**** DONE: 1/48 Otaki P-40e 196th IAP leningradsky VVS GB

[Catch22]

Great work so far, and best of luck!

[N4521U]

Thanks for all the encouragement guys........... But..........

I am so unhappy with this kit.... not the kit actually but the bl00dy sh!t plastic it's been made of......
Nothing sticks to it. Revell doesn't, and super glue doesn't. It all seems to just break off. The wedge I put in the bottom of the fuselage has just cut loose with slight pressure from the wing section. You can see it's almost dissapeared. I used Revell to glue that baby in there, and nothing!!!!!!!!!

[magnu]

Sorry to hear that Bill. I suppose all you can do is try lots of different glues in the hope of finding one which will work on your teflon plastic.

[Wurger]

I think the problem is the gap between the rear part of fuselage and the trailing adge of the wing. It is too strait. Looking at these images of that I'm almost sure that the main problem are forces running along these edges.

[Wayne Little]

You could be right Wojtek....but sometimes sh!t plastic.....is just that! Hope you get it sorted Bill.

[Wurger]

You might be right My Bro.. as well. But I would suggest removing of some plastic from areas red marked ( A and B ). Then making a styrene chock ( C ) and gluing it onto the gap firstly. It has to be longer than the small plate that Bill added there. If the fuselage fixed at the area I would add a thin and short plastic plate ( a strip ) bended and fitted to the bottom fuselage curvature. It would make a kind of step where the trailing adge of the wing could seat and be glued at the area. It would prvent it against going deeper. Also , the strip would make the joint more stable, when going from one half of the fuselage to the another one.

[N4521U]

You could be right Wojtek....but sometimes sh!t plastic.....is just that! Hope you get it sorted Bill.

Aaaamen bruddah!

Wojtek, I had the little "block" glued in to one side only, for dry fitting. My intention was just what you illustrated. I would taper the piece when attaching the sides together, then add a strip along that line toward the tail. I had used the Revell glue to attach the block. Problem is, as I was dry fitting the wing again the trailing edge of the wing pushed on that block, and it came loose. So therefore my deduction the plastic is in fact Sh!t !!! I may put a plate across the inside, and then dowel the bl00dy thing on each side.

The wedge is in there to widen the fuselage to fit the wing top to the fuselage so I don't have to do filling and shaping up there. Figured out of sight, out of mind. Who looks at the bottom???? No mirrors under this thing. I can guarantee That! All suggestions taken into consideration. They may not solve This problem, but they are food for thought.

Bill

[N4521U]

So now I have started painting.
But That blue sure looks tooooo blue?

[Wayne Little]

Does look.....odd, on my monitor that is...

[T Bolt]

Might look better after a heavy black wash.

[Crimea_River]

I might have said lighten it with some white. I assume it's for the undersides.

[Wurger]

I see Bill. Because you use the Revell glue I thought it was the problem. Unfortunately the kind of cement isn't the best one. It is said , if you want to make some corrections to a model later, you should use this glue. A few years later the model will fall apart itself. So the styrene is fine I think. Keep working.

[N4521U]

I might have said lighten it with some white. I assume it's for the undersides.

That's the back seat in blue!!!!!! Perhaps I should go the Russian gray? Or as you suggest add some white, and as T Bolt suggests, a black wash over.

[N4521U]

I see Bill. Because you use the Revell glue I thought it was the problem. Unfortunately the kind of cement isn't the best one. It is said , if you want to make some corrections to a model later, you should use this glue. A few years later the model will fall apart itself. So the styrene is fine I think. Keep working.

This kits just got me stymied. The real answer is stay away from this brand kit! Pay the extra money for kits that perform Wurger. The few dollars I saved was not worth the aggravation.

[Wurger]

Really I don't think the styrene of the model is bad. I have seen a few of Otaki kits. And none of these was bad. I wish I could get the same kit to check it myself.