Quote from: NARSES2 on April 18, 2025, 05:30:41 AM

Quote from: Old Wombat on April 18, 2025, 03:39:21 AMHow detailed does a cockpit need to be in 1/72? 

My thoughts exactly, but I still try and complete them according to the instructions    As said in my Blog the Special Hobby Boomerang has 50 parts on the single sprue of which 23 are for the cockpit 

And then the canopy doesn't fit well. The old Airfix Boomerang has a better fit.

Revell also did a PZL P-11c  and Fiat CR-42 around the same time.  All were well ahead of their time.  Notice the moulded in holes for rigging wires?  The corrugations on the PZL are beautifully restrained.   As far as the interior goes, you're not going to see much.  Put a pilot in the seat and you won't see anything.

Built one some years ago as a 'Bristol Bullet' whif.  Thoroughly enjoyable build and would happily build another.

Quote from: The Rat on Yesterday at 02:01:16 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on Yesterday at 12:55:10 AMLooks preaty neat in that overall "Sky" shade Ratty 

It's labeled as 'Cockpit green' on the bottle I'm using, I think... no longer in the hobby room to check, I'm presently running an inventory on ther liquor cabinet. But you didn't hear that from me.

Just a bit of pointless knowledge. ;-)

Quote from: The Rat on Yesterday at 02:01:16 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on Yesterday at 12:55:10 AMLooks preaty neat in that overall "Sky" shade Ratty 

It's labeled as 'Cockpit green' on the bottle I'm using, I think... no longer in the hobby room to check, I'm presently running an inventory on ther liquor cabinet. But you didn't hear that from me.

So, a Midori and crème de menth colour scheme?

Quote from: royabulgaf on Yesterday at 08:17:33 PMRevell also did a PZL P-11c  and Fiat CR-42 around the same time.  All were well ahead of their time.  Notice the moulded in holes for rigging wires?  The corrugations on the PZL are beautifully restrained.  As far as the interior goes, you're not going to see much.  Put a pilot in the seat and you won't see anything.

I built the Revell P.11c kit 40 years ago but I modified it to the Gnome-Rhone engined, spatted undercarriage prototype shown at the 1934 Paris Air Show. It was polished bare metal with red trim. I covered it with cigarette foil, Players to be exact and used classic square bottle Testors red enamel for the trim. Thinned to a 60:40 mix and brushed on in multiple coats. More work but easier to get a smooth finish.
I picked up the technique from a Japanese modelling magazine. It was an article on a Japanese solid modelling club that only brushpaints their models. The finishes are so good you'd swear that they're airbrushed. Gobsmacking. The club still exists and its roots date back to the 1930s.

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on Yesterday at 12:51:06 AMGuatemala operated the P-26, in an all-green livery, IIRC.

The surviving aircraft were later operated with the paint stripped off of the fuselage. Contrary to most of the models built in thisb"scheme" the fuselages were not the typical "bare-metal" aluminum usually represented with aluminum or silver paint. They were a patchwork of various shades of grey. Boeing used anodized aluminum to build the P-26 and it was very difficult to get a consistent finish from sheet to sheet, thus the patchwork of colour. They had the same difficulty with the Model 247 airliner with the same result of a patchwork finish. They finally bit the bullet and just painted them.
The two surviving ex-Guatemalan aircraft are the one at the NASM and the one owned, and flown, by the Planes of Fame.