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Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 10:54 pm
by jkelleycrna
A fun little kit that goes together very well. No putty needed, this is perhaps Revell's best-fitting kit. The kit's rigging diagram was helpful, but could've been a little clearer. Between that and the box art, I managed to figure it out. I used 0.2mm nickel silver rod for the rigging wire (Albion Alloys LTD., NSR02). Partial pilot holes were drilled, and the wires placed into them, then secured with a tiny drop of extra-thick cyanoacrylate.

Tamiya yellow all over, NATO black for the cockpit coaming & tires, and Testors Aluminum Plate, Gunmetal, and Burnt Iron metallizers used. Overcoated with Future and left shiny, since these machines were kept pretty clean. I didn't bother with removing the civilian "N" from the registration.


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Re: Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:20 pm
by eoinfinnegan
Thats very nice, you got a lovely finish to it. Well done

Re: Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 1:59 am
by muskegman
You did an excellent job, thanks for sharing. :th:

I recently bought the exact kit and will be tackling it sometime in the near future, I still havent decided yet which colour scheme I will go with, the blue and yellow or all yellow. I already bought both the paint colours in Vallejo blue and yellow. Looking at your kit done all yellow looks very impressive.

:cheers2:

Re: Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 5:00 am
by UKguyInUSA
Nice clean job you did there....yellow has always been a troublesome color to apply for me....I try to steer away from it!

Cheers, :cheers2:

Martin

Re: Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 10:23 pm
by jkelleycrna
UKguyInUSA wrote:....yellow has always been a troublesome color to apply for me....I try to steer away from it!

Cheers, :cheers2:

Martin

Boy, me too!! I had to touch-up spray this thing more than I care to admit. Yellow and white paints are the bane of my existence.

Re: Revell 1/48 PT-17 Stearman

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 6:18 pm
by AchtungPanzer
Very good work mate. Nice model :th: