petrov27 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Hi Shawn - is this the book by William Green? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 hrmmm, I'll look at home. Its a japanese book series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted February 5, 2016 Author Share Posted February 5, 2016 Ahh - maybe Famous Airplanes of the World #102 Shawn M 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geedubelyer Posted March 1, 2016 Share Posted March 1, 2016 Hi Petrov, did you finish your La-7 cockpit? I'm hoping to see a little work on your Spitty. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 Links were good MARU - thanks! Finally had some time this week to work on models. It may be a bad idea but I am going to attempt to fit the Eduard cockpit into the old Revell - not real sure how good it will fit but we shall see! The Eduard pit is some really nice resin And we have it in a sea of green Also started working the Revell fuselage; huge trench for sliding canopy has been filled as carefully as I could to not remove the delicate raised and recessed fuselage details. Also have thinned the inside walls substantially for the resin 'pit: SciFi58 and geedubelyer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Brilliant, a man who embraces a challenge!!! Like your style Petrov. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted May 14, 2016 Author Share Posted May 14, 2016 well I may not make the deadline on this but I have at least completed the Eduard "Brassin" cockpit. Probably the most difficult pit I have done - so many tiny bits. Also has some Barracuda decals and resin, HGW belts, Yahu instrument panel. At one point I demolished the seat and bulkhead it attaches to while trying to attach the eduard belts that are etched and very tough to get in place - got so upset when it all broke apart that the parts were thrown across the room. Still picked up the pieces and made repairs. Now the problem is that this pit in no way will fit the old Revell kit as I had planned. I shoulda known that and foreseen it, but I had thought thinning the old kit fuselage as much as possible that I could shoe-horn it in there. It doesn't look doable unfortunately. I do have the recent Revell release and though I am not fond of some aspects of that kit I will probably proceed with that as this pit was made for that kit to begin with... dmthamade, Shaka HI and geedubelyer 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Patrick, that's an amazing cockpit! How well does it fit the old kit? Kev geedubelyer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Patrick Super work on the front offcie and plan B seems the way to go. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Oh my! That pit must find a home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 This is an AWESOME pit! Very well played....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 Wow, that pit is really impressive. Look forward to what you can do on the rest of the airframe. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoggz Posted May 16, 2016 Share Posted May 16, 2016 That looks superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted May 17, 2016 Share Posted May 17, 2016 Seems a shame to hide all that beautiful work away. This is going to be great!! Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 Patrick, that's an amazing cockpit! How well does it fit the old kit? Kev Not very well at all so I am going to use plan B which is the new Revell kit... In retrospect, I think I could get the Eduard pit into the old kit but would need to not build it as complete "module" as Eduard would have you build it. I am thinking if I first had thinned the old kit plastic down as thin as I could, then thinned the Eduard resin cockpit sides, then glued those into the kit fuse, I may then have been able to tweak the bulkheads to get a better fit. Thanks gents for the positive feedback on it though! I did fit it into the new Revell kit fuse and fit is OK. I managed to break the back bulkhead of the cockpit "module" while fitting - with the lightening holes that resin is super fragile... Not glued in yet in the below - one thing to watch out for is the resin pit can push the sides of the fuse out just enough to make the rear canopy piece not fit Shaka HI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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