P-40 Warhawk update.
Dec. 2nd, 2004 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ldhensonWell, making more progress on the P-40. Here's a couple shots of its latest state:
Obviously it's still missing a few parts, including several stringers on the underside. The wing assembly and stabilizers are just snapped in to the body for now, not glued. Later I'll disassemble them to finish priming and painting before I glue the entire thing together.
Still need to figure out how I want to make the prop from scratch, since the one provided in the kit is just a generic one, not a P-40 prop.
Obviously it's still missing a few parts, including several stringers on the underside. The wing assembly and stabilizers are just snapped in to the body for now, not glued. Later I'll disassemble them to finish priming and painting before I glue the entire thing together.
Still need to figure out how I want to make the prop from scratch, since the one provided in the kit is just a generic one, not a P-40 prop.
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Date: 2004-12-03 03:18 am (UTC)It's looking great!
Heh, our house is full of models Dad and my brother have built. Airplanes and ships, mostly. They used to really be into the radio controlled home-built planes, too. ^_____________^
So your framing looks veddy familiar to me! <3
I've only made a Japanese Zero and a T. rex skeleton, both of which are hanging from my ceiling. Oh, and a walking Triceratops that doesn't walk anymore, and The Visible Woman, which I still have, but it's in a box under the bed. ^^
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Date: 2004-12-03 05:42 pm (UTC)Radio-controlled planes look like so much fun, but I've never tried it. It amazes me to think something that looks like a toy can actually fly!
Are your models plastic? I have a pirate ship model that's still in the box in the closet, too :-)
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Date: 2004-12-05 08:22 am (UTC)Yep, all mine are plastic. ^^ Haven't done that in decades...I still have an F-14 in the closet, which 'goes with' the Mitsubishi Zero... ^_~
Dad's built a couple wooden ships...plank by plank, one of them, and he sewed the sails!
Was rather amusing, watching Mom teach him how to use the machine... ^_____^
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Date: 2004-12-09 05:03 pm (UTC)My brother did models for a while, and that's where I discovered that plastic glue doesn't like me:-) Dunno, it just seems to get everywhere when I try to use it. I thought I could get away with not using any by building this wooden model, but there are still a few plastic bits that probably won't stick without plastic glue. And the cap always gets stuck to the tube! I don't know how people do it.
Your walking T-rex sounds neat...it had a motor, I'm guessing?
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Date: 2004-12-10 05:15 am (UTC)The cyanoacrylate glues? The really stinky kind, like 'Superglue'? (We use something similar at work to glue skin in routine spays so we don't have to take sutures out later...^_^;) Yeah, tricky stuff. Less is more, and you might try putting a rub of petroleum jelly around the screw part of the tube so it won't glue itself shut.
Yeah, the Triceratops had a little rubber band wind-up motor, but the design called for gluing the body together in such a way you could never get it open again if something broke. Which of course it did. So I yanked the key/winder out and glued the legs in a standable position and it just lives in my shower window now. ^^; During the short time it walked, we had fun scaring the cat...
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:08 pm (UTC)Your Triceratops reminds me of the little walking/barking do I had...you know, the kind that looks like a stuffed animal but it moves and yaps, etc.? The moving parts quickly wore out but I was content to take the batteries out and let it join my menagerie of stuffed animals...even if it wasn't quite as soft :-)
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Date: 2004-12-10 06:09 pm (UTC)