Here I am again with this huge RAF airacobra

Superdetailed with Eduard p.e. sets

I started with the Front wheel bay, any photos of this place (and others) much appriciated








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Update with the "wall" with the 12,7 Mg's of the nose and the Control panel

Any photos of the wheel bays







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Looking good Nick!!

Sorry can't help with photos ...

cheers

Steffen

Hi Nick
Looking forward to this build, one of the 1/32 kits on my wanted list. I like the instrument panel. Have fun with the build.
tim

Thank you very much


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Hi Nick, great work so far. I have this one in the stash and will be watching closely.

If you google "P-39 walkaround" you will find tons of pics, such as THESE

Good luck with the rest of your build.

Cheers, D

Thank you very much Mr. Damian, I'm glad you liked it

Also I would ike to thank about the photos


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Here I am again with an update

I added detail with copper wire, plastic card & an othar "fat" wire (I can't spell it's name in English )

The cockpit has plenty of detail provided by decades of p.e.

The color is the White ensign RAF interior green and it's not wheathered yet (except the instrument panel &the control stic whitch they are 100% finished

I have also thinned the seat with the electric tool (I can't spell it in english ) and It's waiting the seatbelts from the Eduard detail set




















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Nice start Nick, I like it.

Thank you very much

I'm now working with the eduard p.e. seatbelts


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Nice job so far Nick but the cockpit interior should be Bell Green.

In the wheel well? Zinc chromate? maybe just grey aluminium.
I'm sure someone has a decent ref. I just googled most of this stuff when building the Academy 1/72 P-39

That is if you are bothered about such things.

I know the callout is interior green but Bell Green in more likely.

There is no offical shade but it is basically a medium green.

Keep it up, looks like the forward wheel well is nicely detailed. Don't let my nit picks stop you

But I Think that it will become darker with the washes and the varnish

Now I have finished with the eduard seatbelt (15 pieces )

And I have started painting the smaller details


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Update!

After my "modelplace" is tidy I have finished the cockpit & front wheel bay (in the front bay there are some other pieces that will be added later )

I will not say anythink else here are the photos.






















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Nick- the cockpit and nose wheel well are looking really nice. Maybe give the shoulder straps of the harness a poke to get them to sit down a bit- they look a bit stiff and the moment.

Nick,
Your cockpit is superb! I will be following your build with great interest.

Many thanks!
Mark

Looks good Nick. Really like the throttle quadrant in front of the door. Most molders place it on the door.

JP is right Bell had their own green for interiors, they didn't use any of the standard zinc chromates or interior greens.

Thank you very much I really appriciate your comments

Here is the reason WHY the seatbelts don't touch the back of the seat:

Blue:a lever
Orange:Pilot stick
Yellow:Seatbelt
Red:Place marker

That means that the seatbelt has catched in this places (careless pilot )






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Just dropping to say , excellent work Nick ! you have really improved on your skills

Looking great Nick. You're right not to change the colour at this stage. Keep with it.
What is the colour scheme going to be?

Thank you very much Ms. Terri, I'm glad you have spoted my new build topic

Thank you very much too Mr. John-Paul


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Don't worry I haven't left it over. The opposite I'll say, I'm doing Blitzkrieg modelling ('cause it's summer and the school is closed)

There are a lot of p.e., easily more than 55
Photos soon


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BIG Update!

Any color you see (except the 100% finished cockpit, gun sight & canopy) it's just painted, not varnish & weathering done yet

I will also show you a WIP of how to cut resin parts easily (photos taken by my little sister )

The canopy has a nice dip in Long shine Klear & painted with partly masking & carefull brush painting























Details added with thin copper







After the canopy masking


The superdetailed (100 kg ) Bomb. What color should I paint it


The corrected seatbelt


Before


After


Gluing th WING !!!!



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The WIP

I start scratching the connect between the part & the block with a scriber



BOTH sides

Then, when the part is almost out, I disconnect it with the little saw



After that, I check the fit of the part with the plastic and If anything goes bad, I clean the useless resin



And TA-DA




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Impressive young Jedi. I like the look of the doors. Also wish I had that scribing tool..

Thank you very much Mr. Mark

"Young Jedi"


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