GB-49 1:48 P-400 Airacobra - Favourite A/C of WW II
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bdefen
Senior Airman
Just look at post 21.
Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Nice work so far. Great bonus with the nose weight. Sure beats mixing lead filings with glue and trying to hide it everywhere !
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
Wings are glued together and canopy is masked. Cracked the canopy while pressing down part of the mask. Hopefully some Future will.cover it.
Cheers
Jeff
Cheers
Jeff
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
While Mother Superior and three of her siblings sit in the other room watching Charlton Heston and Yul Brenner in The Ten Commandments I sit in the computer room being reminded how bad my eyesight is getting. Eye doc says I am still a couple of years away from having to have my cataracts removed.
Cockpit entry doors have been masked off.
Cheers
Jeff
Cockpit entry doors have been masked off.
Cheers
Jeff
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
Question. What colour would the interior side of the canopy frames be. Black? Interior green? Natural metal?
Any help would be appreciated.
Any help would be appreciated.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
don't know if this will help Jeff.
This is a ( poor ) pic of a pic from a calendar, showing the cockpit of the P-39 in the USAF Museum. The entire interior appears to be black.
This is a ( poor ) pic of a pic from a calendar, showing the cockpit of the P-39 in the USAF Museum. The entire interior appears to be black.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Nice work Jeff. Can't add any more to the colour question.
Totalize
Tech Sergeant
I will have to check my kit. I don't think I have any nose weights in it.
Doing a good job there Jeff
T Bolt
Colonel
Nice work so far Jeff!
Bronze Green?
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Benevolens Magister
Definitely looks black on the original print, but of course, I don't know i that's the original colour, or if it's been re-painted at some time.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I would think so.
Hi Guys,
Sorry to say, I'm not sure what color was used in the P-400 cockpit. The records are slim on those pre-Lend-Lease orders, though quite a few of them show British Interior Grey-Green on other aircraft. I've found a number of pre-war documents discussing commonality issues between the P-400 and the P-39D, but none of the docs discuss colors.
Contemporary photos show P-39s with both versions of Dull Dark Green in their cockpits - that is the black-green version and the deep forest green version. I've not seen any Bronze Green evidence, but there's still a lot I've not seen. (There certainly was leftover Bronze Green used as a finish coat on some landing gear - and leftover paint might have previously been used in cockpits.)
Very late P-39 production used Interior Green cockpits, but those aircraft were built long after P-400 production had ended.
Last note on "Bell Green" - so far all evidence of its existence is anecdotal. I've never found a written explanation of it's existence, and the anecdotal evidence points to three different colors.
Wish I had more on this - I'd love to know more on export colors for my own projects!
Cheers,
Dana
Sorry to say, I'm not sure what color was used in the P-400 cockpit. The records are slim on those pre-Lend-Lease orders, though quite a few of them show British Interior Grey-Green on other aircraft. I've found a number of pre-war documents discussing commonality issues between the P-400 and the P-39D, but none of the docs discuss colors.
Contemporary photos show P-39s with both versions of Dull Dark Green in their cockpits - that is the black-green version and the deep forest green version. I've not seen any Bronze Green evidence, but there's still a lot I've not seen. (There certainly was leftover Bronze Green used as a finish coat on some landing gear - and leftover paint might have previously been used in cockpits.)
Very late P-39 production used Interior Green cockpits, but those aircraft were built long after P-400 production had ended.
Last note on "Bell Green" - so far all evidence of its existence is anecdotal. I've never found a written explanation of it's existence, and the anecdotal evidence points to three different colors.
Wish I had more on this - I'd love to know more on export colors for my own projects!
Cheers,
Dana
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Jeff Hunt
1st Lieutenant
I went with interior green for the inside of the window frames. Canopy is attached and doors secured. A small bit of putty around the fuselage/canopy joint was required as you can see in the second photo there was a small gap.
I then gave it all a first coat of olive drab and then removed the canopy masks.
I had paint left in the airbrush so I painted the tops of the wings and will be attaching them next time at the work bench. I will touch up any areas that require fixing after doing that.
Cheers
Jeff
I then gave it all a first coat of olive drab and then removed the canopy masks.
I had paint left in the airbrush so I painted the tops of the wings and will be attaching them next time at the work bench. I will touch up any areas that require fixing after doing that.
Cheers
Jeff
fubar57
General
Neato
