Which kit did you get Steve?

A KP Aero C-3A, totally different from any kit I've built so far. I reckon your the sort of bloke that would do this kit justice.

Yes, I actually did build that a few years back. In the morning I'll post a picture in your C3 thread showing an error of omission that I made so that you can be sure to avoid it.

That would be sweet in the US Army livery. We will be watching this one develop.

Maybe I am ready to do this one after all. I tried polishing the kit windows on the sprue...didn't work. So, I cut'em off the sprue and sanded/polished one side (to be the interior surface) of each one by holding it down with the tip of my finger and rubbing it on sandpaper, then Micromesh and they cleaned up quite well. With a little encouragement from a file they even fit their little holes. On the right, you can see how I left them proud and 'leaded in' with superglue. And, on the left, after sanding/polishing.




One intake lip was partly missing.





This is a side view of the nacelle (they both have that little step). The question being: is the top too long or the bottom too short? I'm going with the bottom being too short.




And note the square leading edge on the stbd. wing root section.





The idea here is that this piece is supposed to fit inside the nose and form the glare shield. Well, that may have worked on the vac version, but no way will it work here so I cut off the excess and attached the instrument panel.




In the end, I cut off the two outer 'legs' too and just glued the center one to the cockpit floor after shortening it a bit.






I put a floor in the cabin and added some seats that I had in spares. I know it's crude, but that's ok because you won't be able to really see it anyway, but you will be able to tell that there's something in there. Better that just an empty hole I think. But only just.

You are a very very brave man! Well done so far!

Martin

A quick update. Filler pattern is the same on both wings. To my eye the top of the nose looked too flat in profile, so I built it up with filler to establish a gentle curve from windscreen to nose cone. Also, it would have been much easier on the builder if the engine fronts had been supplied as separate pieces. Since the air intakes were incompletely molded to begin with, it was very tedious to get the intakes to look 'right'. I'm not convinced that mine totally do, but life is short.

Nice work. I've had the pleasure of working on a real Kingair some years ago. I still have the scar on my back to prove it.

Do you have a Dremel, Barry?
Or a large mallet?

Kudos for the perseverance. There's Use of Modelling Skill and there's masochism and Mach 2 dance the dance between the two.

Regards,
Bruce

Nope, no mallet. Going to pound this one into submission using coercion . I have a small electric drill thingy, but never got around to a Dremel. Probably just as well. I do enough damage as it is....

Some great endeavour being shown here, keep it up Barry.

Beautiful aircraft and terrible kit!!!

You are doing a fantastic job on it, I wish there were more (and better!!) kits of this type of aircraft as I think they make an interesting and colorful collection.

I will follow your build with interest !

Cheers,
Eugenio

One more oops for those taking notes, the dorsal fin extension is about 10mm too short. That's just over 2 feet in 1/72.

Keep going, Barry.

If you insist.