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Perhaps the best kit ever made. It's almost laughably good. Your work so far is stellar Hoss. Great subject too. I'll be doing Perry Dahl's Skidoo soon.
"Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"
making great progress. The pit looks fantastic.
Thanks,
John
The rest of the office is now complete as well as the main build.
The seat, radio equipment and armored plate are assembled at the end of the main build. I used the Eduard steel seatbelts instead of the kit supplied decal.
The main build fit was absolutely perfect. The design of the major sections is very clever, requiring zero fill and resulting in stellar alignment and no gaps or issues.
The one "watch out" is the landing gear and door actuators that are installed early in the build. I high recommend waiting until after painting is complete to plug these in. They are very fragile and exposed. As you can see in the underside photo, I've broken off one of the landing gear actuators. Tamiya has a habit of sequencing their builds with fragile parts early on. It's an easy fix -- just a minor annoyance.
Time for main camo painting. Thanks for looking.
JohnnyK Great airplane. Nice work on the cockpit.
Great airplane. Nice work on the cockpit.
Thanks Johnny!
modelcrazy Oh wow, nice pit!
Oh wow, nice pit!
Thanks Steve!
Gamera Oh that's awesome!!! Picked up the same kit last year, I really need to build mine. If my cockpit turns out half as good as yours I'll be thrilled!
Oh that's awesome!!!
Picked up the same kit last year, I really need to build mine. If my cockpit turns out half as good as yours I'll be thrilled!
Thanks Gamera! Much appreciated. It's really a pleasure to build.
MR TOM SCHRY Favorite WWII plane! Your work on the cockpit is going along nicely. I've been so tempted to pull the trigger on this kit but haven't yet. I was at the IPMS Nationals in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2019 and they gave some of these away as door prizes but unfortunately I never won one. I haven't seen this version of the boxing yet, is it a new release? Love the olive drab scheme and especially the heavily weathered look. PS the noseart isn't too bad either!!
Favorite WWII plane! Your work on the cockpit is going along nicely. I've been so tempted to pull the trigger on this kit but haven't yet. I was at the IPMS Nationals in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 2019 and they gave some of these away as door prizes but unfortunately I never won one. I haven't seen this version of the boxing yet, is it a new release? Love the olive drab scheme and especially the heavily weathered look. PS the noseart isn't too bad either!!
Thanks Tom! This boxing is contains most of the F/G sprues and a couple of more sprues and markings for one H subject. I'm making reasonable progress.
GMorrison I would question the red. Following type after the initial B and L. The hair and nipples. But not knowing what Cartograph had as a reference, I would go a faded pink. Bill
I would question the red.
Following type after the initial B and L.
The hair and nipples.
But not knowing what Cartograph had as a reference, I would go a faded pink.
Bill
Thanks Bill!
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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TJS
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
This Tamiya wonder of engineering has been staring at me from the shelf for a while and I finally built up the courage to tackle it.
I wanted a subject other than the Tamiya choices and was originally going to build the P-38H kit markings, until I found some new decals from Exito for "Jump" O'Neill's "Beautiful Lass." The decals are printed by Cartograph and have fantastic color profiles for each scheme. Exito makes some interesting claims on the nose art coloration, surmising that appearance differences in various photos are due to photographic artifacts such as color filters and film type rather than repainting. Lots of weathering opportunity on this one.
The plane was built by Lockheed in Burbank and shipped overseas disassembled and then reassembled. Lt. John O'Neill piloted Beautiful Lass from March to November 1943 on missions over Rabaul and New Guinea, claiming eight aerial victories during this period. The aircraft was lost on December 28 1943 when pilot Lt. Ormond Powell encountered foul weather and was declared MIA when he failed to return to base.
I used the kit decal for the instrument panel.
Finished the office and am working on the wings section. The seat and radio equipment comes toward the end of the build. Using Mr. Color paints and it's going to be mostly out of the box.
Thanks for looking.
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