SPA Modeler

I managed to squeeze in a little bench time with a dry fitting session.

A sticker found under one of the wing parts. Interestingly to find it's molded in Poland



Flash on scoop piece. Nothing I can't fix



Very fine details in wheel gear wells.



Gun port holes out of alignment. ARRGGGHH!!
Left wing side



Right wing side



Dry fit of wings with gun port holes



I dry fitted the fuselage together and it's obvious there are gap issues.



Underside tail end



With wings dry fitted to fuselage



More gaps.











(Sorry for the blurry pic)



Check out the details of rivets!



More flash.. again.....



Undercarriage mounts for bombs



Flash on gear struts and a little on cockpit bulkhead.



The whole aircraft dry fitted...





More to come once a coat of primer is laid out.

If you check some Revell Germany (then a company of its own) kits you will find "Made in Poland" on some of the boxes. I guess all development was done in Germany with the production done in Poland. Don´t know if this still happens today.

For a kit of this age I thinks the fit is as one might have expected. Also the flash is annoying but not impossible to get rid of. When finished you will be one of a few having this version of the Pony on the shelf!

Arent Mustangs pretty clean? So this should solve at least some of the rivet problems.

tigrazor wrote:Arent Mustangs pretty clean? So this should solve at least some of the rivet problems.

http://www.warbirdheritagefoundation.or ... 0001_W.jpg

elbow grease ... elbow grease ...

A side tidbit - the building you see in the background of the last pic is the junior high school my son will be attending this September. So close, yet convenient enough. I encouraged my son to join any club sports team they have to offer. I know they have a STEM/robotics club there. I also told him if he needs to stay after school for extra help to do so.

I'm sure from under the those rivits and gaps a nice model will emerge!

I do like the B's though, a really nice looking aircraft (I'd like to build Ding Hao! one day) - what canopy does the kit come with, the orignal or the Malcolm hood Type?

Cheers

Stuart

That's a lot of flash and gaps! I'm sure you can tackle that without any problems.

Yeah it shouldn't be a biggie to tackle. Gonna pick up a tube of Perfect Putty at my LHS soon.

Perfect Putty? Have this on my bench, too. But I am not too excited about this putty. Easily fills a thin gap. It also dries rather fast if applied thin. But when dry it feels as a dried powder, not as hard as usual putty. I am not sure if it won´t flake away when one tries to engrave a panel line, for example, on this material. Nice to have, but not really a workable material when dried, IMHO.