Last year was disappointing for the known reasons and I didn’t get any models finished but I now have a pile of 9 ready to paint kits.

I’m going to do some more airbrush practice on Wednesday so maybe I will be able do some real painting this month.

In the meantime I  have dug out the PM Lippisch P13a kit. It’s a reasonably well known kit but not necessarily in a good way. It’s a simple kit in terms of parts count but otherwise has lots of fit issues and parts that are just too simple in their detail level.

There is a good review on Modelling Madness which summarises the issues well – canopy does not fit and the cockpit needs better details, intake needs  replacement with a metal tube as does the rocket at the rear, a blanking plate in the middle, the trolley wheels are too simple and shitty decals.

As I go along you’ll see what I have done.

This was after I sanded off the pebbly surface and removed the location tabs

Intake in after some Dremeling (RHS) and lots of Milliput .I’m going to keep the fin portion apart for a while until I fix up the cockpit and canopy area and then fit it.

I did find two diagrams of roughly what the cockpit area should look like at least.

The pilot sits up surprisingly high according to these diagrams.