**** DONE: GB-35 1/48 F-8E Crusader - Vietnam French/American War 1950-1975

[fubar57]

Username: Fubar57
First name: George
Category: Advanced
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer: Monogram

Known as the Fighting Checkmates and as the MiG Killers, with seven confirmed kills and one probable, including both the first and the last F-8 kill. VF-211 was second in MiG kills only to VF-96's F-4 Phantoms

 

[fubar57]

Yea....I know....I said I had nothing and if you listen to my wife she will say I only see things if they are directly in front of me. So at about knee level I found the above kit. The goods........

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I also decide to add some innards...

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[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Added the stuff to Post #2

 

[Wurger]

Looking forward to the assembling Geo.

 

[fubar57]

I read Paul's build in another GB and it looks pretty straight forward. Sure a lot of people in that thread who are MIA

 

[Robert Porter]

The landing gear look really good! Actually the whole kit looks great. I like your add on's however I think they bring it up quite a bit! I know people tend to knock Revelogram kits but I love them! Best bang for the buck out there I think. Looking forward to this build.

 

[fubar57]

Playing around with the cockpit tub to see how much material needs to be removed to make the fuselage halves fit together....absolutely none. True Details even provides a slot in the right side of the resin tub to fit onto the plastic lip the kit part would have sat on to make sure everything lines up...

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...a comparison of the tubs...

 

[Crimea_River]

Well, that will spruce things up a bit. Good entry Geo.

 

[Robert Porter]

I have heard others rave about True Details, especially as compared to Aires which often requires major surgery to incorporate. There is no comparison, based on your pictures the True Details set will really add some zing factor!

I have an Academy P-38 in my stash and I bought the Aires Cockpit set, and a quick look shows I have some serious surgery ahead of me!

 

[fubar57]

Thanks Andy. Robert, from what I've read, TD are the best fitting of the resin makers. I've got a few more but I bought them before our dollar crapped out. The resin parts are resting now after a nice warm bath

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Should be a good one Geo, and I like the look of the resin parts.

 

[rochie]

Great subject Geo

 

[fubar57]

Thanks guys. This is my biggest venture into using resin, never having to remove large chunks of un-used material. So....wearing a respirator, turning on the spray booth and cranking on my motor-tool I set about removing the block the seat was mounted on, leaving about 1mm. I then filled up a small dish with water and using strips of 400 grit wet/dry, I removed the remainder. Here it sits before painting, amassing seat and cockpit photos at the moment. i just hope I can do this justice....

 

[Wurger]

Looking great. However have you checked if the resin cockpit fits the fuselage? It happens quite often that both the cockpit and fuselage walls have to be made thinner in order to fit the innards in the fuselage.

 

[fubar57]

Did a quick check yesterday and everything seemed good, the fuselage halves met with no gaps anywhere. I'll do another before I set anything to glue

 

[Wurger]

That's good info.

 

[fubar57]

As a reassurance, I rechecked. Keep in mind that there is tape between the pit and the left fuselage and the halves are loosely taped but it looks pretty good...

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While its taped like this this, I'll check the seat/canopy clearance as I've heard resin makers kinda forget about this. As I was researching this build I found several guys used different resin innards and had problems with this fit though not all. But first....I have some non-modelling domestic stuff to attend to

 

[Wurger]