a friend at work asked me to build a model of the plane he worked on in the Navy, He was in VS-41 at North Island California. The model is going together very well. It has nice surface detail and will be a lot of fun to build. It will be grey and white with the shamrock insignia on the tail.


it will be flying so needed some pilots, borrowed from a Huey helo

A little incentive:

very cool picture Jess, thanks.

pilots painted

cockpit done, used the kit decals with just a little extra stuff, if will be hard to see thru the tinted canopy.

Doug,
The pit does look rather good especially with the two pilot figures.
Joel

the canopy in the kit is tinted very nicely but the windshield on the viking was not tinted just the side parts so I got a Squadron replacement for the kit


I will need to tint the side panels but that is easy with the Tamiya smoke color

This is coming nicely togehter

engines, since I did not want a seam line on the inside of the intake for the engines I cut them apart along the thrust reverser line and inserted the fan blades after cleaning up the seam on the inside.

basic paint is on now

decals and oil wash weathering on the engine, it was gloss coated with floor wax before and after decals

Really nice build. The gray over white paint scheme was always my favorite on the Viking.

decals are now on, over a coat of Pledge floor wax

Doug,
A most impressive build so far. The decaling really came out quite well.
Joel

weathered and dull coated, pretty much done.

Doug,
a most impressive display model on that base. Well done.
Joel

thanks, the guy I built it for was in the back seat on one flight and over the gulf of Mexico was forced to eject along with the pilots. I wanted to represent that moment in time so I made a removable ejecting crewman. this is how it came out.

black and white shot

Doug,
That's truly is outstanding. The B&W shot looks as real as it can get.
Joel

Hi Doug,
Hope your friend enjoys this as much as we all have.
The ejection photos are a stroke of genius.

Any comments/issues with the kit as its on my to buy list.


Chris

Hey Chris
Thanks for the kind words, as far as the kit goes it is a very good fit with nice scribed lines and very good detail. My only complaints are these, the engines need to be worked on a bit as the seam in the intake would be very ugly with those big open cowls, and the windshield should be clear with tinted side panels and not all tinted as in the kit, but that can be rectified with a Squadron canopy if you want to go to that length.

I have not given it to my buddy yet as he is on vacation but will let you know if he likes it.

Doug

Wow, that's pretty cool.

forgot to post this picture of my buddy, he liked the model and the ejection seat surprise was a hit too, it is removable so he can display with or without it.