MarkSH Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Evening all, I will be doing the Academy 1/48 P-38J from the 'Droopsnoot' kit: ...and the contents: I will be building pretty much out of the box, but I do have a small fret of PE on order for various details. I will be doing the box art subject aircraft, as I actually really dislike the shape of the other noses in the kit and as this is my first attempt at a P-38 I'd like it to at least look like the typical Lightning. Cheers, Mark. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Good evening Mark Welcome aboard and good build ... All the best Patrice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansk Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Looking forward to this build of yours Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davek72 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Hey Mark looking forward to your build hope it’s ok that I am building a similar kit. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSH Posted April 13, 2019 Author Share Posted April 13, 2019 47 minutes ago, Davek72 said: Hey Mark looking forward to your build hope it’s ok that I am building a similar kit. Dave Of course its OK, its always good to see different 'takes' on a similar build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Kinda the point of a group build, innit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franky boy Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Excellent, I was hoping we’d see a few P-38’s. Will follow with interest. James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Lyttle Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Holy Cow look at the number of PARTS! (the one I built was the HB Easy-build in 1.48 so that's why I'm startled!) Good choice with the nose type. Why would you mess up such a lovely thing? 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted April 14, 2019 Share Posted April 14, 2019 Rob, you should see my box (lid) with an Academy, a Hasegawa, and I think maybe (?) substantial parts of another. I keep thinking, "Yeah, I need to sort that out..." and then walking past again. I tried to tell myself that this would be a good time to build one (thus sorting!), but I guess I wasn't very convincing. Hmm, I'm going to have the house to myself for a couple hours this afternoon.... Just to make it more interesting, they're in very similar shades of naked styrene grey. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSH Posted June 10, 2019 Author Share Posted June 10, 2019 Evening all, A very delayed start to this GB, apologies: I have managed to get the cockpit painted and fitted, I have used an Eduard 'zoom' PE set to add some detail and its worked fine for the cockpit...... …...however I have just tried to fit the grilles to the nacelle air scoops and the Eduard PE is woefully inadequate so I have replaced it with some mesh of my own: A bit coarse for the scale and possibly slightly out of a truly representative position, but at least it fills the intake fully unlike the Eduard efforts, some paint should make it a little less prominent to the eye. ...and the rear. Its a start. Cheers, Mark. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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