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Photo of Crusader buttonned up primed and base coat of white laid down. Base coat has highlighted a few areas that need addressing :( I want to get a really smooth finish on this bird and will try and follow what Paul Osborne did on HS with his build. I am still looking for the instruction sheet for the Microscale decals (1/48 F-8 Crusaders VMFA-321 & VMFA-451 Number 48-266). Any help with this would be appreciated :D

Sorry no photo, but, F-8 is all buttoned up and painting has started. I have tiny problem that I was hoping someone could help me with. I was looking at the decal sheet and noticed that I did not have the instruction sheet. Does anyone have a copy (or know where I can get one) of the Microscale 1/48 F-8 Crusaders VMFA-321 & VMFA-451 Number 48-266 instruction sheet? Thanks.

Thanks Gene. I was looking for some good walk around photo's of an F-4B :D

Been working on the fuselage and trying to bring all the bits together. After a lot of shaping and sanding I have now got the basic shape as close as I am going to get it. Bump on the top is now gone... ......the gear doors are all closed - the doors were made to be displayed open and it took a lot of cutting, filling and sanding to get them to fit in the wheel wells..... ....the nose has been reshaped and front fuselage is a bit thinner. I have overlaid part of the photo with Detail and Scale drawing and side profile looks pretty close to me. Photo's showed that port side of nose ne

Yes, you are quite right the K is based on the C and if I had a conversion kit it would be easier. I decided to go the DYI route with all the modifications to the Hasegawa's F-8E frame. So far I have been fine with the conversions, but, the canopy bit has me worried. I have thought about sanding and rescribing, but there is a hole in it for the IR sensor. I might have to try Vac form.

Love the work. I have a few F-16's in my stash as well, but, building 3 at once

I want to modify the front canopy on my Hasegawa F-8E but I am not sure how I go about it. The bit with the arrow needs to be removed and a new clear piece inserted to make the screen more correct for the F-8K I am building. I only have one canopy, so if I get it wrong I am....well you get the picture. I think I can use a sharp blade and slowly work on cutting area out, however, I am worried about cracking or scratching rest of the canopy. Also, is there a special glue to glue new piece in as I am worried that I won't get clear join and not sure how you would fix any mistakes. So are the

I have not been able to get much done of late; however, finally managed to finish the cockpit. Given that this will be closed up I was not too fussy with detail. I just used kit parts and added some seat rails and a few boxes, wire etc onto the rear bulkhead. Tricky part (for me) was changing the radar screen from the rectangle shaped unit in the F-8E to the round one in a square box typical of the early F-8's and the K variant I am building. I had to cut the old radar out and make a new one out of styrene and stretched sprue. Had a few goes at it before getting something that I could l

Two Hurricanes one old and one new done and dusted.

Finished. The old..... and the new.....

Thanks everyone for the help. I spent quite a bit of time stirring the varnish in the bottle, then more time thinning and stirring what I needed in a separate container. Obviously this was not enough. Is there an better/easier product to use or is this what to expect with matt finishes?

Has anyone out there used Humbrol Matt Cote? I tried using this product for the first time today. I airbrushed it on over a Future top coat that had cured for at least 24 hours. After thorough mixing in the bottle and thinning in a separate container it seemed to to go on ok; however, when it dried I ended up with little white spots all over the place which are quite noticable. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can stop this from happening in the future? Also is there any way of getting rid of the spots?

Thanks Peebeep. Sky it should be then. Wish the coin came up heads not tails

Thanks for the reply. My references showed that it probably started out silver then was painted some time the same as the bottom...date unknown. In the end I flipped a coin and went with silver, which added a bit of contrast. Almost done now and just waiting for the matt finish to dry.

Paint on and mask off. Unfortunately the canopy on the old kit is a bit cloudy on the inside. There was a large gap between the canopy and fuselage so I used some gap filling cyano glue to fill the hole and glue the pieces together. I thought that the future covered canopy would be ok; however, it obviously wasn't. Not sure how I am going to fix that :( Decided to keep things going while I looked for a cheap solution for my $1 kit. So on with a coat of future and then the decals. After a good dose of Microsol another coat of future before moving on. Underside of the RAF Huricane....

Couple of photo's to show work done on the right fairing.... and Air Cycle Machine exhaust Now to make a start on the cockpit

Finished sanding top of the wing to final shape and after dry fitting it looks like I will be able to blend pieces together ok once I remove the protective tape and glue everything together. I also started to sanding down the fairing on the right side as it should blend down into the fuselage rather than the plank represented by Hasegawa. Next up I made a start on opening up opening in the Air Cycle Machine exhaust as the K has a larger bifurcated opening. I have decided to build this bird in flight as I really like the clean lines of this aircraft. After fiddling with the undercarr

Thanks for the advice. I have read a few threads that mention miliput and it sounds like a great product. Unfortunately I have never seen it in a shop where I am and have only used Tamiya or Humbrol gap fillers :( . The Humbrol product seems to work best for me, but I have only used it to fill gaps, not build up parts like this. I put the filler on in layers over a piece of styrene. The first layer was a bit thick I think as it did crack a little. I did a couple of thinner layers over the top of the first one and let them dry a bit longer than the first one. Then I started wet sanding the p

I was going to start this build last year; however, work and other things got in the way and I had to put the tools down for awhile...man how fast a year flies by. I have the Hasegawa 1/48 F-8E kit with a set of decals from Microscale (48-266) I really like the dark blue and white star studded scheme of the Marines Unit, but I am somewhat daunted by the task of converting the F-8E to a K. That said, I am going to give it a go armed with my Squadron/Signal Walkaround book and information from the good folks of ARC (refer to thread from link below) http://s362974870.onlinehome.us/forums/

I loved coming across this. My wife couldn't understand why on earth I needed to have 50+ kits sitting in the attic. I showed her this thread and now she doesn't think that I am totally crazy....just slightly mad Most of my kits are 1/48 or 1/32 scale post war jets including; 9 Eagles; 5 Tomcats; 8 Falcons and 7 Phantoms.

I have some old kits sitting in the attic that I was too afraid to touch. This would give me a reason to bring them out in to the light B)

Now that the paint is drying on my Hurricanes I am finally going to make a start on my Hasegawa 1/48 F-8E Crusader conversion to F-8K, VMF-321 with the dark blue dorsal spine and vertical stabilizer covered with white stars.

A quck update. The old kit took a lot a lot of work to get the seams looking ok. Now that I have primed it I see that I still have a bit of tidying up to do; but, overall I am quite happy with where I have ended up. Modifications to old kit include; removed old scribed/raised detail on wings and forward fuselage, re-scribed main panel lines, drilled out holes for guns, cut holes for landing lights, reshaped scoop (still a bit small but shape looks better) and cut hole in underside to take stand where gap between wheels should be. I had thought about cutting out the gap that should be there b

Buttoned up the fuselage for both kits and both lined up very well. Still a lot of work to clean up the joins without damaging the raised panel lines. Very evident from the photo the different approach taken to depicting the outer skin of the Hurricane. The molded in detail on the new kit looks pretty good, if not a little too pronounced in places. The old kit just uses raised lines, which look wierd; however, I am just going to leave these as is. Next it was on to the wings on the old kit. The raised panel lines were incorrect for the Mk.1, though not sure they were right for any model of

I use the Tamiya X-20A as well and it always works out great.