**** DONE: GB-55 1/48 P-38F Lightning - MTO III

• Aug 9, 2022

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Lots going on here.

 

• Aug 9, 2022

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About done with the booms. Oil cooler section first.

Oh sorry, that was lunch with the wife at Los Cucos.
Now where was i, oh oh yeah, oil cooler.

Than the radiators.


And then it happened. Part of the gear apparatus tha had to be installed, I didn't want but couldn't see how it could wait, got broken. I have the broken part so hopefully it can be fixed.

 

• Aug 10, 2022

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Landing gear mishap should be an east fix if you can hold it in place while glue sets. Luckily I'd just had a couple pieces of date cake before eyeballing your lunch. Looked like a real feast for a lunchtime snack.

 

• Aug 10, 2022

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I don't see the lunch in the instructions atall!

 

• Aug 10, 2022

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Very busy compared to the Academy kit. Looking good Don

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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N4521U said:

I don't see the lunch in the instructions atall!

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Humm, I wiped my mouth with the, I thought I did anyway. Humm

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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fubar57 said:

Very busy compared to the Academy kit. Looking good Don

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It blows EVERY other kit away. A one handed blind two year old would find it difficult to mess this kit up. I mean I haven't been able to and I can screw up anything.

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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And in ten days.

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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Good stuff Don. How did that gun cowl turn out since another poster seemed to have an issue?

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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Ooooh look, it's an airplane.

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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Speedy work Don...looking real nice man...

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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Good stuff Don. How did that gun cowl turn out since another poster seemed to have an issue?

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Wayne, I did a test fit, and didn't note any issues but I didn't have the guns or side panel on. My intention are for the gear and guns to wait till the last after most of the painting goes on.

 

• Aug 11, 2022

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Thanks George.

 

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So I stuffed A/C filter fome in all the holes and shot the top with Tamiya TS-14 gloss black primer. Found a couple of goofs to work when it dries.

 

• Aug 12, 2022

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And what was black is aluminum!


And to look to the guns.

 

• Aug 12, 2022

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Looking good Don.

 

• Aug 13, 2022

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Nice work so far!

 

• Aug 14, 2022

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Thank you all for checking this all out. I've moved to the guns. Well wait a second. I did shoot the plane in Tamiya gloss black primer and then shot it in Testors Model Master Metallizer Aluminum followed by a coat of Alclad gloss sealer.



Then on to the guns.... I bought the Quickboost P-38 gun set and the Masters P-38Early metal gun barrels, I'll break the resin ones. This is all done as the Tamiya (oh god don't say Tamiya didn't do something right) are anemic at best.


The QB gave me the mounts for the Masters..... there was no backing on the nose with Tamiya's concept...

I cut the cannon mount and the MG mounts off the QB and inserted them from the back

And Valaw I had my mounts....


Next I put the sleeves on the barrels and inserted the using CA gel...

 

• Aug 14, 2022

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Wow!!!!

 

• Aug 14, 2022

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There is a ledge inside the nose. The back plate for the 20mm cannon interfered with this, do I used ledge be gone cutters and POOF it fits.