Monogram 1/48 B58 Hustler

[papa 695]

Nice seat Tony


But I wouldn't like to be the baby sat in it

[yak face]

Apologies for the break in transmission!! this ones been a bit of a stop /start job , other things like holidays etc. meaning i havent been able to get in the shed as often as i should. Anyway heres a few pics of where I am at the moment .


The front fuselage halves (top and bottom) have been joined and the seam sorted by re-instating the panel line as a raised one by using stretched sprue glued over the joint . The rear tail section also being sorted this way . The tricky engine pods have also been assembled and after a lot of very delicate cleaning up between the raised lines are looking ok and ready to be fitted to the wing . cheers tony

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[papa 695]

Nice work Tony glad to see you back on this one, and I hope you had a great holiday

[flyjoe180]

Back, refreshed and at it. Nice work Tony, looking like a clean build so far.

[Dave W]

The Hustlers coming along well Tony. Nice fix for the raised panel lines.Saves doing a huge rescribing job instead.

[Guest]

I'm excited at seeing more of this one Tony, so no more holidays!

[colin m]

Chuffin holidays - always getting in the way. Nice to see this under way again.

[yak face]

Bit more progress on the hustler today. All the airframe is together , joint lines have been sanded and re instated and the canopy is on. All the wheels have been painted.Its now had a thin coat of primer , ready for the next coat which will be Tamiya black gloss. I'm going to be using various Vallejo model Air metallics and hopefully the black undercoat will give it a bit of depth and also maybe highlight the panel lines if i dont apply it too thick!! here she is in primer

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[papa 695]

Looking very good Tony, but how many wheels ? I don't do that many road wheels on a tank

[yak face]

Gloss Black basecoat is on and the Matt black for the radome has been done too , all ready to be masked off and then the fun(?) starts - the many different shades of silver/gunmetal/aluminium etc all to be done with modelair metallics and vallejo liquid silver . Ive also spent the best part of two hours scraping the seam lines off the dozens of parts that make up the very complicated undercarriage . Heres the beast in black , cheers tony[ATTACH]113173.IPB[/ATTACH]

[flyjoe180]

That's looking good Tony.

[papa 695]

Very dark Tony looking forward to the silver work going on

[colin m]

You've got more wheels than the 6:15 to Crewe there. Looking forward to all the silvers going on.

[yak face]

Small update , the silver has started to go on , the weapon/fuel pod being the first recipient of modelair aluminium . Ive also painted the multitude of parts that go together to make the complicated undercarriage arrangement. hopefully more work will get done this weekend now its cooled off a bit, cheers tony

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[Neil]

Does the black undercoat make the silver / bare metal look better then? Just curious as my Mig will be bare metal finish, ordered them from John earlier but normally I use Halfords white or grey rattle cans for a primer. The weapons pod seems to have a much deeper colour because of the black primer?


Oh and looking good, but that undercarriage looks a challenge.