Mike: Love what you’ve done there but I’d be terrified of having the props disintregate if I accidently turned the tool too high or got the paintbrush too close.
Jim: Ouch! Good luck to you, if I were in your place I think I’d box everything up till things calm down a little. My hats off to you for getting anything done.
Greetings fellow modelers,
I don’t know what is so different from what I did on the right side of these ejections seats. One of the two that I glued last night let let go again tonight. But at least I got one of them done. I still have to put the second hanging belt on, but I am going to work on glueing the other belt for the third time. This time I am going to put the thing in a vise so I can at least get better pressure on it. I will win! [:@] Here is a picture of the one that I did win on:
Ken
Well, there was one point i was looking at the prop go round full speed, and this little voice in the back of my head went “what if it exploded right now? that would probably hurt”
But i was having too much fun so i ignored it. This was my pre “pew pew” stage lol.
Oh and i didnt use a paint brush on it once it was on the tool. I used a mechanical pencil with the lead extended maybe a quarter inch. Poked it in on an angle so the prop hit the lead and pushed it out of the way.
Ken: I know what you mean about the PE on the seats. Have you ever tried Gator Grip glue? I find it much easier to use than superglue. No I don’t get a cut but I’ve still been recommending this to everyone.
Mike: LOL, sometimes you gotta take a chance! I just assumed you’d used a paintbrush with the motor tool to power dry-brush your props! Hehe, the pencil did the trick- looks good. [H]
Hi Cliff,
Thank you for the tip and the link. I just placed an order! I am always willing to take advice, especially when it is obvious what I am doing isn’t working! [:D]
Ken
Ken, I hope you like it. I hardly ever use superglue anymore. The GG is much easier to work with. As the review said it’s pretty much white glue like Elmer’s but super strong. One of the best things I like about it is it has a little ‘give’ to it, so if you bump something glued with it the part will flex instead of breaking off like superglue will.
Hi Cliff,
After reading the review and hearing what you say about it, I am convinced. And the owner already sent it out! Pretty fast response. I look forward to using it. Thanks again for the recommendation.
Ken
Hi Everyone,
Well as they say, the third time is the charm! I got the last belt to hold. I started bending some more on the hanging belt and got it looking like I want it. Now I need to paint it. I will save that for tomorrow night. I am taking this Friday off from work for my birthday so maybe I will be able to get some more done then. Talk to you all later!
Ken
SoMM Ken,
Great! Looking forward to photos. Finished the cockpit of the A-20 - normally I’d take some pictures but hopefully I’ll be able to get some photos later when it’s inside the aircraft.
So I’m halfway with the J-79 aft turbines, I posted them on the
Itchn’ for Scratch II: F-4 J-79 1/32 Flame Holders post
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Flame holders
Exhaust turbines
Roughly what they’ll look like
So now I need to double up the number of blades.
I’ll then assemble the J-79’s and paint with…Gosh forbid…a paint brush.
Of course, I still need to ad about 100 little bits to the turkey feathers…
the little ‘resignator’ parts…lol…“you got paper work for those, son?”
Hi Dom,
Nice work! And I thought I was scratch building with my seatbelts! But nothing like what you are doing. Very creative.
Ken
Hi Cliff,
Thank you for the compliments. You are really moving along on your Havoc! Are you going to have to plan on putting in some nose weight to keep it sitting on the front wheel?
Ken
Thanks Ken!
Mind you, these are not blue-print scratch builds though, like you guys are adding on, these are
original Revell tolerance, so, ahem, I got a football field to play in…lol…[;)]
Hi Everyone,
Tonight I painted the belt that I twisted on last night. Not much to really take a picture of by itself so I am not going to bother with. But I am pleased with how it turned out. I am going to let it dry over night. When I have it in place I will take a picture and show it off. I will check in with everyone tomorrow.
Ken
SoMM Ken: Great, the cockpit sounds great. And yeah, thankfully this is the gun-nose Havoc and not the greenhouse nose so I have lots of places to load lead fishing sinkers in there.
BC: Those look great!
Well, another Friday night, and another solar Tsunami,
the aluminum foil on my head has a few extra melt spots…[:(DD]
I managed to double up the turbine blades.
Mind you, this month’s FSM has a guy who re-did the intake fan on a Pegasus engine for a Harrier, in aluminum, no less. -nice work…
Ahem, this is a workin’ man’s styrene exhaust turbine…to Revell specs…lol…not blue-print…:
Chi Hua Hua! i posted the rest of the uglies on the Itchin’ For Scratch thread.
Now I can finally assemble and paint the J-79’s…
The outer perimeter nasties will be covered by a blast ring…
or at least that’s the theory…
I’ll try and make some progress on the assembly and painting soon…
The turkey feather actuators are going to be even more nasty…[:O]
[Y]
Hi Dom,
Very nice work! Your skills as an artist are showing through! Well done. [Y]
Ken
Greetings everyone,
Well my birthday was spent baby sitting a Chihuahua (in addition to our own). We have baby sat this dog since it was a puppy and it is a very sweet dog. We treat it much the same way as a grandchild (we do not have any yet). So I was unable to work on my build yesterday and today. My wife is working today (she normally does not work on Saturday). My best friend came over last night to celebrate my birthday with me so that finished the evening off. So it was a nice day.
I did receive a very nice birthday gift! It hasn’t arrived yet but here is a picure of it:
So it was a very nice birthday!
Hey Cliff, that Gator Grip showed up today. I will be trying it out later today when my wife gets home to take over baby sitting.
Ken
Greetings everyone,
Well tonight I finally did some work on my build. I glued that one belt that I have been twisting on with that “Gator Grip” that Cliff recommended. I will say that it did grab the metal belt pretty good when first pressed into place. I will let it dry overnight and then try working with it some more tomorrow. I still need to cut it down and figured with how well the glue is supposed to hold, I would do it after it is in place so I cut it more accurately. Since I have not posted a picture of what I have done for a few nights I went ahead and snapped one. Here it is as of tonight:
Ken
Ken;
Here I was, gettin’ all proud an’ bragging about scratchin’ out some J-79 intake fans, and all the while, you’ve been scratching out a replica of the Roosevelt dime while you wait for the paints a’ dryin on that seat!
Not sure why 1973 was so important to ya’, but heck, nice work![;)]
Oh yeah, that seat looks great Ken, I noticed you got the spiral on the yellow paint on the ejection handle, well done!