P-61 wip... Finished!!!
Been working on this one for a GB, thought I'd share with ya'll what I'm doing with her.
This is Revells boxing of the classic 1/48 kit. I'm sure most all of you are familliar with this one. I have stolen an engine/cowl from an old build to graft onto the new one, so that both sides will be the same(closed cowl flaps). I'm gonna finish her in OD/grey dress, I've seen enough of black evening gowns!!!
First off, the pit.
I added some GNDN wiring and whatnot, and oxygen hoses from a 24 gauge guitar string, scratched the ?tank and extinguisher on the rear pit bulkhead, and scratched the framework on the seats with wire(back 2) and stretched sprue for the pilot seat. All is hand painted with clear glue inst faces on the IP and R/O bulkhead. Scratched rudder pedals as well.
Seatbelt are foil from a "Crystal Lite" mix tub lid.
It had been long enough since my last go at this one, that I had forgoten how bad some of the fits are!!!
Some styrene widges and CA to fill her up.
All better! Replaced some rivets with dabs of CA.
My first attempt at a rescribe went arye, so I CA'ed all the lines and sanded it back to smooth and tried a second time, much, much better. In fact, it was going so well, I decided to break out the rivet gun(needle in pin vice) and rivet her.....one by one!!! Using drawings from Ospreys "P-61 units of WW2" as a guide for riveting. The only problem I got is, the drawings show rivet detail on fuse and booms, but nothing for the wings, so I guess I'll just have wing it(NYUK, NYUK, NYUK!!!)
And here's the old one before she went on the chopping block!!!
And the deed has been done
(insert TAPS here!!!)
And lastly, the engines before getting closed in. Added ignition wires.
