Finished a few over the last couple months, I’ll just show them all here together. All kits are OOB, brush painted and I have a standing pilot figure just for fun. Thanks for looking. Chris
First is the Monogram 1/48 A-26 Invader.
Next is a Monogram SBD Dauntless. I had this one up before but a lousy pic then. OOB but a scratch built gunner seat and spinner cover. Battle of Midway scheme from the Acc. Min kit. Oh yeah! I also added longer barrells to the guns and drilled out all those dang holes in the flaps.
Next is the Glencoe Duck seen before in a lousy pic. Still have to add the antenna wire and attempt to add the remaining wire rigging.
Next up is the Monogram Skyraider. OOB.
FInally, a Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat, OOB. Nice little kit.
Program I watched one night called the Skyraider a “dive bomber”, I dodn’t know that. I set it up next to the SBD.
I especially like the centers of the Dauntless’ stars appearing as painted out… the uppermost surfaces of the Invader losing sheen… the perfect aerodynamic shape of scorched paint on the Skyraiders sides…
Great job, especially on the Monogram and Glencoe kits, gotta love the nostalgia subjects! I think those kits hold up well, even though there are versions from newer makers out there. And the A-26 shows where Monogram was by the early 80s, before the merger with Revell.
How did you scratch the spinner for the Dauntless, may I ask? I have a couple of these kits, too, including one that I’m building as a Midway SBD. I’ve thought of gluing ribs to the kit prop’s spinner, then filling with putty and sanding to shape. But I’m looking for any simpler solution.
Nice weathering jobs, too.
Yes, very well done!
Regards,
Brad
A PS-the image link for the F4F is missing the complete HTML tag (“[mg]” instead of “[img]”), so the pic isn’t coming through.
On the spinner, I did a Revell P-51D and it has a spinner to use I guess to build as if the prop is spinning???, so no blade holes. I cut it down using measurements from my Accurate Miniatures build then sanded it a little to sharpen the poing and glued it on. The trained eye may notice some difference, but it looks great to me. I think the flat paint helps the deception some.
Thank you for the posting kg4kpg. You could be the brother I never knew of. OOB, brush painting, and that Monogram pilot figure. I have mine in that EXACT scheme! I have to ask, why hand brushing as opposed to airbrushing? I thought I was the only hand brusher left in the world. I appreciate the beautiful work you’ve shown here and thank you for demonstrating just how effective the old school brush can be. I hope to one day get myself a digital camera and join you here. You have a fan here, my good man.
Not sure if it’s a nostalgia thing or not but I do like the older kits more. I have some Accurate Miniatures kits and accurate or not thee is so much more detail I almost feel I have to make to look more real. ANd even though I like to add a little extra to some, I’m not a real detailer. I leave that to a lot of the other guys here as some of these people’s builds look like you could jump in and fly away they’re so realistic. Like the Helldiver build going on. Incredible to say the least.
