**** DONE: GB-37 1/48 Hughes 500D - Helicopters / Military a/c of BoB 1940

[Airframes]

Good stuff Glenn.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Neat!

 

[Donivanp]

Shorts and a Hawaiian shirt! Gotta have the Hawaiian shirt. Looks great Glen.

 

[T Bolt]

Not shorts, blue jeans for both, but that will be a red Hawaiian shirt Magnum will be wearing. T.C. on the other hand will be wearing a green shirt with a round white "Island Hoppers" logo on it. (if you look closely you can see the masking for the white circle) I'm thinking of having T.C wear Nikies and Magnum where Pumas

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

Magnum and T.C. are done except a bit of mustache touch up I see in these pictures is needed (and I did give them Pumas and Nikes)

 

[turbo]

SWEET!!

 

[Crimea_River]

Ha! That's great!

 

[le_steph40]

 

[Donivanp]

Just too cool for school!

 

[T Bolt]

Glad you like them guys. It's been a lot of years since I've painter figures

 

[Wayne Little]

good stuff Glenn.

 

[T Bolt]

Added the control panel and sticks and in the last picture the front canopy has been glued on. The fit wasn't great and you can see here that I've already started filing down the step between the glass and canopy

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Glenn.
Can't remember - was it flown from the left-hand (port) seat in the TV show ?
Helicopters are normally the opposite to fixed wing types, being flown from the right-hand seat.

 

[Crimea_River]

So maybe Magnum is getting a flying lesson. Looks great Glenn!

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

Good stuff Glenn.
Can't remember - was it flown from the left-hand (port) seat in the TV show ?
Helicopters are normally the opposite to fixed wing types, being flown from the right-hand seat.

T.C. always flew it from the left seat

 

[Airframes]

Thanks Glenn - score 10 for accuracy !

 

[T Bolt]

I've been re-watching the series on DVD with my daughter (who's idea it was for me to build it for this group build) so that was an easy one Terry

Finished filing the edges of the canopy flush with the fuselage, then spent a good hour or more polishing it with progressively finer grits up to 12,000 then finished it off with a coat of Future. I might get to the masking tomorrow.