Curtiss XP-87

Robert Podkoński
Great job!

Ekki
Excellent work.

Dave Burgess Szerző
Thank you! I'm quite pleased with this one, particularly with the canopy fit and frame painting. The canopy was vacuform, which is quite often difficult to fit, and the frame is usually not very well defined. Fortunately this one fit reasonably well. As for the frame, I did it in two stages. First, I created a canopy frame out of masking tape using what I could see of the frame by holding it close to my lamp. With the frame mask in place, I then masked the 'glass' between the frame before peeling the frame mask off. Looks like I nailed it 'cause the frame looks brilliant! Then I used Micro metal foil adhesive to tack the canopy to the model, filled in any gaps with a couple of coats of white glue, and once it had cured, went over the glue with a fine brush and a bit of gloss black. Then a coat of Pledge over the canopy and I have really clear canopy I can actually see through!