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    Disaster

    Woke up this morning to a leak in our refrigerator flooding the kitchen, living room, breakfast room and (this is the disaster part) raining down through the ceiling into my basement shop and onto many of my models. Boxes are destroyed, decals gone etc. Plastic is fine, but argh. It's about...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    My son Nathan and I started building these a bit over a year ago and then had them sit around for a while before we got back into it at the beginning of this year. Nathan is 16 (15 when he started this) and we built them together, allowing me to teach him how I build models. Here's the WIP...
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    Revell 1:72 X-15

    And, after posting that post, I realized I really did want a base for this, particularly for the pilot figure, which I really like. So I found a scrap rectangle of styrene, scribed some lines, roughed it up, painted it, drilled a hole for a wire into the pilot's foot and an hour and a half...
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    Revell 1:72 X-15

    I had a lot of fun working on this one. Particularly doing different finishes to try to match the original. The kit's accuracy is so-so. It is probably most accurate to the way the X-15 is displayed in the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, OH. I built it more like midway through the...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    It's been a long time since we've worked on these, but we're back on it. Some of the steps have been skipped as we've been working. This is the preshading I did on my A-4: Here is the underside after initial bottom paint (with the blue of the Argentina A-4P): And here is the bottom of...
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    Meng Harkonnen Ornithopter from Dune

    I got this kit last week at the Chattanooga Modelcon. The scale isn't listed, but is approximately 1/144 and is from the recent Dune movie. I got an Atreides Ornithopter and a Spice Harvester as well, but haven't touched those yet. It's a sweet little inexpensive kit. I tried not to use the...
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    Ed's Speed Racer Mach 5

    Here's a shot of the wheels - the mottling is actually the holochromatic look, which is quite nice in person. And some more progress - I've got the engine bay done and have done some additional work on the bottom and the cockpit: In looking at these photos, I've realized that there's some...
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    Ed's Speed Racer Mach 5

    So I took the advice on the chrome parts and bleach did the trick. Here are some parts soaking: After soaking, I was dumping out the bleach and it turns out that I also accidentally poured out 3 of the wheel spinners. So I mimicked the design and 3D printed some to replace those parts. Here...
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    Ed's Speed Racer Mach 5

    I'm a bit late to the party, which means I'll need to hurry. Fortunately, this is a pretty simple kit. The Polar Lights kit of the Mach 5 from the cartoon Speed Racer (there was also a movie, but this is from the cartoon) seems to be a decent little kit that my family bought me for my birthday...
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    1:72 Viggens (Matchbox SK-37 and Hasegawa AJ-37)

    Well I've been working on trying stuff out on the Hasegawa model and it's pretty much done. I'd give it a B-. The finish isn't great and the kit isn't great, TBH, but it's done and I've learned some stuff for doing the Matchbox one next. I had hoped with the Hasegawa one to have the cockpit...
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    1:72 Viggens (Matchbox SK-37 and Hasegawa AJ-37)

    I've decided to start with the Hasegawa single seater to try out stuff and test things out first. I've glued the fuselage halves together and primed the model. I've left the seat and the control panel off for now and am going to try using my vinyl cutter to replicate a thin yellow line on the...
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    1:72 Viggens (Matchbox SK-37 and Hasegawa AJ-37)

    And a small update. I got out my pilot figures and realized that the cockpit for the Hasegawa kit is a bit small for a pilot, so I went ahead and added some tape seat belts for that one. The canopy will be able to be open on that model so having it without a pilot should look pretty good. Here's...
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    1:72 Viggens (Matchbox SK-37 and Hasegawa AJ-37)

    Growing up, I thought the Viggen was the coolest plane I'd ever seen. The canards, the splinter camo - just a beautiful airplane. I've had a couple older Viggen kits sitting in the stash for a while and I've decided to build them. I have the Matchbox two-seater and the old Hasegawa single...
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    1:72 Fujimi IAF TA-4J

    This has been on my "Shelf O' Doom"® for a couple years. I'm not actually sure why I put it there. I normally love the Fujimi A-4's, though I think this is my first two seater. It has resin seats (not sure where they came from) with custom ejection handles out of wire. I originally was going to...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    And the wings are on. (Mine is on left, Nathan's on the right): I had a bit of a gap at the wing root which I puttied. He didn't - his looked perfect, the stinker...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    Over Christmas we were busier than I thought we'd be, but we're back on it with a quick update. We've glued the fuselage halves together. In doing so, we did things out of order, and so there wound up being a slight gap between the outer intakes and the body. I figured it would be a great time...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    Just a little bit of an update today. There's a pocket on the starboard bulkhead of the cockpit which is pretty noticeable. After I made one with tape, my son decided he wanted one too. Here's his pre-paint: It's actually two pieces of tape - one on top of the other to create a 3D shape. After...
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    Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawks Father/Son build

    Now that school is out for the Christmas holidays, my 15 year-old son and I are going to be building the 1:72 Airfix A-4 Skyhawk kits together. I happen to have 2 of them and he's interested in learning more about building models. So I figured this would be a good opportunity for us to build...
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    1:72 Airfix Harrier GR9A

    The build log (started partway in...) can be found here. I haven't built a proper kit in a couple years and started this one to kind of get my mojo back. I really was intending it as a quick build, without worrying about details, but I was so happy with it, I wound up doing quite a lot, which...
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    Airfix 1:72 Harrier GR9

    And it's loaded for bear: I use the air pocket filler that comes in Amazon packages for working with the model upside-down because it tends to hold it quite gently. And a few more shots: So now I need to add the final two decals, gloss coat, dull coat, add clear parts and I'll be done.

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