Monogram 1/48 F-111 kit #5815

[dollar19]

Ok boys I’m jumping into this one late in the game. But my offering has so many short comings being a reboxing of the Aurora effort with a few feeble attempts by Monogram to fix a dog kit, that I’m not going to make a whole lot of dust trying to put lipstick on a pig.
What I will do is assemble it straight from the box paint it and use the kit decals. I bought this way back in the mid 1980s and it been gathering dust since then. I’ve read that if you stand 10 feet away it sort of looks like an aardvark
I’ll have some start up picture up shortly.

 

[dollar19]

I got the main landing gear assembly together, wing halves and intake cones glued together.

 

[135engineer]

your a brave soul

 

[moon puppy]

I think I did this one before. Working wings and gear?

 

[dollar19]

I think I did this one before. Working wings and gear?

The wings work but the gear thank god is static.

 

[dollar19]

your a brave soul

Not brave at all. Just working my way through 40 years of dust collecting.

 

[dollar19]

Shot some paint onto the main gear assembly.

Just a question. Why do my pictures turn sideways when I upload them from my phone using the file attachment widget on the forum.

Uploaded from desktop

 

[dollar19]

Not much to say about this so far it's everything that's been said about it. But believe it or not it's been fun, sorta>

Here's some WIP shots. The basic airframe is done, got some sanding and filling to do the it's off to the paint shop.

 

[lupanzer]

Great job so far

Luiz

 

[moon puppy]

Wow that was fast!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

He's got some heavy duty clampin' takin' place there. Looks good!

 

[dollar19]

That clamp! I had to put some muscle into the mix to close up the fuselage! The alignment pins on this thing were more like pegs. Of course they were bigger than their recieveing holes so I had to cut them off. It was a bit of a struggle to keep everything lined up but I managed to get it together.

I have a coat of black sprayed on the underside that is at the moment drying. I’m about to start masking the canopy and peeping for the topside colors.

 

[dollar19]

I now have a coat of black on the lower side and the canopy masked and Im
in the process of masking off the black. I should have some Tan and green on it before the day is out.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[razordws]

Zoom Zoom!

 

[dollar19]

And now several hours and many profanities later......









I'll let this mess dry for a few day and then hit it with some gloss.

 

[moon puppy]

Looks great Greg, what paints did you use? I can tell they are Model Masters, can't tell if they are enamel or acrylic.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Man, that looks great in black! Still looks like it's screaming by even standing still! Your camo pattern turned out well despite the difficulties. Way to go!

 

[Paulw]

I think that you have this one in the bag, Greg. :dude

 

[dollar19]

Thank you gents!
Yes Bob they’re MM enamels. I’m trying to work my way thru the last of my stock.
I’ve got a few assorted bottles live been hoarding and slowly moving over to acrylics sort f the old dog new tricks thing.
Duke, the few masking tape pulled up the black bottom paint in a few spots but that’s an easy fix.