CANicoll Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) I was given a 1/72 Helldiver and while I hardly every build this small a scale (old eyes mostly) this has been a fun diversion from my usual fare of 1/32 and 1/48. Far fewer parts to deal with. Decals are a bit fiddly, stiff, and two have cracked, after they were down on the plane. Strange! Just a few pics: More to come. Comments welcomed. Chris Edited December 18, 2016 by CANicoll Kendzior, LSP_K2, Hartmann352 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmann352 Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Looks good! You're a brave man to venture to the Braille Scale World. (I do have one 1/72 scale kit, but it the XB-70. Would need to build an addition on the house for that in 1/32.) Cheers, Dave Joe66, LSP_K2, Jack and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 I hear you Dave - some of these parts are so freaking small, but I hear you on scale. I keep thinking about a 1/32 B-17G but that is not going to happen! Chris Hartmann352 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Looks good, Chris! Kev CANicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Nice. I always did like the Beast, just with there was a mainstream IM kit of it. CANicoll and Kendzior 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chukw Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Very nice! It's a lovely little kit, isn't it? Cheers! CANicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 Chris Very nice work on the Helldver and always a pleasure to see quality work, no matter what the scale. Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted December 20, 2016 Author Share Posted December 20, 2016 Making more progress and also a big determination - there is no way in the world I'm going to be able to mask all of that canopy without an enormous amount of help. Help in the way of a set of Eduard masks for the kit. Can't wait till they get here! I should have thought of that weeks ago. Anyway - got her on her wheels and bombs loaded and such. Here is the underside: The bomb bay doors are just sitting there - the fit is pretty tight with the bombs in place so I may just leave it like that. I did not do all of the detailing and stencils on the bombs. Not really planning on turning it over that much to be honest. Here is a better view of the two door landing gear. The Academy instructions actually have an error at this step. One side shows doing the long door first, then the short door, but the other side shows doing the short door (closer to the ground) first then the long one, which is actually the correct way. Almost got me. Definitely going to have to do some re-spray on the leading edges to get the blue much closer to the edge. Here is the walk around as she sits: I have a clear coat over it to help seal in the decals, which really did not like to adhere to the plane very well. The small stencils anyway. The many stencils mid wing are actually all one decal (each side) which I had of course a huge problem with slivering; not sure why they did that since there are so many other stencils but turned out ok with a good dose of Solvaset. The engine cowling and prop are dry fitted and have not attached the exhausts or the antenna mast yet. Still working on the P-39. Have a dull coat drying now, then putting on the various running lights and will be taking off the canopy masks too. Keep your fingers crossed for me! Chris Joe66, Shaka HI and Hartmann352 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Very nice. I've toyed with the idea of building this kit, and putting a red wash in the dive brakes to mimic the red paint of the interior of the brakes as visible thru the perforations. CANicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 Lee, that is EXACTLY what I was planning doing as well, the red wash. Will let you know how it turns out. Chris Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Sorry for the lack of updates guys. Ordered the canopy masks from Eduard a couple of weeks ago so hoping they show up any day now. Really looking forward to masking the canopies, getting them painted and on the model. Thanks for following! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 I can't believe it has taken this long, but the masks finally showed up. I also didn't realize there are something like 30-40 different panels to be masked. All masked now so just need to attach and paint. The masks were kind of a pain to use. VERY hard to see the individual masks, and in 1/72 scale some are very tiny. But had to start lifting each one with an X-Acto blade, then use the needle point tweezers to grab and position. But the real pain is that most of the square masks were too long on one side so for at least 32 of the panels had to be trimmed further. About the width of the X-Acto blade actually. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe66 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Nice work on that Helldiver ! , and it reminds me also why I never did care for 1/72 scale..too freaking small....( though I once built a 1/100 scale Hughes OH-6 and scratchbuilt the interior ) -Joe CANicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Nice work on that Helldiver ! , and it reminds me also why I never did care for 1/72 scale..too freaking small....( though I once built a 1/100 scale Hughes OH-6 and scratchbuilt the interior ) -Joe Agree Joe! Wait till I post the pics of the masked canopy. So small! CN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANicoll Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 FINALLY PB is cooperating again. Yay! Before painting, after masking. This took me about and hour to do. Sorry, yellow on yellow is a little hard to see. And after painting. This is 1/72 so what I see under the magnifying lens is a bit different than the naked eye. Busy tomorrow but maybe Thursday I'll get the HellDiver finally all together. I can't wait! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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