Post by 406 Silverado on Sept 30, 2024 12:56:43 GMT -7
Thought I'd bring this one back to light for a little bit of conversation. Not a plastic model but I had been seeing this kit at Hobby Lobby for a long while and it interested me so I picked one up as a filler build for one of my longer in progress builds.
This one's not too bad as it's only got two metal sheets:
It took me two days of dedicated building with the difficult parts being the assembly of the machine guns and the finicky landing gear. The trick to these is to pay attention to what your bracing against on any given backside of where the retaining tabs are being bent. If you're braced wrong then stuff starts to bend and distort. It's a careful process but yields in a pretty snazzy finish when it's all said and done.
Being all metal and smaller in scales it's neat to see one of these kits (whatever the subject) all built up and while not the most detailed or accurate of builds , they are cool conversation pieces.
The finished product....
The cockpit and engine were decently portrayed with some details. I couldn't help but to apply a wash to the cooling fins on the outside of the cylinders which brought out the detail that much more. Each one of those cylinders had to be individually rounded and installed.
And then.....the scale reference shot:
This one's not too bad as it's only got two metal sheets:
It took me two days of dedicated building with the difficult parts being the assembly of the machine guns and the finicky landing gear. The trick to these is to pay attention to what your bracing against on any given backside of where the retaining tabs are being bent. If you're braced wrong then stuff starts to bend and distort. It's a careful process but yields in a pretty snazzy finish when it's all said and done.
Being all metal and smaller in scales it's neat to see one of these kits (whatever the subject) all built up and while not the most detailed or accurate of builds , they are cool conversation pieces.
The finished product....
The cockpit and engine were decently portrayed with some details. I couldn't help but to apply a wash to the cooling fins on the outside of the cylinders which brought out the detail that much more. Each one of those cylinders had to be individually rounded and installed.
And then.....the scale reference shot:
