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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2014, 06:02:27 PM »
Having the old Atkins vacuform handy has helped with fitting of the canopy parts! Atkins provided a very nice set of drawings with their instructions and I used these, and the Monogram Airacobra, to achieve the proper angle of the forward transparency. This isn't the greatest fit in the world and took quite a lot of trial-fitting to finally get a good shape and fit:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/63canopy001_zps3e11f58d.jpg
MPM P-63 Kingcobra


Still some slight adjustments will be required, but only after the fuselage is glued together and seams filled.

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2014, 07:23:17 PM »
Excellent transparency just take care of super glue evaporation

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #17 on: October 24, 2014, 08:55:15 AM »
Hello,

Nice progress.
The P-39 is also very interesting and Monogram's one is (seems to me) good enough to be built into an amazing finished kit. I have one in... French markings, indeed ! But another one in US markings too.
My P-39N Airacobra is here :
http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/makete-aviona-aircraft-modeling/bell-p-39n-airacobra/new/#new

Jicehem :-wave

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #18 on: October 24, 2014, 04:17:43 PM »
Excellent! :-clap :-clap

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #19 on: October 24, 2014, 08:04:52 PM »
Excellent!

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2014, 05:38:21 PM »
Fuselage halves together and filler applied:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/P-63Fuselage001_zps69f5ed3f.jpg
MPM P-63 Kingcobra

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2014, 06:29:46 PM »
And Eduard sponge served perfectly as work stand :))

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #22 on: October 30, 2014, 09:48:34 PM »
Nice!

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #23 on: October 31, 2014, 07:10:12 PM »
Here is the "finished product" when it comes to enlarging the forward bulkhead to the correct diameter. Earlier I showed the shims that spread the fuselage slightly to match the Eduard spinner, and here is the vertical filler I made to finish the process. Simply glued a bit of styrene sheet to the bottom of the fuselage and everything is now the correct scale dimension:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/EduardShipment008_zpsbfe23869.jpg
MPM P-63 Kingcobra


Then the wings were added to both to continue these parallel builds:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/EduardShipment009_zps28cbcd2b.jpg
MPM P-63 Kingcobra

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #24 on: October 31, 2014, 07:32:17 PM »
You fit it good, nice work :))

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #25 on: November 01, 2014, 06:27:52 PM »
:-ok

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #26 on: December 04, 2014, 11:40:09 PM »
You may think these have been put back on the shelf, but there is small progress still! The canopy for the P-63 was finally fitted permanently and green framing color applied. Strange, but Bell Aircraft used a dark green on the landing gear struts on many Airacobras and Kingcobras. I've used the SAC landing gear upgrade set for the Eduard P-39 for this project. Also, a small tip was found (made from the end of a Luftwaffe 50 kg bomb) for the prop spinner. The machine I'm building was unarmed and used for B-29 gunnery training:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/SACDecember14015_zps5471558b.jpg
MPM P-63 Kingcobra

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2014, 11:30:34 AM »
Little but nice progress, Scott! ;)

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2014, 11:34:03 AM »
Excellent tunning :-clap

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Re: MPM P-63 Kingcobra
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2014, 02:00:05 PM »
Thanks, friends. Fitting the canopy was something I was not looking forward to so this kept getting pushed to the back of the workbench.