Planet 1/48 Fairchild PT-19

[jeaton01]

My Revell Stearman is lonely so I’m building a PT-19. The cockpit interior was added to with some ALPS printed decal faces courtesy of my computer system and its peripherals, and a store of images I keep adding to from the interweb. This, like many resin models has fewer parts that injection molded kits and more details are in the castings. The parts took some heavy duty cleaning and two coats of primer before they were good about holding paint. I had to do some reshaping on the horizontal stabilizers so they would fit with a straight elevator hinge line. I think they mostly ended up parallel to the wing centerline. Otherwise the parts fit a bit better than the average of the resin kits I've built, and the casting quality and surface detail is good.

The wing handholds were added to by a music wire replacement for the missing tip bow and were carved a little larger, they will be faired in with Epoxysculpt.

 

[Big10]

I would love a new mold of this in 1/32. Its an iconic plane that should be done proper. Great work .

 

[sharkman]

nice start so far John!

 

[moon puppy]

Oh what fun we had spinning around in circles watching that COX trainer fly.

Nice job so far John

 

[Old Dog]

 

[rob hart]

Really interesting subject. I'll look forward to seeing the finished model

 

[Skinny_Mike]

Oh wow! Nice work!
Resin can be tough, looks like you are on top of it!

 

[Big10]

Who remembers the Cox PT-19 control line airplane with what was it, .49 engine.

Man those were good times.

Looking good John.

 

[jeaton01]

Fairchild is all done up, here's some pictures.

Six resin rods as well as a resin top bar were supplied to make the overturn structure but I found them just too hard to handle. Like the scissors for the landing gear which I did succeed with, I swear they were made from mexican jumping beans! I bent up some music wire for the overturn structure and just used the top resin part.

Hataka Aggressor Blue C156 and Gunze Mr Color 329 yellow paints. The blue looks close to but a bit darker than the blue on a restored Stearman I used to fly. Don't know which is right, I mixed the blue with Model Master paints for the Stearman. They are probably both right.

 

[moon puppy]

Ah the beauty of Yellow Wings. 🛩

 

[rob hart]

Great looking PT-19! I don't recall ever seeing this kit being built before.

 

[Frank]

Great work John.
Yellow wings always look great when done properly.
Frank

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Turned out real nice John!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Excellent John!

 

[jeaton01]

Thanks, all. I think now I am motivated to do the Monogram T-6/SNJ. Working on the canopy masks right now. Last T-6 I built was the Aurora kit when it first hit the shelves. I messed up the prop shaft, figured no problem, I'll just turn it around and stick the front of the prop hub in the hole. I can still feel the disappointment that that didn't work out so well.

 

[sharkman]

great job John!!

 

[Old Dog]

Very nice

 

[jknaus]

Beautiful bird there and she looks good with the other two. It looks like a bit of work but very satisfying results.
James