Trumpeter's P-38

[jfgesquire]

Any pictures of the wheel wells? I'd love to see how Trumpeter did them. I only have the Revell kit.

 

Also, wasn't there the early round windscreen with the Cutting Edge set?

 

http://acc.kitreview.com/cec32156reviewbg_1.htm

[Ted Taylor]

Any pictures of the wheel wells? I'd love to see how Trumpeter did them. I only have the Revell kit.

 

Also, wasn't there the early round windscreen with the Cutting Edge set?

 

http://acc.kitreview.com/cec32156reviewbg_1.htm

 

 

I think I took some pics of the well will try to find them.

 

 

Yes the other wind shield is in the set but I could not get it to sit down properly , the panel stopped it seating fully as the screen is pretty thick so I informed Dave Klaus and he said he would check and try to rectify it, of course it may have been my poor construction but as you see the kit version fitted OK.

I tried thinning the resin screen but still could not get it down closer than 1mm and I had a dead line for the mag so I went the easy route.

 

Ted

[Ted Taylor]

some more pics

 

CE seat with PE parts was not in love with the Cutting edge rubber seat belts

 

these are pre painted

 

this panel was amazing never built anything so complex but what a result

 

more to come

[Ted Taylor]

last few

 

These are bits that come in the kit

 

 

Cutting Edge camera nose note how clear the resin windows are

 

I eventually decided to wind down the side windows as they were like car windows with winders which are reproduced in the sets

to do this I just cut off the bottom edges of the clear bits and set the tops in position lower down.

note also the polished oval which the pilots use to view the U/C legs are working as prescribed, the kit nacelles have a glass window where this should be but that is totally false it should just be a polished metal area, I just used a bit of chrome Sellotape (scotch tape) cut to shape

 

hope you liked these

[LSP_Ray]

Wow, looks great!!!

 

Were the windows really winders? I thought that they folded up or out like a P-51B's. I thought only the P-39 had the winders? Gonna have to check on that one.

[KOTR]

Wow, looks great!!!

 

Were the windows really winders? I thought that they folded up or out like a P-51B's. I thought only the P-39 had the winders? Gonna have to check on that one.

 

Yes, they are. There are little cranks on the left and right cockpit sides for that purpose.

[Ted Taylor]

Wow, looks great!!!

 

Were the windows really winders? I thought that they folded up or out like a P-51B's. I thought only the P-39 had the winders? Gonna have to check on that one.

Believe me I would not have said so If they weren't

 

Ted

[jcunny]

Ted,

 

Very sharp work!!!! I was curious about the CE resin fit, and now I know!!

 

Cheers,

 

Jarrod Cunninigham

Austin, Texas

[Ted Taylor]

Well thank you Jarrod glad you liked it and I hope you manage to get yours done OK.

 

Cheers

[spellbinder99]

Great work Ted, a highlight of the current mag, but then again your articles generally are. I was all over this especially as I have been involved with the restoration of two early model P-38s over the years, a P-38F in Papua New Guinea and a P-38H here in Adelaide South Australia.

 

Pity about the windscreen issue as that was a major identifying feature if the early pre-J Lightnings but I understand why you had to use it. In 1/48 it is one of the things wrong with the Hasegawa early P-38 boxing as the windscreen contors are bolloxed on that.

 

Incidentally, the picture of the photoetched "details" for the guns that you didn't use are of interest as I have never seen a P-38 with slotted vents in the barrels, only circular holes or solid chromed cover tubes and that is examples I saw in PNG recovered from the jungle and onsite wrecks.

 

A brilliant build anyway and I concur on your description of the side windows, that is how they were.

 

Cheers

 

Tony