Ralph's Golden Wings Projects

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Ralph's Golden Wings Projects

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...lifted from my Workbench page :)


This kit and I got off to a bad start last year, when I broke the canopy while attempting to saw it open. I decided to hope for the best in obtaining a new canopy and got to building the interior over the weekend. The rear cockpit was pretty spartan, so I added a few structural elements, beefed up the gun ring and threw in some generic radio boxes from my spares box. It's only about 75% accurate, but it fills in the void nicely. It should look neater once it is all painted in aluminum. I still need to add some elements to the front cockpit, and that will fill things out even more. The level of detail ought to be sufficient once the fuselage gets closed up.

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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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Which squadron are you doing yours as? I am building mine as 2-B-1 from the Lexington. Of course, I might change that depending on which squadron you build. :)
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Hi Chuck.

My Vindicator will be from the Saratoga.
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Does anybody know if the upper decking that is between the cockpits is supposed to sit flush with the cockpit sill, below it, or above it?

If I rest the cockpit floor against a little "locator bar" molded into one of the fuselage halves, the upper decking and tops of the "pipes" sit about 1.5mm below the sill.
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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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Softscience wrote:Hi Chuck.

My Vindicator will be from the Saratoga.

Great. It'll be nice to have two birds from different squadrons and I can finally break in my tin of "Lemon Yellow" from Xtracolor.
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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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The cockpit is essentially finished and was installed in the fuselage. I'm not sure it is positioned correctly, but it his was the only way it fit. Things are a touch sloppy wen viewed close up, so I'm providing a stand off shot only. :)

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Chuck, I'm looking forward to see how you're yellow paint will look. My plan is to paint the wings tamiya red and then overcoat with yellow. I've done this before for iff stripes and fuselage bands, and noticed it gave me a warm almost golden yellow tone. Some gloss should make it look like chrome yellow. Or so I hope :)
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Interesting idea for the chrome yellow. I just used a mix of 1 drop red to 20 drops of yellow on the P-26. . It looked about right :grin:
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Softscience wrote:The cockpit is essentially finished and was installed in the fuselage. I'm not sure it is positioned correctly, but it his was the only way it fit. Things are a touch sloppy wen viewed close up, so I'm providing a stand off shot only. :)

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Chuck, I'm looking forward to see how you're yellow paint will look. My plan is to paint the wings tamiya red and then overcoat with yellow. I've done this before for iff stripes and fuselage bands, and noticed it gave me a warm almost golden yellow tone. Some gloss should make it look like chrome yellow. Or so I hope :)
Here are a couple yellow wings that were finished last year using WEM chrome yellow on white base for the upper wing.

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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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IIRC (not that I was there), the Vindicator was a first for the USN with flaperons ? It may have been first simply because it was the first monoplane dive bomber and needed the help to reduce landing speed.
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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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Did I attach the engine right? I wasn't expecting that upwards angle.

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It looks wasp wasted from the top down. What's going on here?
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Re: Ralph's Special Hobby SB2U-1

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Think it should be level, not nose up. The wasp waist may be ok. Check against this.

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I'd say the nose should be level too

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I did some measuring and figuring, and realized the engine cowling is noticeably too long. I'm not sure how to fix it at the moment, so I'm going to move on to my other project for this gb; this being the revell p-26 kit with the Starfighter Models resin overhaul. The Statfighter set gets you a whole new cockpit, engine and several other small bits. The castings are great and so far only some minor sanding was required to get everything to fit.

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I enjoyed making the P-26 kit mostly out of the box, so I'm interested in seeing the upgrades, and the difference they make. I put a pilot in to hide the bare cockpit :)
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Re: Ralph's Golden Wings Projects

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I like the results you had OOB Andrew. The upgrades are primarily cockpit and a whole new engine and cowl. I also got some decals but I haven't decided which if the six or seven options I'll use. They're all blue and yellow though.

Tonight I finished out the cockpit with tamiya tape belts given a light wash.
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