Builders
Have to add trim w/Xacto to my little assembly line list.
1 Wash parts 2 Trim 3 Cement Subassemblies 4 Paint 5 Final gluing 6 Paint touchup.
That’s the working model for now.
See the need for clamps for gluing two fuselage halves together.
Will get Xacto clamps, little one and big one later.
Right now will get little red metal C clamp at Wallyworld for 88 cents.
Merry Christmas
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Fermis
When I consulted the Ouija board about this it said 'Get
the blue Xacto clamps and get a little metal clamp for now’.
I can’t go against the Ouija board.
Merry Christmas!
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Fermis
If you want to debate about clamping you can start a post about it.
We’re clamping it and that’s that!
Merry Christmas!
Builders
Glue together engine halves with Testors Plastic Cement.
It’s the one ounce bottle with the red label.
No gap filling with that! It’s the consistency of rubbing alcohol.
Then glued ejection seat halves and front on engines with
Testors Liquid Cement.
I think they have the names backwards.
The Liquid Cement is about halfway in consistency between
tube glue and thin Plastic Cement 1 oz bottle.
Merry Christmas!
[8-)]
Was just another way to accomplish the same thing…in the mean time, until you get clamps or whatever YOU want to do.
Can’t argue with a ouija board…was just a joke…no need to get em twisted up!
Fermis
Okay.That sounds reasonable.
Can’t argue with using masking tape in some places, like to
hold a part up if it will fall over right after you let go of it.
I’m clamping two halves of fuselage together.
Just looks like job for clamp to me.
Merry Christmas!
Modelers
Glued together two fuselage halves today.
Did need to do a little trimming to close seams.
Next is gluing one piece main wings and one piece tail.
Merry Christmas!
If I remember correctly that kit dates back to the 1950s and is probably older than most of the modelers on this forum. It is a good kit, given its age. Testors glue (liquid) is OK, but try Tanex 7 and/or Weld On # 1, #2, And/ or Weld On#3. There are others also worth trying. I use Testors when I want time to maneuver a part into place. The Testors gives you a little more time to get things straight and/or in alingment. Some of the other liquid glues set up much quicker. In your situation the longer setting time gives you time to get the parts aligned and clamped. Enjoy the build
Hey ! You gotta watch your Mout !
The kit is old, Granted , But that ain’t meaning we who bought it for our First plane are ancient . Choot we Chust got ouda de diapers. We is chust Oldt ! For all of this , a little tongue in Cheek and LOL.LOL.LOL. Oh , and Happy , Safe Holiday ! ! T.B.
Ranger J
It’s a kit that’s been in existence a long time.
I like these Lloyd ownership Lindberg kits.
All the times I was in Cedar Rapids and I
diidn’t put two and two together and stop by Lindberg. Yikes!
Now they are starting to come out with this regimes’s kits.
You can tell they have that artists artwork on boxes.
Merry Christmas!
Tanker Builder
Yes. I built one of these as a kid. Now I mean a Lindberg kit.
It was the Q Ship. Which they just reissued.
Must be some interesting medication there giving you.[:)]
Merry Christmas!
Since I built the X-3 as a kid, I always like to share a picture of the real, one and only X-3 built that I shot in the USAF museum as a reference. Have fun!
Max
Hodakamax
Some of the older kids had green putty.
When you saw that while they were working on
their desk in the bedroom upstairs that meant
they had experience.
Us little kids just had kit, some glue and maybe an
Xacto knife.
Suadron putty you can get today is probably the same stuff.[:)]
Merry Christmas!
Nope, it was the dark ages, putty had not been invented yet and I did not have an X-acto knife. My kit had a very low serial number in that day. First flight was 1952 and the kit was out shortly after that like 63 years ago and I would have been 11. Yikes! [:)] Actually I was shocked to see the real plane. I had forgotten that it even existed.
Max
Hodakamax
We didn’t have to go through that kind of depravation in
the early 60’s. Civilization had made huge strides in progress.
Folks got me the Xacto workbench set one Christmas.
In a wood case that stood up and had just about everything you could think of…
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/exl/exl56002.htm
It had a vise like this only it was painted light blue.
Don’t have it anymore but still have the Mattel Powershop.
Merry Christmas!
I almost hate to jump into this frey but here goes!!! I remember Testors tube glue, Revell tube glue, and Ambroids tube glue for plastic. I also used Sqaudron green putty to fill seams. Then I discovered automotive “spot putty” and today I use the acrylic version of the automotive puty as well as thick super glue to fill and shape. I used to make my own liquid glue by stirring sprue into acetone. Revell was the big player early on as well as Lindberg, Hawk, Aroura, Comet, and Monogram. Sometime in the 60s Frog and Airfix crossed the pond. Remember the kits with the decal markings etched into the plastic?
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All. Even at my age I still want a new model under the tree. Go figure.
Check out this olde Aurora F9F-6 Cougar kit. No scale mentioned but the fuselage is only 6" long. It does have the decal markings raised for painting. I don’t know if I should build it or preserve it as a kit.
Max
Max you may want to look that kit up at oldmodelkits.com. Might be worth some money.