail set, True Details resin cockpit set and some Highfliht pieces for under the raised wing. This one will be VMFA-235.     This is with the wing dry fitted. The wings will be folded.  |
 
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| twong |
Posted: Mar 30 2011, 12:27 AM
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The F-4J was scrapped.
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| twong |
Posted: Apr 20 2012, 04:39 AM
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Been a long time since I updated this post. The F-4S has been scrapped so I am only working on the F-8E now.
Painted and gloss coated. Waiting for gloss coat to fully dry to add decals and a wash.   Wing is dry fitted.  |
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| druid_99 |
Posted: Apr 20 2012, 02:58 PM
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Nice to see the F-8 is back on track... Will keep a close eye on this build. I have a Revell F-8 and might do the same thing with it.
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| twong |
Posted: Apr 21 2012, 02:39 AM
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Thanks druid_99. Looking forward to seeing yours.
Disaster struck on the F-8 today. I will try to continue. Got the decals applied and the red printed decals were very brittle. I managed to save most of the ones that were applied to flat surfaces. The two that went around the nose weren't so lucky. Those shattered like smashing a mirror on the ground. Micro Set or Micro Sol didn't help at all. The pieces just started to crack and fall off as soon as I touched it on the paper backing. It was too late to try and save with liquid decal film.     |
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| twong |
Posted: Apr 22 2012, 08:47 AM
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Crisis averted. I used my old Monogram kit nose decals which worked better than the SuperScale ones. I just need to do a little cleanup around the intake edges.
Monogram kit nose decal in place.  |
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| twong |
Posted: Apr 23 2012, 09:40 PM
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Moving right along. I got the wings attached with the weapons. Just a few smaller things to add and I hopefully wil have it done within the next couple of days. I forgot to paint the wing tip lights and top fuselage light. It will be a pain to try to mask off the areas with everything attached. I will figure it out, I hope.
The rockets look gray but are actually faded olive drab. The light from the flash really brightened it up and gave it a gray appearance. They are darker in natural light.    |
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| druid_99 |
Posted: Apr 24 2012, 08:00 AM
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Looking good... love this scheme... too bad about the decal but nice save...
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| enghui |
Posted: Apr 24 2012, 03:37 PM
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Ya nice scheme , looks all American. Good job on the decals twong.
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| sky_tokyodrifter |
Posted: Apr 24 2012, 06:19 PM
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The recovery looks very nice. Sorry to hear about the red decal but I just can't stop laughing at the godzilla picture lol
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| mr b |
Posted: Apr 24 2012, 09:00 PM
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nice lines u done a good job rescribing if you did.....and the godzilla is a nice touch......hmmm miss my gunslinger ...after seeing this
rgds mrb |
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| twong |
Posted: Apr 25 2012, 07:24 AM
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Thanks all. Almost complete. I still need to paint the lights on the wingtips and upper fuselage. I will post pics soon.
Sky, Godzilla was there to make sure the second set of decals behave. HAHA! Mr. B, Yes I rescribed the whole kit. |
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| rtfoe |
Posted: Apr 25 2012, 09:54 AM
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Ha, last of the true gunslingers,
Lovely markings. One of my favourite "Jets" "ahem". Boy that was really difficult to say since I'm more prop driven.  Cheers, Richard |
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| twong |
Posted: May 14 2012, 09:09 PM
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Thanks Richard. One day you will switch to jets. HAHA!
I finally got it done.     I had it displayed at McGuire JFB on Saturday as part of our model club exhibit. The wind blew a sign over and the sign fell on top of the Crusader and broke some parts off.  |
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| druid_99 |
Posted: May 15 2012, 12:49 PM
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Sorry to hear about the mishap. Hope the damage can be easily repaired...
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