BiggTim Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 A few more old projects on display: The P-38 is by far my favorite plane EVER (if they ever make a 1/24 version of it I will pay whatever it costs). The first one I built in 1/32 was the re-issued Revell kit some years back. The detail in this kit is SO bad, and I was not really much for scratchbuilding and panel line scribing back then, I just closed all the hatches, left the guts out, and made a flight display out of it. And since I did a crappy job on the panel lines, I couldn't bring myself to paint it NM, so I painted it the gaudiest color I could think of, and painted the YIPPEE markings on it. Not too bad, and lots of fun! I also have an affinity for the Hasegawa pre-war fighters, like this P-26 Peashooter. Again, it is OOB, (seeing a theme there?) and I chose to paint it a flashy scheme I saw in an old Aviation magazine. Since there were no decals of that plane, I had to mask and paint most of them, including the indian head emblem. The rigging is a very fine monofilament beading string with a light coat of Metalizer Aluminum. I also left it in a satin finish, and cleaner than I would do for a warbird, since this plane never saw an combat. Well, that's it for now. I have a couple more recent completions from earlier this year yet to photograph, and will post when I get them taken. Thanks all! Girlscanplay2, Tnarg, Whitey and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 4, 2014 Share Posted December 4, 2014 Wow! another pair of superb builds Tim! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Nice builds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauderdriver Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 YIPPEE It's a P-26. Love anything posed In-flight and an ORANGE P-38 coming straight at you will get your ATTENTION LOVE the COLORS Pre-war we needed better color camera HA HA HA!! The "Shooter" is impressive as I would probably not try the scheme...........BUT MAYBE!! jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero77 Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 I love the peashooter ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mywifehatesmodels Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 More great builds! Very cleanly executed on both counts. Love the COLORS! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Very nice pair of models! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Beautiful models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafju Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Wow! very cool models! I love the P-38 and the red colour! Congrats raf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted December 5, 2014 Share Posted December 5, 2014 Tim Two golden oldies and what a great job you did on them. Surely remember the days when scribing and scratch building were almost non-existent. Terrific work Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnarg Posted December 6, 2014 Share Posted December 6, 2014 Really nice work, especially the P-26 art you did on your own. By the way, did you see an illustration or a photo of the P-26? I've seen the illustration of a profile in the old Aero Detail book on the P-26, but never seen a photo. I'd love to know if it was someone's imagination or actually a real aircraft. It's too pretty not to be, but you never know. Love all the color. They look great, regardless of the kit quality you were presented with. I need to follow your lead and just do the out of the box thing like you did on the P-38, but get them off the bench. Tnarg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted December 6, 2014 Author Share Posted December 6, 2014 Really nice work, especially the P-26 art you did on your own. By the way, did you see an illustration or a photo of the P-26? I've seen the illustration of a profile in the old Aero Detail book on the P-26, but never seen a photo. I'd love to know if it was someone's imagination or actually a real aircraft. It's too pretty not to be, but you never know. Love all the color. They look great, regardless of the kit quality you were presented with. I need to follow your lead and just do the out of the box thing like you did on the P-38, but get them off the bench. Tnarg Thanks! Yes, the P-26 was apparently a real scheme. I saw some color artwork of it on the cover of an old issue of "Aviation" magazine, and I think it may have had a B/W pic in the article, but I'm not sure. I may still have the mag around, if I find it, I'll post it. We are pretty careful about what we spend (plus I have other hobbies), so OOB fits what I can afford, and forces me to get a lot of practice scratchbuilding detail. I pretty much only resort to buying AM details when something is over my head or I want to save some time. Good luck to you! Tim marauderdriver 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hansen Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 Hi Tim, Considering the quality of the kit especially, i have to say that's one of the nicest-rendered 32nd scale P-38s i've ever seen regardless of manufacturer. Brilliantly presented and inspired choice of paint scheme. No kidding, really nice work. I think its actually the first "Yippee" built up in any scale. All the more amazing since those Microscale decals have been around forever. And yeah, i guess the P-26 is all right too LOL Thanks for posting! david Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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