Kittyhawk 1/32 Vought OS2U Kingfisher by Neal Campbell

Kittyhawk 1/32 scale
Vought OS2U Kingfisher

by Neal Campbell

Vought OS2U Kingfisher

Description

I would like to submit my recent build the Kittyhawk 1/32 scale Vought OS2U Kingfisher.

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This is a very nice kit that requires pre planning, careful review of instructions as well as research material.

Built out of the box with the exception of Kits World 1/32 3D printed seatbelts and Eduard canopy masks. Some modifications were armor plating around the rear .30 caliber machine gun- made with sheet styrene per drawings in the Dana Bell book on the OS2U. Also, later war Kingfishers had what appears to be shipboard modifications in the form of extra bracing on the wing floats. These were made with steel wire. Painted entirely with Tamiya acrylic aircraft rattle can paints!

I would like to give a shout out to Squadron.com and their excellent customer service. During the build I ruined one of the greenhouse canopy sections. I emailed and they responded promptly and mailed out a new clear sprue free of charge!

Painted as flown by my cousin Lt JG Edwin Diersing off of the battleship - USS Pennsylvania Sept 1944-Nov 1944. Edwin was my childhood hero. As a young boy hearing his stories as a shipboard floatplane pilot in the South Pacific, led me on the path to becoming a seaplane pilot myself!

You can see a picture of him in the actual aircraft above the model and I have attached a few more interesting pictures.

I’m a commercial seaplane pilot and flight instructor. Seaplanes have a special place in my heart!

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