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ResKit F-111E Cockpit Set, modified D-Mold TP II intakes with Black Dog Nose & Main Wheel Wells, & weapons bay.  Intakes have been cut & new tubes scratched from thin sheet styrene to flex around main wheel well.  Not 100% correct but the tubes on the intake are easier to fudge than fix the side walls of the main wheel well.  The seam will be invisible after paint and the small step is deep enough and not noticeable.  That's my fix so far.

 

John

 

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1 hour ago, Raptor01 said:

ResKit F-111E Cockpit Set, modified D-Mold TP II intakes with Black Dog Nose & Main Wheel Wells, & weapons bay.  Intakes have been cut & new tubes scratched from thin sheet styrene to flex around main wheel well.  Not 100% correct but the tubes on the intake are easier to fudge than fix the side walls of the main wheel well.  The seam will be invisible after paint and the small step is deep enough and not noticeable.  That's my fix so far.

 

John

 

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Great project!  Will be watching your progress!

Brad

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I've been following your progress on the 1/48th scale plastic model airplanes page, on Facebook. I'll be going down this road later this year building a Lankenheath F-111F from "Desert Storm." Keep up the great work.

Steve

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47 minutes ago, mrvark said:

Too bad BLACKDOG didn't do correct weapon bay doors. Be sure to fix the horrid kit ones!

 

Will do Jim, HB screwed up too many things, but I will have the resin to fix the most blatant.  I think the weapons bay doors can be split and the inners not used because a second set of inner bay doors are on the frame.  I will figure it out went I get to that point.  Do you have a good pic of a travel pod?  One of the old Hasegawa F-16 kits had the old napalm container style.  I can't remember what we had on the Varks.

 

John

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3 minutes ago, Raptor01 said:

 Do you have a good pic of a travel pod?  One of the old Hasegawa F-16 kits had the old napalm container style. 

There were two large Napalm containers: The BLU-1 and BLU-27. The Hasegawa kit is of the BLU-1, which was what was in the inventory at the beginning of the Vietnam war.  It had ogive shaped front and rear fairings, but was more expensive to produce than the more angular BLU-27. While both were converted later to MXU-648/A travel pods, the BLU-27 ones were by far the more common of the two. The AMS ones are available from Sprue Brothers. KASL also does them, but I'm not sure if they're available from a US source.

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