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Man, that is beautiful. Literally one of a kind work of art.😊

she's a beaut! I tried plastic once.... found it very difficult.

Looks good. Scalemates is a great reference site for almost every kit ever made. It shows this kit was first sold by a company called O-lin in 1949.I guess Lindberg bought the company in 1950 and yours is a 1955-58 rebox of the original kit.

So cool to see the old kits gettin built. Nicely done , Sir.👍

1:47 For best results, put a sheet of wax paper or plastic wrap on the plans before you start building. Otherwise, your airplane will be solidly glued to the plan. 2:51 It is no trouble at all to use the box method to build models which aren't "square" in cross section. It usually results in a model somewhat lighter than the spine method. You just add pieces of the correct shape to the top, sides and/or bottom as necessary. The top of the fuselage of the Nieuport you show at 5:23 is rounded and uses the method I describe for the shape. Same for the Aeronca between the windshield and engine. You can see the process clearly at 0:35 to 0:39 of this video - th-cam.com/video/GdQj89ppXyw/w-d-xo.html 4:04 "Chordwise formers" are called "ribs" in the instructions for building model airplanes.

man that looks awesome! can't wait to see what you'll show next. thumbs up again.

buen trabajo! 👍

Your Hornet looks good!

Thank You for another great video. I always look forward to what you put out.

Pretty cool!

Jerry - great video. I just finished building this Monogram kit of the USS Shangri-La about a month ago. I chose to hollow out the hanger deck, and then install lighting. You are correct; trying to assembly/paint the "cardboard" Hellcats than come with the kit is an exercise in futility. Thus, I chose to accessorize it with ~20, 1/700 scale Hellcats and Avengers made by Trumpeter which I painted in the three color US Navy scheme. Putting all the decals on each of them definitely challenged my patience. The final build was worth the effort. I have also built the Monogram USS Hobby Destroyer and the Monogram LST 608 from this same series. In time, I plan to build the remaining two kits, the Monogram USS Missouri Battleship and the Monogram USS Chicago Cruiser. My guess as to why Monogram started with these five ship models is that the two founders of Monogram were US Naval officers in WWII, and these five kits were initially released in 1945 and 1946.

liked!

I remember tissue was so much easier to install with dope. Tissue was probably better, but dope was easy to use after some practice. It has taken me years to get consistent results with glue sticks and upgraded lightweight tissue. I find modern Guillows tissue too heavy and difficult.

I learned to fly in a Luscombe 8E. I love Luscombes.

we love your videos!

Your video was great, love watching them.

Nice work Gerald. I built several Strombecker kits in the 50's.

Love seeing the old kits gettin built instead of "collected". Well done , Sir.

thank you again for adding a new video, I really enjoy them

Testors and SIG clear dope was available in the mid 60's to early 70's when I built many stick and tissue models as a teenager. It came in 4 or 6 ounce bottles and pint and half pint tins. I bought it regularly at hobby shops. It was such a common thing for airplane modelers that it is hard to believe it is no longer sold. Times have changed.

Nice work on the old kit. Got ya subbed.

I built that Airfix China Clipper as a kid back in the late 1960s. Consequently, it's been around for a long time and has been reissued by Airfix from time to time over the decades.

As a Brit can someone tell me what part of the u.s the accent is😊?

me encantan estos modelos, para sellar la madera uso talco mezclado con cola blanca, varias capas con lijados intermedios deja una superficie pulida como espejo!

Great kit indeed! It's currently available from Revell with Jolly Rodger decals for who likes to get one. I build it and liked it so much I got a second one and some extra decals. The original tooling is from 1985 I believe. It has raised panallines but I could not care less. I only had a small problem with one of the intakes.

Same as the 48th kit. Built the 1/48 Monogram F-4J black bunny kit last yr myself. Love the old Monogram kits they really take me back to better days.

I did the same. I did not paint it white first I did not sand paper it too. My tom cat F 14 Sir looks almost like yours. The F-4J Phantom two I heard is big as School Bus but really fast fighter bomber plane American. I use too carry a Micro toy of the F-4J Phantom two in my pocket . I feet joy .Thank You Sir for sharing.

Thank you, I enjoy every video you do.

Built the USAF F-4C/D version of that kit back in ‘85. Still have the instructions. Little did I know at that time I’d be flying QF-4E/G Phantoms 19 years later.

Eu assisti uma demonstração dos Phanton F-4 aqui no Brasil em 1973 na esquadrilha THUNDERBIRDS foi a coisa mais linda de ver eu era um garoto de 15 anos nunca esqueci daquele dia ❤

I remember my dad building wood kits when i was 4 or 5 and building Monogram Speedee-Built kits as a teen. Fast forward to the late 60s and I was working on TF30-P-6 and P8s in the A7-A and B Corsair II. When the planes are flying 12 hours a day, seven days a week, those 75 hour hot sections really are a full time job!

Very nice to see this type of content-old school modeling at its best! Thank you for sharing this.

Fantastic. I once heard somebody remark that the Golden Age of a subject is when it is possible to get good results but it still takes skills and creativity to do so. If that also holds true for aircraft kits this was its golden age although the same can then be said for early plastic kits. Thanks for the great look back.

Love the kit and really like the skill level they wanted you to have to carve and build one. For a present day cheap way to smooth finish and mold shapes more fluid is to use plaster of Paris or dry wall compound over the area, let dry over night then merely sand it to perfection, seal with a primer coat paint. these kits are rare like the old cast iron car models they use to sell when I was a kid. you learned to machine metal building one and it was generally a full out functioning steering wheel and changeable wheels. put it together with nuts, bolt and screws. PS if you want to hand carve you kit look into some nice Italian rasp files to make shaping the wood a safer and easier thing.

I remember in the seventies in the store where I bought my $2.00 Airfix kits (Obletter in Munich...lol) they had those very crude vacuformed models in a small display which, back then already, cost about $19.00 a piece! I could have never imagined why anyone would spend that kind of money on such a crude kit, when one could get a much more detailed kit from Revell or Airfix for a tenth of the price! What I didn't understand though, was that it's not about the quality of the kit, but that there just wasn't any kit of those planes available until one guy in a garage churned out those vacuformed kits in small numbers for those who were desperate for those particular types of planes and didn't mind putting all the extra work into it. Your model kit totally takes me back to that. Now I wouldn't mind trying one myself lol Thanks for posting!!! 😎

My father built several of these models as a high schooler. I remember the B-25 and a P-47 in particular.

I'm sitting in an air conditioned room watching a movie about the 'Spirit of St Louis' Lindbergh flight. Aviation technology leaped light years from that flight to the sophisticated all metal aircraft in the few shot decades!

Thankyou for showing me a type of balsa kit I had no idea existed!

It's been about 40 years since I carved a solid model. It sounds like a nice vacation activity while away from the home shop. I have a few sets of 1/72 scale patterns issued by the War Department for model makers my Father-in-law left me. Thanks for the inspiration!

Build a couple of these and you've got some skills under your belt even without realizing it. Early MAD Magazine had a few articles on model building clearly written by someone with a more-than-passing interest in the hobby. One of the funnier ones was comparing wood kits such as this to the then-new plastic kits, grumbling that all one had to do with a plastic kit was open the box, pull a string and bang, zoom! You had a destroyer.

I can see me decided wheels up - out of frustration.

best vlog, catch ya later!Gerald- 📢

How practical would it be to vacform the fuselage or any other part that has glazing out of transparent sheet plastic and then paint everything that isn't a window?

Beautiful!

I never liked these kits the only use I ever saw for them was starting fires, however you did make a pretty good representation with what you had to work with.

Nice work and commentary.

1:44 I'd bet what's left of my retirement fund those are, in fact, balsa, maybe a pretty hard grade of balsa but definitely balsa. There was a time, in the 40s and 50s, Comet produced kits with spruce for the strips instead of balsa. By the time your Avenger kit was made, the strips were balsa .

very well descibed. thank you

Well done and good to some artistic engineering. Something that seems to be in short supply today.

Your hard work payed off with some nice models. The floatplane turned out really nice.