Good work so far!
**** DONE: GB-49 1/48 P-38M Lightning - WW2 Night Fighter
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lot of work still to do but, making good progress....
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Crimea_River
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Getting there.
fubar57
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Great fit
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Benevolens Magister
Looking good - and a lot better than my effort from 35 years ago !
Nice work
keep up the good work...!
Nice work so far!
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Looking at the lower wings the dive flaps that were standard on the P-38L (which were converted into -M's) were just raised lines with a few rivets. Luckily I had a leftover wing from an Academy L kit and they gave nice thick dive brakes. I cut one off and vacuformed 2 copies on my old Mattel vacuform machine. After trimming and sanding the circle around the fuel pump it looks much better.
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Good stuff.
Nicely done so far!
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Attaching the booms tonight, fore and aft all fits squarely, there will be small gaps to fill where the booms attach to the wings but not near as bad as the nose. Holding it in my home made P-38 jig, made to hold the Academy one I'm also working safely without damaging the metallic paint. You can guess which other one I'm doing as a couple of parts are still resting on the jig!
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Good stuff
Doing that at the moment on the ProModeler Helldiver. The thing was built in 1997 for Gawds sake
Crimea_River
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You mean those words weren't stamped in the aluminum on the real aircraft?
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Benevolens Magister
Looking good, and those joints should be easy enough to fill and blend in.
Andy, you don't really think that, surely ......................... ( awaits relevant "Airplane" movie response !!)
Geo, the good / bad news is, the original Monogram Helldiver kit, with the same mould tools as the 1997 release, but with the company registration mark changed on your example,, actually dates from the early to mid 1960's - I remember building one around 1968/69 and, like Andy's, it had wobbly wings, which I eventually cemented in the folded position.
Andy, you don't really think that, surely ......................... ( awaits relevant "Airplane" movie response !!)
Geo, the good / bad news is, the original Monogram Helldiver kit, with the same mould tools as the 1997 release, but with the company registration mark changed on your example,, actually dates from the early to mid 1960's - I remember building one around 1968/69 and, like Andy's, it had wobbly wings, which I eventually cemented in the folded position.
