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oortiz10

Man, adulting stinks! The past 3+ months have been craptacular, but I'm now happy to announce...

 

 

I'm jumping back in with my Revellogram Airacobra. I started with its front end. After deciding to keep all the panels closed, I built a couple of bulkheads and filled some of the nose with Liquid Gravity.

 

I also got the cockpit done, and since the armament up front wasn't going to be used, I filled that space with a bunch of pine derby car weights.

 

With the gun compartment and cockpit access doors glued closed, I'm considering scribing the rest of the kit. Getting the doors to fit cleanly resulted in some lost raised detail. I'm thinking a scribing will keep all the detail consistent, i.e. recessed. 

Next I plan on tackling how to build up the kit while keeping the nose gear and exhaust stacks off until after painting. I think I have a few ideas...

Anyway, until then, comments, questions and criticisms are welcome. (As usual!)

Gotta admit, it feels good to mash some plastic again!

Cheers,

-O

 

Welcome back :-)

Welcome back oortiz10 -- P-39 is looking good. 

Hey gang, thanks for the "welcome back," it's great to be back! Today I have a little more of my Airacobra to share. 

Revellogram's instructions have you install the nose gear, NLG doors and exhaust stacks before closing up the fuselage. Well, knowing me, I had to come up with a plan to add the gear leg and doors towards the end of the build to avoid breaking them off. With a bit of dry fiting, I was able to come up with a plan.

I decided to cut off some of the gear mounting "well" to allow the strut to be slid in after things go together. Leaving the forward and upper parts of the well allowed me to know when the part was far enough forward and still support the weight of the completed model. (Hopefully that makes sense.)

After solving that problem, I turned my attention to the exhaust stacks. The starboard side can be installed after paint, but the port side needed to be installed before the fuselage went together. So, to make painting and masking easier, I came up with a way to install the port exhausts after the completion of the major assembly and painting.

First, I shortened the length of the stack's backing so that it could fit through the slot in the fuselage. I also sanded the back of the stack's backing flat.

Then I used some small "spacers" and a strip of styrene to build a backing for the stack.

Now, I can simply drop the stack through the slot and glue it onto the backing once everything is closed up and painted without having to worry about masking.

Having figured out the assembly challenges, I turned my attention to rescribing the kit. It's not 100% accurate, but I'm sure it'll look OK under some paint and weathering. Here's my start with the completed fuselage.

As usual, comments, questions and criticisms are welcome. Thanks for looking!

-O

Nice improvision on the P-39 oortiz. Old kits are definitely skill builders.

Now, for me  I have been building my own skills on this old Revell A-7 , making the canopy fit with the fuselage , and creating canopy masks...

Fantastic work, all.

Here is my entry.

I decided to pick up some PE Zimmerit and indy link tracks. Both are intended for the Tamiya kit so this may or may not come back to bite me.

Good work gentlemen. Always nice to see a good progres and a start of a new kit. 

Hey animals, I'm back with a little progress to share...

Here is a mock-up of the major assemblies after the rescribing. Again, not completely accurate, but I think it looks pretty good.

Time to move on to the transparencies, then I can move on to paint!

-O

Nothing mocking about the mock-up . Good work

Good job on the rescribe, O. It looks the part, especially in the mock up you did.

Finally getting some painting done... Took about 15 revisions to get the canopy  masks right...

cbaltrin, looking good there. Very nice work getting the canopy smoothed in so well.

Omar, really nice work on the rescibing. The nose gear had better be strong to hold up all those weights.

The Wineel is pretty much done, all that is left is to take some good photos.

And here we are -  the finished photos.

Winjeel is a local Kulin nation indigenous word meaning young eagle. Winjeels can still be seen at airshows, even though they finished service in the 70s.

The RedRoo model was a great build and went together well, the exception being the fitting of the seats in the cockpit and the main undercarriage. The decals were very good and went down well.

This looks soooo cool. Front page/gallery will be updated shortly. 

Thanks very much Castelnuovo, it was enjoyable for the most part...

And thanks very much for running this GB, it has been great sharing my build with the rest of the zoo!

Here is some progress on my Revell A-7. Trying Tamiya Laquers on this one. Added a little clear gloss to the gull grey to make it a bit more durable...

Looks good 

lostagain

Winjeel is a local Kulin nation indigenous word meaning young eagle. Winjeels can still be seen at airshows, even though they finished service in the 70s.

Really nice lostagain I'd say you found yourself, Sharp photos do it justice pleasure to look at. 

Decaling the Revell A-7. These Printscale decals look great when on, but a bit fussy to work with. VERY THIN. Also, there are two decal sheets, one with data and one with unit mrkings. The 'data' sheet decals are thicker and take some time to release from the backing even with hot water; however, the other sheet with the unit markings release almost immediately. What really through me off is that all those little multi-colored arrow-heads on the rudder our individual decals -- a fact I did not know until I tried to slide them off the paper with my finger! I was quite relieved however that the big decal for the tail fit the Revell kit!

Well, I just learned something new today: use egg box to hold the model. Oh, a great sharp looking plane there too 

cbaltrin, fantastic work with those decals, they are looking great. All the arrowheads must have been a pain. That is a vey sharp looking paint job.

Thanks 1961, I am very happy with the result overall.

Thank you castelnuovo & lostagain, I appreciate it!

OH NO! cbaltrin, that's gotta be a gut punch! Your Corsair was lookin' sharp. Sorry to hear about the mishap.

As for me, I haven't had much time to work on my P-39, but the little time that I have dedicated has resulted in some progress. 

First, I needed to use a small sliver of styrene to fill a gap at the back of the canopy. This is before I trimmed and shaped it.

One of the kit's gun covers went missing, so I made a couple of replacements using some shaped plastic.

Not perfect, but better than nothing. And I used some panel liner to check my scribing.

Then I was able to spray some white primer. It's Alclad's microfiller primer. After I shot the paint, I went back and attended to some rough spots with a piece of 0000 steel wool.

I don't know when my next update will be but stay tuned!

Thanks for looking. Of course, comments, questions, and criticisms are welcome. 

Cheers!

-O

Your P-39 is looking reall good oortiz... As for the Corsair, yea, gut punch would pretty much sum things up   But it's a good reminder of where this hobby fits in with the rest of life...

Nooooooooo

Got the old 1975  Revell 1/72 A-7 Corsair knocked out finally. Markings: VA-192 Golden Dragons by Print Scale.  Not really happy with these photos so don't use them on the roster. Just wanted to post something. Will get better pictures in a few days.

cbaltrin, Oh no, that is a real bugger! How bad is that!
Okay not too bad, good recovery but frustrating none the less.

Omar, the Airocobra is looking good, nice work

castelnuovo,  Here are some better photos of the 1/72 Revell A-7 (yes, it's boxed just as an A-7... but I E-ified it best I could).  You can use 1st photo for the Roster.

Wow, that's the one you dropped?  Nice recovery - turned out great.  Big  fan of the A7

Thanks keavdog.  Yes,  not sure why folks call this little guy 'ugly'. Always loved this plane since wathing 'The Final Countdown'.  Nimitz, 412, I have an usafe hook indicator, over...