BadCop Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Well, here's the result of 2 days work - I've got the fuselage together, and the wings together (but not attached). This is going to be a 100% OOB build with kit decals for VA-75 in 1965. Since I'm mentioning the wings, the slot to fit the wings to the fuselage needed quite a bit of carving out to fit the apparently oversized tabs on the wings. Apart from that evreything seems to be dry fitting quite nicely. I can't see much point to the level of detail that fujimi put into the exhausts with detail all the way to the engine past two turns in the exhaust pipe. You'd need an endoscope to see all that way :lol: . Then I've never entered any contests, but I'd expect even that is beyond the pen light nazis. Trent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Murph Posted February 10, 2006 Share Posted February 10, 2006 Trent, Just curious if you are planning to modify the leading edge slats? When they deployed the trailing edge flaps did also. Regards, Murph Quote Link to post Share on other sites
volzj Posted February 11, 2006 Share Posted February 11, 2006 Nice little kit isn't it? I modified my flaps on the last one I built so as to have the slats deployed, as Murph mentioned. It's really not difficult to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadCop Posted February 11, 2006 Author Share Posted February 11, 2006 Joe, it is a nicely detailed little kit, and not too hard to build. Murph, as for the flaps/slats thing, I think I'll do them retracted, for a minimum effort build. Perusing some of the Walk Arounds here on ARC, the only pics that I've been able to find with Slats/flaps down are for a Taxying aircraft. Yeah, that's the real reason, not any laziness on my part at all! Trent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadCop Posted February 18, 2006 Author Share Posted February 18, 2006 Man! This kit has some fine engraved detail all over the place. I didn't quite get it all in place for the port side intake and my repairs (shown) have pretty much obliterated it all. Now will be the time for some careful scribing I suppose. Wings and all the major airframe parts are attached (nasty gaps at top of wing) so it's lookig good to be finished in time still! Trent Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BadCop Posted March 2, 2006 Author Share Posted March 2, 2006 Dammit! I have only managed to get this far by GB's end! Been way too tied up at work to do as much as I would have liked to. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Karl Sander Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Dammit! I have only managed to get this far by GB's end! Been way too tied up at work to do as much as I would have liked to. Completely understandable - I'm in the same boat! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VFA-103guy Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 Don't feel bad fellas. I didn't even get paint on my EA-6B... :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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