Boeing P26 Peashooter

[vacant]

This trio are all the Revell 1/72 kit. One is a new build (the blue one), one is a build from one already started (the green one) and one is a restoration (the pink/olive/grey one). The decals are from Starfighter.

[jssel]

Great looking Peashooters

[VickersVandal]

Nice work! I really like the olive jobbie. Stretched sprue rigging?

[vacant]

Yes, stretched sprue. I have been told it is too thick, which is probably true. Photos show that some of the wires were fairly chunky, but they may still be a bit too thick. The model is so small that even fairly thin wires look quite thick on closeup photos.

[TobyC]

Great work vacant and a very nice selection. The exhausts you added do a lot to the original kit. I had better up my game on mine now.
Btw what did you use for the exhausts?

[GeorgeSweety]

Great looking trio, I've never built one of these but judging by the size of the pilot the planes appear to be pretty small in 1/72nd scale. Have you ever tried your wife's tights? I actually mean picking the threads out of an old pair for rigging? Superfine elastic thread that otherwise gets thrown in the bin. Regards, George.

[vacant]

I can't say that I have ever tried my wife's tights.

[GeorgeSweety]

It doesn't have to be tights and they don't strictly have to belong to your wife, my MIL wears some silvery metal/grey ones that look like wire when you separate the fibres. Anything with braided elastic straps will usually yield a fantastic mileage of useable elastic thread. I personally prefer elasticated thread as I used to do stretched sprue and fine fuse rigging wire but found it too delicate and too brittle once fixed. Regards George

[Lone Modeller]

Excellent trio. Glad you told us which was new, which was a restoration and which was a continued build, because they are all so good I would never have been able to tell otherwise.

[Migrant]

Really nice work. I remember my Dad building this model back in the late 60s. I really like the war-games scheme.

[PaulBradley]

Very nice, V!

[airjim]

Nice job. The war game scheme is really interesting.

Jim

[Nigel Foster]

That's three really good little models, you do not see P26's often these days.

Nigel

[JohnRatzenberger]

That's three really good little models, you do not see P26's often these days.
Nigel

Yeah, and it's odd as, at least over here, they used to be a rite of passage. I can remember doing several Aurora kits and even a Berkeley control-line kit. It was my second effort at their "rounded-edge planking" and a real bear. It didn't fly well or long ...