Trumpeter 1/32 P-38

[Grizly]

Trumpeter's kit built as Colonel Harold Rau's P-38J "Gentle Annie"

[R Palimaka]

Wow! Beautiful clean build!

 

Richard

[BiggTim]

Nice job! The gun bay looks way better than what is supplied with the kit. What did you do to make it look so much better?

[LSP_Ray]

Very nice! And you managed opening up the engine compartment, too! No mean feat.

[TimHepplestone]

Lovely job. How was the kit? I picked one up second hand and it’s on my to do list. 

[Grizly]

For Bigg Tim, I did a little scratch building based on some research. See below.

For Tim Hepplestone, It's a good kit but previous modellers have expressed frustration getting a good lower wing to nacelle joint and have invariably resorted to filling the joints with lots of putty. I found that key to completing the wing to nacelle/tail boom assembly was joining the lower wing half to the nacelles first rather than following the kit instructions. With this method you end up with a perfect seam/panel line joint that requires absolutely no filler. Its a but joint so I reinforced the inside with plastic strip. See below.

 

[chuck540z3]

Great job on a very difficult kit!

 

Cheers,

Chuck

[BiggTim]

Very cool! I did the same on my P-38 gun bays, which is still in progress. I'll PM you some photos of it, would love to hear what you think.

 

Tim

Edited October 28, 2019 by BiggTim

[LSP_Ron]

Well done

[Gerhard]

Very very nice.

[pacificmustang]

Excellent build.I had intended opening one of the cowlings on mine too, so  glad to see it can indeed be done . I bet it looks impressive in 32 scale

Regards

Bruce 

[Kagemusha]

Very nice, and thanks for the tip. 

[Troy Molitor]

Oh my.  Lovely efforts on your P-38.  Looks awesome.

 

Troy  

[dennismcc]

I've never built a P-38, started a Revell one once and gave up, but your build has made me think again, especially with Telford coming up.

 

Cheers

 

Denns

[Grizly]

For Dennismcc and Tim Hepplestone, further clarification should you be interested in adopting by build sequence... the following photo shows my first step in pulling the basic assembly together. In the photo you have (from left to right) the underside assemblies for the starboard outer, port outer and center section wing/tail boom components. As you can see, this approach provides perfect wing/tail boom joints.