CShanne Posted March 27, 2021 Share Posted March 27, 2021 Get better soon! Ayovan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 Hi Andy, Let's hope you're out of the hospital soon! Cheers, Peter Ayovan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted March 28, 2021 Author Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) On 3/28/2021 at 9:55 AM, mgbooyv8 said: Hi Andy, Let's hope you're out of the hospital soon! Cheers, Peter Talked to both of my doctors today. They said maybe in a couple days. With meds I'm showing good improvements. We need to wait and see. Edited March 31, 2021 by Ayovan mgbooyv8, CShanne and MikeMaben 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) Doctors kicked me loose today. YAY!!! Gawd I hate hospitals. Got a decent meal (I think they go out of their way to make hospital food taste like crap), came home and got a look at my mail, and saw that I got the IP, and another set of decals for this build. Went ahead and slipped the IP into the cockpit with just a minor amount of trimming to get it to fit good. Painted the dash flat black, masked, and glued the wind shield in place and put a coat of interior green on the outside of the frame. Tomorrow I'll squirt some color on the rest of this thing. Edited March 31, 2021 by Ayovan mgbooyv8, LSP_Kevin, BradG and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 He survived , he survived !!! Welcome back Andy Dpgsbody55, mgbooyv8 and Ayovan 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) I bought 1 set of decals originally for this build. They are Pappy Boyington's " markings" for #86 Lucybelle. Well after doing a tiny bit of reading I find out that the plane was strickly a pubicity photo shoot, and did not even belong to VMF-214. In fact the photo shoot had to be done over because someone in a hurry, stuck some of the kill markings on backwards. Not exactly the plane I think I want to represent. I bought a 2nd set of Kepford's white "29 decals. These are pretty much the same as what came with the kit anyway, and at least they are for a real combat aircraft. So VF-17 white "29" it is. Edited March 31, 2021 by Ayovan Dpgsbody55 and mgbooyv8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 Got all 3 colors sprayed out. Needs a little touch-up but not a lot. Actually kind of happy how the paint turned out LSP_Kevin, BradG, mywifehatesmodels and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted March 31, 2021 Author Share Posted March 31, 2021 One of these days the wife is going to stop feeling sorry for me and kick my butt out of the dinning room... Probably sooner than later mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkd1966 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 Good afternoon Andy, She is looking beautiful - AND I'm glad you're feeling better... Model on my friend - model on !!! Mike Ayovan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 4 hours ago, mkd1966 said: Good afternoon Andy, She is looking beautiful - AND I'm glad you're feeling better... Model on my friend - model on !!! Mike Thanks Mike I'm ready to put a coat of gloss clear on now. Got all my stuff out, got setup to spray....OH! but I'm out of gloss....Doooh! I think I got the last bottle from my local hobby shop too. Ordered 3 bottles of Mr. Super Clear gloss on Amazom. Will be delivered on Saturday. mkd1966 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 Got a coat of clear shot yesterday, and most of the decals on today. Just a few doodads to finish up, Nav lights,landing gear (still waiting on some wheels) and the antenna mast and pitot tube. I'll try some more weathering then hit it with a coat of flat, and this one will be just about done. MikeMaben, mgbooyv8, LSP_Kevin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 That's looking quite good for such an old kit - especially since you're building it out-of-box with few to no mods! Kev Ayovan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 8 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: That's looking quite good for such an old kit - especially since you're building it out-of-box with few to no mods! Kev Thanks Kevin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 Looking good, I can remember opening the box on mine several times and closing it up again but in the end I built two of them and was very pleased with the results. Cheers Dennis Ayovan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayovan Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 Thanks Dennis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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