Could not resist starting another project. This time a 1/72 Vought Kingfisher in intermediate blue scheme, with yellow wings. The yellow wings will stand out against the blue camouflage. Apparently this was a training unit at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas, circa 1942.
Lou
Good choice of colour scheme . It will stand out.
A Kingfisher is planned for a bit further down the track.
Cheers
Gordon
Another ID Plus model although I am using other drawings as the ones in the gallery have an incorrect float.
Lou
The float is coming along nicely. They are a challenge to carve with the concave bottoms
Fraser
I have a round wasp that does a decent job.
Lou
Do'h. For some reason I never thought of a small rasp.....I ended up using a small gouge and it was tricky to follow the curves on the Beaver floats.
Fraser
I used a gouge on the beaver floats but find the smaller float require the rasp approach or round file. I used the half round rat tail file on this 1/144 Kingfisher
Lou
Major components block shaped.
Lou
I chip away a shallow channel with the knife, then use a round file the rest of the way.
Thanks for your approach to concave hulls Dave.
Tip floats and main float pylons (not shown) carved and ready for primer coat.
Wings and horizontal plane attached and await sanding.
Lou
Coming along nicely Lou.
Gordon
Thank you Gordon. ID plus model go fairly fast.
Float pylons are attached and need a bit of filler and sanding.
Lou
Light grey primer applied. Next comes the assembling of the floats to the fuselage/wings followed by paint. Decals are scaled but yet to be printed.
Lou
Fully assembled, primed and ready for paint except for the prop spinner and disc.
Lou
The yellow wings will cure for another day or so before continuing to the intermediate blue scheme.
Lou
Looking Good Lou.
Gordon
Thank you Gordon.
Lou
Roll out 26 Dec 21. WWII ID Plus models are fun make, take up little resources and can be done in under 12 hours not counting drying time.
Lou
Looks great Lou. Built the plastic version in the 1970s. One of my earliest model building attempts.
Thank you Dave. I also did the Monogram 1/48 Kingfisher some 50 years or so ago.
Lou
Mine was the MPC profile series with three decal options, probably Airfix originally. Some of those older kits were not the easiest builds, except for maybe building character.
Another excellent result Lou.
Gordon
Thank you Gordon.
Lou
Well done model. The yellow wings really stand out.
Now you need to build a model of the Iowa to work as a stand for it.....
Fraser
Thank you Fraser. 1/72 Iowa. ???
Lou
just short of 12 feet long and 1.5 feet wide at 1:72. It would be quite a centre piece indeed.
Actually there is a 1:72 diorama of a portion of the Missouri under attack. At the end of the sequence of pictures, there is a good look at the attacking Zero and how the spinning prop was modelled. Very interesting how it was done.
https://imodeler.com/2015/06/amazing-ship-diorama-of-a-kamikaze-attack/
Fraser
Or just the immediate portion of the deck with the catapult.
Model airplane News had a drawing of I think a Leoning OL ( ??) the number escapes me at the moment. I assume the catapult would not have
Changed that much.
Still another top model Lou.
Cheers
Gordon
Thank you Gordon. I have that issue in my library.
Lou