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Hello all, my new build is the 1/72 Cyber Hobby Aichi D3A Type 99 Val. There are some issues with the canopy and cockpit opening but I'm positioning the canopy open so most of the issues will be hidden. I am also placing the wingtips in the folded position. This will be a depiction of AI-201 off the Akagi June 1942 Midway attack.
I have pictures of the cockpit but they are on my other computer so I'll upload them later. The kist is going together nicely but there are some minor gap issues on the bottom.
The wings are on and I applied some Mr. Dissolved Putty.



Steve

Cool! I've always liked the elliptical wings on planes like the Val and Spitfire.

Thanks for watching guys.
Here are the pics I said I would upload. I want to scratch a fuselage separation between the pilot and gunner and add some harnesses.

I did some work on the Val's seams last night and got them smoothed out. I scratched the missing cockpit piece and need to scratch something to duplicate whatever is sitting on top. I also need to scratch the canopy braces but that should be about it.

Drawing of Val cockpit.



My silly futile attempt at duplicating the missing section. But if it works....

If it works, it's not silly or futile

Thanks Stick. I'm scrounging PC boards to find something that's close to duplicating whatever is on top of that section. That's the great thing about working in electronics. PC boards have all kinds of strange looking things that you can turn into something.

OK Guys, here's the update for the Val. I added some Evergreen sprue for the canopy bracing. The canopy isn't attached and neither are the wing tips, they are just there to show the progress. I need to come up with something for the gadgets on the dash. I cut the flaps and showed them in the down position.

Modelcrazy wrote:Thanks Stick. I'm scrounging PC boards to find something that's close to duplicating whatever is on top of that section. That's the great thing about working in electronics. PC boards have all kinds of strange looking things that you can turn into something.

I have thought of that myself. At my workplace, our Tech Repair dept is always tossing out motherboards. I try to grab what I can. They would come in handy for 1/32 scale aircraft cockpits as well.