Donald Dickson II Alrighty! She is all done! Crappy decals and all, I think it turned out fairly well. as always, I think it could be better, but I am certainly not embarrassed by it.

Patrick Hagelstein You shouldn't be! Considering all the troubles you went through, this looks splendid! Nice weathering!

Donald Dickson II Thank you Patrick!

David Thor Looking great! Shame about the decals though. Always a bummer when you are hyped for a kit and then it turns out you can't build it like you want because of a failure of the company.

Donald Dickson II David, I cant agree more! And thank you.

Timothy Heimer Yea I think we've all had that feeling when that happens! Don I have seen you shine up some pretty bad turds! I don't know how you do it but they come out looking NICE!

Clifford Keesler She turned out really nice Donald, I am impressed. Good job.

Donald Dickson II Timothy and Clifford, thank you kindly sirs.

I dont know how well she will do at the show Sat, but hopefully at least pull a third. We shall see.

Donald Dickson II So, with my Goodwill grab of a cabinet for 5 bucks this weekend, I got places for all my completed models. They had shelves, but that does nothing to help them with dust. Now they are all snug.

Spanjaard 5 buck sfor this cabinet???

Donald Dickson II 5 bucks for the white one. The one with the F-15s and F-86s was actually free. The nice curio cabinet was a lot more. LOL

Konrad Limmer Ver nice collection

Paul Stubbs Nice work

nikolaos kouzinis Nice collection Donald

Donald Dickson II Thank you gentlemen.

Stephan Ryll Very nice collection Donald

Spanjaard sweet

Donald Dickson II I took that pic before they completely dried and set. You could clearly see the camo pattern a d colors through the white.

Stephan Ryll Oh what a pitty Donald , may you can try to repaint the white areas

Patrick Hagelstein Bummer....

Donald Dickson II Stephen, I tried that. Then reapplied the red stripes. They would not smooth out. This just is one of those that I need to set aside and come back to. I have markings for another F-4 left over from the Good Evening Da Nang boxing. I will just do those.

Stephan Ryll Keep calm, take your time it will turn out good Donald, I'm shure

Peter Hardy Don, you say they are black stripes, I say they are white stripes. All a matter of perspective. I have enjoyed going back over this build this Saturday morning, waiting for Mrs Hardy to wake up. Might even spend a bit of time on your wall too. Thanks for displaying the build. Very enjoyable!

Donald Dickson II Peter, good point! LOL Regardless, the white portion, be they stripes or no, is not much more than gauze when it comes to opacity. And feel free to peruse away!

Clifford Keesler Bummer.

Stephan Ryll looking really good Donald

Donald Dickson II Thank you guys!

Dutch, they came with the intakes. Since you have to cut away part of the kit nacelle, you can not use the intake trunking from the kit. So they nicely provide a really good set of FOD covers. Otherwise you would just see the inside of the nacelles with nothing else there.

Dutch Ah so! I just checked my 1:72 Barracuda set and it includes the complete forward half of the nacelle with trunking and engine turbine faces, but no intake plugs! So, I guess I will build it that way. But I like, scratch that! I love your intake plugs. They look really authentic!

Donald Dickson II Yeah, they did the 1/72 set a bit different. If you end up breaking the actuator arms too much, I have an extra sprue of them that were packed in my 1/48 set for some reason. They really did a great job on everything looks wise. And they fit perfectly in the intakes. Probably could have put them in with no glue. But with my luck one would fall out and disappear.

Scott Hastings Intake plugs look amazing, so realistic. If I may toss in a pitch..I am hosting a bomber build on ISM if anyone interested May1-Aug31 lots of prizes!!!
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Clifford Keesler Donald, yes the F-104G is posted. First W>I>P> pictures should be up tomorrow.

Clifford Keesler By the way the "Bone is looking awesome.

Donald Dickson II After messing with the bombs for a while, I am highly not happy with them. They really are NOT good representations of anything I can find reference for. So I decided to do it with the bomb bays closed. I am putting this on hold in order to concentrate on my 1/32 F-18 for a show coming up on 21st April.

Donald Dickson II OK, I started this for a group build on a FaceBook. Its an OOB build. I used Vallejo gloss primer. First time using a Vallejo product. I like how this stuff spayed! We shall see how the Alclad looks on it.

Donald Dickson II Some of the main decals on. I should have thought of this. The Vallejo primer is acrylic. It does NOT bond to the plastic. The Alclad went on it just fine. BUT, you can NOT mask it. The primer doesnt hold. Just pulls right up. *sigh* I pretty much fixed it, but as I am doing this for a group build that ends in 10 days, I really didnt have the time to strip it completely down.

Lost_Erik I love the bold colours on this classic. Good progress.

Donald Dickson II Same here. Main reason I bought this kit. Great scheme

Stephan Ryll looking very good Donald I like the colours

Donald Dickson II Thank you Stephen.

All the decals are on now. Just have to do wheels and gears and touch ups and that sort of stuff and it will be done.

A note about the decals. They are great! The full wing stuff went on great. They are a bit thick, but not extremely so. They set down with liberal use of solva set. I was owrried how well they would settle into the great details on this kit. They did so wonderfully.

Donald Dickson II OK, so got it wrapped up tonight.

Lost_Erik Nice and shiny. Well done.

Clifford Keesler Very nice Donald. I wipe my models down with alacohol before I prime them with the black Vallejo primer. I use the Vallejo Acrylic metal colors, I have not had any problems with paint lifting after masking. I actually prefer the Vallejo metal colors over Alcads.

Stephan Ryll Very nice colorful build Donald
I agree with Clifford about that Vallejo stuff - a little bit of light sanding 800 - 1000 - wipe with alcohol - black glossy primer - let it dry for 24 hours - apply the metal color - let it dry for 24 hours - add a clear coat - let it dry for 24 hours - apply the mask - will end up with no problem when removing the mask

Donald Dickson II Thank you gentlemen! Both for your kind words AND the advice. I will give that a go next time around.

Martin Oostrom Surviving the fall is an accomplished in itself. Getting picked up another. Lucky man

Clifford Keesler Yes he was very luck indeed. There are nets around the edges of the flight deck, to prevent that very thing, but he said he just looked at them as he sailed over them.

Patrick Hagelstein Wow! That's some kind of powerful jet wash then... Amazing!

Robert Paschall Was always a huge fan of the Monogram bombers, I had several years ago. And yup that B-36 takes a lot of shelf space!

Timothy Heimer Hey Don , I know my eyesight isn't great buy I see no C-141?

Donald Dickson II Tim, it wasnt on the shelf when I took those pics. I have one built, smokeriderdon and two more. I combined both of those kits into one box. I also have two more sets of the Caracal decals.

Choppa Nutta Nice rack Don !!!

Donald Dickson II LMAO Glad my rack could impress you sir!

Donald Dickson II Because I have modelers ADD, while I was waiting for the new exhausts for the B-1, and waiting for paint to dry on the Phantom, I picked this little gem out of the stash. Pretty much a level 5 snap together. I had it together and putty in the seams in an hour. The main puttying was the wing roots and the panels on the fuselage.

So, the pics of the plane in service all show it to be fairly dull. Which one would expect on a plane seeing normal service. So I didnt want a shiny finish. I sprayed Alclad aluminum directly on the plastic. It works great that way if you dont want a highly reflective surface. And if you dont want it somewhat shiny, you can polish the plastic out a bit.

Donald Dickson II Wrapped this one up today. Wow, the decals in this kit SUCK. Brittle, almost totally resistant to solva set. Had to apply it multiple times. But they do look good. Drilled out the air brake as the holes are HOLES in real life.

David Thor Great job on this kit. And what a colorful bird this is!

Ekki Excellent work!

Donald Dickson II Thank you guys. I got it for the T-Birds markings, but I liked these better. Plus I got a 1/48 version of the T-birds plane.

Peter Hardy PA? VA? Huh?

Donald Dickson II State abbreviations. VA is Virginia, PA is Pennsylvania.

Peter Hardy Sorry Don, Asian and European geography I'm not too bad on but US no hope! Heard of Pennsylvania but Virginia is a suburb of Brisbane! Lol! My geography is improving though! I now know where Chicago and Lake Michigan is now thanks to Tim Heimer!

Timothy Heimer Peter, Don is a few states east of me or about 12-14 hrs away.

Donald Dickson II Peter, no problem. VA and PA are both on the east coast about half way ish down. The area is called the Mid Atlantic. VA borders Washington DC. If any of that helped at all. LOL

Peter Hardy I'll buy a map. I don't know why you guys want to live at the end of the world! I bet it even snows there like in Antarctica!

Peter Hardy PS. No I won't buy a map, I live in the age of "American provided" GPS. Thank you America! Google Earth should do the trick! Thank you America again!!

Donald Dickson II Damn right! LOL

Clifford Keesler You can do it man! LOL.

Donald Dickson II LOL Oh, I will. Just gonna be a challenge.

Donald Dickson II Alrighty! Wrapped this one up in time to be the last of 17. There are a few things I need to figure out still. I did not fill in the holes for the pylons. As I mentioned, this plane supposedly flew with these markings with nothing at all under it. Not sure yet if I want to say screw it and put somethingt here regardless or not. I have ordered a master brass pitot tube, so that will be taken care of shortly. I realize the one on there is crooked.

As I said, the decals were good. But, they WERE fragile. Very easy to tear them. I managed to mix up the pink and blue to cover any of my screw ups.

Overall, not my best, but certainly not my worst. Still wish the original decals had been good though. Argh.

Donald Dickson II Oh, I had to use the kitchen window sill because the lights were washing out the colors. Badly. Even indirect. So i had to do the natural light thing. And it is flipping -13 celsius with the wind chill here. So I was NOT going outside to do these pics!

Ekki Very good result.

Clifford Keesler Nice one Sir.

Martin Oostrom She turned out really nice despite your setbacks. Well done Donald

Donald Dickson II Thank you gentlemen!

Ekki Very good result.

Donald Dickson II Thank you!

Bryn Crandell Looking good. This aircraft is in my Stash and plan to build maybe this year.

Łukasz Gliński Phabulous

Donald Dickson II Bryn, let me know how the decals are for you. Unless you managed to find after market that eluded me.

gorbygould Excellent result for a Testors kit.

David Thor Really nice job on this kit. And i know what I'm speaking off!

Donald Dickson II LOL thank you. But it must have had some kind of impact in the move as it split down the join on top. And losing the pitot gauge. The second pilot gauge. *sigh*

Cortex Very nice, the model looks really good.

Donald Dickson II Thank you sir.