LetLetLet ~ Warplanes
Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: Jicehem on May 01, 2017, 08:17:17 PM
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Hi :-salut :-salut :-salut
This Lindberg kit has been edited in the years 1956-1960. The represented plane is Curtiss F11C-2, BuNo 9282, allocated to VF-1 on USS Saratoga in 1933. The livery is from "Yellow Wings" decal sheet Company. The operational markings are red tailplane for the aircraft-carrier USS Saratoga, lemon yellow (engine cowling, chevron on the wing and the band on fuselage) for the last three planes of the squadron ie 1-F-16, 17 and 18. At that time, the metallic parts are painted a gloss light gray and the fabric covered fuselage and wings are painted with varnish completed by some aluminum dope.
I added sreader bars into the rigs and control wires for horizontal tailplane and tailwheel. I added too streamling bumps on fuselage sides in connexion with the breeches of the machine-guns the barrels of which go through the cylinders... I added also spark plug cables on the front of the engine. Wheels, a little bit small, saw their diameter increased by cementing a strip of plastic 0,5 mm thick around the tires, then, by filling and filing, I restored the good shape of the tires. The wheel rims were accordingly enlarged. Naturally, the housing of these wheels was also enlarged.”
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_022.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11685)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_021.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11684)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_023.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11686)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_020.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11683)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_024.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11687)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_025.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11688)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_026.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11689)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_028.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11691)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_027.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11690)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_029.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11692)
Close-up on the engine where we see the barrels muzzles between the cylinders and close up on control cables of the tailwheel and the horizontal tailplane :
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_031.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11694)
(https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/10/07/63/16/2017_030.jpg) (https://servimg.com/view/10076316/11693)
Jicéhem :-wave :-wave :-wave
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Old school work, I like it much :-love
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Well done! :-ok
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Beautiful Curtiss, mate!!! These between-the-wars Navy machines are some of the best looking airplanes the U.S. ever used.
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Like it a lot !