LALU38 Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) The Academy kit also has the missile rails on the wing tips parallel to the wing, rather than angled downward.. Edited November 17, 2019 by LALU38 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kurt H. Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Nice progress with 3 at a time. Already in paint with all three. Your observations so far have been very useful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LALU38 Posted November 17, 2019 Author Share Posted November 17, 2019 1 hour ago, Kurt H. said: Nice progress with 3 at a time. Already in paint with all three. Your observations so far have been very useful. Thanks, it is just the preliminary paint, to identify any problem areas to touch up before final assembly. It also helped that all three are the same scheme. Keeps paint mixing and airbrush cleaning time to a minimum. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
habu2 Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 On 11/16/2019 at 12:59 PM, LALU38 said: UPDATE: Upon further review, the distance between the trailing edge of the wing and the front of the edge of the stab is 3/16 “ longer in the Hasegawa than in the Revell., or 9 scale inches (good eyes, Habu!) The Revell stabs are about the same amount larger than the Hasegawa. I dove into my stash and pulled out several 1/48th Viper kits. I can fit the upper Hasegawa and lower Academy fuselages together (and vice versa) and they are for practical purposes identical in size. When I compare either of these to the Revell kit I can see the Revell wing is molded slightly farther aft than the Hasecademy kits. All three wings are pretty much identical in size. It was difficult to compare the fore/aft mounting for the horizontal stabs but, as you mentioned, the Revell stab is noticeably larger than the Hasecademy tails. The chord at the root is longer and the sweep of the Revell leading edge is greater than the others. This moves the inner point of the leading edge farther forward. Combined with the aft shift of the wing this makes that distance smaller than the other kits. I also compared tail and wing sizes of the Hasecademy parts with those of the Italeri, Tamiya and Kinetic kits (Itamanetic?) and they were all essentially the same. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Thadeus Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Nice work overall. I love what You've done with the Hasegawa pit. Did You do something with the knobs? They look way better / more prominent than what I've seen on my kit. And I just looked. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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