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J35J
Great start on the Buc! Following

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work on the cockpit.

Gary Victory
Very nice work.
Looking forward to the rest of your build.

Rui S
Excelent weathering 👍

John E
Agree. Really well done.

Thor77
Thank you,i tried really hard on this one 😄

John E
I can tell. Fantastic. Almost looks real.

Neuling
Inspiring weathering here!

Michael Kohl
Excellent result indeed.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Lovely result!

Rui S
Welcome to scalemates🙂

Guldilo's HobbyZone
Thank You

Rando
Been cooking up this idea since I got the 1/72 RF-8. My original plan was to build the plane in the cover of the Osprey RF-8 book, flown by Lt Andre Coltrin over Vietnam. With a little help from a 1/72 version of the Furball MiG Master sheet, I will rearrange the nose and tail numbers to make BuNo 146871 as it flew in Vietnam during its 1966 cruise off the USS Oriskany.

I also found an Academy F-8E, which has decals for a VF-111 jet that flew on the same cruise, so decided I will build it as the RF-8's escort, which they often had during their photo runs. I also figured, why not build them together? They will be displayed in flight.

Oleg Bogolei
Nice idea and intersiting projeact. Also have two of them in a stash)

Freak
Great idea for a double build. Following!

Rando
Good to have you gents, looking to start this one soon! I like researching and adding reference photos, so I just added some in the meantime.

Urban Gardini
Now this seems like a build that I've to follow!

Rando
Welcome Urban, happy to have you! "It's only a model!"

Sergej I
Following 🙂 👍

Rando
Hi Sergej! I'm very very excited to get started on this one

Casey Beckett
Following - got 3 of those nice new Sword RF's in the stash.

Jos Jansen
Normally I don't follow 1:72 scale models...for this one I'll make an exception...😅😉, grab myself a seat here! Love those Crusaders...

Patrick Hagelstein
Got intrigued by Rando's comment on Jos' build, so I popped over here. Looks like a very interesting build as well!

Rando
Happy to have you gents here, I'll be getting to this one just as soon as my elaborate P-51 build is done...

Rando
Here we go, double Crusader build. Gonna be comparing the short-run Sword RF-8 with Academy's F-8, which has been the go-to in 1/72. I have extra Academy kits so I'm swapping out the RF-8 kit's nice resin seat, I'll use it for a future open canopy build. The pilots will be obscuring seat detail in a closed canopy anyway.

David Fuller
Following

Rando
Welcome David!

I assembled the PJ pilots and started nipping off parts to assemble the fuselage. Getting the pilots to fit in their seats is tricky so far. Fit on the Academy kit parts is pretty nice. Sword kit is not as easy since there's no locator pins but they align well

Rando
Pilots are fully painted now. The F-8E pilot is based on Dick Schaffert, who was a pilot on this 1966 cruise. While I don't know of any specific plane he flew, F-8 pilots often flew jets that were assigned to others, so he's flying 149180 on this escort mission. In order to accommodate them, I had to remove the rudder pedals and front of the cockpit tub on the F-8E. It won't really be visible when the cockpit is buttoned up anyway.

Rando
I didn't like how the Sundowner helmet turned out so I stripped the paint and airbrushed it this time with tiny wedges of tape, then shaped and touched up everything. Just need to add a black stripe for the visor groove.

J35J
Great attention to details Rando! Following👍🏻

Rando
Thanks and glad to have you J35J! Pilots, seats, ejection handles, and joysticks are all in place. Time soon to start putting the jets together.

Rando
All the interior parts are in, soon time to put the fuselages together 👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Rando
Hello Guy, welcome 😊

Fuselages are together. Now getting all the panels and gear bay doors to sit flush.

Calvin Gifford
Very nice! How is the Sword kit so far??

Rando
Thanks Calvin! It's quite nice if you remember it's a short run kit and you prep and test fit parts a lot before gluing anything. Has been a far from perfect first effort by me but I like how it goes together. It's shape is pretty accurate too. The Academy kit is very plug-n-play in comparison

Calvin Gifford
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S M
Double build! Following!

Rando
Welcome S M! I have been painstakingly installing the gear doors closed. Stuffing blutack in the wheel wells helps with frustration. Both F-8s have tiny aft gear doors on the main bays that took a lot of time to line up. The RF-8's nose doors were also very tricky. Happy to say I'm done getting the gear doors on.

Casey Beckett
Backup RF-8 inbound Rando ! Shipped Friday!

Rando
You the man Casey! Did some scratchbuilding tonight

Casey Beckett
Me too - Bonanza gear struts. God bless Albion Alloys. Great stuff if you've not used any of their items.

Rando
I have not but am always looking to add new things in this hobby, I'll check them out! I actually have an old Minicraft 1/48 Bonanza that I might do something with one of these days.

Rando
Took a big long tour on the clear parts struggle bus this past week. Got glue smudges on a camera window, the windscreen, and canopy on the RF-8, which all had to be buffed out. Hopefully I get the canopies attached snug without issues tomorrow night. Finding that carefully lining the attachment point with Revell Contacta on a toothpick is less risky than TET.

Calvin Gifford
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S M
Clear parts look good 👍

Michael Kohl
Like the planes. Like to see them in flighr. Like the effort you put in.
Feel you when putting pilots properly in and closing wheel well doors.
Anxious for the paint job.

Rando
Thanks all, getting closer to painting. A ton of work has gone into smooth out and scribe the lines around the gear bays on both jets, not to mention persistent seams. Also turned my attention to sanding down and rescribing the fictitious bumps on the folding joints, which the RF-8 has as well. The RF-8 also has wedge-shaped plates on the droops, which were only present much later, so those were sanded down as well. There's still a few things I want to try to perfect before I begin painting. I also have to decide if I want to paint the wings separately, in all likelihood I'm going to glue them on first because I want the fuselage section to be flush.

Rando
Alright, wings are on. I feel like this will make masking more complicated, but better for making sure they conform to the fuselage. I am so ready to paint these jets

Calvin Gifford
Whoot!

Nicolas
I missed this one, following. I love these side by side builds.
Great progress so far. 👍

Rando
Hi friends three months later I'm finally painting the damn things. Here's my current take on preshading, blackbasing, what have you. Gave the white areas a white base that I preshaded with dark gull grey. Then mottled the black with white for some variation with the light gull grey. Elsewhere I built the missiles, launch rails, and painting the horizontal stabs.

Thomas Kolb
Coming along nicely! Your blackbasing tedhnique looks very effective, I am curious how they will turn out!

Rando
I've painted the undersides of the CVW-16 birds. Unfortunately I did something stupid, something I even decided against at first--I tried doing a "pour" into the intakes to get them painted. This was a bad idea for the RF-8 in particular. I thought that since they were glued together I could get away with no leaks, but I saw the paint level draining, and I knew the paint would appear inside the camera windows. Lo and behold I saw paint when I peeked under the masks.

Feels horrible that I did this, even if I have some ways I could fix them. I can pop the side windows out and clean the bottom side windows, but putting them back in will be a pain since the side windows are meant to be attached from the inside. UGH. Any clever ideas to fix this mess are welcome, this is definitely one of those "mojo killers."

Rando
Think I fixed the windows. The bottom windows will still be a little smudgy. But I was able to get the sides back in by gluing a toothpick to the mask and rotating it from the inside, then seating it on the frame.

Calvin Gifford
Glad you figured it out!

Rando
After fussing with the white for what seemed like forever, I finally masked to paint the gull grey. Unfortunately this revealed a ghost seam on the spine, so on the plastic putty goes. Hopefully it goes away.

S M
Those ghost seams are so annoying 🙁

Calvin Gifford
^^Yeah, hate those ghost seams!

Rando
Fortunately I was able to defeat them with putty and paint! It's just crazy they'd show up after working on all the seams and surfaces for the past few months. I also removed the ECM blister from the VF-111 jet's tail, since reference photos and instructions showed they didn't have them at the time.

Rando
Fussing a lot with the color of the nose tip. Also very difficult to mask off. Lots of touching up needed. The tip seems either a tan or greyish hue, but I have no photos to base it on.

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Freak
Looking good, can't wait for the masks to come off!

Rando
Thanks guys! Cleaned up the paint edges on the nose and feel a lot better about how it looks now. Also painted an anti-glare area in front of the camera fairing. Just gotta paint the tailpipes and it's on to clear coat and decals!

Thomas Kolb
They look really great! I have to say, the F-8 is one fine looking aircraft and your models definitely do them justice. I cannot wait to see them with decals! About ghost seams, I have seen them appearing on my models weeks after they are finished. I guess it's the cement seam cracking a little bit because of tensions in the plastic, but I have long since stopped worrying about it.

Rando
Thanks Thomas! I appreciate that, I'm super anxious to start the decals myself, going to be the most rewarding part of the whole project. Still had some touchups and wanted to paint the leading edges of the flight surfaces with flat aluminum to represent Coroguard. Clear coats go on *I hope* tonight.

Gotta say, building two planes at once sure is a different kind of challenge and test of your patience. It's fortunate that they are mostly the same, but it's still time consuming to do everything twice. I spent at least an hour masking off the leading edges and it took all of five minutes to paint! Probably won't be doing a double build again for quite awhile.

Calvin Gifford
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Rui S
1/35??? Well may I take a front Seat 😎

Zsolt Czegle
Rui: yes this time I build this one from my stash. It's the same size as my 1/72 Maus or E-100... 😉

Michael Kohl
Jep. For most soft skins I prefer 1:35 too.

Zsolt Czegle
Painting process started......

Laliscale
Exciting🤩i have a Bronco GAZ 69 anti tank. Maybe... I ll build it.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat!

Espadon
I like the detailing. Excellent job.

Zsolt Czegle
Thank you mates!

Zsolt Czegle
Yesterday I could finally airbrush the modell in green.

Bohrmann
👀. @Zsolt, may I ask which brand of primer you use ?

Zsolt Czegle
@Bohrmann: I use acrylic paints and primers. This time I used the 3rd Gen AK Black Primer (AK11242) with a few drops of Drying Retarder (AK737)

Zsolt Czegle
Details are painted, and the 3D decals and lenses are applied.
The real weathering is coming.....

Zsolt Czegle
Pinwash done, faded and highlighted with oilpaints.

Alec K
Cool project mate, the paint job looks A+ 👍

Zsolt Czegle
Thank you Alec!

Mr James
Lovely Lovely lovely... Your weathering is superb. There's lots and lots of time gone into those chips and scratches.

Zsolt Czegle
Thank you Mr James!

Zsolt Czegle
It's not my best work, but I say now it's completed!

Rui S
I like it 👍

Robert Podkoński
Perhaps it is not your best work, Zsolt, but it is perfect in every detail 🙂

Smoke
They were under different topics, as a result they could not be linked. For every kit on Scalemates the correct topic must be selected, which is the subject depicted (In this case ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus). With Gundam and some other subjects a lot of the kits are miscategorized on their generic topic ("Gundam") or line rather than the actual subject. There's a nice big warning when entering a new kit to not do this but that doesn't seem to work all that well in practice.

This also applies to the other data suggestions you made, they will have to be cleaned up and categorized correctly manually. Maybe a system could be implemented where certain topics are "forbidden" from use and give a nice explanatory popup to prevent this?

Adrian Forest
It's frustrating that these items are so often miscategorised in this way, but it's easy enough to see why it happens: the hierarchy of
Media Property (Gundam) -> Specific Line (HGIBO) -> Topic (Gundam Barbatos) -> Subject (Gundam Barbatos Lupus)
contains important information that's lost in the current hierarchy of data.

Adrian Forest
This is especially relevant for the Build series of lines, which almost always use parts from existing kits, and in most cases are almost entirely the parts of an existing kit with new parts added. It's also relevant for lines that use one or more common base parts, like the HGIBO line that heavily reuses parts first introduced with the HG Gundam Barbatos Gundam Barbatos (Bandai 0201873, 1:144)

The Barbatos Lupus kit is currently listed as being a New Tool kit, but it would be far more accurate and useful to listed it as a rebox of the original Barbatos kit with new parts, which is not currently possible.

Smoke
This could be solved by classing them all under the same main base topic and using the Markings option to specify the variant, similar to how it's already done with a lot of other vehicles. For example:
F-16A Fighting Falcon (Revell 04363, 1:72)
Lockheed Martin F-16 C Solo Türk (Revell 04844, 1:72)
These both depict variants of the same base F-16 plane but are different variants with a lot of different parts as a result.
So for the example the Barbatos Lupus would fall under the Barbatos topic with the markings defining it as the Barbatos Lupus, and then it can be linked as a new parts kit of the original.

Dominik Weitzer
:-D

István Szücs
Any progress here?

Christian W
Good morning! Sorry. Not yet. I'm bussy around the house in my garden.