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Let Let Let - Warplanes => Aircraft Modeling => Topic started by: night fighter on May 25, 2009, 09:58:32 PM

Title: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: night fighter on May 25, 2009, 09:58:32 PM: Here’s my most recently built model – Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra. It represents a Soviet plane from the Lend-Lease programme.
I tried to render realistic exhausted plane – a lot of dust, scratches and oil stains, but without unrealistic overshaded panel lines (which looks to me like a cartoon effect).
Hobby Boss model is nice – easy assembling, nice engraved panel lines and realistic shape.
But there’s a serious error: although the model’s nose is filled with a lot of weight, the plane is tail sitter. Simply, the tail is too heavy for tricycle configuration. So, I corrected it by gluing wheels to the ground.

Here are pics.
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: samuraj77 on May 26, 2009, 10:12:24 AM: Nice build mate :-clap
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: Jicehem on May 26, 2009, 11:52:36 PM: Hi Samuraj77, :-salut

Very nice build. I agree totally about the rendering of the panels. :-ok Overshaded panels are not realistic.

Cheers, :-wave
Jicehem
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: Profa on May 29, 2009, 08:52:24 AM: Heh, considering the fact that both I and Samuraj love used planes, this one really hits the bullseye! :-ok
Nicely done :-clap, although I'd make those exhaust stains more visible, in accord to the rest of the dirt...
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: No.1 on May 31, 2009, 03:21:54 PM: I love much Airacobra no matter of the panels work :))
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: night fighter on June 02, 2009, 01:03:33 PM: Thank you for comments! :-wave
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: Paul Andrews on June 02, 2009, 02:44:05 PM: Very fine work.
Title: Re: Hobby Boss 1/72 P 39N Airacobra
Post by: Letipapa on June 09, 2009, 10:40:38 PM: Night fighter :-ok :-clap :-clap :-clap :-wave