Finished: P-38L-5-LO Lightning

Max,

Absolutely an amazing finish!  Beautiful Lightning!

Nope the yoke is turned the right direction. :)

Thanks guys!!!

Nice work, Max, and good luck with your local contest.    Max is correct - a yoke to the left will lift the left aileron for a bank to the left.

Ken

Nice job on a real crappy kit. I know because I built it last summer. I could not even tell you how many hours I spent sanding the rear of the cowl panels to get them to even come close to the front edge of the wing where they meet. All rivet detail completly wiped out. The enjoyment factor of the kit rated about a 2 on a scale of 1-10 for me. The interior was a big let down in this scale to. very sparse on the detail. That alclad finish is amazing. Well done on a tough kit.

                                                                                           Soulcrusher

Oh I know guys I'm telling you I almost gave up on that kit a few times but it cost so much money I was too cheap too! The engines into the boomes... terrible fit. The booms to the wings... terrible fit. Every seam I sanded required replacing rivets. Gah!! I didn't get excited about the kit untill the first coat of Alclad was on it. It was my first Trumpter. Tell me they are not all like that?

Next on the bench is Tamiya 1/32 F-16CJ. I am hoping to find some modeling zen with it. :)

MaxPower wrote:

Oh I know guys I'm telling you I almost gave up on that kit a few times but it cost so much money I was too cheap too!

LOL!

jeaton01 wrote:

Nice job, I like it.  And the yoke/aileron displacement is correct.

Yupper, it is... Sorry, Jeremy... The yoke being turned to the left will raise the left aileron/lower the right, thereby dropping the left wing/raising the right for a left bank...

That said, the NMF is a beauty...

She's a Beauty .  Your hard work certainly paid dividends.

Regards,  Rick

That's an amazing finish. Truly gr8 work. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Dave

Now that is a seriously stunning job youve done there. Ive heard nothing but bad things about that kit, but from looking at your job on it, youd never guess. The alclad paint job is the icing on the cake. The various shades really set it off and against the black anti-glare panels.....Awesome.

Good luck at the comp. She looks like a winner to me. Just make sure you write Trumpeter on the card with the model, in LARGE letters LOL.

...Guy

Tugcap wrote:

Oooooh, shiney! I like it! Just got my first supply of Alclad that I'll be using on a 1/32 Mustang. I really like the way it looks on your kit. Very nice job.

looking at the Rolls Royce emblem and then the P38, I had to laugh a little bit. Rolls Royce is now the owner of the Allison Engine Company that made the engines for that bird! Although the other half of Allison still claims the V1710 as well. Anyway I've been hearing rumors that Rolls Royce?Allison is seriously thinking about starting a museum dedicated to products built with the two name plates. That bird would look like a gem there.

gary

Dave,

Wow! I need the sunglasses for this one. The NMF is awesome. You've inspired me to try the Alclad on my 1/48 Tamiya P-51D.

Good luck on the contest.

squeakie wrote:

looking at the Rolls Royce emblem and then the P38, I had to laugh a little bit. Rolls Royce is now the owner of the Allison Engine Company that made the engines for that bird! Although the other half of Allison still claims the V1710 as well. Anyway I've been hearing rumors that Rolls Royce?Allison is seriously thinking about starting a museum dedicated to products built with the two name plates. That bird would look like a gem there. gary

model geek wrote:

Dave, Wow! I need the sunglasses for this one. The NMF is awesome. You've inspired me to try the Alclad on my 1/48 Tamiya P-51D. Good luck on the contest.

Thanks again guys. The P38s still on my bench I can't stop staring at it!!

Damn! That plane got sum Bling! " border="0" /> Talkin 'bout a pimped-out ride...

Seriously, fantastic paintjob!

MaxPower wrote:

squeakie wrote: looking at the Rolls Royce emblem and then the P38, I had to laugh a little bit. Rolls Royce is now the owner of the Allison Engine Company that made the engines for that bird! Although the other half of Allison still claims the V1710 as well. Anyway I've been hearing rumors that Rolls Royce?Allison is seriously thinking about starting a museum dedicated to products built with the two name plates. That bird would look like a gem there. gary When I was in gas turbine school I learned on the Alison 250. Now I'm all about the Rolls Royce, I overhaul and repair RB211's. So I went big. :D  model geek wrote: Dave, Wow! I need the sunglasses for this one. The NMF is awesome. You've inspired me to try the Alclad on my 1/48 Tamiya P-51D. Good luck on the contest. Who's Dave?? lol. You'll love spraying the Alclad. If you get a good gloss black primer coat the alclad is a ton of fun to spray.   Thanks again guys. The P38s still on my bench I can't stop staring at it!!

I remember the first time I ever went in the plant over over (63 acres under one roof!). Got a phone call a little after midnight asking me questions about how to fix a machine (guy loaded the tool holder in the spindle upside down). So I just jumped in the car and went over there. I got thru the guard shack OK because my ID card was good over there, but nobody showed up to pick me up! I wondered around in there for about an hour and a half, and saw what must have been fifty 250 turbines waiting for test in one area alone. Then I went into this area where they were assembling TF41's and TF56's, and damned near went to jail! Anyway I tell them I'm there to fix a machine, and these guys have never heard of the kind it was (there was only one at plant 5), so I said hey I'm leaving and you guys can figure it out on your own. Ten minutes later about a half dozen people show up looking for me. Fix the machine in about twenty minutes for them and head back north. Man that was a big place and so easy to get lost in. And I almost forgot! They blew up a turbine set in that crazy 100K rpm test! Shook the whole building as I was leaving (like a 500lb. bomb went off two hundred yards away!)

gary