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Hey Marek, no need to apologize ...

These threads show us the builder's process, if that's how you do it, fine, I'm having fun riding along ...

So ... Thank You ... :salute:

Gregg

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O.K! My real stick has been very fantastic. I´v got 5 beautyfull and smart children.

The modeled stick is not so bad as in the pictures, I assure you. Some how the camera shows so much more you can see with your eyes. Aspecialy when you take a macro pictures :P :P

Are you just saying that because of my funny comment on LSP :wasntme:

Cheers

Neo

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Thank You Holmes, my friend for reminding me :whistle:

It is not like that that I was doing nothing. I just thout that I will be not boreing you guis with staf like that :thumbsup: :

So I was cuteing and theaning edges and clineing and doing saf like that.

Here are some pictures:

Cuted panels for opening gunbay, than thinting the edges:

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Then I opened the grill in the fuselage:

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My second ejektionseat is hallf done:

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Than I was doind small modiffications, like this one:

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The plate behind the second seat.

Than I was drowing pictures of instruments faces fot the cockpit and trying to get tham in the right scale:

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So :crying2: I´m so sorry that I´m building my Tomcat so slowly but that is the only way for me to be modeling at all. :soapbox: Please stay with me any way! :nanner:

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Thanks for the additional photos Marek.

... So :crying2: I´m so sorry that I´m building my Tomcat so slowly but that is the only way for me to be modeling at all. :soapbox: Please stay with me any way! :thumbsup:

I'll be here to watch your progress. :wave:

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Thank You Holmes, my friend for reminding me :

: I´m so sorry that I´m building my Tomcat so slowly but that is the only way for me to be modeling at all. :yahoo: Please stay with me any way! :yahoo:

Mareku,

YOU have come a long way from the start and slow but steady wins the race

.... and this is one AMAZING build now that you have gotten this far.. :banana::nanner:

The build is taking shape , and there is NO WAY I am going anywhere without seeing this to he very end...

GOOD work on the gun bay, and the ejection seat, IT will be just as AWESOME As the other seat that you made earlier..

WAY TO GO Mareku.... WE are rooting for you.. :yahoo:

HOLMES

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O.K.Small update.

Clining, cuting and converting first weell weill:

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And then, my first etempt to make instrument bored gauge:

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with the small light aply it looks even beter:

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That is all for know. Thank you for watching.

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Lovely details on the gauges! If I may come with a tip....

use a sharp needle or awl and make small indentations for the screws in the corners of the instrument face and then apply a white wash.

You´re doing a wonderful work on that big *** Tomcat! (figured where you´ll put it when it´s done yet?)

Cheers!

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Mareku,

Just outstanding work and a source of inspiration as I am working on one of these monsters as we speak. Keep it up!

Aigore sounds like your tip is something I did on a 1/18th F-86 Sabre cockpit. (One of my many unfinished projects)... After cutting out the bezel I used a dull needle point from the back and made a depression that when the front is painted and dry brushed looks like the typical screws that hold these things in. Is this something like you had in mind?

By the way Mareku your ejection seats are the best I have seen in awhile. Really amazing.

Regards,

Mike

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Mareku,

Just outstanding work and a source of inspiration as I am working on one of these monsters as we speak. Keep it up!

Aigore sounds like your tip is something I did on a 1/18th F-86 Sabre cockpit. (One of my many unfinished projects)... After cutting out the bezel I used a dull needle point from the back and made a depression that when the front is painted and dry brushed looks like the typical screws that hold these things in. I this something like you had in mind?

Mike

Aha...you got it one step further,Mike. I just thought to make a mark and fill it with a wash ;) ....your way is way smarter and looks better! ;)

Mareku, ignore my tip and go for Mikes idea! :cheers:

Cheers!

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Thank you guis very much.

Very nice suggestions on makeing screws on the bezels. I will experyment with bouth and I have an idea of my own.

Mike, your F 86 Sabres intrument panel looks so fantastic! How did you get thows instruments faces look so sharp!?

Glad that you like my ejection seat :)

Jamal, thanx for the sugestion but I will not make thows control surfices to be moveble. To much is to much, you know.

Works continuou and I update as soon as I will have something new.

Greatings to all

Marek

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