2002p51 Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 I've always liked these old Monogram civilian airplanes and lately I've been picking them up on eBay. Yea, I know they're crude by today's kit standards, the door hinges are clunky and the doors don't fit well, (actually nothing fits well!) but they are still fun to build. I did a Google image search looking for ideas for a paint scheme and I saw a couple that were polished instead of completely painted so I thought I'd try something like that. I covered the entire model with Bare Metal Foil then masked off the areas I wanted painted. This was easier to do than I thought it would be, but I did use up a lot of foil! This will go nicely with the Monogram Piper Tri-Pacer I built about a year ago. As always, comments are welcome.
Austin T Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Very nice job Drew. I've been thinking about doing a small civilian aircraft for a while now.
DrGlueblob Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 Check out the "New" Minicraft kits of the Piper and Beech Bonanza (aka V-Tailed Doctor Killer).. Good kits, all.
1930fordpickup Posted February 22, 2014 Posted February 22, 2014 I grew up down the road from a small airport . Watched many of these taxi around the house . Yours look spot on to me.
Hard_2_Handle_454 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 Very nice. I think there's a float plane similar to this that I've been wanting to get. I really love float planes.
Hard_2_Handle_454 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 I've always liked these old Monogram civilian airplanes and lately I've been picking them up on eBay. Yea, I know they're crude by today's kit standards, the door hinges are clunky and the doors don't fit well, (actually nothing fits well!) but they are still fun to build. I did a Google image search looking for ideas for a paint scheme and I saw a couple that were polished instead of completely painted so I thought I'd try something like that. I covered the entire model with Bare Metal Foil then masked off the areas I wanted painted. This was easier to do than I thought it would be, but I did use up a lot of foil! This will go nicely with the Monogram Piper Tri-Pacer I built about a year ago. As always, comments are welcome. The choice for paint scheme was a good idea. Also the doors not fitting well would be correct. Manufacturers don't care about a tight fit on an assembly line. As long as it shuts it's good.
george 53 Posted February 26, 2014 Posted February 26, 2014 REALLY looks good in BMF! Weren't these made in an oddball scale, somewhere between 72nd and 48th? Or are they 48th scale?
jaydar Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Great builds. My favorite is the Piper Tri Pacer. Mom gave me a Cox .049 version. I see you deferred to PETA and did not lay out the dead mountain lion!!!!!! Thank you for sharing. Joe.
2002p51 Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 Very nice. I think there's a float plane similar to this that I've been wanting to get. I really love float planes. Yes, Monogram did a version of the 180 with floats. One will show up on eBay from time to time.
2002p51 Posted February 27, 2014 Author Posted February 27, 2014 REALLY looks good in BMF! Weren't these made in an oddball scale, somewhere between 72nd and 48th? Or are they 48th scale? Yea, I think this one scales out to 1/41 or something like that. In those days most airplane models were scaled to whatever it took to fit in the same size box. Great builds. My favorite is the Piper Tri Pacer. Mom gave me a Cox .049 version. I see you deferred to PETA and did not lay out the dead mountain lion!!!!!! Thank you for sharing. Joe.
Ace-Garageguy Posted February 27, 2014 Posted February 27, 2014 Man, that polished-look 180 is beautiful. Really nice. Love your Tri-Pacer too. I learned to fly in one, and I've got a gluebomb in the resto queue. Great stuff.
Lunajammer Posted February 28, 2014 Posted February 28, 2014 The 180 is almost the spittin' image of the 180 my dad flew in the 50's. It was a company plane, but the owner had a different plane he preferred to fly so my dad got this one to use for business and pleasure. He had the Monogram float when I was a tyke. He tells the story of how he'd fly from ND to Austin, MN, then drive another 20-miles to visit my mom. One day upon his return to the Austin airport, he was aghast to find out that when the hanger owner ran out of room to store the parked planes, he tipped the tail draggers onto their noses to "stack" them better. Was a very tense trip back with every vibration a worry. But my question is how do you mask BMF without pulling off with the tape?
Jim Gibbons Posted March 18, 2014 Posted March 18, 2014 I also love civilian aircraft of this era. I've used cheap dollar type store aluminum foil and Microscale Foil Adhesive as a much cheaper alternative to BMF. This is a 1/32 Revell P-38J I built for a friend that way.
2002p51 Posted March 18, 2014 Author Posted March 18, 2014 But my question is how do you mask BMF without pulling off with the tape? Well, you have to careful. I used Scotch painters tape (that blue stuff) and it did pull up some small bubbles in the foil in a couple of places. Fortunately I simply pressed them back down and it was okay.
peekay Posted April 18, 2014 Posted April 18, 2014 I really like what you've done with these, they look great.
mustang1989 Posted April 20, 2014 Posted April 20, 2014 I like both of the Cessna's man. Nice BMF on the first one and on the 38. Man that 38 should be a biggun' in 32nd scale. HUGE!! HK models released a 32nd scale B-17 within the last year. Now THAT is HUGE!!!
Jim Gibbons Posted April 20, 2014 Posted April 20, 2014 (edited) I'd like to build the 1/32 B-17, but don't have the display room, even with the vertical wall mount provided. The P-38 has a 19.5" wingspan at that scale. I built it for a WW2 vet friend, who sadly passed this past November. A B_7 has almost exactly double the wingspan, so about 39". Big. Edited April 20, 2014 by Jim Gibbons
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