obermartin Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 With the other R4D finished (and still awaiting decent photos), this is gonna be my second entry. It's gonna be another USN bird. This one, to be more precise: Mostly because it's dayglo again, it's a paint scheme that hasn't been done too frequently (i think) and because my inner 12-year-old still thinks the VX6 nickname "Puckered Penguins" is hilarious. So here's the box contents: I got this off ebay recently. Seems to be mostly complete (one set of JATO bottles is missing), but one fuselage half is badly warped. I'll have to see how to deal with that (I remember reading something about warm water?) Anyway, I started on the interior. Didn't put that much effort in it, because I know very little of that will actually be visible. I also glued the wings together and added the window transparencies. Maybe that was a bad idea when I still have that warped fuselage to straighten out? We'll see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted March 30, 2019 Share Posted March 30, 2019 Great to see this one being build , are you going to finish it in de dark gray fuselage? cheers, Jan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted March 31, 2019 Author Share Posted March 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, janneman36 said: Great to see this one being build , are you going to finish it in de dark gray fuselage? cheers, Jan Yup. Engine grey, natural metal and fluorescent red-orange. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted April 7, 2019 Author Share Posted April 7, 2019 Right. I repeatedly tried to fix the warped fuselage, only to end up with something vaguely looking like a squished C-47. Trying again (and again, and again) only seemed to make it worse, so I admitted defeat and binned the poor thing. Oh well. Time to hit up ebay and look for a replacement. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 And we're back in business! Ebay yielded another copy of that kit with thankfully straight fuselage (and a complete set of JATO bottles!), so here we go again. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spad Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Good recovery! And pushing on well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 The deadline is looming large, thank god I found some time to work on this over the past weekend. First round of masking. Primer. Second round of masking. Orange. Grey (Third round of masking omitted). Yet another round of masking. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 Almost there. I might just make it in time... Another couple rounds of masking and painting got me here: And on to decals - some kit decals, some from the spares box and some self-printed: Only weathering and the fiddly bits to go! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Great colours Looking forward to the finished model Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 That is a color scheme that i would like to have in my collection 👍 cheers, Jan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obermartin Posted May 11, 2019 Author Share Posted May 11, 2019 Finished! (more photos in the gallery) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 What a super scheme and nicely executed. Congratulations! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Great to see this finished Great colours Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helios16v Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Awesome! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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