parche Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 Well, since others are doing a great job showing the pitfalls and extra love needed on the ICM kit, I'll leave mine in the stash for a bit and go old school... As some of you know this isn't the first time I am tackling this kit, so hopefully it won't take the 2428 days of The Indian Foxbat I have all of the homemade resin replacements for the cockpit, exhausts, wheel wells, etc. that I used last time all ready to go. There will be some differences with this one, but I won't tell you what version until later. It will have red stars on it though. I, of course, have decided to start doing this while in the middle of a bunch of other builds, but, here goes anyway. The box... Pesky wheel wells out...and starting the removal of the fuselage plug... Plug out... I decided to fix the wing chord problem based on the recommendation Sergey (Kasatka) made last time. In the previous build, I chopped off the leading edges and reshaped. Sergey proposed cutting in the middle to save the time and effort of reshaping, so that is what I did. Fist, measured and marked, used a mini-dremel with a cutting disc to cut through each end of thick plastic, scored the inside of the wings with and exacto and just snapped out the unwanted part. Here is a shot that I thought might be interesting. On the second wing, when I bent it and snapped the score line, there were strings of plastic inside the wing. Not something I had seen before. All for now. Cheers, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lancer512 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Looks like major surgery. I like that! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
crackerjazz Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Grabbing a seat! :) I've always been fascinated about the Foxbat ever since reading John Barron's Final Escape of Lt. Belenko. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Wow, another epic journey....well I'm on board for the ride:D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
janman Posted February 12, 2017 Share Posted February 12, 2017 Count me in! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAGeezer Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 THIS time I'll be able to follow from the beginning! My Foxbat has been lurking, stalled out.... Must - finish - short - wing - Marauder - first! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parche Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 So the main wheel wells are in place, and I am just cleaning up all the gaps. I had also made all the cuts on the wings, so that each wing is currently in SIX pieces. Hopefully I can get a good push tomorrow and get the aft end of the fuselage attached to the center section. I want to also try to get the wings each back into a single piece. Cheers, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parche Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Some more progress. I have the wings together now. Just need to clean up the seams and then sand off the raised detail and re-scribe. After the center sections were cut out, then I glued the leading edge pieces together and the trailing edge pieces together. This picture shows the four pieces combined into two. You can also see how I cut the section out along one panel line on the bottom and a different one on the top at a different angle. My hope was to make the mated wing a little bit stronger. I also added in some scrap plastic to give a ledge for support so it wasn't simply a butt joint. Here is the same wing glued together with some rough putty to fill the relatively minor gap on the upper surface. The other wing is done too, but there is nothing interesting or different to take a picture of. Finally, a shot of the fuselage. I mated the two sections together...lots of work left to do here. Cheers, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Mmmm....the carnage of sawed plastic :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parche Posted February 18, 2017 Author Share Posted February 18, 2017 14 hours ago, Aigore said: Mmmm....the carnage of sawed plastic :) Yeah, my mini-Dremel is having a field day. Cheers, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
parche Posted March 14, 2017 Author Share Posted March 14, 2017 Had an absolutely unbreakable case of modeler's block for the last month. Finally sat down at the bench again tonight. Pretty boring stuff, but a breakthrough nonetheless. Hopefully something picture-worthy soon. Cheers, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karl Sander Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Looking forward to seeing more of your work, Dave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted March 14, 2017 Share Posted March 14, 2017 Wohooooo! Go Dave! Go Dave! Go Dave! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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