P-39 Airacobra Group Build

Well here is an update from me...I got around to painting the cockpit and gluing the wings together on my Hasegawa P-400 yesterday, but I ran into a major road block...I was taking stock of the parts I had on my desk, when I noticed that the Ultracast seat I was putting into it was MIA from the desk. Then while I was painting today, I noticed that part D2 was MIA, which is the lower IP panel! I did some research about getting replacement parts from Hasegawa online and came to the conclusion that its next to impossible to get anything from them. 

Well $60 dollars later at SprueBrothers, I ordered a Blackbox replacement cockpit and a couple other goodies for other products. The game plan is to take the currently assembled and painted parts and put them into the Hase P-39Q I just got last week, then rob the front landing gear housing out of that kit to use with the P-400 (P-39D) that I'm working on now with the Blackbox replacement cockpit. So much for a cheap build :p

wing_nut wrote:

There was a rumor this AM that the west coast office, along with the rest of the west coast, slipped into the ocean last night. Ed I am so happy to see your still there. Or are you typing with one hand and hanging on to a rocky crag with the other?   Dave... looks really great. Jaypack... very good news about the wing.

Well, I can neither confirm nor deny this. Classified Above Top Secret

Glad to hear that JP!! 

There was a rumor this AM that the west coast office, along with the rest of the west coast, slipped into the ocean last night. Ed I am so happy to see your still there. Or are you typing with one hand and hanging on to a rocky crag with the other?

Dave... looks really great.

Jaypack... very good news about the wing.

Well Dave, that green thingy actually looks pretty good now Progress dawg sniffs the cockpit, wags tail

Now what about the West Coast office?!?!

Looking Geart Dave

Bud

Well some progress tonight. There would be more but you know with the west coast office, Ed etc.....Anyway its not done yet, nor is it perfect but the cockpit is comming along.

I would love to get into this group build, but I am not sure of my time committtments. I have the kits on hand, but I am looking for one set of decals.

Does anybody know of a set of decals for the P-39's in Italian service that is correct? All the decals I have seen have the same error, that is for the 4 Stormo they have the name Baracca instead of Lucchini. This includes the Eduard kit.

The source of that errror is previously, the 4 Stormo used Baracca's name on their Macchi C.202's and 205's before the Italian surrender. After the surrender the Stormo was renamed in honor of another fallen pilot Lucchini. Lucchini was the one whose Macchi C.202 had wings of two different camoflage patterns when after damage a wing of a Breda built C.202 was added to his smoke ring pattern Macchi built aircraft.

I like the kit the only trouble I have had with it is the canopy fit,it didn't seem to want to fit flush with kit I did the best I could but overall a very easy and nice build. no major filling or sanding needed. 

Barry

Jeff, Im at that stage right now and I will post to let ya know how things went

Thad

Jaypack, are you doing the Eduard kit?  I'm doing their P-400, and I had a wing root gaps to deal with as well.  I was pretty surprised to see the gaps, give the excellent engineering of the rest of the kit.  I think if I had taken more care, I could have minimized them, or even eliminated them at construction.  I wonder in hindsight if I had glued the bottom half of the wing to the fuselage first, then glued on the top wing halves, if that would have helped.

You guys with the Eduard kit who aren't that far along may want to do some dry fit testing of the joint.  I'd be interested to see if anyone else has had this problem with the Eduard/AM kit.

I have not got my Eduard 1/48 P-39 yet

I will soon.........

Have a GREAT day all

Bud

wing_nut wrote:

Dubau wrote:  davew6003 wrote: By the way any one seen Bud lately? Someone looking for me ? I hope to get my P-39 Airacobra some time next week, but I still have to get done my Buffalo and my P-51A. Looking good Wing Bud   Thanks Bud... and yeah we've been looking for you.  But I noticed yoiu are hanging in the ladies GB... you dog

Dubau wrote:

davew6003 wrote: By the way any one seen Bud lately? Someone looking for me ? I hope to get my P-39 Airacobra some time next week, but I still have to get done my Buffalo and my P-51A. Looking good Wing Bud

Thanks Bud... and yeah we've been looking for you.  But I noticed yoiu are hanging in the ladies GB... you dog

Here's my update (Sorry no pics right now)

I finished the cockpit assembly last night and assembled the fuselage. This morning before school I attached the wings/horiz. stabs. They should be dry when I get home. I noticed some gaps at the wing roots, but that's probably my own fault. They shouldn't be too hard to fix.

I started work on the cockpit over the weekend...just did some assembly so far, nothing worth taking photos of yet...

Im still recovering from the weekend. While working on the p e for the office , I had two parts sail into never never land. At that point I just lowered my head turned off the light and locked the shop for the rest of the day.

Thad

davew6003 wrote:

By the way any one seen Bud lately?

Someone looking for me ?

I hope to get my P-39 Airacobra some time next week, but I still have to get done my Buffalo and my P-51A.

Looking good Wing

Bud

davew6003 wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: Progress dawg pokes his nose at Dave's Glob of green, sniffs backs slowly away... Looks good Marc Dave's getting there, slowly but surely Thanks Ed (I think) Anway you know our moto here at Progress Dog LLC is "any progress is worth a wag"  I might be slow but Ill get there. By the way any one seen Bud lately?

Yer Dave Progress is progress whether it be forewards or backwards

As for Bud... I think he got lost within his own mind

Hippy-Ed wrote:

Progress dawg pokes his nose at Dave's Glob of green, sniffs backs slowly away... Looks good Marc Dave's getting there, slowly but surely

Thanks Ed (I think) Anway you know our moto here at Progress Dog LLC is "any progress is worth a wag"  I might be slow but Ill get there. By the way any one seen Bud lately?

And I thought getting that resin pit into half fuselage was hard...That was only until I tried to get the 2 halves together.  I don't know that I will try the CE pit again but to be fair to them I think I made a hundred time harder having to modify it for the engine. 

 I was surfing earier today and came across a reveiw of a Hobbycraft P-59 using a CE resin upgrade set.  Can you guess what the radio looked like?

Progress dawg pokes his nose at Dave's Glob of green, sniffs backs slowly away...

Looks good Marc Dave's getting there, slowly but surely

Dave,

Coming along very nice! Great job on weathering the pit.