I have just glued together the upper halves of the fusalage of my Revellgram 1/48 F-106 and after looking it over, especially at the tail and spine, I can see I have no choice but to scribe the entire model. There are huge gaps that I will have to fill in and sand thus sanding off the raised detail with it. I was really hoping to avoid this.
Now my question is… Is there an easy way of scribing it without breaking away the upper fusalage halves?
It is best to completely finish construction of the kit before rescribing. This way all rescribing lines will line up. Use a flexible straight edge as a guide. Some members have suggested using embosing tape as a guide but I have found it doesn’t work too good around rounded surfaces.
You gave me an idea of how to do this without actually building it. [tup] I did a test fit of wings and fusalge and I found I can get away with taping it together with clear tape and start scribe lines along the seams were the parts meet. This way I’ll get the lines to line up and won’t have to put it together to scribe it. This should work out pretty good. I got pretty good at freehand scribing while doing the Bug, so the Dart will be scribed this way also.
If you really want to have a good time, build one gear up. Be sure you raise those elevons to their neutral position! Scribing it will be the fun part.
The good news is that there is a 48th Six kit to be had. The sad news is it’s basically a pig. Check out my article on building it in FineScale Modeler, Nov. '04.
Im building mine with the gear up to and with the missile bay closed. This is my 2nd one. (the last had an unfortunate encounter with the Testors Dullcote and then the paintball gun) so I wanted it to look better than the first so i closed everything up.
Quote>The good news is that there is a 48th Six kit to be had. The sad news is it’s basically a pig. Check out my article on building it in FineScale Modeler, Nov. '04.
Ah, Patrick, say it ain’t so! But I love the Six so much I just don’t let it bother me. And, compared to the H-282 kit of the F-102 from the Fiftie’s (which I built when it was first released, and “had no fit problems”) it is nearly perfect for fit.
Thanks for that great bit of nostalgia. Is that your box? My dad built that F-102 and managed to get the canopy/gear open/close gizmology to work. I watched with awe. It hung over his son’s beds for a long time. Where are the molds for that thing? I’d buy a re-issue in a heartbeat. (Along with the very rare Revell one-seventy-somethingish F-106. See 'em on ebay from time to time, but they get way too pricey for me.)
The Monogram F-106 is simply a heartbreaker to me. The Dart is my favorite airplane. The kit can provide a very good representation, but it’s not easy to get. I’ll admit I’m pretty fussy here, but when it’s your favorite, who wouldn’t be fussy?
Thanks for the replies Ygmodeler, Hawx and Jeaton. She will be built with gear down as I rarely ever build a model in flight. Scribing will be easy this time around. She wont get the panel line wash the Bug got, I’m planning for panel lines to be a little more subdued. Also I wont be weathering this time either. It’s going to be a pretty clean looking Dart.
Ygmodel, I recall you paintballing your Dart and as I recall you also introduced your Dart to a Sharpie pen and tried to highlight your panel lines and messed it up. As for Testors Dull Coat I refuse to use it, instead I use Krylon Clear Matte Acrylic with fantastic results for flat finshes. Dont feel bad though as the same thing happened to me with my old F-14 and using cheap brands of clear and flat spray finishes. Live and learn.
Yes, I have that box, and it has the complete kit still in its original packaging with all the ground equipment. It is one of my treasures. I have two more of the airplanes, one that I have done some work on, and one set of built ground equipment also. Which is how I know there are some really difficult to deal with seams and fits to work with. I was 12 when I built my first one and recall getting the gear to work, but I also seem to remember that it did not survive too many cycles. A friend of mine who is a very fine modeler built the ground equipment for me and in his hands it turned out very very well. I know of no other ground equipment set that has the same potential and variety, like the service ladder.
If what I have heard is true, there is no possibility of a reissue, the molds apparently went to Japan and were lost on the boat trip back. There was a second issue of the kit without the ground equipment.
Somewhere around here I have the gear operating mechanism from one built up, it is very reminiscent of a dinosaur skeleton.
