Convair XF-92A
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Sprayed some clouds on the stand ☁️
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Despite the kit not having many parts, half of them were missing. Found some tubing in my junk drawer to make the pitot
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Glued it back together again & priming and sanding
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Had leftover krylon semigloss white enamel from a home project
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Masked the control surfaces. Did the trick where you paint with the base color after masking to try to prevent bleeding.
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Painted control surfaces came out perfect
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Scan of decals
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Disaster strikes. Despite being coated, the decals shatter due to age.
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I sent a scan of the original decal sheet to sts decals and had them make me replacements. It cost me $25. They came out great but they are very thin and I don’t have the best decal skills.
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Bottom half decals installed, some from the old sheet, some from the new. Have a really hard time getting things in the right place.
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Top half decalled
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Working on tiny details.
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Mating to the stand
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I borrowed one of my girlfriends paintings
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Opmerkingen
50 16 January 2023, 19:33
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I bought this primitive kit on ebay. I had it when I was a kid but never built it for some reason. The kit I bought is partial so I will have to scratch a few small parts.
The big thing is the choice of livery - the decals are for the white version, but hey they were printed in the 70's, so not much confidence in them. I've seen the XF-92A in white, in bare metal, and in fake Soviet markings as a "MIG-23" for the movie "Jet Pilot" by Howard Hughes. I've been unsuccessful at locating this movie online, but I do have pictures of a couple of stills showing the fake Soviet livery in black and white.
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16 January 2023, 19:40
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Hi Ben... I'll take my seat... and... I might be able to help with the movie... 😉
17 January 2023, 00:26
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Watching too! I love this plane! BTW, to the best of my knowledge, the plane did not appear in the final version of the movie... 😭
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17 January 2023, 06:21
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Robert is right... I "browsed" through the movie again and couldn't find a single shot - then I noticed what Wiki says: "Due to the lengthy delay in releasing the film, by the time it appeared in 1957, the XF-92A's role had been left on the cutting room floor."...
17 January 2023, 10:32
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Built the Hawk version in about 1958, so I;ll be following. Great early experimental jet!
18 February 2023, 17:09
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Love it. The last kit I finished was a Hawk plated T-33A. Also built the Hawk T-6 Texan, Supermarine S-6b, and the Ryan STM. I built all those kits when I was a kid too, also built the plated F-104.
18 February 2023, 21:08
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I just have no mojo right now. It's a very hard time of my life and I have little creative time.
27 May 2023, 02:33
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Sorry to hear you are having a hard time. I hope things get better.
27 May 2023, 02:37
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I peeled the fuselage apart and I decided to try to improve the canopy fit as well as how it is secured within the fuselage.
5 June 2023, 04:38
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I'm scared of the decal sheets from 1973. They do not look to be in great shape.
27 June 2023, 01:39
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Decal sheets from 1973? Oh dear, can you buy replacement sheets?
30 June 2023, 09:30
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Cool subject I somehow missed. Following! And good luck with the decals. Hopefully you find some solution.
16 July 2023, 22:10
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I have never had luck with coating the decals. A set for a USAF Starfighter of the era might work to get decals at least close to scale.
16 July 2023, 23:02
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Cool subject Ben! Looks great already. Hope you'll get some new decals
26 July 2023, 21:15
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Thanks, Eric. I'm on a waiting list for a guy who makes decals, I'll see how that goes, otherwise, as suggested, I'll get some decals from an F-104 or something.
26 July 2023, 22:26
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I had new decals made here: www.stsdecals.com - so far so good. They are very thin and due to lack of skill I tend to fold them.
13 August 2023, 05:37
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Lessons… somehow the new decals are missing the 2 in the usaf number ☹️. The aftermarket decals are extremely thin and easily distort and fold. I ended up using some original decals and two sheets of replacement decals. The sts decals can't be removed. When I had one distort terribly, I had to paint over it. The large sts decals also tend to get air bubbles under them. The blacks are sort of a dark green and the red is pale and not in register. But… I could not have done it without them.
Decals are always stressful for me for some reason so the wisdom of building a kit where literally every small detail is a decal… hmm.
Oh well. Now I get to work on fragile little antennas and more Microsol to try to get the decals to lay flat where they bubbled and folded and wrinkled. Whew! This has been a project..,
12 September 2023, 03:33
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Keep calm and carry on, Ben. You've done fantastic job so far!
12 September 2023, 06:08
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I could send you the scan of the decal sheet from the Mach 2 (1/72) kit, Ben. It is just matter of enlarging and printing it on the clear decal sheet. PM me, if you wish.
12 September 2023, 18:07
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I have a scan of the 1:48 sheet. The STS guy will want $25 to print it up. Not worth it - it's my fault for not catching it on the proofs he sent.
12 September 2023, 20:09
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If you have scan, you can print it by yourself (laser printer is optimal) on a clear decal sheet:
Clear Decal (Techmod 32014, 1:32)
and then you give it a coat or two of clear varnish, and done. I have prepared few custom decals in such a way and it works 😉
12 September 2023, 21:29
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Interesting. I don't have a laser but I do have a HP inkjet that always seems to be out of ink. 😀 I'll give printing my own a try some time.
13 September 2023, 01:41
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Cool! Congrats! (makes me want to assemble the 1/72 Mach 2 kit I have in my stash 😉 )
21 September 2023, 16:47
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I would not be so sure about that, Ben... It is a Mach 2 kit...
21 September 2023, 16:48
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The kit only had like 10 parts and half of them were missing 😂. The decals from 1973 + the replacements being of a type I was unfamiliar with was the source of my troubles.
21 September 2023, 17:17
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Congrats on finishing this one, sounds like it was a real bear to finish. Now on to a nice Tamiya that falls together to relax after all that "fun?"
21 September 2023, 17:19
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You would think, but I have a couple more ancient struggles on the bench.
21 September 2023, 17:25
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Far out - quite a challenge! -Never seen a Collect-Aire kit actually finished. Very cool
15 October 2023, 00:17
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