Undercarriage is now completed, the kit's white metal main legs with additional plastic struts, plastic mainwheels from my spares, front plastic leg from my spares with the kit's metal wheel with spokes drilled out.
Kit's metal main wheel doors and spare plastic nosewheel doors.
Metal engine cowling fronts corrected by filling in of fictional lower intake.
Vacform nose glazing glued with white PVA glue and smoothed in to nose contours with Humbrol filler.
Kit's white metal propellers, I had to reduce the length of the prop blades as they were catching the fuselage.
Searchlight wing tank is awaiting me to decide how I am going to build the searchlight installation.
Working on the model is made easier by not attaching the vertical tail yet.
I had always wanted to build the 1/72 Hasegawa Neptune but the size of it now daunts me, but a 1/144 one is so much more manageable and is still a decent size to detail and admire, and it does not take up much room on my table.
Aeroclub Lockheed Neptune progress
Aeroclub Lockheed Neptune progress
- Attachments
- Undercarriage installed
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Re: Aeroclub Lockheed Neptune progress
Looking good!
Searchlight - there is a build of the Welsh Models resin P-2 on the internet. The builder saws off the solid end of the tip tank where the searchlight should be and uses it to make a cast which he then fills with clear resin. Clever!
https://thelittleaviationmuseum.au/lock ... sh-models/
I have the Welsh Models kit but I'm waiting until I've done a few resin kits first as would like to give it my best shot.
Searchlight - there is a build of the Welsh Models resin P-2 on the internet. The builder saws off the solid end of the tip tank where the searchlight should be and uses it to make a cast which he then fills with clear resin. Clever!
https://thelittleaviationmuseum.au/lock ... sh-models/
I have the Welsh Models kit but I'm waiting until I've done a few resin kits first as would like to give it my best shot.