F-102 Monogram Pro Modeler issue

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Here she is in the boneyard. I plan to show her in happier days. Love the tail though!
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One of the reference photos for intake details. The kit plastic needs to be thinned a lot.
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I didn't realize these were so dusty until after snapping the pics!
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Those of you who've built this kit know there is an ugly seam running right down the intakes, visible from space. Eliminating that is a lot of work and a lot of masking. The inside is some sort of humbrol off-white and the metal is Alclad. Trying to fix the line between that and the white left some unintentional smudges that actually ended up making an interesting sort of streaking effect. Happy accidents are nice as opposed to the unhappy accidents.
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Excuse the random F-84F bits.
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The gray is Testors MM FS16473 enamel. I bought a few bottles before it was discontinued, should be enough to finish 1-2 birds. Laid it down to see how it looks with the metal and get all masking done before attaching. Of course fitting the intakes to the fuselage will require repainting the joint but so far, so good.

Comments

12 6 October 2022, 15:34

Ben M
Watching this, looks like a good challenge.

9 October 2022, 02:07

John
It's a build or two back. I'm doing a nice, simple OD Monogram P-47D to recover from doing nmf. Of course I couldn't leave well enough alone and am trying to shove a resin cockpit meant for the Hasegawa into it, which is taking longer than it should.

9 October 2022, 02:13

Ben M
I've stopped acquiring things like resin cockpits and pe but I still have a bunch in my stash from before when I figured out they didn't give me a lot of joy 🙄

9 October 2022, 02:37

John
Yep, same here. I had this resin pit lying around and had no intention of using it but had already cut off the kit cockpit locating pins years ago, so I thought "why not?" Now I am remembering why not!

9 October 2022, 02:46

Ben M
I'm just thankful I spend more time building than buying now. Slowed down over the summer but as it gets cooler I'm at the bench more.

9 October 2022, 03:25

John
Yeah, I didn't buy for years, then I started getting a few recently. This place isn't helping with that, haha.

9 October 2022, 03:43

Maciej Bellos
Watching!

9 October 2022, 03:44

Rui
Watching 👀

9 October 2022, 04:26

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Tackling this beast. I'm going to rescribe and have already been sanding (and sanding, and sanding) due to the fit issues. Pretty much OOB, but I couldn't resist the anti-collision lights. Probably snag a brass pitot later because the kit one is not good at all.

This is probably Monogram's worst of the Century Series in terms of fit issues. The intakes alone are a lot of work to get looking presentable and I actually started on those, figuring if I can't make those look good, then the rest is going to be a waste of time. They're looking OK so far 👍

I plan to go with the stylized eagle scheme of the Connecticut ANG from the kit decals because it looks cool, but am grabbing the rest of the markings from Caracal because, well, Monogram decals. May end up copying the eagle decal and tracing/masking if the kit decals don't work, they're pretty old.

I'll end up doing the Pennsy ANG bird from the Caracal sheet later because hey, also cool.

This will be updated infrequently (sorry) because I leave this kit often to take a break (intakes alone fried my brain) and do another, easier build, then come back to it.

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