mario krijan Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 (edited) Cheers! My first in progress here on ARC! (picture copyright Airliners. net; Ralph Duenas; Thanks!) it would beblue 10 , for which I will use Hasegawa kit and i Afterburner decals; ACMI pod and LAU 129 launchers from Hasegawa weapons set V. Maybe I will add EltaIAI 8222 ECM Pod, and AN/ALQ-188 Jamming pod... Why those decals, they are, with kit, cheaper than Hasegawa aggressor package, and decals are far better than Hasegawas from box. after all i can made another one with different colors From box kit looks very nice! Edited January 4, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 (edited) cockpit is painted, firstly with gunze black acril paint, than after with enamel gray, and after drying i remove gray with cotton swab dipped in enamel thinner! it looks little messy, but rather looks like cockpit from aircraft which is in use 30 years! Cockpit would be closed, so i didnt pay atention on those details,after pilot seat. i am to lazy to mix blue-green metallic paint... ;) Edited January 30, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 4, 2010 Author Share Posted January 4, 2010 (edited) Intakes are such nightmare, great amount of kit usage, and after all it goes nicely! On plane there will go pair of tanks, which I sanded, and re-scribed, i didn't find effective way to re-scribe rounded panel of such small reservoir! In the end, nightmare: wheels are wrongly aligned (two half's are missanligned, by 0,5 mm) , so it would need great amount of work to looks rounded :evil: Did someone know for some aftermarket wheels? Comments, questions are welcome! Thanks for watching! Cheers, Mario. Edited January 4, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragan_mig31 Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 :wub: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Middleton Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Mario - looks really good - looking forward to more i am to lazy to mix blue-green metallic paint... the Bay 5 area would be white on this jet Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne S Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) Nice, Little build tip in-case you build another or others do. The nose section to fuselage joint, is easier to work on, if you leave the intakes off, until that joint is cleaned up. Edited January 5, 2010 by Wayne S Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 (edited) Mario - looks really good - looking forward to morethe Bay 5 area would be white on this jet Thanks for info! I saw 2 or 3 pictures, and on all are blue green! I will paint in white! Do you have picture maybe? many Thanks! Nice, Little build tip in-case you build another or others do. The nose section to fuselage joint, is easier to work on, if you leave the intakes off, until that joint is cleaned up. I didnt notice that, i follow kit instructions! now it will be hard way to get it right! Thanks for the tip! Edited January 5, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne S Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Thanks for info! I saw 2 or 3 pictures, and on all are blue green! I will paint in white! Do you have picture maybe? many Thanks! Pretty much any C model with a FY (Serial Number) around 80 will have a White Bay behind the pilot. I didnt notice that, i follow kit instructions! now it will be hard way to get it right! Thanks for the tip! Just make sure you keep a smile, while working it. That area has always been an annoyance to me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 Thanks Wayne! I will follow picture that i find in walk around book, and I will go with opened cockpit, if everything goes right! Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hoops Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 You've got to be, like, one of the five people that bought that decal sheet! Bwahahaha! Seriously though, should be a good project, and it already looks like your off to a good start. Hoops Quote Link to post Share on other sites
UKPonchoMan Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hey - I've got 2 and my friend mig23 has already built one each of the brown and blue a/c (can't remember which tailcodes though...) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 You've got to be, like, one of the five people that bought that decal sheet! Bwahahaha!Seriously though, should be a good project, and it already looks like your off to a good start. Hoops Thanks Hoops! although kit needs much putty, works going very nice! Hey - I've got 2 and my friend mig23 has already built one each of the brown and blue a/c (can't remember which tailcodes though...) Decals are great, i really enjoyed when watching some guys here on ARC building these machines, so i decided to buy them Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) Hello everybody! here is some new progress: bay 5 painted , in white, washed with enamel wash, and little post shaded with silver pencil. After all cockpit will be opened (thanks to Ken and Wayne ;) ) cockpit is sprayed with Gunze mat cote: I now realized that is seam line on control stick Washed wheel bays, sanded joints between intakes and body, and pre-shaded metal area over engines, i didn't want to trow paint away After consulting pictures, I discover that antennas on real blue 10 and kit antennas are on different places, I cut them all, I will scratch them later! Also HUD carrier will be scratched later! Thanks for watching! Edited January 7, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Middleton Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Looks good Mario! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 Thanks Ken! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Great progress mario Don´t worry about the seam on the control stick... I sure didn´t notice it! Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 Great progress mario Don´t worry about the seam on the control stick... I sure didn´t notice it! Cheers! Thanks my friend! camera scaled up, so it is not visible to much when you looking! Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wayne S Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Looking good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 Hell to all! Here is little more progress on intakes, they are really nightmare, but i thnk that in the end would be nice. First i get white color then i will masked it , and glued upper half of fuselage, and nose Joint in thw middle of wings is glued sanded, now i will re scribe them! Thanks for watching!! :wink: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 here is some some styrene plates for joint nose - body Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 30, 2010 Author Share Posted January 30, 2010 last update for today: nose - body joint: assembled exhaust nozzles they are such s... to assemble :D Look from above: Cheers, and thanks for watching! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Middleton Posted January 30, 2010 Share Posted January 30, 2010 looks good Mario - smart using styrene plates for the forward fuselage joint. I do that as well. And yes, those nozzles can be very tricky to assemble, and keep round. Yours look good Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted January 31, 2010 Author Share Posted January 31, 2010 Thanks Ken! After I saw one Revell F-15E broken on same place, i decided to go with styrene plates! Yes after I assembled nozzles they don't look that bad, but it is hard to get real circle. I put inside pencil and try tho push petals around pencil, but is tricky... after painting they would be very nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 (edited) hello everybody! Every joint on this kit needs great amount of putty and lots of sanding, but after all can be nicely done! right side, especially will be problem gun intake seam inside of it: Left side needs much more putty (misaligned intake and other two body parts), and other places: Edited February 8, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mario krijan Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share Posted February 8, 2010 (edited) After sanding: Those pictures are just for probe how it will looks like in near future (i am hoping so): vertical fins are misplaced purposely! :-P Comments, questions are welcome! Thanks for watching! 8) Edited February 8, 2010 by mario krijan Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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