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P-26 Peashooter.
- Thread starter dollar19
- Start date
I guess it's safe to go back in the basement again...Looking good Greg, reminds me I have a Buffalo roaming around somewhere that's about ready for some paint.
To answer your question about the decals, I've not have any problems with then as of yet.
The scallops on the tail plane gave me a fit staying in position as they would slide around, and I'd have to re-position them. This was mainly due to me getting them too wet, and gravity doing it's thing. After I got the in place and propped the model at an angle where they would not move all went well.
Here's a few pics of the last round of decals. The white flashes on the headrest are still wet so they will look a little funny. There is a heavy coat of CHAMPS on them so they will dry-out and look fine.
All comment and abuse welcome! :woohoo:
The scallops on the tail plane gave me a fit staying in position as they would slide around, and I'd have to re-position them. This was mainly due to me getting them too wet, and gravity doing it's thing. After I got the in place and propped the model at an angle where they would not move all went well.
Here's a few pics of the last round of decals. The white flashes on the headrest are still wet so they will look a little funny. There is a heavy coat of CHAMPS on them so they will dry-out and look fine.
All comment and abuse welcome! :woohoo:
Damn fine job! what will you do with the leading edge where the decals don't wrap around? I always have a hard time matching up the paint color with the decal in those cases.
Well Moon ..... I had thought about using a paint pen and a very steady hand to paint in the area around the leading edge. The decal is gloss black so I'd use a gloss black pen, and after a coat of Future I hope it will blend together.
Tom..... The kit has pretty much fallen together. Not a shake and bake, but no real problem areas either. The one and only down side for me was a couple of broken pieces, the rudder pedals support is very fragile and broke as I cut it from the sprue, and the center 'mast' that supports the outer wing guy wires. Same problem there, extremely fine piece of brittle styrene. I would have replaced it with wire or something stiffer anyway.
Now if you have old eyes like I do, you will find reading the number tags on the sprues challenging! But we all know the fix for that..... don't get old!
Last pic for today
Tom..... The kit has pretty much fallen together. Not a shake and bake, but no real problem areas either. The one and only down side for me was a couple of broken pieces, the rudder pedals support is very fragile and broke as I cut it from the sprue, and the center 'mast' that supports the outer wing guy wires. Same problem there, extremely fine piece of brittle styrene. I would have replaced it with wire or something stiffer anyway.
Now if you have old eyes like I do, you will find reading the number tags on the sprues challenging! But we all know the fix for that..... don't get old!
Last pic for today
Just something about those Yellow Wings...Nice Greg!
What a nice looking little bird: is it a combat plane? I mean, I know it's Army material, but I can't seem to find any armament on it...
I can only imagine what you went through to get some of those decals on their rightful place: as slodder remarked, "... To control delicate long decals like that takes lots of patience and a steady hand.".
In all, congrats on your build, dollar19, and let us have more of it!
Cheers!
Fernao
I can only imagine what you went through to get some of those decals on their rightful place: as slodder remarked, "... To control delicate long decals like that takes lots of patience and a steady hand.".
In all, congrats on your build, dollar19, and let us have more of it!
Cheers!
Fernao
The A12 Shrike, a close cousin to the peashooter had .30 cals mounted in the landing gear struts. These were cutting edge fighters at one time, a very short time but a time for sure.
Great looking build Greg!
Great looking build Greg!
moon puppy wrote:
Cheers and thanks for your replies, moon and dollar19.
Fernao
I guess that what I was really wondering is if these birds ever saw combat - I imagine these type of aircraft flying in the mid '20s and the 30s, so they probably wouldn't have seen much action during WW II...
Cheers and thanks for your replies, moon and dollar19.
Fernao