Good to know Mark, thanks for the information. Got the nose on now. Russell

Ack look at those trapeze! That's exactly the kind of thing I can never build. My anxiety about the dart I must bring forth grows ever stronger.

Both you guys are going to have gorgeous deltas soon. They're both 72nd scale by the looks of things?

Bf110 undergoing slow and endless weathering while I try to come to grips with vallejo wash. Which is seemingly designed to not deliver a pleasing result.

If I can find the time to spray the fading and highlight coat I will be done very shortly.

Hi Richard, yes I believe Mark's is 72 scale and mine is the Hasegawa 72 scale 102 as well. The trapeze really wasn't that hard to build, I don't know what kit your 106 is but I wouldn't be too put off by it. I like your 110, it looks good. I wasn't sure I was going to expose the Falcon missiles on my 102 but it sure is an eye catcher I think. Russell

Yep, they're both dinosaura, the Hasegawa F-102A in 1/72. I doubt that you'll be seeing them anymore with the Meng kit out there. The trapeeze isn't that difficult, but yes it's a but fussy. There's only 3 pieces, the frame and 2 actuators. The fussy part is that there are no locators on the actuators, so it's a butt joint of a nearly flat actuator to a pin (with rounded end) on the frame. Of the 12 actuators, I think I've had to re-mount at least 4 of them.

IIRC the F-106 had a rotating rack with two missiles on either side, so no fiddly trapeeze to worry about

Hi all,

Those Delta fighters are cool. You got me googling'em up just because of those missile compartments and their elaborate mounts.
Can't wait to see the end result of both your kits.

Some quick update on my junkers. Hoping to have it complete this weekend.






AIMS wing walks are true to scale, thou they demand time and measurement to apply

Tried the hairspray on the ladder, not entirely satisfy with the end result...
and managed to knock down a piece glued to hatch, as seen by the dark blotches where the glue was.



Cheers
Pedro

Pedro, that "straw" at the back of the canopy, what is it? A paint mask for the guns, or the actual barrel of a monster gun?

Mark, that's just a mask I made out of masking tape, blocking the hole where the MG will be placed. i try whenever possible to put the machine guns at the very end of the construction, and this kit allows that.

Cheers
Pedro

Oh, I knew some german birds had vertical guns in the rear of the cockpit. I thought for sure you had a great idea to steal for all of the gun turrets sitting in my backlog.

The -106 had a similar trapeze to the -102, at least according to my 1/48 Revellogram Delta Dawn Campaign entry:



And both of your kits are coming along nicely. I could hardly believe they are 1/72nd scale.

Keith

Well, she is almost ready to decal. I must put a good gloss coat over the 102 tomorrow, then let the coat dry, then off to decal land!! Got the gear and gear doors on. Take a look. Russell

@Keith, hmm maybe I'm confusing the F-101 and the F-106, unfortunately I'm over 200 miles from the stash, so I can't calibrate my memory.

Well she is finished. I decided to leave the drop tanks off for a cleaner airframe. This older Hasegawa kit had very good decals, such a joy to find decals that perform after all the work building and painting the bird! LOL Anyway, enjoy looking. Russell

Yep, sure looks good. A very cool bird indeed.
Looks fast even when parked

Good job Russel


Pedro

Is that Mass ANG? My decal for that is missing some of the white on the small stars. Part of the reason I went for the Micro (Super?) Scale sheet. I seem to recall the star and bar disintegrated when it hit water, so you're way ahead there. OTOH, Idon't think the Dart could clear the perimeter with out the fuel tanks. 8^)

Oh, don't forget to post in the gallery. (You're welcome Bob)

Hi there Mark, the tail markings are for California, I don't know if it is Air National Guard or not. The Hasegawa decals were great! They really performed. Russell

Well, now that 'Anything Goes' is over, and even with me getting my entry finished before the deadline, I've enlisted to this one.

Now let's see what we got. Weird, I knew I had some unfinished kits in the stash, but this many...

From the top down:
- Revell 1:72 Fw 190 A-8 - Cockpit detailed, fuselage and wings together. I put this one back in the box after I noticed the tail had some twist. Now it's sitting in the box with the tail sawed off.
- Airfix 1:72 BAE Hawk - Made a bit of a start on this one. got a PE set for the cockpit and a brass pitot tube.
- Zvezda 1:72 MiG-21 BIS - The most completed model of the bunch. The airframe is almost ready for primer. Some work still to be done with the smaller parts.
- Special Hobby 1:72 Brewster Model 339 / Buffalo mk.I - Wings done, fuselage and cockpit work underway.
- MPM 1:72 Boulton Paul Defiant - Fuselage and wings assembled, but not together yet.
- ICM 1:72 Tupolev SB-2 - Worked on the wings and fuselage. Scratch-built some cockpit and gunner compartment details.
- Trumpeter 1:48 Westland Wyvern - Fuselage and wings assembled & detailed, put back in the box due to fuselage and wing trailing edge mismatch and the resulting drop in morale.

And here's the second, smaller bunch. These are less hangar-queeny, i.e. they have had less time on the work bench than those above:

- Tamiya 1:48 Spitfire mk.I - All parts off the sprues, some assembly done.
- Revell 1:72 Junkers Ju 88 A-4 - Some parts off the sprues, some assembly done.
- Eduard 1:48 MiG-21 MF - Some parts off the sprues, some assembly done.

Now there's just the problem of choosing which one to pick. That Junkers would be very interesting, but then it's not as "proper" a hangar queen as for example the MiG-21 BIS or Fw 190... Or is there a requirement of how much the kit should be assembled to count as a hangar queen?

What do you think?

Howdy Eetu
I'd vote for the Mig 21 bis; it sounds finished enough to be a "Hanger Queen" and the name of the game is to finish the model. Just my 2 cents...
Take care,
Don "Lakota"

I think you're right, it would really fit the description of a hangar queen - it was June 2012 when I last did some work on it. Here's how looks at the moment:

Definately go with the Fishbed Eetu, looks like some nice work you've done there.

Eetu, you do have a sizeable hanger lot there and like Mark, Don, and Neil I vote for the Mig 21.

Bob

Lots of progress getting this little ME P-1111 out of the hanger.

RLM 84 was been airbrushed on the underside and along the fuselage after I painted and masked the red nose cone and white nose band. I had to reapply the RLM 84 as some of it lifted up along the edge of the white band when I removed the tape.



After waiting a couple days, I then airbrushed the topside fuselage mottling freehand with RLM 82 from Vallejo. Second attempt ever doing mottling with an airbrush, it came out pretty well I think.



Pay no attention to the practice mottling I was doing on the wing. That will be hidden by the RLM 82 and RLM 81 splinter camo on the wings.

Really nice-looking mottling there!

Seems the MiG-21 is getting the votes. Let's get it back on the work bench then!

Van what scale is that thing?

Eetu, join me in the Mig21 misery club!


Finished (well apart from exhaust pipes which I now see aren't on).





Totally oob. The interior is scant at best, the decals are rhinoceros hide, I messed up the wash some. And I tried a different type of masking tape on the canopy. Which was a mistake.

Here's the decal from the early Hase kit:


Here's what's left of the Microscale Sheet:


It's got the Cal ANG marking for a 10 year old bird (0-) and a WI ANG from '72. I'm about 50 decals shy of done.