"Yellow wings" GB Closed

Badge, when completed a model please collect one

Roster

Theuns    1/48 Acurate Miniatures Dauntless

Modelcrazy   1/72 Revell P-26A  completed first (page 4)

Lewbud    Monogram 1/72 P-6 Hawk

ajd3530  (TBA)

Theuns

I will do the Revell 1/72 P-26A Peashooter. Probably start in a couple of months though.

I'm in.  1/72 Monogram P-6 Hawk with all the Lost Starfighter goodies.

This will be my entry, I have been saving this kit for a few years now and have decided to bite the bullet and just go for it.

Actually I bought the Academy 1/48 Peashooter and start on it tomorrow.

Do you have a badge for the GB yet, or did I just miss it?

I'l do either one of my Hobbycraft P-26's or one of my Monograms TBD's.

What do you think of these. Just a quick work up. No problem if you don't like them.

I personally like the one with the planes :-)

Theuns

Ok here I go. The kit I bought came with PE, which I very rarely have. I will enjoy this build.

My building companion. Stays next to me and follows me wherever I go.

Extra goodie  although the kit is pretty nicely detailed already.

Now that is a carpet "monster".....sorry couldn't resist :-)

I am interested to see how that little academy kit builds up.

Theuns

Yeah, he's my buddy.

The kit looks like alot of fun. I'm really going to try to do a stellar job on it. Should take me all month (thats long for me).

Yeah, the way the rest of the world writes the date throws me off as well. I had to look at it twice to see that the GB started the15th.

Yea, that's how we roll here on the southern tip of Africa, we write the dates like the Brits day/month/year  LOL.

Theuns

well this will slow me down a bit. I had part of my thumbnail removed because It grew back wrong after an RC airplane "incident" last December. 

Maybe it grew the wrong way cause you got "servo revercing" on that thumb ;-)

T

Servo reversing is what caused my Dynam Peaks with a 13" prop to take off after me, when I shut off the transmitter BEFORE I unplugged the battery. Imagine my surprise . I just started in the electric motor arena, and as you know, with a glow engine, you just shut it down, then turn off the transmitter to save the battery. Well, don't do that with an electric.

An electric also doesn't stop cutting like nitro, it just keeps on going!

Theuns

This one decided to try 3 times to cut my thumb off (almost succeeded) before it stooped against my pant leg. It.s tough to shut down everything with your thumb laid open with 3 massive cuts, 1 through the bone.

Anyway, I'm down to a band-aid again, so I can hold the tweezers.

Back to work.

Glad to hear it is healing up well . I will be "slowing down" at work a little (if one can call it that since I work for myself) around the end of the month for a week or so and will hopefully get some model time.

When one works on full size planes 10 hours a day and still have a long commute to get home the last thing I want to do is build models LOL

Theuns

Here's an update to the P-26. I finished the Pit and added the backrest I had removed for the PE set. I used tissue paper for it and a pad for the seat as well. I don't know if they had a seat pad as the only picture I can find of a P-26 interior is the one in the Smithsonian, which seems to be lacking one. Oh well, my plane has a seat pad.
The interior was painted aluminum as this was the proper color, although the kit calls for interior green.

Here's an update,

I completed the engine, next will be it's painting and detailing. All the exhaust pipes were somewhat involved. I also glued the fuse halves and wings together. I'll work on the seams first prior to attaching the wings and stabilizers.

It should be a pretty quick build from here.

Man you are moving with this!

Theuns

Theuns

Man you are moving with this!

Thanks buddy,
I was just thinking of all the GB's I've gotten myself into, around 8 of them. Sheesh, I'm going to work myself to death, and I plan on doing a 1/350 Indianapolis for the 1945 GB.

Oh well, I'll go happy, then I've instructed my wife to disseminate my stash the the forum members, just incase.

Here's my update,

Got the primer on. Next is the yellow wings and olive drab fuselage.

Steve

I sprayed the yellow tonight, and will wet sand tomorrow night, then give it one more coat. I swear, gloss yellow has to be harder than gloss white to get on and right.