Accurate Minatures 1/48 A-36. Here are a few shots of the cockpit before the fuse is assembled. Added some wire for interest, seatbelts and Mike Grant decals for the placards and fuel guages. I also have a Quickboost gun sight that might be included along with some Ultracast wheels. I havent decided yet. A Verlinden Allison engine I have needs a home also but I think I’ll put that in one of the P-51A kits I have.
This is the first time I mixed my interior green instead of using it right out of the bottle and the first time I’ve shaded any interior parts. The IP is brush painted, also a first for me. I need to get much smaller brushes if I try it again. Let me know what you think.
I recently built the AM P-51A, which is basically the same kit.
I wish my cockpit turned out that nice. Wow- you’ve done a great job. The additioanl wiring and stencil decals really set it apart. The IP is great, beautiful work.
Great work on the 'pit, your painting skills are superb! Wish I could get mine to look 1/10 that good! Will be looking forward to more progress pics, thanks for sharing!
Excellent start so far! The IP looks great! I have one of these in my stash right now. I’m also working on a P-51A, with BOTH verlinden update sets. The only negative thing I can see is the color of the interior green. It looks a lot like olive drab. Maybe your refrences show something different, but interior green was a pretty “green” color…
Anyway, be sure to keep us posted!
Melgyver, those are Eduard belts. I repainted them a darker khaki because I thought the original color was to bright and new looking.
Rad, I agree with you about the green color. I mixed my own according to an artical I read. The pics were fantastic but on my kit it looks a bit to dark and turned out more MM medium green. I’ll lighten it a bit on the next kit if I mix again. Strangley enough, there are someOD parts in the cockpit. Some bomb levers (not in the pics) and the control stick I did paint OD and there is a big difference in color. It doesn’t show in the pics though. The mix is 60% Tamiya XF-3 flat yellow and 40% XF-1 flat black.
Progress. Filled in those annoying panel lines on the wings. I wasn’t sure if they did this to the A-36 or not but I figured since it first used the laminar wing they probably did. Or should have.[:O]
Removed the horizontal stabs to reposition them.
Added strip to the leading edge and rounded it off along with adding mass balances from strip styrene.
Since I forgot to attach the nose to the fuse halves before joining them I used a spreader at the front of the wing root so the nose would fit right. Thanks goodness for test fitting.
Nose fits good and no filler will be needed. Normally I install the upper wings before the lower so as to eliminate gaps at the root but test fitting showed the fit to be so good that I thought I could get them on fine without gaps. We shall see.[:)]
Doing the boring work of seams. I’m trying to develop more patience when doing seams because I always seem to say “good enough” and then I’m never happy with the result. Got the gear legs done tonight.
Finally done with seams and sink holes. Shot some paint tonight and tried my hand at wearing the finish some. I once said that I’d never preshade but… did that plus some post shading. let me knwo what you think.
