hsr

I didn't start until April 4. I am going to repaint the nose. I should finish it by the end of the week and I will post a link to the RFI here Thanks

The rear fuselage fit well given the vagueness of my cutting along the panel line. I really liked the fit of the horizontal tail pieces to the rear fuselage pieces the vertical tail also fit well. The only issue was the wood grain like striations you get from the 3D printing process that required some sanding. The left nacelle fit perfectly. The bow required a lot of tweaking in the front. Again I attribute that to my cutting along the kit chine. I did not see any of the wood graining on the bow or nacelle. The interior fit was very good but required trimming of the cockpit coming. On the whole I am happy with the printed parts. What would really be nice would be some decals for a -1. I am going to have to sleep on what I am going to do about the nose. It's possible. Thanks

It should be completed this week. This is it with all the mods and here it is today I am planning on using the markings of the aircraft pictured on page 70 of the Ginter P5M book so I removed the MAD detector from the tail. Actually I had it removed for me when I dropped it and it broke off. The picture you have shows the nose radome in the body color. The picture on page 70 and this one show it in a different lighter color. Having no other data to go on I decided to go with Radome Tan. It is not the white of the all Dark Sea Blue markings. It looks like the engine mount of your left nacelle puts the engine a little forward of the Hasegawa engine mount Thanks Howard

36118 for the gunship gray and 36270 for the lighter gray. Good luck with it. Howard

They are not hard to find. You can get them on Amazon or directly from the Modelsvit store https://www.modelsvit-eshop.com/search?q=u-28a for half the price. Thanks

Thanks

This is the Sova-M 1/72 Pilatus U-28A (PC-12) Draco. It is the militarized PC-12 used by US Special Forces for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR). This is my second Sova-M build. My first was their T-46 Eaglet trainer that was a truly awful kit with huge amounts of flash, poor fit, and bad right/left symmetry. I have to say that this was a huge improvement over that. There will still huge amounts of flash but the fit and right/left symmetry was much better. The only real fit issue was the wing to fuselage joint and the 3 piece wing. The wing was made up of a single lower wing and 2 upper wings with the lower wing fitting into recesses in the upper wings. Unfortunately the lower wing was much too thick to fit into the recesses and required a lot of sanding to get a flush fit. The wind screen transparency fit very will. The side windows not so much. Also included were decals containing a full set of stencils and one for the control panel, photo-etch for some exterior features and a set of window masks. The masks were of the vinyl type that on the Eaglet neither fit the windows or stuck. In this case they did both. As I was building this I kept thinking how much they had improved the quality of their work since the T-46 came out. But then I checked the dates of release of the 2 and found that the U-28A was released in 2019 and the T-46 in 2022. I guess the war has had a substantial impacted on them. I used AK Real Color RC244 Light Gunship Grey for the upper surfaces and RC249 Medium Grey for the bottom. Total build time was 12 days Next up will be a Martin P5M-1 (P-5A) using the Hasegawa kit and a Rieth Creations 3D printed conversion set. Enjoy

Great tip. Now that I know what to look for it is pretty obvious. Thanks

I am planning on building a Martin P5M-1 Marlin using the Hasegawa kit and a -1 conversion set. I would like to finish it in Seaplane Gray but, I can not find any pictures or drawings of it in that color. There are many black & white pictures of it in an overall dark color but it is hard to tell if it is blue or gray. Even the few color pictures I have seen are ambiguous. I have the Monogram Navy color book and it indicates that after 1955 seaplanes should be in overall gray but the only pictures it has of the P5M are with the white tops. and I can't find when they transitioned to the white over gray. Does anyone have any good pictures or references that show it in overall gray? Thanks

Several light coats of Alclad II Aluminum. Thanks

It turns out that he used to belong to the club I now belong to.

This is the Wingnut International 1/72 Republic XP-72. The XP-72 was designed as a high speed interceptor with a fan cooled P&W R4360 replacing the R2800 and an Aero-Products contra rotating propeller. 100 were ordered but by this time there was a greater need for long range escort fighters, like the P-47N, than for a high speed interceptor and the order was cancelled. Wingnut International, not to be confused with Wingnut Wings, was a small resin company in the '90s run in the buy our own @Amo Aero who literally wrote the book (Secrets of Expert Mold Making & Resin Casting) on resin casting. As far as I can tell he only produced 1 other full kit and a couple conversions. Mine is marked 161 of 200. The resin was thick, very smooth, hard and flawlessly cast with no pin holes, bubbles or any of the other issues with resin casting. Fit was very good. I used the extra interior parts from the Sword P-47N 2 in 1 kit. Quite a bit of resin needed to be ground away from the fuselage interior to get them to fit but they look good once in place. I also used the wings, landing gear, and canopy (there was a vac canopy included) from the Hasegawa P-47D Bubble top kit. The Hasegawa parts fit the resin fuselage perfectly. Decals were Scale-Master and despite their age were not yellowed and worked perfectly. All told it was a pleasant 9 day build. Next up in the Modelsvit Pilatus U-28A

I just built the Pegasus XP-40Q which was a later boxed kit. Fit was decent for the most part but it did need test fitting and some trimming. The only issue was that the decals did not age well and were not usable. Freight Dog models has bought their molds and has been rereleasing some of the WW I kits. I don't know if they have made any improvements to them. Good luck Howard

Freight Dog Modelshttps://www.freightdogmodels.co.uk/ bought out Pegasus and has rereleased some of their WW I kits. But, not this one.

It really did exist I guess it was Curtiss PR trying to reclaim lost glory from the Flying Tigers' days Thanks