PA-18-150 finished

[chrish]

My (maybe, possibly, perhaps) attempt at the blue box of happiness, after digging around in what's left of my stash, I found this little kit.

The box;

The box contents;

[Out2gtcha]

Oh nice! I love these Revell Piper kits, especially on floats.

[Phantom2]

Nice kit and I´m building one right now! 

 

Stefan 

[chrish]

work is under way. There's not a lot of parts to the kit so, it may not be a long project.

 

 

 

 

aannd that's all for now

Thanks for looking

[chrish]

moving along 

 

thanks for looking

[Marcleon]

Ooh! This is looking really good! And a great subject too.... ATB, Marc

[chrish]

Thanks!!

I have the seams dealt with, such as they were and, the first few layers of Tamiya gloss white laid down

 

 

 

Thanks for looking

Edited September 7, 2021 by chrish
Typo

[LSP_Kevin]

Very nice, Chris!

 

Kev

[Martinnfb]

Great start Chris.

Edited September 7, 2021 by Martinnfb

[Alain Gadbois]

That's a quick build!

Looks great!

 

Alain

[chrish]

Thanks, it is a quite quick build.

I was working on the floats which are a quite nicely designed assembly but my spreader bars were bent, I straightened them with hot water and pressure but over time they re-assumed the bend, not as badly but I wasn't confident they would stay straight once finished so, I took a chance and made my own spreader bars from spring steel (surplus windshield wiper spring stiffeners) I also added my own registration (spurious) and added the kit decals (some of the kit decals) 

The spreader bars being replaced with spring steel:

 

 

adding some graphics just for aesthetics

 

decals on and floats glued on;

wire visible here will be for rigging

sharp eyed folks may notice I've deleted the amphib gear. I plan to (hopefully), some day, build a watery looking base for it to "float" on 

Thanks for looking

 

[LSP_Kevin]

 

Superb! I want one, now.

 

Kev

[chrish]

Thanks for the encouragement

I've managed to add some float and gear rigging

 

 

Thanks for looking

[MikeC]

Coming together nicely.

[MikeMaben]

Hey that's looking nice