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[Count0]

P-39 werk. Added the station formers in front of the doors. They are noticeable in photo's. One door will be open so I tried to busy it up with a bit of added detail around the instrument panel. Oxygen regulator, without hose. I doubt the Russians bothered with oxygen in these. Some wiring and tubing. A few punched discs for knobs. And some sort of box near the floor. No idea what it does. But it's silver, so it will be add some color.

[KevinM]

11 hours ago, Count0 said:

P-39 werk. Added the station formers in front of the doors. They are noticeable in photo's. One door will be open so I tried to busy it up with a bit of added detail around the instrument panel. Oxygen regulator, without hose. I doubt the Russians bothered with oxygen in these. Some wiring and tubing. A few punched discs for knobs. And some sort of box near the floor. No idea what it does. But it's silver, so it will be add some color.

Nice additions it will spruce it up a bit.

[belugawhaleman]

Doing some work today on this Tamiya Semovente....

[BlrwestSiR]

I started on the paint work for the Lunadiver. 

First, a coat of primer 

Followed by some pre-shading. 

At this point I noticed the missing handles I'd left off so they wouldn't get knocked off. I'll add those and then start with the colour coats. 

[KevinM]

Closing in....

[BlrwestSiR]

Camo time for the Lunadiver. 

First up was cream white. 

Then Elfenbein.

Finally FS36081. 

Now for some drying time. 

[DocRob]

6 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Camo time for the Lunadiver.

Nice Carl, good to have not to go for historical accuracy with these MaK kits. It leaves you a lot of freedom with painting and weathering.

Cheers Rob

[belugawhaleman]

Still working on Tamiya's Semovente.....

Added rivets to the towing hooks on the front.

A total Of 12 added.

[KevinM]

The canopy got taped and black based last night and sprayed silver this morning just a couple light touch ups left.The stand I built today wanted something lighter and more adjustable should handle a twin engine easy 16"LX14"W.Though you cannot see them all the woods Lyptus(SA),Red Oak,Black Oak and 3/16" plywood a project leftover from wife's little kiddie class.

[HubertB]

Lovely Thunderjet, Kevin. Makes me want to pull my 1/32 kit up the « stash-decrease » (who am I fooling 🙄 ?) list.

Hubert

[KevinM]

9 minutes ago, HubertB said:

Lovely Thunderjet, Kevin. Makes me want to pull my 1/32 kit up the « stash-decrease » (who am I fooling 🙄 ?) list.

Hubert

She is pretty Hubert why I chose that scheme but I seriously need to start building the other case for the office area to which the little stand was the first real wood work for me in a year...was nice.

[Martinnfb]

Beautiful builds guys, all the way! 

[BlrwestSiR]

The railgun is now mounted. 

Now its in the danger zone. I need to push through and add the last couple parts, decals and call it down before I find something else that distracts me. 

Heritagecon is Sunday so hopefully I get it done before then as I'm sure there'll be lots of shiny new plastic there. 

[KevinM]

I am calling this one done fellas the last coat of clear same bottle as before flatten a shade kinda miffed not bad but panel wash now nah that just went out the window.

[belugawhaleman]

14 minutes ago, KevinM said:

I am calling this one done fellas the last coat of clear same bottle as before flatten a shade kinda miffed not bad but panel wash now nah that just went out the window.

Great job Kevin! 

[Count0]

More P-39 stuff Waiting on stuff to dry for the cockpit so wheel wells now.

The lids don't fit great. I could probably have left it alone but I didn'tStrip added, hide that gap. My photo is not clear, but there has to be a flange in there somewhere.Not 100% accurate, but it 100% better than what I was supplied with.

Next question is all Bell green or the roof in Zinc chromate with bell green doors? My ref photo has the later.

Edited Monday at 07:30 AM by Count0
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[Count0]

Eduard P-39 cockpit. Stuff has dried. cured. set up. I only use liquid cement styrene to styrene, which means things need to sit and wait.

I bought the Eduard 3D printed seat. It does not look like the seat the kit comes with, which represents the metal style. The printed seat is the composite style, which is not Bakelite, but is sort of a bad epoxy brown color just like bakelite. The kit metal seat is fine, no real need to replace it but I did it anyway.

Looking at it in place though, it doesn't sit as well as the kit seat. At which point I realized that the mount behind it isn't included. So that was the next scratch build

project.

Next I became aware that this plane has no radio. Easy. But what does the radio deck look like without it? The inter webs were not helpful. So I searched WW2 radio mounts. Found some photos and made this. I had bought some colored styrene without realizing it was transparent as well...

And installed.