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5 November, 20:40

bughunter
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WIP of a blue-yellow biplane

New: 5 November, 19:53

1:48

Part of the PE set is a drilling template, to create spacers from 1.0mm thick material. But I found 1mm too thick and us...

Project: Stearman PT-17 Kaydet

1:48 Stearman PT-17 Kaydet (Revell 03957)

1:48 Boeing Stearman PT-17 (HGW Models 148549)

28 31 October, 18:27

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course!

31 October, 18:45

bughunter
Welcome Robert! Which one you want to take, the yellow or a green one? 😉

Please do not miss the project description, for the _VERY_ important reason for this project!

31 October, 18:55

Robert Podkoński
👍 A green one, please 🙂

31 October, 20:06

Marcel Klemmer
Hi Frank, I am in and do not need a seat. 😉

31 October, 22:22

Ludvík Kružík
I'll sit down too. If I'm not mistaken, one green seat is still open. 😉

31 October, 22:40

Spanjaard
I am certainly in

31 October, 22:58

Martin Oostrom
Green two for me

1 November, 09:05

David H
Be rude not to join in. 👍🏻

1 November, 09:25

gorby
I'll join the audience as well. 🙂

1 November, 10:34

bughunter
Hello my friends! A warm welcome to each and every one of you!

Working on the parts of this kit can be considered bodily harm! The bright yellow hurts your eyes and you can't see any details or damaged areas that need work. I would have preferred a more common gray!

1 November, 16:49

Michael Kohl
Moin Frank. Nimmst mich mit?

1 November, 18:06

bughunter
Aber sicher doch, wenn Du eine wilde Fahrt aushälst 😉

1 November, 18:13

Kenneth
Hallo Frank, the set with lap belts only could be intended for the US Navy variant of the Stearman, the N2S. Until US entry in WW2, US Navy aircraft mostly did not have shoulder belts. I read this in a review of a 1/32 Vought Kingfisher while looking for seatbelts and wondering about the same thing for my 1/32 Revell/ICM N2S Stearman kit.

2 November, 08:55

Juergen Klinglhuber
Schau ich mir auch an,...

2 November, 15:40

bughunter
Welcome! Thanks Kenneth! That makes sense, as the kit offers also a yellow Navy plane with red stripes. Luckily my wife want it blue-yellow. All the pictures I found shows also shoulder belts, but that was mostly still flying machines and I guess the shoulder belts was added later.
I had already downloaded the ICM manual as an additional reference and looked at reviews because of an oddity on the upper wing. More on this later.

2 November, 16:24

bughunter
Because I was still in soldering mode after the seats, I immediately turned my attention to the tank on the upper wing. I like the look of the metal fuel tank now.

2 November, 19:49

Robert Podkoński
Perhaps you will find my photos useful for your build:
Hangar 10 | Album by podkon

2 November, 21:31

bughunter
Yes, definitely 👍 Thanks!

2 November, 21:56

bughunter
Found a nice page: stearman-aero.com/

3 November, 13:42

bughunter
The wing is yellow again, but now the look is better!
I used here MRP-142 Orange Yellow. If someone remembers my Piper: the yellow was "Dark Chrome Yellow" also from MRP. Even this one here called "Orange Yellow" it looks more yellow compared to the Piper.

3 November, 18:47

Ben M
👀

3 November, 19:31

Alec K
I was just wondering where the heck is Bughunter, and here he is! Lovely progress and topic, following of course 👍

4 November, 03:57

bughunter
Welcome Ben and Alec!
The lower wing is now also painted yellow. I only not sure about the blue. I want to go with the darker later blue, tried AK Pure Blue, but I will also try others.

4 November, 11:52

Jakub Fiala
Nice work on this interesting type of aircraft so far 👍 Following for sure!

4 November, 14:33

Ben M
Love these old trainers. They used to show up at airshows a lot when I was a kid.

4 November, 17:20

Greg Baker
Sign me up!

4 November, 17:59

Zbynek Honzik
A joy and pleasure to follow such a project! 👍

4 November, 19:24

Christoph Kunz
Ui, da habe ich den Start ja irgendwie verpennt. 🙁
Aber jetzt bin ich dabei.

4 November, 19:47

Kenneth
Noch was, je nach dem, was das Vorbild ist: Part 71 in Point 4 of the instructions is in my opinion not correct for a WW2-era Stearman. Such a box typically houses a radio, intercom, transponder etc. on modern, restored examples

5 November, 07:12

David Taylor
Watching.

5 November, 10:27

bughunter
In the spirit of "Piano man": the regular crowd shuffled in ...
Welcome!
Oh, can someone wake up Kyle? 😉

5 November, 12:33

Juergen Klinglhuber
Kyle! - come on, you will miss a good portion of the show and have to put the stool again in the back... 😉 Just kidding. It is never to late for a bughunter-show

5 November, 17:26

bughunter
Kenneth, thanks for the hint! Interestingly the Eduard manual of the PE set here on SM told me to remove the mount points for this part 71. After that hint I checked some pictures of original machines and found the modern equipment. So thanks for the confirmation! After my PE set arrived I found out the remove of that mount points is missing in my paper version! Luckily I have checked the corrected online version first.

I would like to build a original equipped plane, but this is somehow limited. I have only the kit decals for a US Army plane "136" dated 1941. There is no serial number mentioned. I have not found photos of that plane yet. So I will build it according the information I have, with "educated guesses" on some points. Later more.

5 November, 19:27

bughunter
I made the instrument panels. May be you know the Eduard sandwich method of multiple PE parts? Here we have a special thing!

5 November, 20:07

Kenneth
Fuselage innner side colours are also totally wrong in the instructions (overall aluminium). See flugzeugforum.de/thr...103126/post-3062086 where I posted some thoughts about this.

5 November, 20:40

PlasticWolf
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