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Good loving this! I'm currently building 2 in 1/48 and 2 in 1/32.. Already completed a 1/48 2 years ago.. What will I do without aftermarket to save me time and painstaking effort. Will be getting a bunch of the 48s, and 32 if you release them.. Also, I believe Mark@ Gb_Madcat_Sl has shown you some good reference pictures. Take a note of the production serial code decal at the air intake. That needs some fine printing as well.
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Finished painting Now for the details of the Sg parts that so many of you like.. Tigereye pylon and sniper he additional intake scoop tailplanes masked with yellow and black checkers underneath.. wing pylons with the lau 129 pylons from drpepper resin
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The tail blips made using aluminium foil and trick epoxy sanding the small intake scoop along the side Of course, extending all 6 CFT pylons with the inner spars. This one takes some magic guts of placard and epoxy, I've casted 1 set for my next 1/32 SG.. primed and preshading
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well, time for some real updates... Scratchbuilt lots of Sg- relevant portions over the months.. its all coming together.. Modded the tail with raw epoxy and muscle used the 1/48 tigereye as reference for a upscaled 1/32 version
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A hive of F-18E/F Super Hornets in various scales
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A hive of F-18E/F Super Hornets in various scales
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another 1 to add to the swarm. this one is my first single seater from hasegawa in 1.72nd. box kit is assembled, puttied on the seams after quick sanding down(not shown for boring), i sprayed the grey blues. black skunk stripe on spine was masked off some light weathering achieve using lighter shades of main colour -
and primed! the curious reinforment plates around the rio's crew ladder didnt exist until late production A, B and Ds. need to check references and sand off the numerous atennae - the tallest 1 the tacan should be removed, as only the Ds and Bs had them. If u are making a A. glove pylons went on without hitch, and showing the main carraige bay detail front is sanded and primed
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quick assemble the fuselage with no major issues the nose gear doors are moulded in open postion.. ease of assembly, but tricky for painting and masking cockpit is well furnished with details and decals then the usual mayday of fit seams comes underside of wing has a long seam bcos of 2 part assembly exhaust area is lacking indetails and fit clean up the nose area step wing fences have some excess before the primer!
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some sprue shots carapace fuselage BOL rails on a f-14a kit?! great! extras for my fleet of Ds close up of instrument panels and the D ecms weapons sprues f-14A specific sprues and exhausts
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the low viz 102 retirement paired with the hi viz retirment bird 100-103 Also, started on number 35th, the hobbyboss kit. which since being new, warrants her own thread.
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up up and away!! painting has been done some decalling cag bird tail recieved the 'just win' from revell kit, on top of the hasegawa cdr101
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thanks guys for comments! I have not updated this thread for a long time.. here are some. when i was converting the kit, the 2 seater had not yet come. Oh well, since the Sufa was released, and with the 2nd spare canopy, i ditched the vacform method. Scratchbuilding the cockpit also became very easy. Hence, now i will build 2 twoseaters instead of just 1.. Here are the 2 kits, taken out. Both will be converted to RSAF machines, Blk52D+ and blk52D. 140 and 145 squadron. IE- a longtail spineback and a singaporean 'Sufa' all the missile bombs had been assembled, a few of them going over to
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My goodness its been 3 years already that has gone by, so much modelling in between those years and I'm back in familiar cat land! Last I left the GB, was building 2 vf-31 wing forward and a vf-2 beat army jet. took them out and dusted them off to prepare for the road to completion after so long. in addition, while they may be number 29, 30,31, it seems another has jumped the number train and finished earlier. This is the Revell final flight, complete with WIP video, and an epic last 1 minute showing the 30tomcats in the stash then. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.yout
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The revell kit is also taking shape at a fast pace. Major probelms i met were the fitting of the front fuselage to the main wings joint area. The step was duly filled by epoxy and sanded down. Also, the prominent mould ridges and seams along the front had to go! thts all the updates. probably have more over the weekend, stay tuned
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Have sanded down the intakes, refilled seams, sanded down again, for 3 weeks! Every putty in the book save for superglue. I put a foundation of epoxy putty. Then tamiya white putty. Then thickened Mr Surfacer. In between each session is a cursed sanding round.. the forward fuselage is also assembled and sanded filled up the seams of the ldg bay doors with liquid putty one's time waste not!! Using rubber mould I casted 24 pieces of the GE-110 exhaust nozzles, using the Academy F-16 Sufa kit.
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back up on the workbench after a long hiatus away from the forums and modelling.. here is some updates! here is the tamiya kit so far internal exhaust sections in various stages nad this is the Revell casted a whole sniper xr pod with my silicon rubber mould. and copied the tamiya cft pylons, twice.. this epic pieces are almost 20cm long!
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updated thread. Added the last touch ups, and put up missile loads. python4s from skunkmodel israel weapon set amraams fins are cut off and put in a imaginary semi recessed in the cft boat housing :) Whats the air-to ground ordance going to be like? Till the next update!
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finally made the wing fences and attached them to the wing. Hobbyboss PE parts are made from some hard metal material that is difficult to cut through with a normal knife, leaving some stubs that need to eb sanded off with a metal file. clear lights done cockpit decals glossed And while I'm at it, had some fun with the 72nd Emhar demon! rough panel lines a bare landing gear bay shape of the vertical tail is also different, HB is rounder, emhar is squared off thats all the updates, hope Hobbyboss will release a 72nd one to please the gentlemen's scale folks out there. T
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great collection and display. All the best at the Nats and may the cats be safe enroute.
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Viper Vendetta -Every nation operator F-16 GB update 22/7
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well let me know what these 3 AOA look like? angle of attack pitots you mean? I could scratchbuild them while waiting for paint or decals to dry off.. :) -
and the camouflage is sprayed! at least the topside jungle camos.. hoodoo a voodoo? primer coat over the gloss black for a better grip for the lacquer paints f-106 sprayed in gull grey printed a ref sheet from cybermodellers reference section and to show the paint booth at the moment
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After a round or 2 of sanding down the putty, prime surfacer coating, preshading, I am ready for colours. i edited the nose of the 101 - using the matchbox kit supplied camera nose to make a rf-101b out of the old canadian ef-101 f-102 sanded down. omg. f-104 was a breeze the duece was tough to tame standby for some t-114 loving
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Hi all, just to introduce another of my ongoing GBs. Me and my father were crazy about century series in the last decade. i think i finished my first set in 2004/5. he finished his way back in the 70s.. these were how they are stored currently before the GB.. the first set.. hiviz bright shining BMF silver finish, in the days before i knew of alclad and polsihing, everything was done in gunze silver and model master chrome. an assorted '2nd set' was accumalated, but i have a itchy hand to build all my 2nd set in vietnam era camoflage.. hence the all black canadian one 0h wonder has to g
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1/48 F-15 GB part 5 - Tamiya Streak Eagle started
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well well well. Part 5 of this GB is here. This time, its the venerable tamiya kit. And the markings, the famous and notoriously difficult to do, bare metal chrome Streak eagle scheme. ] from the old kit, i filled up the gun vents, closed the landing gear doors for an inflight pose, and filled up the pylon attachment points the intake area was fa*&ed up and needed lots of putty and sanding smooth after much smoothing down, i primed it in mr surfacer and then with tamiya gloss black for a smooth shiny surface for the BMF to adhere to. -
Viper Vendetta -Every nation operator F-16 GB update 22/7
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and the weapons are mounted.. albeit not as i intended. The harms came from the tamiya kit and went back onto the tamiya f-16E which i converted. Along with it a cast piece of the recce pod pylon. the harpoons go on the F. Leaving 2 inner pylons empty. prob leave as it is, as not enough clearance for other heavy weapons well, so much for the 13th and last 1/48th f-16 in the stash..Pretty uneventful. Now lets get back to that pesky black knight one shall we?