Colin K Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Working on the Kinetic model of the 2017 Demo Hornet. Fit of the nose section has been an annoyance for many who have built this kit. I may have a solution. Disclaimer: This is what has worked for me. YMMV Hopefully this helps out with your Kinetic build. 1. Glue part H31 to the lower fuselage. Assemble parts C14 and O3 (if building a Hornet with the spotlight installed) separately, then attach to lower fuselage as shown. 2. Attach part C13 (for the CF-18). You can apply extra-thin cement from the inside, just to keep things clean. 3. Attach part H7 (IFR bay) to the upper fuselage. Then join upper and lower halves. I would recommend you start applying glue at this point. Shot of the left side. Seam clean up is going to be minimal and no step! A bit of a step on the refuelling door, but nothing major. Again, seam clean up will be minimal and again....no step! Shot of the bottom fuselage. Not a lot of seam work will be needed here. Again, this is what I came up with and what worked for me. Hopefully it will help with your Kinetic Hornet builds as well. If you have any feedback, let me know. Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gene K Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 NIce tip, thanks. As an aside, can't you post your small pictures so that clicking on them takes one directly to the larger picture instead of to the postimage hosting site that is filled with questionable ads to Chinese, Ukranian, Asian, Slavic, etc "Babes"? I'll do a malware scan after after viewing your links above. Gene K Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mstor Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 One word... adblocker. There are a number of adblocker add-ins for the various browsers. I see very few, if any, ads on most sites. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gene K Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Mstor said: One word... adblocker. Yes ... I use the best - AdblockPlus on Chrome. Which magic extension are you using to block the ads on postimage? (I'll have to check to see if postimage is on the friendly allowed list.) Gene K Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mstor Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 3 hours ago, Gene K said: Yes ... I use the best - AdblockPlus on Chrome. Which magic extension are you using to block the ads on postimage? (I'll have to check to see if postimage is on the friendly allowed list.) Gene K I use Ublock Origin. Used to use AdblockPlus, Ublock works better and uses less resources. Colin K, sorry for hijacking your thread. I have it saved for future reference when I start my Kinetic Hornets. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Raymond Chung Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Thanks Colin yes thr nose of the hornet is a tricky assembly as we have consider the possible step that may happen due to the acculative error in the plastic injection. But owning to the variant that we target to cover and IFR, we have to split the part like this. And we have try to avoid the step on the upper surface and make the gun vent as integral part of upper fuselage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gene K Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 4 hours ago, Mstor said: Colin K, sorry for hijacking your thread. Sorry you feel that way. Of course I think that this side discussion is appropriate considering potential malware problems posed by Colin's image hosting site. Thanks for the advice on Ublock Origin - works great on postimage popups, but I'll avoid that site ... even while having its cookies blocked. I agree to not comment further. Gene K Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin K Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 14 hours ago, Gene K said: NIce tip, thanks. As an aside, can't you post your small pictures so that clicking on them takes one directly to the larger picture instead of to the postimage hosting site that is filled with questionable ads to Chinese, Ukranian, Asian, Slavic, etc "Babes"? I'll do a malware scan after after viewing your links above. Gene K I didn't see any ads when I clicked on the links and I am not logged in to the website. However, I'll see if there is another option for displaying photos in the future Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ytsejam87 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 nifty tip. waiting for two kinetic hornets to arrive from lucky models. I will use this when constructing! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scooby Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I have a similar deviation with the Hasegawa Hornets and their intakes, I never follow the instructions on the Hasegawa kit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Wolfgun33 Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Great tip. I'll definitely have to save this for another time when I build mine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
serendip Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 On 1/21/2018 at 1:14 AM, Colin K said: Working on the Kinetic model of the 2017 Demo Hornet. Fit of the nose section has been an annoyance for many who have built this kit. I may have a solution. Disclaimer: This is what has worked for me. YMMV Hopefully this helps out with your Kinetic build. 1. Glue part H31 to the lower fuselage. Assemble parts C14 and O3 (if building a Hornet with the spotlight installed) separately, then attach to lower fuselage as shown. 2. Attach part C13 (for the CF-18). You can apply extra-thin cement from the inside, just to keep things clean. 3. Attach part H7 (IFR bay) to the upper fuselage. Then join upper and lower halves. I would recommend you start applying glue at this point. Shot of the left side. Seam clean up is going to be minimal and no step! A bit of a step on the refuelling door, but nothing major. Again, seam clean up will be minimal and again....no step! Shot of the bottom fuselage. Not a lot of seam work will be needed here. Again, this is what I came up with and what worked for me. Hopefully it will help with your Kinetic Hornet builds as well. If you have any feedback, let me know. Thanks! Colin, thanks for the procedure. Any chance of refreshing the links, I get a page unavailable message. Marc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Solo Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Wish to see those pictures too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 10 hours ago, serendip said: Colin, thanks for the procedure. Any chance of refreshing the links, I get a page unavailable message. the hosting site postimg.org no longer exists, and user Colin K has not logged on to ARC in over a year, so I doubt the image links can or will be "refreshed" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter1075 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Can we refresh Colin K? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin K Posted September 16, 2022 Author Share Posted September 16, 2022 Hi guys.....sorry for the delayed answer. I'm not on the forums that much these days, thanks to Facebook. Let me check and see if I still have the photos and post them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
serendip Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 *Cough* some guy called Dave also promised an instruction to fix the nose but that never transpired unfortunatly. Thanks, Marc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Roof Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 1 hour ago, serendip said: *Cough* some guy called Dave also promised an instruction to fix the nose but that never transpired unfortunatly. Thanks, Marc. If you're referring to me, yes it did. I just didn't post it here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 (edited) 29 minutes ago, Dave Roof said: If you're referring to me, yes it did. I just didn't post it here. Why not post it here? . Edited September 18, 2022 by habu2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Roof Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 2 hours ago, habu2 said: Why not post it here? . Because it was several years ago and I no longer have the kit, the photos or the write up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 35 minutes ago, Dave Roof said: Because it was several years ago and I no longer have the kit, the photos or the write up. Understand, thanks for the reply. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
goondman Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 On 9/18/2022 at 11:37 AM, Dave Roof said: If you're referring to me, yes it did. I just didn't post it here. May i inquire as to where you posted it 🙂 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dave Roof Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 7 hours ago, goondman said: May i inquire as to where you posted it 🙂 Long since removed, along with all of my other content and profile. Sorry, it's no longer available anywhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collin Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/kinetic-hornet-nose-job-t530724.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
goondman Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Dave Roof said: Long since removed, along with all of my other content and profile. Sorry, it's no longer available anywhere. Understood, thanks for replying Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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