Anigrand 1/72 resin XA-38

[JohnB]

I started work on this kit a while back but decided to put it aside for "later". I guess now is later. 🙂 The big reason I set it aside was I didn't want to deal with those vac formed clear parts. I pulled it off the shelf yesterday and decided to go on and try to get the clear parts trimmed down enough to give a reasonable fit. Not something I enjoy doing but I went ahead and bit the bullet. I think I have them trimmed enough now for a fairly decent fit but we will see. I like the looks of the "Grizzly" and hope to be able to finish it this time around. Too bad the air force didn't give Beechcraft the go ahead to build a bunch of them.

[Landlubber Mike]

I'll be curious to see what you think of the kit.  Anigrand has a number of esoteric subjects that look cool, but hard to tell from the quality as there aren't too many completed Anigrand builds online. 

[JohnB]

44 minutes ago, Landlubber Mike said:

I'll be curious to see what you think of the kit.  Anigrand has a number of esoteric subjects that look cool, but hard to tell from the quality as there aren't too many completed Anigrand builds online. 

It's not even close to the nice details we get with some of the other short run resin kits but the dimensions seem to be correct which goes a long way in making it worth the extra effort to build. I'm not sure yet as to how well everything will fit but I'll have the answer to that soon. I just wish they'd give us injection molded clear parts instead of vac formed parts. I built their XB-51 and it built up okay with few headaches. More later.

[JohnB]

For the tail assembly I drilled out some small locating holes in the horizontal stabilizer and the two vertical pieces. Then I installed a couple of lengths of round plastic strip to get a little better strength when I super glue the assembly together.

[JohnB]

I have attached the wings and did some test fitting of the wing/cowling attachment and it looks like there's a big problem. When the nacelles are snugged up to the underside of the wings the front ends, instead of being parallel with the fuselage , they have a distinct downward angle on both sides. Doesn't look like a easy fix. 🙄

[JohnB]

I hate to do it but this one is going on the SOD. No matter how many approaches I tried to properly align the nacelle's on the wings I just wasn't able to come up with a workable "fix". Not worth the aggravation unfortunately. No wonder I've never seen one of these built. 🫤 

[HubertB]

Sorry to read this, John. Looking at the pics, but they give very little clue honestly, I’d venture the issue, and therefore the fix, is the wrong incidence of the wing. Not that it makes the fix any more workable, unfortunately.

Hubert

[JohnB]

8 hours ago, HubertB said:

Sorry to read this, John. Looking at the pics, but they give very little clue honestly, I’d venture the issue, and therefore the fix, is the wrong incidence of the wing. Not that it makes the fix any more workable, unfortunately.

Hubert

You might be right Hubert. Fixing that would really be difficult. At any rate, I'm putting it on the SOD.

[JohnB]

7 hours ago, JohnB said:

You might be right Hubert. Fixing that would really be difficult. At any rate, I'm putting it on the SOD.

Hubert

After your post I decided to see about adjusting the wing/fuselage attachment areas. It appears that just might do the trick. I attached the nacelles to the wings after carefully aligning them to the wing to try to get the right angle. Now I'll dry fit the wing to fuselage areas and CA them in what looks like the right angle. Takes 3 hands!!! I'll post some pics if it looks like it does the job. Lots of trial and error.

John

[JohnB]

I can use that one remaining locating "post" to swivel and adjust the angle.