War In The Pacific Group Build 2009 - 2010

Bob - Give me a holler when you decide on a scheme. P-40's ( 4 built this year) are one of my favorite subjects to model. ( I plan on building a whole squadron in the near future)  I have a lot of reference and color charts hidden away.Might even have the decals you will need.

For all intrested I have a very cool book on Japanese aircraft called "Setting suns, Captured & Wrecked Japanese aircarft of ww2"

Lots of great b&W photos for dios and details

Jason

Thanks for the feedback on the GB Badge everybody and Bob I have to agree with you.   Regardless of whether you're a Brit, Yank, Aussie, Dutch or Japanese, I believe that the image of the Marines and Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima is "the" iconic image of the Pacific war.

Cheers

sf_plane_nut wrote:

the badge looks great...now if i can just get my hands on the aries cockpit for the tamiya corsair and a few other goodies i will be ready to go!...cant wait to get started...i know the kit cockpit is nice as i have been hearing from everybody but i think the resin one will look even nicer...any opinions?...

Dave if you're going to have the canopy closed I certainly wouldn't bother with the Aires pit, maybe just an Ultracast Corsair seat.

If you are going to have the canopy open it's up to you to judge just how much you'll actually see after the fuselage halves have been closed up.  I normally take the fuselage halves tape them together, then give it the old Mk.I eyeball test to check how much of the cockpit interior will be readily visible.

Cheers

I recently finished the Tamiya corsair.  Years ago when I bought the kit I picked up an Eduard color PE set to go with it.  It looks good installed, but at this point in my modeling it's a cop-out.  I felt guilty sanding off the fine detail that was on the kit parts to make room for the Eduard replacements. The next Corsair in my stash will be done OOB.  I thought it was a pretty good representation of what I saw in Detail and Scale.  Just my humble opinion.

Summit wrote:

Bob - Give me a holler when you decide on a scheme. P-40's ( 4 built this year) are one of my favorite subjects to model. ( I plan on building a whole squadron in the near future)  I have a lot of reference and color charts hidden away.Might even have the decals you will need.

Thanks Sean-I'll let you know once I get everything together and primed.  Guess I'll have to decide at that point....

Bob - A person can never build too many P-40's IMO. Here are the latest ones added to my shelf.

Revell -1/48 P-40 B

HaseG - 1/72 P-40 N

Revell - 1/32 P- 40 E in Africa Scheme

and a pic of the Allison I added a few scratched extras.

I have a few of the old 1/48 "Mauve" kits I am looking forward to building this Fall. 

Summit wrote:

Bob - A person can never build too many P-40's IMO. Here are the latest ones added to my shelf.

Amen to that Sean...the P-40 is probably my favorite plane!

mucker wrote:

Summit wrote: Bob - A person can never build too many P-40's IMO. Here are the latest ones added to my shelf. Amen to that Sean...the P-40 is probably my favorite plane!

Between the closeout at Hobbylobby & some good buys on eBay, I've managed to build a stash of 5 P-40's....3 E's & 2 N's.

Sean-nice collection.  I especially like the job you did on the Revell/Monogram P-40B.  I'm battling that kit over in the Lend-Lease Gb....and it's winning...

bobbaily wrote:

I especially like the job you did on the Revell/Monogram P-40B.  I'm battling that kit over in the Lend-Lease Gb....and it's winning...

Bob - Thanks, The next time I build this kit I am going to place some reinforcement stringers in the lower wing, as the plastic is very thin. I cant begin to tell you how many times I fixed that seam,where I would pick up the model  bu the wing tip.. Too flexible and I could not break the habit... 

I am sure we most likely have bid on some of the same P-40's

Summit they are some very nice builds.  Have any of you donethe eduard p-40 before, I think it is a mauve kit?

Jason

Sean that's some really nice looking work there I hope we see some more of it during the build.

Jay, yes indeedy the Eduard kit is a re-pop of the Mauve kit with the usual extras thrown in.

Cheers

bobbaily wrote:

... Sean-nice collection.  I especially like the job you did on the Revell/Monogram P-40B.  I'm battling that kit over in the Lend-Lease Gb....and it's winning...

Sean - Agreed on the RM and thanks for setting the bar nice and high for me. Nice and clean looking builds. Where exactly did you find the weak spot on the wing? 

Another question I had for the group about raised details. How do you go about washing / drybrushing them? I'm not really interested in sanding and rescribing for this build.

Been keeping myself busy with the Tamiya 1/20 P34 Tyrell. It's something I've wanted to do since I was a kid & I finally got the kit. Not much to show now - just a box of tiny little sub assemblies. I'm hoping to get a color or two sprayed before the 13th.

I made a trip to the LHS last week & picked up the paints for the P-40. A RM 1/48 F-101 somehow found its way into the basket too. 

Paul E. Styrene wrote:

Another question I had for the group about raised details. How do you go about washing / drybrushing them? I'm not really interested in sanding and rescribing for this build. Been keeping myself busy with the Tamiya 1/20 P34 Tyrell. It's something I've wanted to do since I was a kid & I finally got the kit. Not much to show now - just a box of tiny little sub assemblies. I'm hoping to get a color or two sprayed before the 13th.

Paul-for weathering the raised details, I would probably use chalks.  Maybe 'pre-shade' along the panel lines also.

Please post pics of your Tryell over in the Auto Forum.  I'm a fan of race cars (especially older F1 cars) and would love to see it.

bobbaily wrote:

Please post pics of your Tryell over in the Auto Forum.  I'm a fan of race cars (especially older F1 cars) and would love to see it.

Even though I have never built one I always enjoy looking at the built up pics in the old Tamiya catalogs I have. Works of Art ...

Jason - Thank's , as for an Eduard kit I am not sure but Darren seems to think so. Believe it or not I have never built a Eduard kit (yet) . The Hasegawa I have for this build will be the first kit made by them after 1980... What can I say I'm a classic kit builder..

Darren - Thank you, I am almost positive there will be more additions then the "Myrt"  I just dont want to over~extend myself.

Paul - the plastic is  thin around the wheel wells. Next time I will use a piece of brass rod C/A'ed just behind the leading edge and a smaller piece in placed midway from the trailing edge and wheel well to take the flex out. Even a piece of sprue would help.  Other then that it is a Great kit to build for the price

bobbaily wrote:

Paul E. Styrene wrote: Another question I had for the group about raised details. How do you go about washing / drybrushing them? I'm not really interested in sanding and rescribing for this build. Been keeping myself busy with the Tamiya 1/20 P34 Tyrell. It's something I've wanted to do since I was a kid & I finally got the kit. Not much to show now - just a box of tiny little sub assemblies. I'm hoping to get a color or two sprayed before the 13th.   Paul-for weathering the raised details, I would probably use chalks.  Maybe 'pre-shade' along the panel lines also.

Yes, I agree! Might even try colored pencils or pastel pencils to highlight yet keep it subtle and have the total control of a pencil!!

I'd like in on this build if it isn't too late. I was gonna build the revell uss arizona kit and try to convert it over to the uss pennslyvania

Bob & Richie - Great ideas. I've used the pencil for dashboards before. I'll give that a try here. I've only tried preshading once without much success. I think my airbrush can't dial in small enough. I'll experiment & maybe try again.

Sean - I'm planning on boxing in the wheel wells. Hopefully that does the trick.

My real name is Gary, btw. 

aboard afsf!!!!! The CO will be along shortly to officially welcome you. We don't actually start till the 13th of July so not late at all!!!!

Gary keep practicing with the airbrush mate!!!! I know what you mean about getting it fine enough!!! My ex has a spray tan setup that uses a Pascche airbrush, or a really close copy, and when she got the proper full salon setup for spray tanning I 'borrowed' that airbrush and mucked around with it and that is what i painted my 1/72 Swordfish with! I have no earthly idea the size of tip on it but I was having a play with it and really thinned out the paint and brought the pressure down to about 10-15 psi and was getting lines in the 1/16" range!!! HTH some!!

Thanks simpilot! I misread and thought it said june.

afsf no it's definitely not too late to join as Richie said we don't officially get under way for a couple of weeks yet. Also, what is the scale of the ship you'll be building and any chance of sharing a first name for the roster?

Cheers

Paul E. Styrene wrote:

Bob & Richie - Great ideas. I've used the pencil for dashboards before. I'll give that a try here. I've only tried preshading once without much success. I think my airbrush can't dial in small enough. I'll experiment & maybe try again.

Gary-as far as using an airbrush to pre-shade, sometimes I have used a Micro-brush to outline the panels.  My airbrush is much better than my skills....

And remember, when using chalk, use the dry kind, not the oil based (learned by experience).  There have been a couple of articles on chalk weathering in FSM over the years.

darson, could you fit in one more? i picked up the tam. 1/48 irving night fighter,and this is just the excuse i need to start flaying away at it!

                                                      thanks  S.A.R

asfs  Welcome aboard

S.A.R  Welcome and great choice on the plan, its my favorite twin engine as i've got 6 of them.

Jason

Clint to the build, I'm presuming that's it's the Tamiya kit that you're doping as I don't know of any other.  Excellent choice btw that's an awesome kit.

afsf, where are my manners I didn't actually welcome you to the build, so .

Gary you don't need to worry too much about neatness when you pre-shade as its how you apply the layers of color on top of the pre-shade that really makes the difference.  Multiple thin layers of paint built up bit by bit until I get just enough of the Pre-shade showing is how I do it.

Cheers