Monogram P-61 Black widow Build

Wurger · Nov 27, 2011

Very nice.

rochie · Nov 27, 2011

sure is

destrozas · Nov 27, 2011

This plane with the Heinkel He-219 aircraft are both nice to be able to build for me ta154 is another that can not miss the showcase of any model.
I take him cool maybe something would give depth to the landing gear wells, with the base color mixed with a little more dark green edges would be great to remove his hat as they say in my country

T Bolt · Nov 27, 2011

Looking real nice Boats

vikingBerserker · Nov 27, 2011

With above.

Night Fighter Nut · Nov 27, 2011

Looking very nice Boats. This ship tends to be tail heavy, did you build in any weights?

deckape · Nov 27, 2011

Night Fighter Nut said:
Looking very nice Boats. This ship tends to be tail heavy, did you build in any weights?

Ahoy Night Fighter
Thank you for your reply Yes I added some BB,s and epoxied them inside the nose section where the radar is located, No room anywhere else I hated to omit the radar but when the model is done it will be packed away in a box and prabaly forgotten so no show and tell of the radar the eys and ears of the Black widow. Tthanks Night Fighter for your reply.

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deckape · Nov 27, 2011

Ahoy
thanks fellas for your reploies with my forgotten thread which now is realality and the kit is being built i had this thing scince 1974 when it was first release to the modeling community. so far on the build I masked down all interiewr details and painted the olive drab, Letting it dry for 12 hours the next painting session will be the invasion stripes. As mentioned per last post I never seen a olive drab P-61 on all model forums so this will be different. being built straight from the box with now after market parts its going together very well as of now i am touching up here and there to see if I missed anything that will later show up in the finished pictures so i am trying to prevent this by going over the model so everything is up to snuff.

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herman1rg · Nov 27, 2011

Good work so far

Wurger · Nov 27, 2011

Yep.... I agree.

herman1rg · Nov 27, 2011

Slightly off topic maybe, but in the P-61 did the radar operator in the rear of the central section face forwards or backwards? And does anyone have a picture of this?

deckape · Nov 27, 2011

herman1rg said:
Slightly off topic maybe, but in the P-61 did the radar operator in the rear of the central section face forwards or backwards? And does anyone have a picture of this?

Ahoy herman
I am not certain if the radar opperatror faces aft or forward on the model it looks like he faces aft no room to face forward I,m not to keen on the P-61 i,ll dig around tonite and see what info i can come with and post it with your reply. thanks sir

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deckape · Nov 27, 2011

Ahoy
Still at I just knocked off for the day i should have this rapped up my late this Monday i am happy I am getting this done its about time after 38 years, On the following photos I masked of the panels for the invasion stripes and I installed the landing flaps, got a lot of touch up here and there here are the updates for today fellas old boats is getting tired I been at this for 14 hours straight no rush /i just want to get her done.
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rochie · Nov 28, 2011

Wow that looks great

Crimea_River · Nov 28, 2011

Very nice Boats.

Airframes · Nov 28, 2011

That's looking good Boats. I'm guessing it's from the unit based at Scorton, UK, in 1944? (Can't remember the Group off hand).

deckape · Nov 28, 2011

Ahoy
Thanks Fellas I will have her finished today I hope the weather coroperates been raining cats and dogs out here. I have the canipoys to finishe up on and she is good to go. Thanks Fellas

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deckape · Nov 28, 2011

Ahoy
I just finished my long forgotted build of monograms P-61 black widow. A pleasure of kit to work on although it could have been built better if I had some after market detail sets but this one will be packed away in a box and forgotten for another 38 years. Being one of the first run 1.48 scale series of the new Monogram line kits produced in the mid 70,s was the very first to incorporate all the detail that their later kits were nothing more then a gimic model. the frame work around the canopy sections were masked off and sprayed, Hopefully tommorow we will have better weather and I can take her out for the finished pictures outside pix are better then the inside pix because of the limitbility of the camera HMMMMMMmmmmm maybe Mrs Clause will bring me a new camera. Here are the completed pix for the build.

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Night Fighter Nut · Nov 29, 2011

Well done Boats. To answer the question about the radar operator, the radar operator sat in the back of the plane and normally faced forward. The gunner faced forward but sat behind the pilot when the plane had a gunner along. The turret on the top could be operated by both gunner and radar operator. When not looking at the scope, the R/O would watch out the rear of the plane for any aircraft that may come up from behind. I remember reading at least one instance where the R/O shot down a plane that was tailing a widow. He believed the tailing plane thought the widow was a p-38. As I recall, the Navy also had 10 P-61's that were used for training R/O's.

Wayne Little · Nov 29, 2011

Excellent work boats, done good man!

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