With nice seams sprue glue is good enough even if you have to go over some parts more than one time. Sprue glue dries gloss and after sanding it’s easy to see if any of still is gloss.
The nacelles got a little more sprue glue.
Then after sanding the body I had to sort a few more spots.
The tires was assembled and wings and nacelles are ready for some paint.
Done sanding the body.
The canopies and turret was masked.
Next will be painting the area above the IP before glueing the clear parts.
I did a bit of dry brushing and the glued the weights in place.
The mid section guns.
The landing gears got painted.
Once that was done I started glueing interior parts in place.
The front landing gear was glued in place and then the cockpit floor and turret was glued before joining the fuselage halves.
While handling the plane I accidently broke part of the front gear. Hopefully I can get it in place later.
I also did a bit of dry fitting of the wings a tail assembly.
It’s quite a large beast! Luckily I don’t have to glue the wings until when it’s time for final assembly.
I struggled a bit with the metal parts to the landing gears, especially the smaller ones. So I took a break and built a few (quite a few rather) dwarfs for my Warhammer army.
I decided to have a go at it again and after checking both instructions I realised that the small parts I needed also was provided with the kit.
That made things a lot easier for me, and after some work they looked like this.
And sometime later they got black primer.
It was first after taking the pic that I noticed that one cable had moved a bit. I’ll correct that asap.
After sorting the instrument dekal, the IP was glued in place.
A little weathering and it’s done!
Some push rods was cut off!
The engine parts was painted.
Then I started assembling the engines.
I used Tamiyas panel wash on the back row cylinders.
I then decided to use the wash on the whole engine and the fuel lines was glued in place.
It wasn’t easy to get all the fuel lines right, and even worse was the exhaust pipes that had to go inbetween push rods and the other pipes.
Some more parts was painted interior green.
With the engines done, I did a little test fitting.
A little touching up to do, then I can glue them in place and start adding the exhaust pipes.
I assembled the wings.
Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.
Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.
I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.
I’ll sort that next time a the desk!
I did some work on the backsides of some of the panels for the bombbay, painted the instrument panel black and sorted a few ammo lanes.
One strange thing is that the 1/48 scale version actually have a premade weight that goes with the kit! There’s none with this kit but I think there’s clear evidence that there was supposed to be one.
I measured 80g of bullets and put as many of them I could in the nose.
Then I used blue tack to hold the rest of the bullets that I put in the empty space behind the front landing gear well.
As can be seen I’ve also repainted the cockpit area with dull dark green.
I added the bombs to the side walls.
Then I assembled the bomb bay.
Lastly I added the ammo lanes to the rear gun.
I still need to paint a few more details and sort the mid guns. I’ll probably add a few wires to the guns as they seems to have that.
Hopefully I can soon start to assembly the interior and then the fuselage halves.
The bombs was painted dark green.
The interior was painted interior green, and I’ve also started painting a few details.
I’m not happy with the seat belts as they don’t sit as I would like them to do.
I’m thinking of moving them backwards into the seat, and just let the rear end where it ends when that is done. Otherwise perhaps a Quintas set would be the best solution, but that would take some time, and I don’t like delays.
It’s possible to work with the wings, engines and other stuff meanwhile. I’ll think about it.
Yet another build for the LSP Silver jubilee group build. As I’ve already built a P-47D in “silver” I thought I had to find something “25” as well. So I got myself this kit.
I brought the kit with me to the build weekend I was attending last weekend.
I started building the interior as usual.
The instructions are a bit unclear, not telling exactly where the seats should go, and the parts doesn’t help much either. It’s a bit of guess work, but looks alright to me.
I also built the bombs as they’re part of the interior and needs to be in place before closing the fuselage.
More parts was assembled and I even started working with the PE belts.
PE isn’t my forte and the belts are driving me crazy. Besides it wasn’t easy to work with them with the seats in place, so I used some Tamiya glue and removed them.
I also started painting the interior parts, but messed up a bit, so I have to redo parts of it.
At that time it was time to break up the build meeting and travel home.
More pics later when I’ve sorted the paint and hopefully even the belts.
Time for some weathering. First I used Flory’s grime wash on the entire plane.
Then a good part of it was viped off.
Next step was to use oils, in this case black, to create some streaks.
I’m no specialist at weathering, and I’m still learning, by looking at pick and other builds.
I’ll do some wear on the propeller and a few other places. Other than that I’m not sure what more to do. Other colours perhaps?
After assembling the landing gears, I left the plane to rest.
The day after, I assembled more or less everything else. The closed canopy was removed, and parts of the paint was touched up. The front glass was glued and the pilot put in place.
Lastly the glass on the bottom of the wing was glued and also the drop tank.
Except for some weathering, there’s only one thing left to do. The glass pieces on the wing tips needs to be glued in place, but first I need to sort their colours.
After checking the net it seems like the left is red and the right green.
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