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Gloster E.28/39

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  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: Naples, FL
Posted by tempestjohnny on Friday, December 9, 2016 12:12 PM
Great build. Something different.

 

  • Member since
    February 2007
  • From: Brunswick, Ohio
Posted by Buckeye on Friday, December 9, 2016 11:30 AM

Nice build!

Mike

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Friday, December 9, 2016 10:34 AM

Mike, only two were built.  Like the XP-59 in the US its purpose was to provide a test bed for gas turbine research and was not expected to be a combat aircraft.  So, just prototype markings.

Thank you Toshi.  Be careful not to further inflate my greatly expanded ego!

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    March 2015
  • From: Streetsboro, Ohio
Posted by Toshi on Friday, December 9, 2016 8:08 AM

Sir, you never cease to amaze me with the unique choices of beaurtiful builds that you choose to assemble and this one does not disappoint.  You've done another fantastic job on this build sir.  I admire your work!

Toshi

On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell

 

Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world.  Mrs. Toshi

 

 

  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Posted by M. Brindos on Friday, December 9, 2016 1:50 AM

That is a nice clean little build you have here. We're there any more markings for this plane, or is that it?

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Gloster E.28/39
Posted by jeaton01 on Friday, December 9, 2016 12:33 AM

Along with the Meteors I'm working on I have done up the Special Hobby E.28/39.  It appears I am in an early jets mode.  Will the He-178 be far down the road?  The E.28/39 is one of the better Special Hobby kits I have built.  The only issue I had was with the landing gear, if built as the parts come the airplane would look like it was on stilts.  I cut 1/4 inch off the top of the main gear struts and it still sits higher than it should.  If doing this one again I would set the trailing beam lowers at a different angle so the yokes are nearly parallel to the ground.  If the airplane had no fuel in it it might look like mine (I hope).  It was not a very large airplane.  Perhaps Dudley the new guy over inflated the struts.
 
The instrument panel has nice relief and detail.  I painted it black, dry brushed the details, and filled the faces with Future.  Eduard seat belts.  I blocked up the seat about 3/16", it looked way too low.
 
 
 
 
 
 

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

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