Since I can’t build for awhile while getting unpacked a Ventura…
VPB 150 built from the newish 1/48 Revell kit. I really enjoyed the build EXCEPT for the bomb bay doors! Other than that though great fit, a few mistakes on my part here and there. I bought aftermarket props and engines (can’t remember what brand sorry) Opened up the cowl flaps some, vacuformed new exhaust shrouds and made new pipes from aluminum tube. Octopus and nose art are hand painted.
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Craig Abrahamson said on February 4, 2013
I haven’t started my Ventura yet, but I was lookin’ at the instructions and was thinkin’ those doors would be a PITA…you made my decision easier…I’m buildin’ ’em closed! Yours came out nice. Did you use the octopus decal as a mask or just ‘wing it”…?
Rob Anderson said on February 4, 2013
I winged the octopus, used a grainy picture I found on line for a reference. Masked sprayed the green, and then did the outline and details by hand.
jeff stewart said on February 25, 2013
i have the kit with the octopus decals, havent built it yet but by comparison i’d say you nailed it!
jeff stewart said on February 25, 2013
looked at a couple more of the pics and man, i gotta get that thing built!
Tom Cleaver said on February 4, 2013
It’s a nice kit – the obsessives can get the DMold correction parts, the rest can just do it, and it turns out very nice. Yours certainly did.
Rob Anderson said on February 5, 2013
You are right Tom it is a pretty great kit and the price is hard to beat. I looked at the DMold corrections and just didn’t see that big of a difference. One mod I wish I would have noticed and done before I closed up the fuselage, is making sure the bulkhead at the rear of the cockpit only go 1/2 way across. Oh well!
Rob
Walt B said on February 5, 2013
Very nice Rob. You did a really nice job on this kit, I look forward to seeing it some time in person. You will have lots to show once you get settled in. Don’t worry about the furniture and boxes, just get your model table set up. Got to get the priorities right ๐
Rob Anderson said on February 5, 2013
LOL, the missus may take contention with those priorities!
Bryan W. Bernart said on February 5, 2013
Great build, Rob.