LF: Attack Squadron MQ-8B 1:48

[Cloud in the Wind]

I’m struggling with my build of the MQ-8b Fire Scout from Attack Squadron.  The flimsiness of some of the resin bits are sending me ‘round the bend. 

 

Im hoping someone is sitting on a kit, or has one they started and gave up on building.  Let me know what you’ve got so I can have a parts kit or maybe start over from scratch now that I know what-not-to-do. 

[dnl42]

Are you talking about those very small cooling air scoops? They took some serious effort to get the base plates thin enough. I did replace some of the PE. I replaced the flat PE pitot tubes(?) with rod for dimensionality. I also had to replace those Itty Bitty hold-down lugs on the LG sponson because some flew off into the ether while I had them in my tweezers.

 

Also, be very careful with the paint. I followed the color recommendation and the decals were nearly invisible.

 

Almost 2 years after I completed it, I will say those blades incurred some serious droop. I'm thinking of bonding some 6 mil ceramic fibre to the bottoms to hopefully introduce some stiffness from the lamination. The fibres should really be on the top of the blades so they're in tension, but that would be too noticeable. I suppose I should try an experiment with some plastic strip. If that doesn't work, I probably need to replace the whole blades.