Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => Clear Your Bench GB => Topic started by: sotoolslinger on November 10, 2012, 10:38:52 PM
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So here's my first entry for this GB :o Basically it is my long abandoned Hellfighter. The idea started quite a while back. I had originally gotten the Helldiver to do a follow up to my twin engined Avenger using F-7 Tigercat engines. At the time I was also working on the Improved Brewster Buffalo and it came with 2 canopies. The rear half of the Buff canopy meshed perfectly with the front section of the Helldiver's windscreen so my weird mind immediately jumped from twin engined to single place fighter ::) :-\
Here is how I left her better than a year ago.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4858.jpg)
She has two new tailplanes laying next to her cause the whiff enabler Raafif said my tail was somewhat lacking
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2195.0;topicseen (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2195.0;topicseen)
And suggested a V tail >:D Of course it needs a frikken V tail... thanks for making me tear my almost finished model apart Raafif ;) ;D
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4859.jpg)
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Yes I like it better :o ::) :P :-*
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Crazy how the V-tail changes the whole look of this beast. And you pull off such surgery so easily.
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Thanks Bubba :-* If you got enough saws , grinders and putty you can make anything look like anything else :D ;D
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Ironically, this would probably be a good setup for a tail gunner's field of fire! ;D
Cheers,
Logan
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;) ;D yeah I ain't changin back :o
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Between Raafif and Logan Hartke, I think Ron will be lucky to come out of this one sane...or at least as sane as he went in... ;D
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Mr Jello is right(Happy B-day) -- that really changes the look :) much improved
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I did a few changes though ;) >:D
First , after PSR she needed more putty ::)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4872.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4873.jpg)
And 2 something has been naggin at me about the front end also. This is supposed to be powered by a 21 cylinder 3 row radial and I did not make the cowl any longer ( + I can't resist detail parts) so I made up and cut in some extra vent/ radiator panels to cool that last row.
Since I busted off two machine guns in the process I also added reinforcements around the gun barrels.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4874.jpg)
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now you need to add a slightly recessed turbo to the port side & inverted Corsair main wings ;D
OK, so the Corsair wings is going too far ???
Oh dear, the police tell me it IS a crime to do that ! :-[
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Well... if she didn't already have super turbocharger stuff on er...
'Sides as soon as I go back out of town next week I am starting a Corsair with an X-24 engine >:D
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After PSR ,primer
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4877.jpg)
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Someday I will be smart enough to not dust up my canopies
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4881.jpg)
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:) Coolness Maximus!
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Much better than the original. :)
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:)
Now, .... the same cam scheme as the blue one you don't like ??
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A night fighter scheme?
Brilliant!!!
Brian da Basher
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Love everything you are doing with it 8)
Looks like a mean fast brute for mixing it up with Luft 46 or use in Korea. :)
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Yep, she's a brute! Cool how you can still see the Curtiss in it but, with the V-tail, the Helldiver is pretty much gone :)
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What product-procedure did you use on canopy to cover and then remove after painting to end up with such fine paint and clear areas ? :)
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Thanks all y'all :-* Fins I use a liquid masking agent. I forget the brand but I have Humbrol on the road with me and it works just as well. Several companies make it.
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You can also make your own masking agent by combining White Glue and Dishwashing Detergent in equal parts if I remember the formula correctly.
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Got some paint on her.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_5262.jpg)
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The kind of models I dream of building :)
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Almost there...
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Thanks y'all :-* I hope I get back home in time to finish 'fore the deadline :-\ ::)
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Yowsa that's coming along nicely! That paintwork is truly stunning!
I always feel like a kid playing with toys when I see an incredible project like this.
Outstanding!
Brian da Basher
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Right back at ya bubba :) :-*