MPM P-63 Kingcobra

[Second Air Force]

Having the old Atkins vacuform handy has helped with fitting of the canopy parts! Atkins provided a very nice set of drawings with their instructions and I used these, and the Monogram Airacobra, to achieve the proper angle of the forward transparency. This isn't the greatest fit in the world and took quite a lot of trial-fitting to finally get a good shape and fit:

MPM P-63 Kingcobra

Still some slight adjustments will be required, but only after the fuselage is glued together and seams filled.

[No.1]

Excellent transparency just take care of super glue evaporation

[Jicehem]

Hello,

Nice progress.
The P-39 is also very interesting and Monogram's one is (seems to me) good enough to be built into an amazing finished kit. I have one in... French markings, indeed ! But another one in US markings too.
My P-39N Airacobra is here :
http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/makete-aviona-aircraft-modeling/bell-p-39n-airacobra/new/#new

Jicehem

[Akinator98]

Excellent!

[modellius]

Excellent!

[Second Air Force]

Fuselage halves together and filler applied:

MPM P-63 Kingcobra

[No.1]

And Eduard sponge served perfectly as work stand

[draken35]

Nice!

[Second Air Force]

Here is the "finished product" when it comes to enlarging the forward bulkhead to the correct diameter. Earlier I showed the shims that spread the fuselage slightly to match the Eduard spinner, and here is the vertical filler I made to finish the process. Simply glued a bit of styrene sheet to the bottom of the fuselage and everything is now the correct scale dimension:

MPM P-63 Kingcobra

Then the wings were added to both to continue these parallel builds:

MPM P-63 Kingcobra

[No.1]

You fit it good, nice work

[draken35]

[Second Air Force]

You may think these have been put back on the shelf, but there is small progress still! The canopy for the P-63 was finally fitted permanently and green framing color applied. Strange, but Bell Aircraft used a dark green on the landing gear struts on many Airacobras and Kingcobras. I've used the SAC landing gear upgrade set for the Eduard P-39 for this project. Also, a small tip was found (made from the end of a Luftwaffe 50 kg bomb) for the prop spinner. The machine I'm building was unarmed and used for B-29 gunnery training:

MPM P-63 Kingcobra

[draken35]

Little but nice progress, Scott!

[No.1]

Excellent tunning

[Second Air Force]

Thanks, friends. Fitting the canopy was something I was not looking forward to so this kept getting pushed to the back of the workbench.