Great Wall Hobby's 1/48 scale
P-61A Black Widow

by Thomas Schneider

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Here is my 1/48 scale Black Widow (Olive Drab Widow) :

Type: Northrop P-61 A Black Widow "Glass Nose" L4806

Manufacturer: Great Wall Hobby

Scale: 1:48

Example: P-61 A-1 Version, Manufactory No. 753, Serial 25527

Unit of the displayed plane: 7th Air Force, 6th Night Fighter Squadron.

Displayed scene: (Maybe) Isle Field (Saipan) 1944/45

Additional kits:

Tamiya, US Cargo Truck (GMC353) No. 32548
CMK, GMC353 Airfield Fuel Tank, Conversion Set 8028
CMK, US Fuel Trailer Type A-3, Full Resin Kit 8031
Signifer, Electricity Generator US WW2, SN48002
Eduard, Allied Airfield with PSP cover No. 48004
Preiser, Palm Trees 18600

Additional upgrades:

Eduard 49590 (front interior), 48726 (exterior) and some parts from FE590. Antennas (QuickBoost 48453), Resin Tires (Eduard 648057) and a Propeller-Set (TrueDetails 48547) were also used.

 

Additional details:

A lot of scale-kit spare parts, Preiser Coco-Palms an some things I found in my Garage.

Painting and marking:

All work were done with several Tamiya- and Gunze-Acrylics. Washing´s from AK-Interactive, Pigments and Powder from MIG were also used.

I got some problems by using the original GWH-Decals. They are not thin enough to apply acceptable over the Eduard etched parts. So I used a nice decal set from Super Scale Int. It fits!

Diorama:

The idea to build a diorama was born in one of the first building phases. During several photo-research by internet, magazines and books, over and over again I saw the same refueling-scene.

 

 

To realize this I built a fitting base using plywood which is framed by self made strips of beech wood.
Quite different from any other dioramas I made, I decide to use a background picture. The Internet and a poster-service do the rest.

Figures:

For building the figures parts from Preiser, ICM and Tamiya have been used out of the box respectively they have been combined.

References:

· P-61 Black Widow in action / Squadron/Signal Publication No.106
· Aircraft-Magazine Issue 53 (Aerospace Publishing 1993)
· Internet

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Model, Images and Text Copyright © 2013 by Thomas Schneider
Page Created 6 September, 2013
Last Updated 6 September, 2013

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