**** DONE: Revell P-61A 1/48 scale, Nocturnal Nemesis, Night Fighter GB.

[Vic Balshaw]

Some delicate looking stuff going on there Bill, you're doing great

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nicely done!

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Ok, finally an update. I've been working on the R/O part. After Terry sent me the picture of the P-61A R/O compartment, I've been working on making the corrections from on the kit. I've added a back lower wall section and am working on the equipment shelving. I've also scratch built the light, which I will show later, to good effect. I've got a few days to work on this so hopefully more to follow soon. The last picture is of jumpers used in electronics. They make great componant boxes.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice work Bill

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice work Bill. great idea on the Jumpers too....

 

[P40NUT]

Looks like lots of great add-ons, should really look good when your done.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree, they are perfect.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Here I go again. The first shot is my work bench. You can see the big magnifying glass that makes all my small pictures possible. Next shot shows a little more work done on the R/O compartment. The following two shows the lamp I scratch built. I even made the light bulb you can see inside the shade. The last picture is the pilots yoke with the photo etched stuff added. Thanks for your comments. Any suggestions would be great too. This is like my fourth plane and I'm still learning.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

'Yikes' Bill that's some swish looking work station, but I'm blown away by the detail in the P-61. Good work mate.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Thanks Vic. You know the funny thing is that that work station didn't cost me a thing. I work for a medical equipment manufacturer and they were going to chuck this out. I said, "hold on a minute, I've got a good home for it." It's really nice to work at and there is one more shelf not seen in the picture where my model stash is kept.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool, I love the magnifying glass setup.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

While I have a moment I thought I would do a little Frankensteining. Since I really have two kits, I took the nacelles from this kit and cut off the ends. Then I switched them. This is so when I put these nacelle's together, I will have both of them with cowl flaps open. The other with both cowl flaps closed. These were kind of tricky to cut. I used sewing thread since I don't have one of those fancy razor saws. The last picture shows that I cut up the two interior side panels. These will be worked up with PE parts along the the top part of the front wheel well. Well I got to keep moving. the pilot seat seems to be ok. Not much in the way of modifications needed but the gunner's and R/O's seats need some work. I'll post something on those later.

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Ok, got to do some work on the seats. The first is one of the references I found some time ago. Looking at the seats in the kit, I found that they don't quite look like that. So I went to work on trying to improve how they look. I used a small paper clip and bent it into the shape I wanted for the arm rests. I found this looks much better. I took a dremel and cut a bit across the bottom of the seat so the paper clip would fit and to give it the appearance of what I see in the picture. Put the two together and thought now that looks much better. Added some PE parts on the cockpit area and a built up PE part on the back by the R/O station. Now just waiting for a chance to start painting. I'll do more to the seat a little later. Need to add the foot pedal and the locking pin along with the grip levers on the pistol grips... etc.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent job on the chairs Bill.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Bill, well done mate.

 

[javlin]

Yes!Nice fix on the chairs there Bill

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Great work Bill, very delicate and very well done.

 

[Wayne Little]

Impressed Bill....

 

[Crimea_River]

Amazing detail work there Bill. What did you use for those lampshades?

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

Amazing detail work there Bill. What did you use for those lampshades?

To make the lamp shade, I first heated and stretched the sprue or plastic parts tree as we call it here. Once its stretched you would see that the two opposite ends not stretched are cone shaped. I cut the stretched end off, which became the back of my lamp shade, and calculated how long I wanted the shade to be and cut it. This gave me my basic lamp shade but I continued by heating up a needle and stuck it into the pointed end of the shade and let it cool there making it stick to the needle. I then took a very sharpe hobby knife and hollowed out the wide end so that it looked like a bell. I paid close attention to the sides to make sure they were even and thin enough to be believeable at that scale. For the light bulb inside I stretched the clear sprue and cut off a section that would have been wide enough for a scale bulb then glued it inside the bell. The needle comes out with a little effort and leaves a nice hole to attach a piece of wire for the lamp arm.