Heres the old Monogram P61 Black Widow , an oldie but goodie ( amazingly the tooling dates back to 1974!!).I picked this up for £5 at Cosford a few years ago minus box . The decals were shot but I wanted to do a particular airframe anyway so i got aftermarket ones. The kit is fantastically detailed with all sorts of open panels etc (which i didnt bother with as I like to see a fairly clean airframe ) but has a couple of minor inaccuracies , namely the tyres and engine cowl flaps. The kit was based on the prototype xp61 which had smooth tyres , all the production aircraft had treaded ones , and the p61B had automatic cowl flaps which means the kit ones with one engine closed and the other open is wrong. to sort this I used aftermarket wheels and cut the cowl flaps off and refixed them open on the closed engine. the other additions were eduard belts , resin guns and a few scratchbuilt details (landing lights ,exhausts, aerials etc.)
I used the raised panel lines to my advantage by undercoating the whole thing in silver then giving it a coat of hairspray before spraying the black . this made chipping easier and also meant i could carefully rub off the black on the panel lines to reveal the silver ,the flaking of paint along panel joints being a characteristic of most p 61's. Anyways heres the model , a P61B 'Little Audrey' based at RAF Scorton ,North Yorkshire june 1944. The unit training here before being sent to France later in the year.
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I used the raised panel lines to my advantage by undercoating the whole thing in silver then giving it a coat of hairspray before spraying the black . this made chipping easier and also meant i could carefully rub off the black on the panel lines to reveal the silver ,the flaking of paint along panel joints being a characteristic of most p 61's. Anyways heres the model , a P61B 'Little Audrey' based at RAF Scorton ,North Yorkshire june 1944. The unit training here before being sent to France later in the year.
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