Great start Joe, looking forward to seeing you tackle that pit. Its a real shame no one has done a resin 234 pit in 72nd scale.
Not for me it aint. lol . Thanks Bish. [Y]
Thank you as well Andy!
I can’t wait to see this go together. Man I should have sprung for all the nice resin detail on my build.
Eagerly waiting for you to dig into that cockpit 
Looking forward to see how all of that detail work turns out.
Thanks Colin and Tojo.
I’ve got the tub all trimmed up and the two pieces glued together. I had to sand a lot of material from the bottom to get it to fit right but so far so good. Here’s a few shots with the clear nose piece test fitted. It looks like it’s gonna be A-OK.
Looks good [H]
Looking great Joe! You are packing tons of detail to a seldom seen subject.
The Aires cockpit is going to be a royal enhancement to your 234 Joe. Especially with the sweet greenhouse canopy that will allow you see it all quite well. That’s what I like about what you are doing as you will actually be able to see most of the fantastic detailing you are going to do. Bonus that you’ve got the resin cockpit to fit well without too much hassle. At least I’m crossing my fingers that that is the case as indicated by your test fitting.
P.S.- Despite a despotic and sometimes ill tempered moderator, your 234 would be a welcome sight over on the '46 GB.
Thanks guys.
Joe: I may PM him about that. My only concern is how long its going to take for me to buiild this thing and I’ll be the only one left in there building 9 months from now. lol
I cut the side panels from the resin mounting blocks today. This stuff is super thin so cutting it from them was a slow process to avoid breaking the dang things. Looks like everything is fitting here so far:
and still mates up to the fuselage as good as I’ve ever seen from an Aires set
Looking sweet Mustang. I have the same kit in the pile so I’m paying attention.
Thanks Joe. Of all the kits that I’ve built I dislike the nose section and how it mounts up to the fuselage on this one the least. I will let you know to get that Valiant Wings book I’ve got on the intro post here as it covers the Dragon 1/72nd and Hasegawa 1/48th scale builds and gives a heads up in a few areas.
Managed to get the cockpit area black based this morning. Progress’ll be slow on this one while I’m finishing up my '54 Chevy Sedan Delivery but I’m managing to do something with this every time I siddown at the bench.
Oi, less of that from you [;)]
Soime great work there Joe. And yes, you would be more than welcome to adthis to the GB. And i will dfinatly have to get that book now. I have 5 of those Dragon 234’s so it will definatly be worth it.
This is such a cool build!
Toshi
This looks to be a fun build. The Smithsonian has one, if not the only restored one at the Air and Space Museum in DC. I checked it out in great detail while visiting there a few years ago and always thought it would be a great model. It had parachute recoverable liquid fueled rocket boosters under the wings and was an incredible restoration. Looks like you’re off to a great start. I’ll be watching with envy!
Max
Outstanding looking pit. [B]
heh, heh, heh.
Looking good with progress good buddy. Keep it coming, slow and steady.
Thank you Bish, Toshi, Max , Ernie and Joe . No real progress on this one today but did some more research. I’ll be busting out the MM RLM 66 enamel for the base color this weekend.