and now back to our regularly scheduled Blue Angels Hornet build...
I have been doing seam filling and clean up. Thankfully the worst ones are on the undersurfaces due to the kits engineering. I'll be using some strip styrene to shim some of them.
I also cut the stabilators from their center linkage
and I test fitted them in the aluminum tubing... perfect fit after mold seam removal...
the masking tape is protecting the raised detail while I do filling and sanding on the fuselage joint seam...
Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
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that seams like a lot of work...
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
You've been getting your jokes from Lyle haven't you?
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
Lot's of seam work, but nothing horrible. Gaps are manageable, seams with huge steps are the ones I hate.
Great progress Stik.
Great progress Stik.
Thanks,
John
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You've been getting your jokes from Lyle haven't you?Medicman71 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2023 12:03 pm [quote=cbaltrin post_id=159974 time=<a href="tel:1691498469">1691498469</a> user_id=2972]
that seams like a lot of work...
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It sure seams that way, doesn’t it? anybody remember The Unknown Comic?
Thanks John. I had some extremely minor steps below the cockpit and forward of the stabilators, but most have been dealt with already.
And I won’t say anything more in order to not jinx this project.
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
Looks good. Sometimes you just have to shoe hornet into position.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Yes folks, Lyle is in the house!
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Big Joe: 'You just keep those Tigers busy and we'll take care of the rest.'
Oddball: 'The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me...'
My Stash https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mat ... 53&p=stash
Oddball: 'The only way I got to keep them Tigers busy is to let them shoot holes in me...'
My Stash https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mat ... 53&p=stash
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
Had an airbrushing session this morning, applying a coat of Tamiya White Liquid Surface Primer into the intakes, wheel wells, and landing gear struts. Using this stuff as a base under any white paint gives the most vivid white top coats I’ve ever achieved.
You can also see where I added strip styrene shims into the largest gaps of the upper & lower halves seam on the wing undersides.
You can also see where I added strip styrene shims into the largest gaps of the upper & lower halves seam on the wing undersides.
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Re: Monogram Blue Angels F/A-18A, 1987
Not gaps, canyons!