Lindberg's Pogo - the Fifties are now!

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October 5, 2020
Cockpit scratch work and an oil cooler unit added
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October 5, 2020
Interior painted in interior yellow
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October 5, 2020
Instrument panel, drybrushed
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October 5, 2020
Fit of the parts is generally good, but the engraved lines don't match. Worst part are the air intakes.
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October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020
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October 5, 2020
... after cutting the lower stabilizer tip end
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January 22, 2021
Insignias airbrushed. Now to the plotter to do the NAVY masks 🙂
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March 22, 2021
Plotter Test with normal Paper...
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March 22, 2021
... and the final mask.
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March 24, 2021
Attached bare metal foil (Chrome) tho the dampers of the L/G.
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March 24, 2021
Wheels installed
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March 30, 2021

Comments

13 5 October 2020, 08:09

Thomas Bischoff
looks like a space saver on the shelf 🙂
Nice one!

23 October 2020, 19:38

Nathan Dempsey
Great work!

22 January 2021, 19:14

gorby
Very nice work.

22 March 2021, 16:08

Treehugger
Can't go wrong with silver imo. Looks so nice in natural sunlight.

23 March 2021, 09:06

Album info

What to do with a kit, when it's molds were from the Fifties? And no successor in 1:48 is present?
I decided to do some scratchwork in the cockpit and the exhaust. It serves as a testbed for the Vallejo Metal Color and for the US-Insignias to be airbrushed also.

Convair XFY-1 Pogo

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