P-39 Airacobra Group Build

Steve, your up on the site...

http://wingnutmodels.com/CobraGB-Finished.html

a couple more photos: the Airacobra interior.  Suprisingly what you are looking at is the kit decal on the kit dashboard.  Although there are a few Eduard photoetch parts there too.

Secondly, a photo of the Airacobra together with a Hurricane Mk IID from 164 Squadron.  I was interested in this build for several reasons: #1 I got theHobbycraft kit really cheap, about $6. US.  #2,I knew I could build it parallel w. the Airacobra (same paint job, etc). #3, I found out that the 164 Sq. had a lot of Argentinian volunteers, and I like to represent planes with a twist like that, plus I have Argeninian friends.  And #4, the RAF bug bit! 

 I'm not happy with the way that the photo came out.  I will work on it sometime when the lighting conditions are better.

Steve

Couple of sharp looking builds Steve.

Finally done!!!!  Here's a photo.  (hope it comes out this time!  I did what you said!)

Oh well it looks like the patch didn't work..  no worries. just paste this URL in your browser.

 http://www.geocities.com/stevescalemodels/index/Airacobra-MkI-compress.JPG

And you can see this pretty little snake (cobra, snake, get it?).

OH I SEE WHAT"S WRONG!!!!  Geocities is a free site and has limited bandwidth so right now it's not available since I overloaded it.  It should be back soon.

You know, this hobby can become an obsession.  That's where I'm at right now with RAF fighters.  Man, I just have to build them all!  I just started a Spitfire, a subject I have not modeled since I was a kid. I already did a Hurk:

Then there are other marks of Spits and Hurks, plus the Mossie, the Meteor, let's see what am I missing? 

So many planes, so little time!

Steve

Finally done!!!!  Here's a photo.  (hope it comes out this time!  I did what you said!)

wing nut,

So I get this 1988 Fiero from my Dad (he retired a few years ago and finally grew tired of getting in and out of the vehicle), and suddenly I have this interest in all things mid-engined!  I now have in my stash both of the Accurate Miniatures releases (Cactus Air Force and racer) and plan on starting one in the near future.  My quesion is, do you have room for one more?  I do have a commissioned piece and one other project ahead of the Airacobra, but I should be starting on it in the next couple of months.  Let me know.

Wow great.  Thanks a ton. I guess I am spoiled with too many easy, automated web procedures.  Actually that photo was taken outside, but with a simple point and shoot on automatic mode.  I will take some more as the project progresses and work on the quality.  We had a speaker at our local model club on the subject of photography - it was very helpful, for example with the idea of a sheet of lt. blue card stock as a background, the angles, and so forth.  I will try a few more ideas to see how they come out...

Tha nks again.

Steve 

Steve, you already been there and done that on the web hosting thing.  When you get to the window that opens when you click the "reply" button on this forum, click on the tree icon next to the smiley face at the top.  In the window that opens there, paste in the link you just put in this post, and you will have posted a photo.  Try it, you'll like it.  You may want to get a littile brighter light for your camera, it weill help the colors a lot.  Try taking the picture outside.

Here is your picture added the way I described, but I replaced the airacobra.htm with index/airacobra.jpg, which is where the picture is on your webpage:

Hmm, web "hosting".... Well that's all well and good for people who comprehend the Internet...which is like saying for people who comprehend the universe. 

ANYWHO... I am just going to post a URL for folks who want to see my photo.  It's all I can do at this point.  

http://www.geocities.com/stephen.mark/Airacobra.htm

Enjoy.

Steve 

Steve, use the search function for topics related to posting of pictures.  You'll need to host the pictures on a hosting site, i.e. Photobucket.

Cheers 

Well i tried to attach a photo here but I have no idea what happened.  There is no "Attach" or "insert" option for graphics that I can find anywhere here.  So be it.

 Open ended?  Dunno Frank... I hear tell that you are claiming you took advantage of the guy you made that swap with  Ah whatthe heck... OK ... it's open ended.

Great Steve.  Any progress pics?  I'll through them up on the web site.

I'm still here!  I'm building the Hasegawa RAF Airacobra Mk. I; using an Edward Photo-etch set;  took the camo paint masks off the other day, and it came out pretty good. I hope to
spray gloss coat and apply decals soon.  I am also building a Hobbycraft Hurricane MkIID with the same paint scheme.

I hope to post some photos here soon...

Steve 

Marc,

Is this an open-ended GB?  With all of the other GBs I commited to, may be a while before I get back to the 'Cobra.  Also, I got a great looking P-400 in a swap that looks REALLY cool!

Hiya Steve   Sure its still going as long as there is someone building and posting.  Eduard does seem to have the lions share of the Cobra builds.... excellent kits.  The Has kit is no slouch either from what I hear though. 

The nose weight from the eduard kit is .7 oz. so you can use that as a starting point

Definately go with the Bell green for the interior.  FS 34092 is a good match.

Hello out there!  This is my first post here.  I started a Hasegawa RAF Airacobra recently and found this page, so I thought I would chime in...  I just hope that the deal is still on.

So far the kit seems to be excellent.  I did order a photo-etched set mainly for the seat belts.

I didn't find much on this group-build thread about the Hasegawa kits: most people seem to be building Eduards.  But I picked up my kit at the ONLY hobby shop in my town: really it's a stationary store but the owner is a modeler and is venturing into plastic models, paint, etc, and I wanted to support him.  And the kit looked really nice. 

To expand on the story, what got me started was that I stopped into a store that used to be a hobby shop and gradually changed over to industrial lighting, since the guy found that the hobby end just wasn't working.  It turned out that he still had a couple of old kits - so I bought 2 for about US$7. each... including a Hobbycraft Hurricane MkII.  That got me going on the RAF.  So then I went over to the other store and snapped up the Airacobra.  

My first issue has been the interior color.  I have applied RAF interior green, but is that right?  Or should it be Bell interior green? 

Any other advice on the Hasegawa kits?  How about the nose weight - how much to put in (in ounces - I use fishing weights.)

Thanks!  

Yessir!

I'll keep cracking on my 'Cobra.  Here's how she looks right now.  Fuse is together, and the wing is attached and all lost panel lines restored.  I still am not sure exactly which version I am building, so I hollowed out ALL of the exhausts.  That's a total of 36 exhaust stacks!  I gotta admit, the set with 12 on each side was a little intimidating, but they turned out well.  I also epoxied and clamped the fuse sides together in the area of the bulkhead behind the pilot's seat so that the canopy fits better (Thanks Marc!) but the joints keep popping.  I am playing with the idea of drilling small holes in the canopy and the fuse where the frme uprights are so that I can install small reinforcements to help hold it together.  We'll see if it works!  Well, here's how she looks today:

Bill, Frank... I have added you guysthe the roster on page 1.  I have also crossed outthe end date so get going......

website updated.

HK... the rules state that a P-39 recv'd for the SSGB counts here too. That hereby applies to SSGB 2 as well.

Here I am in the middle of an Eduard 1/48 P-39 and didn't even know there was a GB for them going on!

Bill... End dates? We don't no steenkin' end dates!  Start gluin"

HK That counts as far as I'm concerned.  I'll get her up on my site later. 

Wow, I forgot all about this GB! I was supposed to build a kit for this one. I guess the last year has been a bit, weird, for lack of a better word. I'm bummed to have missed it. Heck, had I remembered  about it I'd have jumped back in with the P-39 I just built. Marc even helped me out with it!

So is this P- 39 Group Build still going? Entries still being accepted?

I happen to have a Revell (woof woof!) kit that I've been painting on-the-trees as I paint other stuff- not the most accurate kit and I'm not going to 'improve' it, since I've got better ones in the back of the nest, but it needs to be assembled and this could be just the audience for it.

Of course I'll take and post pictures. 

If I fix the broken landing gear from the Aerobonita I made from two MPC/Airfix kits back in the 1970s, does that count?

I find something very appealing about P-39s, and 63s...

 Cheers!
Bill Abbott

wing_nut wrote:

AHHHHHH... a full size keyboard  Is it some kind of law that seminars are required to be horribly boring with only about 50% of relevant information?   If so... that was one Cracker Jack seminar.  Dave as soon as I get on the forum I am going to post your pics on the site.  And Gary.... get started on that 39 and post some pics here as you go.

I looked the P-39 over last night, and I was really impressed with the kit. Somewhere around the house I've got a bunch of P-39 pics (many are internal) that I can use for research. Now all we need is for AM to come out with a Soviet P-63 Kingcobra!!

gary

AHHHHHH... a full size keyboard  Is it some kind of law that seminars are required to be horribly boring with only about 50% of relevant information?   If so... that was one Cracker Jack seminar.  Dave as soon as I get on the forum I am going to post your pics on the site.  And Gary.... get started on that 39 and post some pics here as you go.

davew6003 wrote:

Well after 13 months its finally done. A little late I know but.....I had a couple of other things come up along the way that slowed me down. Like a Commision build and my wife and I had a little 1:1 project to ..uhh..."build"....Anyway here it is: Eduards 1/48 P 39Q profipack Nice kit with only a few problems. The nose weight is nice and the PE set is great. I used Moskit Exaust which are VERY cool . I also used an aluminum tube for the 37mm in the nose cause the kit part was just a plastic blob. The color in the pics is a bit off, im not real good at the white balance etc...when taking pics. So comments are welcome, and suggestions are incouraged. Please tell me what you think I can improve or what I might have missed. Thanks.

what a nice P-39! I picked up the AM kit Monday for a future build (who could pass it up for $15!). I was sorta thinking about a Russian P-39, but after looking over the ones posted here I'm getting second thoughts! You guys are just too good.

gary