While the kit is labeled Flying Pancake, I’m going with the term my Dad used when I was a kid while he was working on vacuum-formed kits of it.
1/72 scale Hasegawa kit.
Going for out-of-the-box, but I added Warbird Decals seatbelts.
I also added some supports to make installing the intakes out of sequence easier.
The cockpit fits well enough between the fuselage halves.
Nice tip on the supports.
Bill
Tamiya AS-8 Navy Blue.
I know it may look like I’m doing this wrong, but I’ve done this before and have a plan…
Sorry for the poor lighting in the photos, it’s a nighttime project…
I finished the seams around the perimeter and then blended the blue to cover the raw plastic. I also added the stabilizers.
Looks like fun.
It is a fun project.
I added the tails then blended in the blue around the mounting points after the fact too.
The intake fans are installed (glad I added the supports) and the “roll-bar” behind the seat with its reinforcements. Check the fit of the canopy as some trimming is needed of the rear bulkhead for it to fit.
Hi;
You know, I forgot how really strange that thing looked.
My wife calls it the turtle. I can see her point.
I painted the prop blades Dark Tan and then used some clear red to tint the tone towards mahogany.
Warbird Decals Brown on Clear Woodgrain made up the bulk of the grain.
Then a little of their Black on Clear added some contrast. Pretty easy to do in less than an hour…
These planes were such an odd design. One would think they would be highly influenced by any sort of wind shear or air turbulance. Nice work.
BK
I think this would be true at low airspeed, but this is true for any STOL vehicle. And the flapjack had a pretty high wing loading, so it would likely be less bothered than by low wing loading planes.
The landing gear is a bit fiddly but buildable.
The insignias turned out to be a bit more work than I expected after the instrument decals went on so easily.
I didn’t notice the one for the underside goes across the starboard main gear doors until after I cut the doors apart and installed them. I cut one of the kit insignias into three pieces with a new blade, but it disintegrated while wet before I could apply it.
I found a couple more same sized replacements in my stash and they fell apart the same way, even the one I didn’t cut…
So I found some newer Scale-Master ones (age-wise) from a Testors A-4 kit, but they had red bars. The first one I cut to fit the plane worked fine so I freehand painted out the red bars after they were applied.
I reworked the prop hubs and added bosses to the backs so they would plug into the nacelles and not require cement and still allow the props to turn. I brush painted the yellow tips.
What happened to the wood grain?
This build looks like fun. Nice work on the project, especially the improvisation of the decals. Worked out nicely. I’ve seen the kit in hobby stores around, but never picked one up. Now I might have to. I’ve got several unconventional aircraft models in 1/72, and this one could join the group of all-wing or mostly-wing aircraft. My stash includes the Northrop N-9M (on the bench), XB-39, and XB-47 flying wings, and the B-2 stealth bomber.
The back side of the props are black, I’m guessing for anti-glare. The wood grain is still on the front.
Finished.
Fun build; not perfect and questionably accurate, but worth the time for me to put it together.
Oh wow that’s so cool!!!
I have a 1/48th kit of the Pancake, I think it’s by Sword- I hope mine looks half as good as yours when I finally build it!