ajmm Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 A P-38F I finished this afternoon. This is a Gashapon Japanese pre-painted kit which I stripped down, rebuilt and repainted. Very satisfying and the level of surface detail is fantastic - a beautifully-designed mould that captures the original aircraft's lines very well in my view, certainly much better than anything else in this scale. The aircraft is Capt. Jack Ilfrey's P-38F Texas Terror/The Mad Dash. I used the Kitsworld decals not the F-Toys decals which provide for the same aircraft (on a sidenote - Kitsworld decals are just beautiful to use). Ilfrey was the first P-38 ace in WW2 and he flew this aircraft in North Africa in late-1942. He had quite an adventurous time getting to North Africa, being forced to land in Portugal after engine troubles, but managed to escape internment when demonstrating to his gun-toting Portuguese guards how to start the Lightning's engines! I had to do a bit of filling and sanding of some of the joints between the nacelles and the wing, as well as some on the aircraft's nose, but nothing onerous. The aircraft tail-sits despite the small piece of metal that goes in the cockpit nacelle. I scratch built the mass balances on the tail, as well as the aerial under the nose and added a pitot which seems to have pinged off sometime while I was photographing it. I used pastels and prismacolour pencils to weather it. And with a teeny-tiny Stout Skycar II I finished this week as well…! Thanks, as ever, for looking! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSK Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Looks like the real P-38. I like the weathering. Fantastic job for that scale. Looks like 1/72. Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 nice work on that midget! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Very nice indeed,.....I recently built a model of the very same aircraft in 1/72nd scale in the MTO Group Build although it took quite a bit of research on my part to arrive at the correct markings! Yours looks superb. Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djos Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 So many details on such small plane.....amazing Great work Regards Djordje 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmm Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 3 hours ago, tonyot said: Very nice indeed,.....I recently built a model of the very same aircraft in 1/72nd scale in the MTO Group Build although it took quite a bit of research on my part to arrive at the correct markings! Yours looks superb. Cheers Tony Thanks Tony! I couldn't get to the bottom of whether the skull and crossbones on the nose was white or yellow - did you suss that one out? Also various profiles had more of the spinners yellow. I just looked yours up - stunning work! I reckon my prop logos are rogue but if you promise not to tell... Thank you everyone for your very kind comments! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 (edited) 34 minutes ago, ajmm said: Thanks Tony! I couldn't get to the bottom of whether the skull and crossbones on the nose was white or yellow - did you suss that one out? Also various profiles had more of the spinners yellow. I just looked yours up - stunning work! I reckon my prop logos are rogue but if you promise not to tell... Thank you everyone for your very kind comments! I bought Ilfrey`s book `Happy Jack`s Go Buggy' to use as reference on my model and the painting of `Texas Terror/The Mad Dash' on the cover shows the skull and crossbones on the nose to be yellow, along with the kill markings. The spinner yellow also appears to be quite a small area towards the rear which you have got pretty much down to a tee considering the small scale. There are pics inside the book which support the yellow skull and crossbones and also the spinners,....here is the painting on the cover; All the best, Tony PS- Thanks for your kind comments about my model,.....it was a bitch to build and very un Hasegawa like! Edited October 23, 2016 by tonyot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polo1112 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Stunning result for such a tiny scale !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Great work! Especially the chipping which looks perfectly in scale; a challenge at 1/144! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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