Thanks guys. For some reason I keep missing the new posts on here, I was wondering why it had got so quiet. I guess the site has been so busy, its hard to keep track of everything.
Jim, really like the look of that canopy. I was going to have a try at dipping the 16 canopy in future, I have never tried that before. Looking at that result, I must get to it. I don’t think I have ever seen that Star Trek episode, do you recall what it was called.
I got the pit fitted today and will post some pic slater. Just need to get the wings attached.
Here is that next update. I completed the pit earlier in the week, but as I had to wait for the pilot figures to arrive, I was able to do a few other bits. This included painting and assembling the wheel wells and undercarriage. I also added the wing pylons and filled the holes for the pylons I am not adding.
I still have some work to do before painting, including adding the clear parts to the HUD and some sanding. I will leave off the horizontal stabilisers until after painting.
And that’s all for now. And I will try my best to keep up with the thread in future.
Just getting caught up on all the building going on everything looks great. The new job is going well but involves too much time to allow me building anything. I ordered a revell P-61 so when I get started on that I’ll feel much better. In the meantime I’m reading evolution of the P-61 by Warren Thompson to get me up to speed. Keep up the great work guys!
I have to admit to being a bit of a “Trekkie” though I never went so far as to attend conventions or anything like that.
The original pilot was titled “The Cage” and was later incorporated into the two part episode “The Menagerie”, where Spock was being court marshaled. Leonard Nemoy and Majal Barret (Mrs. Gene Roddenberry, Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troy, and the voice of the computer in every series) were the only two actors from the series that had a role in the original pilot.
We have not enjoyed any temperatures above freezing for several weeks now. Right now we just received a good dose of freezing rain and it is currently snowing pretty hard. Fear is that the winds are expected to pick up as the temperatures drop throughout the day. That could lead to tree limbs taking out electric lines. The temp tonight is expected to go down to 7 tonight.
I too am somewhat of a “Trekkie”. And also like you have never gone as far as to attend any type of conventions. I have the original series on Blu-ray which looks fantastic. There are two different versions. One with the original special effects, and one with improved special effects.
Like you all, have been battling the flu and the cold weather. Despite the flu shot, I got two different types of the flu, obviously the strains not used for the basis of the vaccination!! What a bummer!!
-Bish- your F-16 is looking great!
Jim and Ken- I’m a trekkie like you guys; despite the corny dialogue, I still prefer the original series with William Shatner. I think my favorite characters were Bones McCoy and Scotty…loved the accent!!
Pretty cool Dave, Scotty and Bones have always been my favorite characters on the series too. I watched though The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine but lost interest in show with Voyager and Enterprise. And those remake movies by Abrams were some of the worst films I think ever made, I swear the Star Wars prequels may have been slightly better movies.
I never got to see ST when it was first broadcast as the parents controlled the set. There was no way we would ever watch programs that were not “real” and too “weird”. I had to wait until it came out in syndication to see it.
I didn’t like TNG when it came out, but it eventually grew on me.
DS9 I followed for a while - my favorite character was Odo. He slept in a bucket in his office.
Voyager for a bit, but lost interest, and Enterprise I never watched even one episode.
Another new addition here:
I had to choose the “case X” version as it was all they had at the LHS. A detail kit has to come all the way from my supplier down under.
This one could join either the Vietnam build and the Century Series group build
Nice work once again Jim! On that masking job, did you cut lines into the tape for the hinged area? If you did, how did you do that?
The F-102A would definitely qualify for my USAF Vietnam group build. You could paint it ADC grey or SEA camouflage. The USAF didn’t start using the SEA camouflage until 1966.
Jim: That’s funny, the original Trek was canceled a few months before I was born but my parents refused to take me to see Star Wars because it was a bunch of crazy space stuff! I think I was the only kid in elementary school that hadn’t seen it, in fact I didn’t get to see it until CBS ran it on TV in the early '80s.
That F-102 looks fantastic, I’ve been eyeing the 1/48th kit for awhile but have been trying to slow my stash from assuming hoarder like proportions by restricting myself to buying only stuff in my main fields of interest like WWII though Korea.
The gear bay on the F-8 looks incredible, that’s a 1/72nd scale kit!?! Wow, that’s some detail there.
Thanks. Ye, in this case I did. They had to be fitted for the piece that goes between the wheel wells to be fitted. And so I decided to add the front ones as well. And having them on does help in the painting. But so far so good.
