Here’s my effort at building Revell’s excellent 1:48 Stearman PT-17 Kaydet.
Built largely OTB with the addition of some HGW seat harness’ and Yahu IPs
The HGW harness’ was by far the most difficult part of the build, I’ve used them on 1:32 builds in the past however I doubt I’ll used them for any 1:48, neither my eyes nor fingers work well enough anymore.
The kit itself is a joy, my only real complaints are the yellow plastic, the colour makes it very difficult to see any defects, and the moulded seat harness.
There’s a lot of detail that won’t be seen, behind the engine and the cockpit framework however complaining about too much detail would be a little churlish!
I taken a fair slice of “artist licence” with the scheme, I’ve “mixed and matched” from 2 or 3 different aircraft but I liked to look of the grey fuselage and also the red and white stripes for the rudder.
Here are the photos…
until next time
as always, any suggestions, criticisms or comments will be gratefully received.
rgds
John(shortCummins)
