Pearl Harbor 2015...Thank You All

Really nice work John. 

B1 the devil they say is in the details but I think for us it is in the research.  

John that looks awesome.  Really a nice job on it.

Joe

The B5N has a few warts I need to go back and fix, but it's good enough to call done.  Got a little silvering on the left fuselage hinomaru, and the windscreen needs to be faired in to the fuselage a little better.  There was a little paint that crawled between two of the aft nested canopies that is visible in one of the photos but that has already been remedied.  I can also see that I need to put some paint on the ends of the flaps that show.  Darn details the pictures show!

You and me both jeaton. I learned boat terms from fellow modelers.  I am more of an aircraft guy but I do dable in boats every now and then 

I'll never be educated enough boatwise to understand much of what you said, but I'll enjoy the tour anyway.  Press on!

Progress has been slow on this build due to researching the Pennsylvania and other group builds I am involved in. Since this kit is pretty much an enlarged Revell kit, there is going to be alot of work involved to convert her to the pennsylvania. But here is where I am at so far.

I got my gold medal models photo etch set to help me convert her since it includes Pennstlvania specific items.

I removed the gun shields on the top and opened up the casemates and re-worked the portholes to match the scale of the rest of them on the hull.

I am removing the Aztec type stairs and smoothing out the area so I can replcae them with PE.

Very very nice.  Neat paint work.

A quick update showing the fuselage together, the wings on, and the tail feathers attached.

I am really impressed with the fit and the clean attachment of the wings and tail feathers.  



Not much for seams at all.  Now to sand them out and get the little bits on.



All comments, critiques, and criticism are encouraged.



Joe

Here is another progress report on the Hasegawa B5N.  I spent about 6 hours today on the canopy framing.  What a nice kit!

Many thanks.

Well I am choosing to move forward on this one.

Detail painting as well as some chipping.  I know it might be overdone a bit but I did try to keep it light.

Next will be to close up the fuselage.

All comments, critiques, and criticism are encouraged.

Joe

It is looking good, Joe.

Just a brief update from me.

After a few comments from folks who know a whole lot more about these than I do and just a bit of research from me, the interior got a different color.  Interior Green.  I have seen a site that shows a SBD-1 with original paint.  It shows Interior Green.  So there I go.


Repainted.



Added a couple of the interior parts but for the most part just the color change.  


All comments, critiques, and criticism are encouraged.


Joe

That looks outstanding.  Very very nice.

Joe

I'm moving right along on this one, typical modern Hasegawa.  As in no worries, mate.

I have the interior together and the fuselage buttoned up.  I was not looking forward to masking the cockpit openings and cleaning up the seams around them to do the upper deck painting under the canopy with the finished interior installed because I always get specks and junk in there no matter what I do.  I looked at how the fuselage comes together up front, and I realized that I could probably do all the fuselage assembly before putting in the interior "module".  There is indeed enough flex in the forward fuselage to do that, and it really simplified assembly.  Gotta love that kind of kit "engineering".  The module just snaps in and no glue is required.

Looks like a great start from here.  

Joe

Did some work today.  Sprayed some interior parts Nakajima interior green, with a middle coat preshade of RLM 66 followed by a light coat of the base color to give some tonal variation.  I dismantled the wings using a JLC saw and I like the result.  I have just a bit more clean up to do, couldn't see it until I took a close-up.  Hasegawa was nice enough to have a thin guide groove inside the wing and very little material was lost with the very thin JLC saw blade.

Looking good Joe,

  I am just waiting on some PE to arrive so I can start my build.

Well I have begun the process.

So far not a lot of time but I did get through steps 1 and 2a as well as part of 2b.  These are constructing the cockpit and all the little details provided.  i added the detail to the port and starboard as well as most to the floor.  There are some things that I will not add until after I get some paint on this.  

Does not seem like much but on the last few this would have taken about four to six weeks.

All comments, critiques, and criticism are encouraged.

Joe

Scott got you covered.

Joe

I dug up my 1/72 SBD kit and found its a 5.  But I do have a Tamiya 1/48 Zero in the stash so I might build that instead.

Got you covered.

Joe

Can I change my entry to the HB 1/350 USS Arizona, I plan on converting it into the Pennsylvania in her 1941 fit.

Good choice.  I believe I had built that one up many years ago.  Seems it was a very good build, construction wise.  No real issues.

Joe

Here's my first entry, the 1/48 Hasegawa B5N-2.  Although it is the folding wing version, they require you to cut the wings and that usually results in lost material.  Somewhere along the way I also picked up a Cutting Edge wing fold resin set and I may use it if the cutting gets too difficult.  The decals are for two different Pearl Harbor participants.  Looks like a nice kit with lots of detail.

Well my friends today is the day.  

The official start time is 7 am your time but what is an hour or so between friends.

And we are off.....

Joe

The list is now updated my friends.

Four days and counting.

Joe

jot me down for the old revell 1/240 uss ward.

John you are correct, I had a bit of a derailment there and could not get the right aircraft.

Scott my apologies for such a late response.  You are on the list sir.  Thank you.

Joe