Drunax

I love this kind of project. Updating an old kit with leftovers from others is a funny challenge. I found a Tamiya 1/32 p-51 for 20€. Yes, 20...but It lacked all the interior-engine, cockpit- and canopy, propeller.....and I had the Revell one....so It become the donor kit . And It fits almost perfectly.

Amazing! Truly inspiring for my Monogram Prowler...

What an excellent job you're doing! I have to say, you're the master of wheel painting... I'm taking notes for my Hase p-47's ! Cheers

Oh, Mike! Your Hurri and the new Revell one are pushing me to being mine to life from the SOD...! Good work!

What you're doing is outstanding!

What a piece of art.....your level is amazing ! I normally don't pay much attention to biplanes because of fear of ridding, but.....

Great! I think this is going to be a fantastic build, and a new Hurri in this scale was needed. Of course, It happened before I could finish my old Revell Hurricane, that is still somewhere on my bench, with A LOT of scratchbuilding, but this thread is pushing me again...

This is incredible, but.... Are you sure this is modeling, or aeronautical engineering?? I love Hurries.....

Justo to compare original and scratch:

Hi, I made some progress as well into the wheel well....I corrected some pieces that were not good, or very simplified. It was like this: And now: And some bits.. Maybe not super accurate but at least more convincing!

This is how It looks at this moment. Still not very good.. If everything goes wrong, I have the vac form but I would change to a dash 5...

Thank you, and I hope to give some small solutions to the kit issues. I' m always afraid of clear parts breaking or glue stains. But in this case I had nothing to lose, and that allows you doing new things. And in the kit you have two diferentes windscreens, and none of them is right, but any could be your base. It's the first time I do something like this.

So, I had an idea. What if I tried to correct one of the kit canopies...nothing to lose, really. The kit windscreens are very thick, giving a chance to reduce them. I grabbed one and sanded it till I thought It was enough. My mind had already turn to the -3. I drew approximately the frames with an ink pen. Started to add some plastic stripes, with no worries about the glue on the canopy! This is how it attaches now...

Also, although the vac canopy is much much better than the kit one, It is molded with the same flaw in size. I think one of the biggest problems with the Hase kit is a too bulbous or big windscreen (the kit provides both -3 and -5 windscreens , and none of them are correct). And I thought it sits too high on the fuselage. This is one of the main things that make the Hase Hellcat look wrong, although in general it has very good shape. First, I made something with the fuselage (please, remember that some pics are from weeks ago, before I decided to open this thread, so there are some not-very-linear stories). I cut a portion of plastic where the windscreen sits, and where the instrument panel hood should be. This allowed me to relocate the canopy, but back then I had not bought the vac one yet. The red line shows the original profile. The windscreen is another story I Will explain later. Also you can see the poor rescribing I made, years ago I think. Cheers

By the way, this is the boxing of the kit. It's very nice. My intention was to do It as a -5... I think it's beautiful in overall blue + white markings. And It saves you some otherwise visible glitches. With the Verlinden Cockpit+ gun bay, And the Squadron Vac-form canopy for the -5.... Very nice, but... D'oh! Look at the top of the windscreen.... I had no chances of replacing It with another one from the seller. Maybe, I still could use It or even repair it a bit...

There are some details on the cockpit rear bulkhead. As you can see, I added styrene at the base, in order to do It a bit deeper. Otherwise, the seat will be touching the cockpit floor. This is inherited from the original cockpit design by Hase, and It is wrong to me. I added as well some structure, and the bulkhead with a hole, made from a discarded piece of the Hase kit. Those bars are in the wrong position in the first pic, but corrected in the others.. I finally can put the pics correctly! :-D

Stunning Dora. I am in love with your masterpiece..

I will stay with the info I have by the moment, because I don't want to go overkill on this. But if I change my mind, I ll ask you.. You're very kind

Thank you, Memphis, It is useful!....indeed It was a monographic on the Airfix Hellcat by the French magazine Wings Masters what sparked my renewed interest in my old Hase kit, and it contains lots of pics of the pieces. But never thought of the instructions, so clear. Everything is helpful and I m inspired again...

This is what I had done years ago in the wheel bay area...not much, but a start. It's a bit difficult to find the correct pieces for such a complicated wheel well ... https://www.flickr.com/gp/150761798@N06/1Sc4Jy3t2Q.jpg

Still trying.. https://www.flickr.com/gp/150761798@N06/8a4ZXEhUs9.jpg https://www.flickr.com/gp/150761798@N06/e5h63o16w8.jpg https://www.flickr.com/gp/150761798@N06/ta3s6juf6t.jpg There is a mix of scratchbuilding and a resin cockpit. I had to modify it because the resin Verlinden one , designed for this kit, sits too high inside the fuselage, as the original kit pieces do. I added plastic to the rear wall to make the cockpit ground sit deeper. Sorry, still finding out how to paste pics...

https://www.flickr.com/gp/150761798@N06/Q0Yd6Y6366.jpg

Thank you, I will try that way!

Thank you, Kev!

Hello everybody, It has been ages since I posted something...Im not new here but do not post my WIPs normally. Anyway, I m working on this dinosaur from Hasegawa, well known for you, and very good in some areas but desperately lacking in others. I wanted to do It without rescribing, because Hase did a beautiful job on the small and delicate riveting, but OTOH they did raised panel lines, or trenches on the wings. But I tested a new primer on the Hellcat fuselaje trusting It would be a good base, resulting in all the rivets being buried under a thick layer of primer... The project went to the box for many years, only being resurrected a couple of times. Now I restarted It and I m trying to post some pics from imgur, but I don' t think it's working... Sorry, this was intended to be published in WIP forum ...