The battle of the barristers (Round two)

Well, we aren’t in Revell of Germany land! 

Despite what I implied in my post below, I did get some modeling done this weekend.  I worked on the Academy F-8 that Jim Bates and I are challenge building.

Knowing that the Academy kit was a new release and having just come off building the Revell of Germany Hawker Hunter, I expected that the Academy kit would be as nice a fitting kit as the Hunter was.  Wrong!

I was working on the main gear well, which is one of the pieces that gets sandwiched between the fuselage pieces before they are assembled.  I test fit the parts and found, to my horror, that the gear well stood proud of the fuselage.  See the photo below.

F-8 main gear well

The solution to this problem was to cut notches in the corners of the well so the well would sit flush in the fuselage.  I removed the portion represented in red in the photo below.

F-8 well insert

This allows the well to sit lower in the fuselage and not leave a lip on the fuselage side.

Corrected gear well

Now this does create an area at the end of the well that has to be filled, but I think that will be easier to fix than the well sitting proud of the fuselage.

Area to fill

Ok Jim, your turn.

The holiday weekend modeling

Well, I started the Thanksgiving weekend with the best of interntions.  I was hoping to get a lot done.  I did manage to get a lot of airbrushing done, but not much modeling.  Let me explain.

The modelwife bought two ceramic flowers that are suppose to be mounted on the wall and items are hung from a wire or string hung between them.  Well, they were pink, but the modelwife wanted them to match stickers that she had put on the modeldaughter’s bedroom walls.  This is what those stickers look like.

Wall flower

 Well, I told the modelwife I thought that I could paint the ceramic flowers to match.  Given that I didn’t have any lavender model paint this turned out to be more of a challenge than I thought.  However, I was able to mix up some paints that came up as a close match.  Here is the result after a few hours of airbrushing.

Ceramic wall flower

I was surprised but it actually turned out to be good practice with the airbrush and with mixing paints.  So I can’t say that I got nothing model related done over the holiday.

Photos on the net (CF-104)

OK, time for another one of these.  Below is a photo that I shamelessly stole from a post by William Lawlor over on Hyperscale.  It is way cool and makes me want to go build a CF-104 in bare metal.

CF-104