H-75 A2 U007
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22 7 May, 20:24
Patryk S.Following! Somehow I knew it, that I will see this on your wall as soon as the kit arrive in shops 😄. Waiting for the P-36 and enjoing your build!
1 9 May, 03:56
Łukasz Gliński ForfatterWelcome everyone!
Patryk you were definitely missed here as the biggest P-36 fan I know here on scm 🙂 👍
The kit goes together relatively fast, but it has some nasty surprises, like the top side of the wing roots, leading edge close to the fuselage (I know it's a tricky part in this plane) and the wing-fuselage join at the very rear of the lower wing.
I shall see what they look like after priming.
1 9 May, 20:03
Patryk S.Due to work commitments I unfortunaltely am not often here but luckily I only missed one day of you WIP 😀
Good that you are paving the way with your build - as last time I will use it as reference for my future P-36 build - sorry to hear about you problems with this kit as detail wise it looks very good. Hope this will be the last negative thing you will encounter - hope the cowling won't give you problems as it is made of 3 parts. Fingers crossed!
1 9 May, 21:09
CuajeteŁukasz, it's disappointing to see that the fit doesn't match the fine detailing of this new mold. But luckily you're used to building old, problematic kits. Experience counts in this regard, but I hope it doesn't give you any more problems. Many of us have our eyes on this kit 😉
Well done so far!
1 10 May, 20:49
Patryk S.Very good progress Łukasz. Unfortunately it seems that the kit is a bit of a dissapointment from what can be seen untill now with the exhausts beeing really far below Arma Hobby standards. So now the only hope lies in Clear Prop if they ever do update their kit.
1 17 May, 21:44
Łukasz Gliński ForfatterHi y'all!
I don't mind anyone being late for sure 😄
Yes, the kit is simple compared to the latest AH products and disappointing indeed.
The next item on the black list is the mid part of the canopy - it's just too big, both in terms of width and height.
I'll leave it open I think, but the only way to have it closed in my opinion is to sand it smooth, sand to shape, polish (nomen omen! 😛) and resize the masks afterwards.
2 21 May, 19:38
Łukasz Gliński ForfatterCould be, but not in this project 🙂
Or - and this is probably question to Patryk - maybe it should be deeper onto the fuselage than I'm trying?
1 21 May, 19:50
Patryk S.Hello Łukasz. The lower edge of the canopy should be almost alligned with the fairing that sits under the front end of the windshield at the beginning of the canopy rail - its sits just a tad above 1-2 cm in 1:1 scale. The kits one is too big, clearly made only to be fitted in the open posistion. One solution would be to detach the front canopy as on the pictures it is visible that it is also to short in the vertical and the fairings and add some plastic under it to allign the front windshield with the fuselage and to sand down the lover edges of the canopy a bit but this does not solve the problem of it beeing to wide. I would leave it and make it in the opened position as the cockpit is pretty good. Damn, I just bought this kit not knowing all of this yesterday...😵💫 I have also a vacu canopy from Squadron underway that I wanted to test on the AZ kit. I will check if it would be an alternative for this kit and will let you know. Thanks Arma Hobby, now everyone will again try to beg Clear Prop on Facebook to do the P-36. I think around 2 years ago they stated that it will be soon out 😂
3 21 May, 21:03
Łukasz Gliński ForfatterThanks Patryk for your post, much aprecciated. 👍
I did some more test fitting after reading - you can see the last pics.
I think it fits the windshield once it's in the middle of these little pimples on the external cockpit sides (or at least I was able to force it so, hope I won't find any cracks after masks removal).
I have the feeling that the difference is in the plastic thickness, thinned it might do the job exactly as you described.
But, I'm not going to thin it, definitely.
PS. I think vacu might not be needed after all - I managed to produce a thin replacement by warming and bending the flat transparent plastic (taken from some packaging).
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2 22 May, 10:17
Patryk S.Fingers crossed that this will solve the problem. I forgot to mention it in the last post - the rear upper portion of the canopy sits tight on the fuselage spine once closed so this is a factor also to take into consideration. I had a similar problem with the airfix P-40 but trimming down the fuselage portion where the canopy was meant to be glued helped. Got mine Hawk today but still didn' t examine it yet. It will be high on the list just to see if I will be able to tackle the kits problem. Your replacement canopy looks good!
2 22 May, 17:59
Łukasz Gliński ForfatterWait, folks, hold your horses! It's the canopy from the Thai Hawk project 😄 I haven't procured the second one yet, I'm not that quick 😄
2 22 May, 18:16
CuajeteI can't believe Arma Hobby is making these mistakes at this point. We'll have to speak out so Clear Prop can hear our prayers 🙏
Good luck, Łukasz!
1 22 May, 19:06
