**** DONE: 1/48 Otaki P-40e 196th IAP leningradsky VVS GB

[N4521U]

Thanks for all the encouragement.
I've done some more on the back seat. But first..... the plastic on this kit is crap! Super glue would not hold the pvc card in place. As soon as I started shaping it to the contours it popped off. So a piece of the same kit went in. Got some big cracks to fill. And some shaping to do as well on that bottom trailing edge of the wing......

I made a back wall to fit the two haves, they are not even close to being alike. Then I cut the center out to for a rib. Then uprights for the seat support rails, then a headrest, don't want the KGB agent to be uncomfortable, do we. The seat is ready to install. All the new bit I will paint light blue, for that Carnaval look!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Taking the bull by the horns ah Bill, that's good stuff me old mate. How come you got two flags!!!!!

 

[N4521U]

Two flags?

Greed!


*I started six weeks of Irradiation treatments today.
I just hope I don't get so tired I can't finish both entries....

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work there Bill...hope the treatment goes well mate!

 

[magnu]

Looking very good Bill.
Best wishes for your treatment and hope all goes well.

 

[Wurger]

I echo the post above.

 

[Crimea_River]

With all. Hope all goes well Bill.

 

[Airframes]

Me too, and good work too. BTW, wouldn't the 'agent' be NKVD ?

 

[N4521U]

Me too, and good work too. BTW, wouldn't the 'agent' be NKVD ?

Not more research??????????
I will have to look that up......... too. LOL

*Did...... below is from Wikipedia..... the things you learn in here.
On February 3, 1941, the Special Sections of the NKVD responsible for military counterintelligence (CI) became part of the Army and Navy (RKKA and RKKF, respectively). The GUGB was separated from the NKVD and renamed the "People's Commissariat for State Security" (NKGB). After the German invasion, the NKVD and NKGB were reunited on 20 July 1941. The CI sections were returned to the NKVD in January 1942. In April 1943, the CI sections were again transferred to the People's Commissariats (Narkomat) of Defense and the Navy, becoming SMERSH (from Smert' Shpionam or "Death to Spies"); at the same time, the NKVD was again separated from the NKGB.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Good luck... and very nice build you have going on.

 

[Catch22]

Great work so far, and best of luck!

 

[N4521U]

Thanks for all the encouragement guys........... But..........

I am so unhappy with this kit.... not the kit actually but the bl00dy sh!t plastic it's been made of......
Nothing sticks to it. Revell doesn't, and super glue doesn't. It all seems to just break off. The wedge I put in the bottom of the fuselage has just cut loose with slight pressure from the wing section. You can see it's almost dissapeared. I used Revell to glue that baby in there, and nothing!!!!!!!!!

 

[magnu]

Sorry to hear that Bill. I suppose all you can do is try lots of different glues in the hope of finding one which will work on your teflon plastic.

 

[Wurger]

I think the problem is the gap between the rear part of fuselage and the trailing adge of the wing. It is too strait. Looking at these images of that I'm almost sure that the main problem are forces running along these edges.

 

[Wayne Little]

You could be right Wojtek....but sometimes sh!t plastic.....is just that! Hope you get it sorted Bill.

 

[Wurger]

You might be right My Bro.. as well. But I would suggest removing of some plastic from areas red marked ( A and B ). Then making a styrene chock ( C ) and gluing it onto the gap firstly. It has to be longer than the small plate that Bill added there. If the fuselage fixed at the area I would add a thin and short plastic plate ( a strip ) bended and fitted to the bottom fuselage curvature. It would make a kind of step where the trailing adge of the wing could seat and be glued at the area. It would prvent it against going deeper. Also , the strip would make the joint more stable, when going from one half of the fuselage to the another one.

 

[N4521U]

You could be right Wojtek....but sometimes sh!t plastic.....is just that! Hope you get it sorted Bill.

Aaaamen bruddah!

Wojtek, I had the little "block" glued in to one side only, for dry fitting. My intention was just what you illustrated. I would taper the piece when attaching the sides together, then add a strip along that line toward the tail. I had used the Revell glue to attach the block. Problem is, as I was dry fitting the wing again the trailing edge of the wing pushed on that block, and it came loose. So therefore my deduction the plastic is in fact Sh!t !!! I may put a plate across the inside, and then dowel the bl00dy thing on each side.

The wedge is in there to widen the fuselage to fit the wing top to the fuselage so I don't have to do filling and shaping up there. Figured out of sight, out of mind. Who looks at the bottom???? No mirrors under this thing. I can guarantee That! All suggestions taken into consideration. They may not solve This problem, but they are food for thought.

Bill

 

[N4521U]

So now I have started painting.
But That blue sure looks tooooo blue?

 

[Wayne Little]

Does look.....odd, on my monitor that is...

 

[T Bolt]

Might look better after a heavy black wash.