This is what I’m currently working on and am asking a general question regarding the kit? Has anyone else built it? Because mine came with no color guide (instruction sheet has none). I’m left guessing what the letters are unfortunately. (N is black, I know that). I have pictures to work with, so this won’t cause too much trouble.
I’ve built a couple of the Super Cub’s over the years; remember it as being very straight forward and structurally to scale, a fun build! I think I clipped the wings on one, and painted it standard cub yellow with the black lightning bolt… the other one was done in classic Super Cub colors, such as the example below illustrates:
Check on E-Bay, you might be able to find a decal sheet for that kit… or, take an outside chance, and contact Minicraft.
That company (actually, it’s Hobbycraft) has awful instructions, but the kit is very nice to build. There is a back issue of FSM with a great article about dressing up this kit. And even if you don’t want to superdetail it, it has really fine painting instructions. Do a search and check which issue it’s in, because I can’t seem to find it right now.
Interesting to see your post. I really want a good Cub in 1/48 or larger. I once tried the Hobbycraft, but had a heck of a time with the cowling fitting over the engine. I couldn’t see what was wrong except that the engine seemed to be molded to large. It would be good to know if this is a problem just for me. The fuselage was molded in clear, as was the DH Beaver from the same company. A little different, but at least you don’t get glue on the windows!. Let us know how you find it. Overall, it was a good kit for the scale and has potential. It would make a good diaroma.
I really like the, quite frankly, ingenious idea of using a clear fuselage in a craft covered with big windows. I’ve seen a couple of helicopter kits molded that same this way. One was a kit of that skinny, dragonfly-looking Navy chopper (obviously, I’m no rotary wing expert) used for shipboard S&R during Korea, but I don’t recall the maker of the 1/72 scale kit. I haven’t built one of these choppers, but place one of these kits buit-up, along with the Hobbycraft Cub, next to similar aircraft with glued-in windows. The difference is great, and remarkably reaslistic in comparison.
Oh yeah… Hobbycraft… was working on getting a Minicraft MU-2J on the internet, and just finished some build time on a Modelcraft Cessna 172… Hobby, Mini, Model, one of them “crafts” [:D]
On the subject of bug smashers, I wanted to build a model of the little Cherokee I soloed in and did most of my training in, so I went ot the only series of 1/48 single-engine private planes, which is now in the hands of Academy, but these kits have been around the block before Academy repackaged them. I’ve posted this before, but the Lycoming engine and associated parts for it was the most unrecognizable lump of styrene I ever seen in a kit. And I’ve built a lot of limited run, garage-operation kits. I could have left out the engine, using flexible tubing for the exhaust. But the fit of the rest of it was terrible, the detail was just sad, and to add insult to injury, these formerly $2.50 kits are now something like $12. I gave it up before I put the primer on. I wish I could find the back issue of FSM with the build of this Hobbycraft Cub in it. The modeler – forgive for forgetting your name if you are reading this – did an absolutely outstanding job rejiggering this kit, making an already good kit into a beautiful model full of scratch-built brass components like the tail gear, and realistic wooden flooring. And it was all the kind of scratchbuilding a modeler with only moderate skills and experience could pull off.