War In The Pacific Group Build 2009 - 2010

DiscoStu wrote:

Editorial note:  I know the Pete is a newly-tooled release from Hasegawa but I am very impressed.  I was holding the box and sneezed and the damn thing fell together on me.  The detailing is incredible, panel lines, rivets and fabric surfaces are expertly molded.  This is a real winner from Hasegawa

Thanks a lot, Stu! Now I want one!

Progress on my A5M2: Interior pieces cut from sprues and sprayed with Mitsubishi cockpit green (Aeromaster). Unfortunately the paint went "bad" so I hope no touch up is needed.

This is my first time working with white metal, and so far I am impressed with the details. No pics at this time.

Progress will be slow over the weekend...I hope to be at Thunder Over Michigan.

"It's Showtime!!!!!!" WOOHOO!!!!!! Will get started on the Jake soon!!! Pulled it out of the cupboard just now so will be breaking sprue soon!!! Looking forward to everyone's builds!!!!!!! All are going to be very special!!!!!!!! Lots of interesting subjects!!!!!! GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A BUILD!!!!!!!!!!

Albert That is HUGE!!!!! Looking forward to your progress!!!!!!! I was going to ask wht the h*** was it sitting on???? Then I realized it is a Testors drop cloth!!!!!!! Do they still make those things????? Haven't seen one in years!!!!!!!!!

I too have started my SBD and Pete.  Don't be mad but there is also a large A-7D Corsair sitting on my workbench.  It's in the "Adding the last bits and pieces" phase (Those MERs take up soooooo much time to get right), so I admittedly did not spend the entire evening on the Group build.  I managed to lay down primers, pre-shades and interior colors, and brushed some details on both planes.  I'm really wishing that Squadron made a Detail and Scale on the Pete as I am really held hostage by the instructions.  For the SBD I can only go so far until my Ultracast seats arrive (7-10 days).  I also did most of the sub-assemblies on the Pete, Pontoon, upper and lower wings.

Editorial note:  I know the Pete is a newly-tooled release from Hasegawa but I am very impressed.  I was holding the box and sneezed and the damn thing fell together on me.  The detailing is incredible, panel lines, rivets and fabric surfaces are expertly molded.  This is a real winner from Hasegawa

ITS GOOD TO BE THE KING..............

carsanab wrote:

Hey Darson.....considering you are Down Under and some of us are over here in the extreme East Coast....whos time zone is the Official GB time Zone...not that it really matters for me since I started my Seiran about 3 weeks ago...hahaha Just curious mate... Carlos S

That's easy Carlos, the official time zone for the build is MINE which is why I broke out the Zero last night and gave the cockpit components a quick going over with IJN Interior Green.

There's nothing much to see as yet until I paint some of the detail bits so I'll post some photos in the next couple of days.

I just ran across this website & thought I'd share:

http://uscockpits.com/

Looks like mostly IP shots.

Hey Darson.....considering you are Down Under and some of us are over here in the extreme East Coast....whos time zone is the Official GB time Zone...not that it really matters for me since I started my Seiran about 3 weeks ago...hahaha

Just curious mate...

Carlos S 

Stu:

If youhad to pick one, the beat up warbird gets my vote. BUt what's to stop you from building both? You know, kind of a "cradle to grave" build.

simpilot34 wrote:

Aaronw wrote:  bondoman wrote:  Aaronw wrote:  darson wrote: Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutley going to Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutely going to allow a Coast Guard bird from California. So Aaron [welcome] to the build and I'll look forward to checking out your duck as it comes along.   Ok then, it will be the 1/72 Airfix JF2 Duck. I'll be building it as V140 which was stationed in San Francisco beginning in November 1941. I will be doing at as it was Dec 7 1941 so it still will have yellow wings. OOB except for decals, which will be a combination of Microscale and home made.    Can't wait! Looking forward to the history. Where was she based, Yerba Buena Island? The USCG had an airbase next to the SF airport from 1940 until it was relocated to Sacramento in 1978. SFO was known as Mills field at the time. On Dec 7 1941 CGAS San Francisco was operating a JF2 Duck, a J4F1 Widgeon and a PBY Catalina along with 4 older flying boats. If Airfix gets their Widgeon out again I may have to do a companion to the Duck. I was in Sacramento when that happened and had the pleasure of seeing some of the very last HU-16 Albatross's still in service flying around!!!!! They also had C-130's then!!! I could never figure out, even at that young age, why in blue blazes you would put a USCG unit with amphibs mind you, THAT FAR INLAND!!!!!!!!! Darren false alarm!!!! Works now, dunno why it didn't before but it's all good now!!!

I can't figure out the logic of moving coastal patrol aircraft from a base on the coast to a base 60 miles inland either. Moffett is just up the road and still close to the coast, so if the base needed to be closed it would seem to make more sense to move the aircraft to the Navy base next door than to an Air Force base well inland.

Of course no one ever accused to government of being logical.

Yup.  The AM SBD.  Built a couple of 'em already. IMHO there are no better kits on the market today the AM's Dauntless and Avenger.  I try to keep a ready supply of each at all times.  Their B-25's aren't too shabby either.

So that's 1 for a beat to hell SBD.

Charles if you could find time to do a B-25C for the build, that would be great, especially something impressive like the Acc Min B-5-25B/C.

Carlos I agree those rivets really do stand out don't they.  I haven't checked my 48th scale SBD-5 kit lately but I suspect the kit rivets are a lot more subdued than the real thing.  It's strange that when a kit is bought out with pronounced rivet detail it's usually howled down by the "experten"

Stu my vote would go for the war-weary SBD-5 in tri-color blue.  Are you thinking of the Acc Min kit for that?

Speaking of SBDs, I was pulling my SBD-5 out of the stash today to get it soaked in preparation, when I also noticed I have an SBD-1 done with Yellow Wings that I must have forgot I bought.  This begs the question:  Which to do?  I figure I'll take requests.  Which do you guys want to see more:

• War-weary SBD-5 in tri-color blue
• Factory Fresh Marine SBD-1 with shimmering Aluminum and yellow wings.  I figured we'd call it one of the victims at Pearl.

stikpusher wrote:

Great SBD pic Darson! Look how pronounced those rivets are! Lots of 'em and BIG! I love it!

Yeah - I wish I had seen this pic a few months back when I was rigging my antenna as that is a Great Pic.  Who could not just want to break out the old Monogram kit and start building after a pic like that..

I took the kids to the library yesterday and low and behold a "new" book was right there on the shelf that was calling to me. It's alled "Operation Plum" and is the story of Geln Stephenson and the 27th Bombardment Group. They flew mission out of Charters Towers in Austraila...if time allows I may try to throw in a B-25C, as well (gotta find one first!)

It's a very theme-appropriate book!

Aaronw wrote:

bondoman wrote:  Aaronw wrote:  darson wrote: Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutley going to Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutely going to allow a Coast Guard bird from California. So Aaron [welcome] to the build and I'll look forward to checking out your duck as it comes along.   Ok then, it will be the 1/72 Airfix JF2 Duck. I'll be building it as V140 which was stationed in San Francisco beginning in November 1941. I will be doing at as it was Dec 7 1941 so it still will have yellow wings. OOB except for decals, which will be a combination of Microscale and home made.    Can't wait! Looking forward to the history. Where was she based, Yerba Buena Island? The USCG had an airbase next to the SF airport from 1940 until it was relocated to Sacramento in 1978. SFO was known as Mills field at the time. On Dec 7 1941 CGAS San Francisco was operating a JF2 Duck, a J4F1 Widgeon and a PBY Catalina along with 4 older flying boats. If Airfix gets their Widgeon out again I may have to do a companion to the Duck.

I was in Sacramento when that happened and had the pleasure of seeing some of the very last HU-16 Albatross's still in service flying around!!!!! They also had C-130's then!!! I could never figure out, even at that young age, why in blue blazes you would put a USCG unit with amphibs mind you, THAT FAR INLAND!!!!!!!!!

Darren false alarm!!!! Works now, dunno why it didn't before but it's all good now!!!

bondoman wrote:

Aaronw wrote:  darson wrote: Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutley going to Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutely going to allow a Coast Guard bird from California. So Aaron [welcome] to the build and I'll look forward to checking out your duck as it comes along.   Ok then, it will be the 1/72 Airfix JF2 Duck. I'll be building it as V140 which was stationed in San Francisco beginning in November 1941. I will be doing at as it was Dec 7 1941 so it still will have yellow wings. OOB except for decals, which will be a combination of Microscale and home made.    Can't wait! Looking forward to the history. Where was she based, Yerba Buena Island?

The USCG had an airbase next to the SF airport from 1940 until it was relocated to Sacramento in 1978. SFO was known as Mills field at the time. On Dec 7 1941 CGAS San Francisco was operating a JF2 Duck, a J4F1 Widgeon and a PBY Catalina along with 4 older flying boats.

If Airfix gets their Widgeon out again I may have to do a companion to the Duck.

Aaronw wrote:

darson wrote: Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutley going to Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutely going to allow a Coast Guard bird from California. So Aaron [welcome] to the build and I'll look forward to checking out your duck as it comes along.   Ok then, it will be the 1/72 Airfix JF2 Duck. I'll be building it as V140 which was stationed in San Francisco beginning in November 1941. I will be doing at as it was Dec 7 1941 so it still will have yellow wings. OOB except for decals, which will be a combination of Microscale and home made.

darson wrote:

Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutley going to Given that the Japanese attacked as far south as Sydney with Submarines and we Australians certainly consider that part of the Pacific war, then I am absolutely going to allow a Coast Guard bird from California. So Aaron [welcome] to the build and I'll look forward to checking out your duck as it comes along.

Ok then, it will be the 1/72 Airfix JF2 Duck.

I'll be building it as V140 which was stationed in San Francisco beginning in November 1941. I will be doing at as it was Dec 7 1941 so it still will have yellow wings. OOB except for decals, which will be a combination of Microscale and home made. 

Mobious wrote:

"This is the United States calling, Are we reaching?" Pink Floyd

darson wrote:

Lads just to keep you appropriately psyched for the build here is a random inspirational image.

 "This is the United States calling, Are we reaching?" Pink Floyd

darson wrote:

Lads just to keep you appropriately psyched for the build here is a random inspirational image.

Could you please play that again Sam, er I mean Darren hehe, didn't work for me!

Lads just to keep you appropriately psyched for the build here is a random inspirational image.