Ok guys What do you think of this Model? I would like your most honest oppinions becouse Im takeing it to the Nats and would like to correct any thing now before its to late. The leading edges are Stainless Steel on the real AC so do you think I should polish them to a Crome finsh. Id like to hear what you think.
Thanks guys. Trevor M
DUDE i really like that yellow stripe! is it a decal or painted cant really tell?
So far so good, your Demon is looking really well.
Good luck at the Nationals.
It certainly looks like a winner to me Trevor. The panel lines are crisp and nicely done. The paint job looks equally well done. One little nit-pic…the wheel wells look a little bland.
Ahhhhh!!! Gotcha!!! Seriously, the model looks very convincing,great job. Good luck in Atlanta.
Dragonfly
I’d take the masking out of the wheel wells & add the LG before the Nats [:)]. Seriously it looks very nice. If the wing LE’s are Stainless Steel, I personally wouldn’t portray them in a polished sheen. To me would look out of place with the otherwize weathered finish. I assume that’s the Grand Phoenix 1/48 kit. How was it to build ?
Regards, Rick
I’m no judge, but if you don’t win something, it’s rigged.[:D] I’m impressed and enjoy your work. Good luck.[^][8D]I also agree about the leading edges. Nothing is very shiny at sea.[;)]
Eddie
Trevor,
Drool! Drool! Drool! I’m hoping that one day I can get my hands on a Demon. I love those second generation jets! They’re a topic hardly covered. I think your Demon looks great. I hope that if I ever get one it turns out as nicely as yours. One thing I try to keep in my (but don’t always adhere to) is the fact that carrier-base jets (and someone please correct me if I’m wrong) didn’t tend to get as weathered as their land-based bretheren. I try to make my land-based WW2 planes a bit on the weathered side in terms of panel shading, paint chipping, etc. But when I’m building a carrier plane, be it WW2 or Korean or anything else, I try to keep in mind that the maintenance crews tended to keep their birds a bit more kempt. It could be my monitor or just the lighting of the pictures but the panel lines seem just a teeny weeny bit on the “heavily weathered” side. The planes, I think, had to be kept clean to prevent salt water corrosion and I would imagine that there wouldn’t be much of a dirt or other such build up along the panels. Perhaps someone could shed some more light on this since I’ve never served on a carrier.
Otherwise, your model sure beats some of the kits I have on display on my shelves. Keep up the great work!!!
Eric
Hey Trevor,
First off, the paint scheme is totally off… I do not think that you used the correct colour gray for that particular era…
Just Messin with ya… MAN Trev, I remember you talking to me at the Buffcon show about this build. All I can say is that you definetly did a cherry job on her.
Overall build is beautiful… Do you have any pix of the office by chance?? The few pix of the Demon that I have that my Dad had taken at Pax Riv while he was stationed there, shows the LE to have a lil sheen to them. Then again that was at a NATC so the a/c were mantained a little better then out in the fleet.
Again GREAT job mu friend. So when do you want to meet at Ace???
Flaps up, Mike
Thats a handsom Demon you have there. Leave the slats as is/
You’re correct about those guys trying to keep their birds clean and when they first come aboard for cruise, they are in tip top shape.It was my experience, that as a deployment dragged on, it was harder to accomplish. Maintence and greasy gloves took their toll.
The first two photos show hand prints and the off color paint applied to maint. areas. The last shows some guys doing a bit of cleaning around the numbers and other areas. My point being that Trevor’s bird looks like it just started a cruise.[:D][8D] The panel lines,IMHO, just beg to be noticed.[:)]
Strictly speaking, the leading edges of the wing and tail surfaces of US Navy aircraft in the gull grey over white era were painted with “coroguard”, a protective coating to prevent erosion of the paint. I don’t know if there was ever an FSN color assigned to it. I’ve heard of it represented on models by metallic colors ranging from aluminum to steel. It may have been polishable to a very bright finish but a shiny finish would seem inconsistent with the weathering on the rest of your model.
Even todays small corporate jets have a coating on the metal slats. It’s not at all shiny. Although, some do have it removed so they can be polished. I would leave yours just the way they are. What did you use to fill in the wheel wells and other openings? It almost looks like a foam material.
trevor i am no judge but i believe the direction this one is traveling is the right one. it looks absolutely stunning. outstanding work.
joe
Holy Mackrel!! Thanks for all your responses guys. Eddie you always seem to have photos to back up your aguments.You must have a million of them. Thanks a ton Ed. Hey Mike good to hear from ya,its been a while. I was actualy thinking of heading to your hobby store this Sat. Can you meet me there. E-mail me the Directions. echolmburg. Thanks for your indepth reponse, its just what I was looking for. I hope I can be as helpfull to you in the future.
rjkplasticmod. The model was certainly a challange. Its not a terrible fit at all,but you will need a litle styreen sheet here and there. I loved every min of this build.
Thanks to all the feedback Ive decided to keep the LEs flat as so many of you tend to agree on the matter. I still have to give the upper surface a sun bleached effect and in doing this ill be able to lighten, or not, the darkness of the panel lines.
Again thank you everyone for your help and oppinions.
Trevor M
Trevor,
You’ve certainly worked hard on your Demon…looks great, mate.
Personally, I think the panel lines are a little stark, but that’s a personal thing - aside from my petty, useless criticism of the panel lines I think you’ve done a very good job - it’s a very sharp build - very tidy indeed.
Post some pics when you get the thing finished - I’d love to see it finished.
Nice work, Trevor. I’m no expert on jets, so can’t comment on how realistic it looks. All I know is that I like what I see!
Mark
You Demon looks great. Demons Rock!! I have the Emhare in 1/72. It will take a lot of work but I’m geared for it! Starting soon. Will be doing VF-61 just to be cheesy and have as many Jolly Rogers examples as possible.
Trevor,
If that Demon don’t win, there are other demons affecting the judges! WOW! I’m going to start the Czech model Demon soon, I can only hope to come close to waht you have accomplished! Outstanding work, my good man!
Brian [bow][bow][bow]
Probably be judging your category. If it’s straight/aligned, it has a good chance of placing. Many many an otherwise fantastic model has left NATS w/o placing because of crooked stabs, weapons and landing gear. Pay attention to it all, because the judges do. The alignment eliminates 3/4 of the entries in most categories.
Good luck, and thats a cool lookin’ jet!
Thanks for the Heads Up Magnetass. Im definetly going to recheck every thing now.