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Started by davew6003 at 02-04-2008 7:34 PM. Topic has 570 replies.
  
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 02-04-2008, 7:34 PM
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davew6003
 
Joined on 12-03-2005
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Re: P-39 Airacobra Group Build
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Well after 13 months its finally done. A little late I know but.....I had a couple of other things come up along the way that slowed me down. Like a Commision build and my wife and I had a little 1:1 project to ..uhh..."build"....Anyway here it is:
Eduards 1/48 P 39Q profipack
Nice kit with only a few problems. The nose weight is nice and the PE set is great. I used Moskit Exaust which are VERY cool . I also used an aluminum tube for the 37mm in the nose cause the kit part was just a plastic blob. The color in the pics is a bit off, im not real good at the white balance etc...when taking pics. So comments are welcome, and suggestions are incouraged. Please tell me what you think I can improve or what I might have missed. Thanks.
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02-04-2008, 8:00 PM
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mucker
Joined on 07-14-2004
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Re: P-39 Airacobra Group Build
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I love it Dave...way to see it through to the end! THat's one fine looking Airacobra. Oh, and, a hearty congrats on the good news. I'm happy for you.
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02-05-2008, 6:09 PM
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wing_nut
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1st big time congrats on the 1;1. we need pics of that too. the cobra is really beautful...even on a 2" screen. too hard to typppe on this thing. I'll get it up on the website...hopefully later tonight.
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02-06-2008, 1:18 AM
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squeakie
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Re: P-39 Airacobra Group Build
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 davew6003 wrote: | | Well after 13 months its finally done. A little late I know but.....I had a couple of other things come up along the way that slowed me down. Like a Commision build and my wife and I had a little 1:1 project to ..uhh..."build"....Anyway here it is:
Eduards 1/48 P 39Q profipack
Nice kit with only a few problems. The nose weight is nice and the PE set is great. I used Moskit Exaust which are VERY cool . I also used an aluminum tube for the 37mm in the nose cause the kit part was just a plastic blob. The color in the pics is a bit off, im not real good at the white balance etc...when taking pics. So comments are welcome, and suggestions are incouraged. Please tell me what you think I can improve or what I might have missed. Thanks. |
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what a nice P-39! I picked up the AM kit Monday for a future build (who could pass it up for $15!). I was sorta thinking about a Russian P-39, but after looking over the ones posted here I'm getting second thoughts! You guys are just too good. gary
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02-06-2008, 1:37 PM
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squeakie
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| wing_nut wrote: | | AHHHHHH... a full size keyboard ![Big Smile [:D]](/emoticons/icon_smile_big.gif) Is it some kind of law that seminars are required to be horribly boring with only about 50% of relevant information? If so... that was one Cracker Jack seminar. Dave as soon as I get on the forum I am going to post your pics on the site. And Gary.... get started on that 39 and post some pics here as you go.
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I looked the P-39 over last night, and I was really impressed with the kit. Somewhere around the house I've got a bunch of P-39 pics (many are internal) that I can use for research. Now all we need is for AM to come out with a Soviet P-63 Kingcobra!! gary
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04-03-2008, 7:30 PM
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Bill IV
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So is this P- 39 Group Build still going? Entries still being accepted? I happen to have a Revell (woof woof!) kit that I've been painting on-the-trees as I paint other stuff- not the most accurate kit and I'm not going to 'improve' it, since I've got better ones in the back of the nest, but it needs to be assembled and this could be just the audience for it. Of course I'll take and post pictures. If I fix the broken landing gear from the Aerobonita I made from two MPC/Airfix kits back in the 1970s, does that count? I find something very appealing about P-39s, and 63s... Cheers!
Bill Abbott
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04-03-2008, 9:15 PM
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hkshooter
Joined on 12-15-2003
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Wow, I forgot all about this GB! I was supposed to build a kit for this one. I guess the last year has been a bit, weird, for lack of a better word. I'm bummed to have missed it. Heck, had I remembered about it I'd have jumped back in with the P-39 I just built. Marc even helped me out with it!
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun!
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end"
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04-04-2008, 8:32 AM
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wing_nut
Joined on 04-13-2005
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Bill... End dates? We don't no steenkin' end dates! Start gluin" HK That counts as far as I'm concerned. I'll get her up on my site later.
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04-04-2008, 10:04 AM
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Daywalker
Joined on 09-08-2003
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Re: P-39 Airacobra Group Build
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![Shock [:O]](/emoticons/icon_smile_shock.gif)
Here I am in the middle of an Eduard 1/48 P-39 and didn't even know there was a GB for them going on!
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04-04-2008, 11:43 AM
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wing_nut
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Bill, Frank... I have added you guysthe the roster on page 1. I have also crossed outthe end date so get going...... website updated. HK... the rules state that a P-39 recv'd for the SSGB counts here too. That hereby applies to SSGB 2 as well.
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04-04-2008, 3:30 PM
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hkshooter
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Awesome Marc! That's cool! Glad to have "contributed"! I'll have to go check your site soon. I've not spent any time there recently.
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun!
"Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end"
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04-04-2008, 3:40 PM
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Daywalker
Joined on 09-08-2003
South Central Wisconsin
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Re: P-39 Airacobra Group Build
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Yessir! I'll keep cracking on my 'Cobra. Here's how she looks right now. Fuse is together, and the wing is attached and all lost panel lines restored. I still am not sure exactly which version I am building, so I hollowed out ALL of the exhausts. That's a total of 36 exhaust stacks! I gotta admit, the set with 12 on each side was a little intimidating, but they turned out well. I also epoxied and clamped the fuse sides together in the area of the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat so that the canopy fits better (Thanks Marc!) but the joints keep popping. I am playing with the idea of drilling small holes in the canopy and the fuse where the frme uprights are so that I can install small reinforcements to help hold it together. We'll see if it works! Well, here's how she looks today:
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05-22-2008, 8:05 AM
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stevebrauning
Joined on 11-10-2004
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Hello out there! This is my first post here. I started a Hasegawa RAF Airacobra recently and found this page, so I thought I would chime in... I just hope that the deal is still on. So far the kit seems to be excellent. I did order a photo-etched set mainly for the seat belts. I didn't find much on this group-build thread about the Hasegawa kits: most people seem to be building Eduards. But I picked up my kit at the ONLY hobby shop in my town: really it's a stationary store but the owner is a modeler and is venturing into plastic models, paint, etc, and I wanted to support him. And the kit looked really nice. To expand on the story, what got me started was that I stopped into a store that used to be a hobby shop and gradually changed over to industrial lighting, since the guy found that the hobby end just wasn't working. It turned out that he still had a couple of old kits - so I bought 2 for about US$7. each... including a Hobbycraft Hurricane MkII. That got me going on the RAF. So then I went over to the other store and snapped up the Airacobra. My first issue has been the interior color. I have applied RAF interior green, but is that right? Or should it be Bell interior green? Any other advice on the Hasegawa kits? How about the nose weight - how much to put in (in ounces - I use fishing weights.) Thanks!
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05-23-2008, 6:11 AM
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wing_nut
Joined on 04-13-2005
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Hiya Steve Sure its still going as long as there is someone building and posting. Eduard does seem to have the lions share of the Cobra builds.... excellent kits. The Has kit is no slouch either from what I hear though. The nose weight from the eduard kit is .7 oz. so you can use that as a starting point Definately go with the Bell green for the interior. FS 34092 is a good match.
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07-06-2008, 5:40 PM
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stevebrauning
Joined on 11-10-2004
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I'm still here! I'm building the Hasegawa RAF Airacobra Mk. I; using an Edward Photo-etch set; took the camo paint masks off the other day, and it came out pretty good. I hope to
spray gloss coat and apply decals soon. I am also building a Hobbycraft Hurricane MkIID with the same paint scheme. I hope to post some photos here soon... Steve
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07-07-2008, 8:37 AM
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wing_nut
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Open ended? Dunno Frank... I hear tell that you are claiming you took advantage of the guy you made that swap with![Whistling [:-^]](/emoticons/icon_smile_whistling.gif) Ah whatthe heck... OK ... it's open ended. Great Steve. Any progress pics? I'll through them up on the web site.
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07-08-2008, 10:58 AM
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stevebrauning
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Well i tried to attach a photo here but I have no idea what happened. There is no "Attach" or "insert" option for graphics that I can find anywhere here. So be it. ![]()
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07-08-2008, 11:00 PM
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arki30
Joined on 02-01-2004
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Steve, use the search function for topics related to posting of pictures. You'll need to host the pictures on a hosting site, i.e. Photobucket. Cheers
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