And finished! My Heinkel He-280 bears hypothetical markings for the contingency that it saw active duty. The engines are the Heinkel manufactured He S 8A ones, mainly in the interest of keeping it purely Heinkel. This one is Yellow 5 of 3./JG 1.

Nice little build, Martyn.

1/48 Hobby Boss F-80A as Project Extraversion

I got started on the cockpit this past week. The YP-80 had a P-38 style seat and armor plate rather than the bang seat the kit comes with. I sourced one from a True Details P-38 resin cockpit set. I cut it apart to keep the seat and armor, and tossed the rest. Here is also where the first major shape issue of the kit rose its ugly head. The cockpit opening is entirely too narrow on the Hobby Boss kit, and misshapen to boot. It is pinched at the front and back, with curved sides that should be straight. I ended up shaving about 1mm from the back on each side to widen it a bit. The armor plate was still far too wide so I removed everything outboard of the seat rails. A little surgery later and she fit nicely. Its not perfectly accurate but at least its now the correct seat type.


The Monogram kit, which is considered accurate in shape, is on the left; Hobby Boss on the right, after I removed 1mm from each side at the rear. It was much narrower originally.


The resin seat and armor after some major trimming down. It will look much better than the kit's completely incorrect ejection seat.


Frankenstein's creation all sealed up for test fitting. Not perfect but it will work.

I need to finish the cockpit painting and detail work, then get it all put together. I didn't bother with any other AMS goodies like the new Eduard PE interior set, the cockpit is so tight you wouldn't be a able to see much at all. More to come soon.

Well folks if you remember I switched from the F86D to the F86H because I lost the canopy of the D. Well I found a replacement so the F86D is back on. It will be a little easier to build then the limited run H. Worked a bit on it tonight.

Tom

Got some bits worked on for my F-94.

A little more progress:

There is not much of a cockpit to this kit, virtually none really and I am not going to worry about it for this build.
I have painted the pilot and seat as well as some interior areas and the engine exhausts, I added a mild wash to the pilot after these pics and glued the fuse together.

Cheers Rob.

Wow Rob, I had to go back into pre-history to figure out what kit you were working on. Pilot looks pretty good, has a real scared spitless look in his eyes.

Thanks Mark,
I think he looks like me while I was trying to paint him.

Cheers Rob.

Hi, I´m going to begin this campaign the the Eduard 1/48 Heinkel He-280

Good Morning everyone.
Here is My entry.

Some photos with the advances of the He-280

1/48 Hobby Boss F-80A as Project Extraversion

I finished up the paint work in the cockpit and assembled the tub. The P-38 seat and armor look the part after a wash with Tamiya's dark brown panel accent. I picked out various dials and lights with Sharpie oil paint markers. Comparing the kit cockpit features to a SSP reference, Hobby Boss did an OK job putting things in their correct place on the sidewalls. It's not super accurate but it looks the part. I need to add an oxygen hose, I forgot to do that before I started making things cramped.





Next I need to rework the nose glass to resemble a landing light rather than the radar.

Some advances,

Good news more progress on my reborn F86D. I added a pilot since I like my aircraft to have that lived in look. I finished to night with the fuselage halves joined and now begins the filling and the sanding one reason why I don't build a lot of planes. This is an older kit and needs some work.


The pilot has a biue flight jacket over an OD flight suit.

Tom

Some photos with the updates,

Some more photos,

Hello Everyone,

Great builds so far. I am a long term beginner but I will try my best.

I started yesterday with a Tamiya 1/48 He 162A-2. I love the model and this is the first time I build a 1/48.

I have started looking at instructions and so far I haven't made any mistakes.

I've gotten a little ways on my Airfix Gloster MeteorIII. Sanding and filling to do next.

Just a small up date progress is slow and this kit needs quite a bit of seam work.


Tom

Gosh, I hope I can get back to mine this weekend.

I´d painted the panels with black to give a shadow efect,

After it was dry I painted the planewith RLM 02,

After I painted it with RLM 02 and it was dry I began marking the panels,

Nice Daniel! What are you using to mark the panels with and then wiping off?

Michael