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The boarding ladders were scratch built completely from a styrene and a few metal pieces. I was planning to use the Verlinden steps as opposed to the Eduard set mainly because you get two step assemblies and i liked the size better. I wasn't crazy about super gluing the Verlinden steps as i felt the glue would leave behind residue that is visible once dried on the metal. This of course we could not have and therefore I decided to make them out of styrene and use liquid cement to glue everything together.I will say u have to be very careful with liquid cement, especially when working with .005"

A little out of sequence but here is another pic showing how the mold line has been change.

Here is another view of the right side showing a few other details. The right side you see here was one of the first things i started on this model and has now been in this stage for quite some time while i worked on other stuff. I recently completed the left side intake and realized when i first started to work on it that i had Gotten into some real trouble.Since it had been a long while since i had finished the right side and had built up a lot of the surrounding structure, it was now practically impossible for me to measure the angles, up and down and side to side that i had sanded onto tha

Here is another view of the same intake showing the backside. You can also see where i grafted styrene to the forward section as it came warped when new.

here is one of the intakes showing the modification i made to the mold line on the upper side. I used Tamiya putty to re-contour this line as i felt it slopes too much compared to what i have seen in pics. the other issue i encountered was when i re-scribed the rather soft panel lines. For some reason, the white resin does not take to re-scribing as smoothly as the yellow type. it felt rather grainy and proved to be difficult to get a smooth line. Who knows, maybe it was just an issue with my set.

Thanks for the kind words guys. I'm definately no model god, just another modeler like the rest of you guys. What this type of modeling does require is an enormous amount of research time and the willingness to follow thru with the build. One of the drawbacks to this type of modeling is burnout, as completion does not come swift and for me, completion is the ultimate joy of the entire build process. I'll post more later today.

Had to scratch build an engine bay door for the right side.Used a door from a spare kit to make a mold onto which i formed hot styrene sheet to make the new door.

Here is what it looks like almost finished.

Here is a pic showing the beginning of the engine installation.The cutting edge intake had to be sawed off where the trunk meets the forward part of the intake,sanded at an angle and re-glued as the engine was originally coming in contact with part of the interior fuselage.

Toadwbg, that is a nice build. I had already seen it before and was hoping to go with the same markings but I'm buildind a composite winged bird. No need 2 feel inadequate, u have a great build. I choose to super detail but doing so takes a lot of time. At least you are almost done, I'm nowhere close. I've been on this project now for a few years on and off and now being married with kids I don't have a lot of time so this build should be ready in about 10 years.

It's the monogram part just modified. Tha damper was simply modified to fit snugly and then super glued in place. I'll post more pics today but I will appologize in advance as this build wasn't intended to be a posted project and therfore I don't have a lot of pics. I also don't build in the traditional way like following the instructions sheets step by step and therfore you'll see pics of completed weapons and pylons yet the cockpit hasn't even been started.

Here is the first pic of a project i started a few years ago and just cant seem to finish. Will post more when i can.