Aeroclub Lockheed Neptune progress
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2026 3:02 pm
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.
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.