P-40 Warhawk update.

[ldhenson]

Well, 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.

Comments

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

I bet your Dad's ships look fantastic...they sound so cool.

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?

[tainry.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'll try to remember to take pics with the digital...

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...

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Whee...I think I can get away with not using CA/superglue after all. I did a little checking on the web and found that you can't really use it on canopies anyway, which is one of the main parts I need to attach. It's not worth it to me to buy clear parts glue just for the few pieces, so I'm actually going to go with supplies I already have. I do a lot of crafts and it didn't occur to me to use what's in my house! I've got at least two products that aren't meant for modelling but should work great as clear glue for something like this.

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 :-)

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

P.S. Petroleum jelly sounds like a good idea, will have to give it a try. We still have lots of superglue around the house.