Nomore Shelfspace Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Day two of Nomore Shelfspace's posting blizzard. This is probably my best aircraft model, a Convair XFY-1 Pogo from the KP kit. This a/c was a VTOL concept designed to provide the fleet with a point interceptor that could be carried aboard a warship using only a helicopter type landing pad. In practice it was difficult to land and overpowered with its twin YT-40 turboprop engine! The pilots seat swivelled to give a better position for take off and landing. Despite some positive results the project was terminated in 1955. One example survives. This is actually the second Pogo I did - the first one was the KP kit built straight from the box. Then I bought the Naval Fighters Number 27 monograph... which proved the kit was only accurate in outline, more or less. So I got another one and started rebuilding it. Mods include totally new cockpit, reshaped spinner, re-scribed panel breaks, new air intake under the fuselage and a scratchbuilt lower landing gear structure - the fairing over this was removed for test flights. One material I used for this was Alteco, a cyano putty made by mixing slow-setting superglue and a white powder - it's Japanese and I no longer have any, but it was good for filling/rescribing because it was fairly thin in consistency, making it easy to apply to flat surfaces, and didn't crumble when worked on, although like all putties it needed a primer coat/sand before painting. I think the paint was straightforward Humbrol sliver, could be wrong - it was made over ten years ago! Decals were half kit, half from spares - the stars and bars on the sides were too big, as were the Convair logos - I had no Convair logos that were the right size so I hand painted them!! 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 That's a really good looking Pogo! I've got the KP kit in the stash but shelved it every time, because of the (unnecessary) inaccuracies – the single prototype is available at the NASM! Good for you to make such a good looking replica out of it! I see that you didn't bother with reshaping that overly bulbous kit spinner. Of course, it would have necessitated removing the prop blades – that's one of the things that put me off it, "until"… Slick modelling! Kind regards, Joachim P.S. One of my very first model kits was the Lindberg XFY-1 in 1:48th. It's still available and notwithstanding the empty cockpit, the gimmicky working contra-rotating props and somewhat overstated surface detailing, it's still a very nice kit, and basically accurate, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomore Shelfspace Posted October 26, 2014 Author Share Posted October 26, 2014 That's a really good looking Pogo! I've got the KP kit in the stash but shelved it every time, because of the (unnecessary) inaccuracies – the single prototype is available at the NASM! Good for you to make such a good looking replica out of it! I see that you didn't bother with reshaping that overly bulbous kit spinner. Of course, it would have necessitated removing the prop blades – that's one of the things that put me off it, "until"… Slick modelling! Kind regards, Joachim P.S. One of my very first model kits was the Lindberg XFY-1 in 1:48th. It's still available and notwithstanding the empty cockpit, the gimmicky working contra-rotating props and somewhat overstated surface detailing, it's still a very nice kit, and basically accurate, too. I did try to reshape the spinner, but there was a limit imposed by the thickness of the plastic. Photos show it to be much more tapered. What I did was an improvement though! I've seen photos of the Lindbergh one. There was also a vac form by Airmodel but that was many years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darby Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 I do like a bit of the bizarre now and again. Nice one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Brilliant ! awesome job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 nice job looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Wow - cool! As Joachim I have this stashed away. The Naval Fighter book is the best reference out there AFAIK and one day i hope to start (and finsh) this kit. Rene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nacho bailon Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Good job and very rare lpane I would say. Keep on going. Cheers Nacho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Like it a lot,superb job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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