1/72 P-3 orion

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Here is the Hasegawa 1/72 P-3. Built OOB it was a fun build for an older hasegawa kit. I would have gotten more pics, but the weather outside had different plans.

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Wow! You did a fantastic job on this build! This looks excellent.

Toshi

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Thanks Toshi !

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Not one we see often, really nice job on it. Its a nice looking aircraft.

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Nice p-3

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Thanks Bish and sea stallion

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B-One,

Nice, I like the subtle color differences you put into the grey. If you don’t mind me asking - could you explain your technique ?

Chris

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Thanks Boss man,

I used the black basing technique. Basically I prime in all black then slowly start to fill in the color with the lightened base color using a random pattern allowing some.of the black to peek through subtley in random spots. It helps break up the monotone grey color.

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Nicely done. Those old Hasegawa kits are tough builds, lots of fit problems and odd part designs.

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Hello!

A very nice lookin’ Orion! That’s right - we don’t see the models of them often enough. I always wondered how hard would it be to backdate one of them to the Vietnam-Era P-3A version.

Thans for sharing and good luck with your modeling projects - have a nice day

Paweł

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Great job! Had to get on a bigger screen To enjoy the pictures even more. Thanks for posting. gk

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Thanks everyone for the kind words. You guys are right about not really seeing the p-3 here much.

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Bac about 10 years ago I was TDY at the Marine base in Hawii and there were numerous P-3s from the U.S. , Austrailia, Japan, and I think New Zealand. Seeing a gathering of P-3s lines up in different markings was quite a sight. Seeing them take off one after theother was a lifetime memory. Your model is a great looking bird and not as colorful as the older paint schemes, but well done.

The P-3 was a development of the Lockheed Electra of the 1950s and one of the first “turbo-prop” airliners along with the British Viscount (IIRC). Other than the old Revell “box-scale” Electra does anyone know of a 1/72nd Commercial version of the Electra.

Again, great job.

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and u think Orion’s are hard to find?

no Electra in plastic 1/72.

I grew up under the landing pattern at Moffett NAS, love the P-3.

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so did I. I was born and raised in Mountain View. Remember when a P-3 crashed on the golf course?. Killed the whole crew except for one survivor.

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nice

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Well done! I’ve been wanting to build another P-3 Orion for years since I dropped mine back in the day. It’s still hard to talk about what and how it happened. LOL! This time I want to do one from Pax River NAS.

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Decals out of the box, too? Which issue?

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Yup the decals are out of the box too. I have to go back and look at the kit number

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Lovely build. Did you restore any of the sanded panel lines? I currently have 2 P-3 builds on the bench. Hope they end up as nice as yours. Also have a boxing with these markings which I build one day.