Piper NE-1 Cub

by Randy Lutz

 Hobbycraft's 1/48 scale Piper J-3 Cub is available online from Squadron.com

Here is my Hobbycraft 1/48 scale Piper Cub.

A special thanks goes to Dr. Charles Metz for providing info on this particular scheme and David Loughhead for supplying the decals.

The model is finished in the markings of a Piper NE-1 Cub of Airship Squadron 32, while based at Moffett Field, California in October, 1942.

Modifications to the Hobby Craft kit consist of the following:

Cockpit

• new floor with kick plates made from sheet styrene

• interior cockpit door scribed

• photo-etched seatbelts, throttle quadrants rudder pedals and
  instrument panel added

Fuselage

• boarding step made from piano wire

• fuel line drain added

• exhaust pipe and heater outlet made from plastic tubing

• teardrop shaped blisters added to lower engine cowl

• engine cowling drilled out to allow exhaust pipes to enter sides

• fuel filler cap/fuel level gauge added

• rudder control linkage added

• tailplane guy wires added

• round inspection panels added to rear and underside of fuselage

• lifting handles made

• springs added to tail wheel

• brake lines added

Wings

• aileron control linkage added

• reduced the exaggerated wing rib detail

• round inspection panels added to underside of wings

• pitot tube made from piano wire

• navigation lights added

My Cub was painted with Xtracolor X162 USN Blue/Grey M-485 (FS15189) and X137 Light Gull Grey (FS16440).

Decals are from Propagteam set numberPPT01648

• Piper Cubs, by McGraw- Hill/TAB Books

• Samolot Piper L-4 Cub, Skrzydla w miniaturze 1'91

• Aircraft Archive - Classics of World War II,Motorbooks International, Osceola, Wisconsin.

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Review and Images Copyright © 2002 by Randy Lutz
Page Created 19 April, 2002
Last updated 04 June, 2007

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