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Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => Clear Your Bench GB => Topic started by: sotoolslinger on November 10, 2012, 10:38:52 PM

Title: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 10, 2012, 10:38:52 PM

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)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4860.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4861.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4862.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4864.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4863.jpg)
Yes I like it better :o ::) :P :-*

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: LemonJello on November 10, 2012, 10:44:28 PM

Crazy how the V-tail changes the whole look of this beast.  And you pull off such surgery so easily. 

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 10, 2012, 10:56:53 PM

Thanks Bubba :-* If you got enough saws , grinders and putty you can make anything look like anything else :D ;D

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: Logan Hartke on November 10, 2012, 10:57:03 PM

Ironically, this would probably be a good setup for a tail gunner's field of fire!   ;D

Cheers,

Logan

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 10, 2012, 11:29:52 PM

 ;) ;D yeah I ain't changin back :o

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: GTX_Admin on November 11, 2012, 03:34:43 AM

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

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: taiidantomcat on November 11, 2012, 03:39:41 AM

Mr Jello is right(Happy B-day) -- that really changes the look  :) much improved

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 11, 2012, 04:43:23 AM

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)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4875.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4876.jpg)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: raafif on November 11, 2012, 04:53:18 AM

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 ! :-[

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 11, 2012, 06:36:23 AM

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

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on November 12, 2012, 04:55:23 AM

After PSR ,primer
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4877.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4878.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4879.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4880.jpg)
Someday I will be smart enough to not dust up my canopies
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_4881.jpg)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: Doom! on November 13, 2012, 01:02:04 AM

 :)  Coolness Maximus!

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: taiidantomcat on November 13, 2012, 02:30:13 AM

Much better than the original.  :)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: raafif on November 13, 2012, 05:19:55 AM

 :)

Now, .... the same cam scheme as the blue one you don't like ??

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: Brian da Basher on November 13, 2012, 06:37:01 AM

A night fighter scheme?

Brilliant!!!

Brian da Basher

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: finsrin on December 18, 2012, 09:27:43 AM

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.  :)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: apophenia on December 18, 2012, 01:40:58 PM

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  :)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: finsrin on December 18, 2012, 05:30:21 PM

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 ?   :)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on December 19, 2012, 05:15:36 AM

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.

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: Jeffry Fontaine on December 19, 2012, 07:18:35 AM

You can also make your own masking agent by combining White Glue and Dishwashing Detergent in equal parts if I remember the formula correctly. 

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on December 29, 2012, 02:26:03 AM

Got some paint on her.
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_5262.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_5264.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_5265.jpg)
(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/sotoolslinger/Hell/IMG_5266.jpg)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: taiidantomcat on December 30, 2012, 12:45:34 AM

The kind of models I dream of building  :)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: GTX_Admin on January 09, 2013, 04:20:15 AM

Almost there...

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on January 09, 2013, 07:40:11 AM

Thanks y'all  :-* I hope I get back home in time to finish 'fore the deadline :-\ ::)

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: Brian da Basher on January 09, 2013, 08:26:14 AM

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

Title: Re: RoT Navy Attack Plane
Post by: sotoolslinger on January 09, 2013, 09:02:17 AM

Right back at ya bubba :) :-*