ScottsGT

Little bit of progress today. Got the horizontal stabs, engine and nose glued on in my few minutes I had. Oh yea. Also glued on its legs. vertical is just sitting there. Also made a thing to replace the fragile thing. Used an 18 gauge needle and some music wire that fit inside.

Pre-pubescent Viper?

And just so y’all don’t think I’m sandbagging on this build…..

Good news. Just got an email my red paint has shipped. Sounds like Ian spared their location.

Any advise on “close enough” colors I could find in lacquer? The T-bird colors are just too dark.

But wait! There’s more! Now I’m off searching for the correct red. Instructions call for FS11105. The only lacquer I could find with those numbers was SMS out of Australia and imported by USA Gundam store. It’s listed as RAAF Red with FS11105 on the bottle. What the heck, ordered 2 bottles. Of course now I’m getting radio silence and no email replies. I look up their address. Yep, Daytona Beach, FL. Not sure if I’ll ever see this order or not. I currently have the red and blue for Thunderbirds planes in stock. But these colors are lighter by a shade or two. Oh, here’s a few pics of the actual plane.

Pulled this old Minicraft Hasegawa kit out of the stash and started it earlier this week. Just something about this old kit I’ve always wanted to build, and considering it’s been around for 44 years and probably half that time in my stash, it was time. No real action shots to post yet of things getting glued up since it’s kind of a typical boring F-16 build. But I have run into a conundrum I could use some help on. The colors called for. The instructions have FS 15056 which somehow doing my Google sleuthing I came up with MRP-316 or colore 11-azzurro. Italian AF 1916-1943. So I ordered it. Thought it looked a little too light in the pic. So of course I’ve been back to Google for hours searching images and came up with this pic. And thought for a second that when they kitted the model they simply used the wrong color. But something just didn’t look right. Found out the above pic as a tribute paint job by the Belgian AF for a show sometime back. Could Hasegawa possibly found this aircraft and listed the wrong FS number?

Y’all mentioned decals. I have a top drawer in a filing cabinet I keep decals in and this got me thinking. The wife has been wanting to clean out the file cabinet, so there I go! I can have a drawer or two to organize how I want to store them.

How do you keep up with it? I refuse to box up items with the kits I bought them for, so I’d just pile it all up on a shelf and hope the old gray matter is firing in order when I start said kit. When we moved last year I shoveled all my AM into a moving box. I kind of kept some order? Few months back I saw a Fisher nose correction for the Connie come up on evilBay. I bid a high of $75 and said no way I’m spending more. Woke up the next day and it had sold just shy of $200. The other day I found one in that moving box. Apparently when I bought the corrected radomes and cowlings, I got one of those as well. I thought I had 4 or 5 more sets of Rhino or DMold Phantom intakes. Nope. Just 2 and 5 or 6 kits. Should have bought more when I could have.

John, that turned out fantastic! As quick as you burned through it, I cannot figure out why if was placed on the SOD?

Welcome to the forum! Myself, I simply do a search for a particular subject on modeling websites. Now what would come in handy is an app that would keep track of all my kits in my stash, the piles of aftermarket I have and have it where it cross references with each other. Just the other day I went through my boxes of aftermarket goodies and discovered I’ve bought too much one one thing, not enough of another. Maybe even a location like ”Box 14-Garage shelves, right side” I try to keep a list in my notes, but it gets mixed up in the shuffle.

WooHoo! All done. Doc said I probably won’t need the implant since it’s the rear molar. Saves the modeling budget too! And now the wife has me out furniture shopping with a mouth full of gauze. I can’t make this stuff up.

Wow! Looking great. Are you using any of the kit decals? My Cougar decals were brittle and impossible to use.

Neat!

Scheduled for 8:30 in the morning. Yay! Let’s get this going. I’m taking Hydrocodone for the pain and doing goofy stupid things like I did 24 years ago when I was living on the stuff before my back surgery. I was cleaning my airbrush this morning and dumped the dirty thinner right back into the bottle of clean thinner while looking at the dump cup sitting right there. Derp. I was going to take the ‘66 for a drive, but no way now. It can wait a few days.

And I’m not talking about for the wife. Had a small crack in my left rear molar years back, dentist did a quick fix, but in reality we just kicked the can down the road. Couple weeks back, pain returned and got an appointment for 10/23. This weekend pain reached a threshold I could not tolerate with OTC meds. Got in to my dentist this morning and they sent me to an Endodontist for a root canal. Get to his office, nope. Your cracked all the way down the root. I could try, but it won’t last. Nope, not pissing away money to put off the inevitable. Waiting on call from Oral Surgeons office for a Thursday tooth pull and post installed in my jaw. Years ago my back surgeon told me I have an extremely high tolerance to pain. If my tolerance is high, I’d hate to see how someone with normal pain levels handles this. At least they gave me some good pain killers.

What Mustang?

Started out the day doing some work in the F-16A but around lunch time I said no more. I cranked up the old ‘66, found the new plate, sticker and registration and installed them and went for a ride. I’ve never heat cycled the ring and pinion all the way since installing them almost 2 years ago. Went on about a 5 mile ride. Yea, that’s garage dust I’m trying to see through… Got it home and realized I was driving on tires that only had 14 psi in them. Oops! Aired them up and gave her a bath. In the morning I’ll go on another drive for a good heat cycle again. Might stretch it out a little further though. I’ve got to either drive it or sell it. Tired of seeing it sitting in the garage all the time.

Yea, that stage of the Cougar was a little nervous! It’s looking great!

My MRP and Mr. Color lacquers both came right off the resin unless I primed it. It was very frustrating. I also scuffed the surface I could get to with 400 or 600 grit wet or dry using water to help keep the sandpaper clean. Even small interior details I sprayed top coat on was flaking off days later in some areas unless I primed them. And yes, I scrubbed everything with Clorox/soap and warm water before I started the project.

Amazon refused my review. LOL!

If anyone here has never built a resin kit like this, just look at the pic closer at the air bubbles that come with casting. It takes a lot of patience to go over a resin kit to correct all these blemishes. One reason my Cougar was a 4 month build.

Great news! Had a discussion on ARC with KursadA of Caracal decals. Said he’s had a lot of requests for 1/32 F-35A splinter schemes that he is working on something.

Yay! Another tool I must have! Wide variety of blade types. I’ve got to seriously look into this. Wife being a nurse and now a CRNA, I bet she has some handles stashed somewhere.