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  1. 3 hours ago, cruiz said:

    Hello all, quick update.

     

    Here is a jig I made to help align the landing gear (please don't laugh too loud).

     

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    Those would be one of the last parts attached, and I want to get the best alignment I can.

     

    At this point, the main goal is to get them parallel; if there is a discrepancy in the height, I hope it would be small enough so I can compensate by tweaking the wheels.

     

    Thanks for watching.

     

    Carlos
     

    I am not going to laugh... Very nice trick Carlos😊

  2. Main gear legs

     

     

    Main Landing gear legs also needed a lot of work to make them resemble the real ones! I use the two metal ones for the main legs and the plastic one as i have to glue it on the resin and i need to put a pin inside to strengthen this point.

    Below you can see all the details added, some of them from Eduard exterior set!

     

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    Wheel wells

     

     I placed the rest of the resin and i improved the rear section as it was wrong and to add some but not a lot detail inside!! Also the decals on the wheel well doors are custom made from photoes taken from a real bird!

     

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    Hook

     

    Had to modify the trumpeter one from rectangular to cilindrical one, so i cut the front and rear sections, added a rod, epoxy putty and some sanding, modifying the ''horse shoe'' painted and weathered! Really happy with the outcome!

     

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    Wings

     

    Trumpeter gives you the option for folded wing but if you want not to use this option you need to strenghten the point where the two halves are glued together, the joint is very weak. Also i used long strips of a really straight plastic in order to be sure that i will glue them really straight. The wings have a big span and even the slightest curve will be real present on the final symmetry of them!!! I also placed thick strips of plastic where the holes for the weapons are, i will use metal pins to make the joint stronger so i needed something to bite on!

     

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    Weapons and pylons

     

    I will depict the aircraft as a Quick Reaction Aircraft for Attack Mission with 1 Aero1D external tank and 5 Mk-83 LDGB bombs. So i decided to deal with the weapons now as some details should be added to them. We used rear mechanical fuses for soft targets. So i needed to build 5 of them and try to place them on the bombs!! The external tank comes from a Hasegawa 1/32nd A-4!! The trumpeter ones are terrible!!

     

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    Finnaly i placed the wings on the fuselage, with minimum of work, nice job here from trumpeter. I masked everything and i am read to throw some paint onher as soon as possible!! As you can see i have glued the windshield on...took me some time to make it bahave its self!!!

     

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    Thanks for your time and patience, hope you like it!!

     

    John

     

  3. Good evening lads,

    Time to resurrect this topic once again!! :rolleyes:

    It will be a long post with sections, please excuse me for that, hope all the work and photoes to make you forget it!!

     

    Closing the fuselage

    Before that I had to install the M-61A Vulcan gun and add some detail on the rear area of the gun. I also painted all the details not accessible after closing the fuselage.

     

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    And i finally i closed the fuselage. Not an easy thing to do as i had to align everything, from the cockpit tub to the rear fuselage details to the intake and all the zacto details. Time consuming, a lot of dry fit before taking the decision to put glue on it, but thankfully everything went like a charm! Rear cone glued on without problems, and i spent some sanding periods to get the trumpeter plastic to behave itself!! i also glued on the canoe and the rear cone!

     

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    Canopy frames

     

    I changed some of the details of zacto canopy frames to the A-7H ones....

     

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    Wolfapack AIM-9P4 pylon and launcer

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    Engine area...

     

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     Nose gear leg

     

    A-7E Nose gear leg was different from the one used on -7H. I needed the -7D one and a fellow modeller was kind enough to provide me with one!! As you can see i shortened the ''V'' shape of it and i added a lot of details (steering mechanism, landing lights etc.) painted and weathered!

     

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  4. On 11/8/2020 at 2:17 AM, Slartibartfast said:

    Really, really nice job.  Spectacular result.  I never noticed the assymetric design of the vortex generators on the tail planes.  <Arte Johnson>Veddy interestink.</Arte Johnson>.

     

    On 11/8/2020 at 5:41 AM, Dutch said:

    Just gorgeous!  What a beauty!  

     

    Thank you very much for the kind words!!

     

    16 minutes ago, jgrease said:

    Really nice work - have one in the stash and you're making me want to build it!

     

    John

    Thanks John, you should, it is a very nice kit !! Few mistakes but nothing you cannot do!!!

     

    John

  5. Good evening guys,

     

    My last update on this beautifull bird. After finishing all the stenciling i sprayed a highly thinned future on the model and i started weathering her with wash first. After that i played with oils, raw unthinned, in order to capture some wear of the aluminium. Dont know if i really succeded!! Last i sprayed a light, again highly thinned, hand of xtracrylics satin varnish to seal everything. None of the future or xtraclylics seems to alter the finish of the metallics!! I had no luck to my tests with alclad varnish or the ak's gauzy agent!!

    Hope you like it!! It is my first try on NMF and i would really apppreciate any comments!! 

     

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  6. 1 minute ago, CaptainObvious said:

    Whoa. This is excellent work all around. 
    The cockpit is real nice. The metal finish is gorgeous!

    Dealing with decal carrier film is my biggest hesitation with doing bare metal schemes but there is not a hint of it anywhere. Absolutely flawless decal work.
    How did you manage that? 
    -co 

    Thank you very much. That was my major concern too. When i have wet tranfers i prefer themto everything else. Now i had dry transfers for the codes and letters and the very nice decals from revell. I trimmed as mush as i could the carrier film and i placed them with the help of the tamiya decal adhesive the softener type.!!

    To my surprise there was no silvering at all, of course i had made all the preparation to the model to achieve the best finish i could.

    I have now sprayed a very light film of highly diluted future on the model which seems to give a very nice seen and eliminate any silvering.

    I cross fingers for the future!! 

     

    John

  7. Good morning guys,

    Time to show some progress....

    After checking everything for imperfections i polished thoroughly the kit plastic.

    I decided to use Ak xtreme meta for thiw build and i also decided not to prime the model and to spray the color on the polished plastic. I think that, even if the photoes really dont show the real thing, the outcome is really nice.

     

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    Here i worked with the different shading of the metal. As Duncan a.k.a. ''Sabrejet'' has pointed out many times, this shading is due to the different way of threating aluminium panels. Hope i got it right somehow!!! Also i dealt with engine exhaust!

     

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    I masked and painted all the walk lines, antiglare and radar cone....

     

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    And finally i started with the codes, letters and decals. First the dry tranfers followed by the very nice revell decals!!

     

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    Thats all for now, hope you like it. I really look forward for your comments on my first bare metal try!!!

     

    John 

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