Aigore Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Hi all! I´ve had a little break from models for a while but now I´m at it again..... I almosty always have a dip in my vbuilding mojo in the autumn. Now I´ve found my inspiration again and I´ve chased away the accumulated layer of dust and tumble weed from my hobby room I got a little incitament from Diego in the post box, an early X-mas gift....his new decals for Persian F-5s! Thanx Diego! I´ll start with my usual presentation of the kit. It´s the gorgeous AFV Club F-5E in 1/48th scale! The, a tad flimsy, box is filled with sprues, 8 of them, and exhaust nozzles and a piece of the airframe are not attached to any sprues. The parts look really enticing and crisply molulded I haven´t discovered much flash at all tho there some inconvinient injection marks here and there. And here are the IRIAF decals for the build! Looks like the usual high quality...hope I won´t break any decals this time The film is so thin you have to be careful while handeling the decals. On with the build! I´ve had a few questions over the years from ppl who wonder how I attach the parts to the tooth pick, well now you don´t need to wonder anymore. The implements: Toothpicks (of course), pinvice with drill, tack-it, a piece of foam plastic and a cutter. There are three ways I attach tooth picks to the parts: first if there is a little hole already in the part I check if I need to cut of a piece of the tip of the tooth pick to make it fit Then I cut of a piece and squeeze it in and the part sticks. And then on to the plastic foam! More in part 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Part 2 If a part doesn´t have a hole or cranny to stick a tooth pick in, like this here bang seat.... I stick a piece of tack-it on to the tooth pick.... And then presst it to the part so it sticks. ...then on to the plastic foam. Lastly if there isn´t any hole I make one And press in a tooth pick into the hole... There you have it...I do this while I clean the parts and then stick them into the foam. Rather nice ritual to initiate a build Then there was this piece that seems to be a bit damaged, there´s supposed to be a couple of plastic rods sticking out of it but they seem to have been broken off at some time. ONly tyhing left to do is to drilla couple of holes and cut a couple of pieces of piano wire... ...and glue the piano wire in place. There! OK then, everything is cleaned and stucik on to the plastic foam, time for priming! As usual I prime everything in black. There, back in business again Tomorrow I´ll start putting on the greys and start messing with the cockpit! Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragan_mig31 Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Well my friend I was wainting for this from you.I hope you will do your best.I also hope you will paint this freehand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Hehe, of course I will mate! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragan_mig31 Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Another thing I forgot to ask.What markings will you put on?The old ones from the 80's or the new ones with the tail art? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Oh, it´ll be another warbird Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 Aigore Firstly I like your ritiual...Organised ritual at that.. Good strat and I too look forward to your magical work on this.. HOLMES Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 Thanx Holmes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Been fooling around with the cockpit today...and I think it´s smashing! Excellent details on the IP, sitting well and the bang seat....I think I really like this kit! Anyway, lots of painting going on today.. I started with shooting the greys, it´s hum 166 light aircraft grey on the side walls.... As was the sitting well, I then painted the black on the panels. A bit of drybrushing with Hum 79 to bring out the details subtly. And some detail painting, just needs a coat of gloss coat and a my usual wash, flat coat and some dry brushing and bob´s your uncle! The IP recieved about the same treatment, first I painted the blacks... Then dry brushing with hum 79.. Then another dry brushing with hum 146 and then detail painting! The bang seat is painted in Hum 165, a bit darker than the cockpit, and then detail painted. And the struts recieved a coat of alclad white aluminium.. Later I´ll shoot some clear coat over everything so it´s cured by tomorrow and then it´s washes and drybrushing as usual Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dragan_mig31 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 The cockpit looks great.well done. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Thanx Dragan :D Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JMan Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Hey Aigore, nice to see some more of your work. A real beaut already. Cant wait to see more! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 12, 2010 Author Share Posted December 12, 2010 Ey, thanx man Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 13, 2010 Author Share Posted December 13, 2010 Here I am again While the wash is curing in the cockpit I decided to put a few things together on the kit.Here´s where I start scratching my noggin...... furiously! I mean look att he break up of parts for the fuselage. The fuselage is broken up into 3 segments: the nose, the rear and the middle. there already I´m starting to think the kit´s been designen by a hoard of drunken monkeys! But the atomisation of the kit continues, this is simply madness..... the nose section is made out of 3 parts....not counting the nose cone! The rear is made out of two halves: an upper and a lowers side...not counting the exhausts and stabs.. And the middle section is just off the scale.... ok, the fuselage itself are made out of an upper and a lower part but when you add the break up of the air intakes it´s just ludicrous. And yet..some how, they make it work!? It shouldn´t be possible to make a model with this break up of parts fit! It´s against the laws of the universe! At least not without a ton of putty! But yet some how the hoard of drunken monkeys have come up with a work of art.... Look at this... in any other kit when you have this many steps to go through building the fuselage sections this alignment would be full of gaps and steps! Now look what happen when I bring the partstogether, a simple dryfit! I mean come on, this shouldn´t be possible! have they made a deal with satan or something??? signed off their firstborn or something? And the same at the nose end.... look! He**, even with my feeble building skills I´ll hardly have to putty anything....well me being me I have to eventually tho Now to the insane airintakes (tho for some reason there isn´t an air duct nor fan fronts to be seen.... ) here we have the splitter plates with added PE (another drop fit)... I´ve painted them with Alclad white aluminium, not sure of the intake colors actually but I´d presume it´s aluminium. They fit in like this, pefectly btw... och I have to mention that there is actually alredy fitted a part of the airintake to the fuselage so this is the second piece of the airintake so far... And with the outer cowling... Both sides... There, in total 4 parts for each air intake! and yet no trunking of any sort :huh: This kit is isane.....marvelous and ingenious....but still insane! Cheers! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sebastijan Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 great progress! looks like AFV kit is really a true masterpiece of engineering! Just got the decals myself (Thanks Diego!) and I think I'll bring 1/72 kit out of stash and build one myself... as well as a war veteran. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 Thanx seb :) Completely bonkers if you ask me...but yes ingenious Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Aigore, This Ritual of yours is becoming pretty IMPRESSIVE. The cockpit is very good and the work is as I expected from you.... NEAT and FLAWLESS. The bang seat is going to be good I can tell, and the surgery on the nsoe cone is VERY daring but Oh so GOOD !!! Keep on Modeling the way you are doing..Loving it.. HOLMES Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 Thanx Holmes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChernayaAkula Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 She's gonna be a stunner, I'm sure! Here's to hoping AFV Club will scale all their Tigers down to 1/72. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 She's gonna be a stunner, I'm sure! :)Here's to hoping AFV Club will scale all their Tigers down to 1/72. :) Thanx Moritz! :D LOl why? it´s almost the same size a 1/72 kit already:P Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paolo Maglio Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Nice buid and interesting WIP. I'm working on the same kit with RoSAF markings but kit decals are ...blah! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pollie Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 I am building one too, and she does fit together nicely. Great engineering, and I take my hat off to the people @ AFV. I have to agree with Paolo, the decals are not that good, to put it mildly. I vote for Cartograf decals in their 1/72 scale down or 1/48 F-5A/B Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted December 15, 2010 Author Share Posted December 15, 2010 Hehe, thanx guys Paolo, PM coming your way :( Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mareku Posted December 15, 2010 Share Posted December 15, 2010 Great build. Please continiue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Diego Posted December 16, 2010 Share Posted December 16, 2010 Another great build Janne! Show us more pleeeease! It's a bit strange that there is still no gun compartment available as resin aftermarket element for the AFV Club Tiger II. The kit has all the openings and doors that allow to show this area open - if only a "simple" resin insert whould be available. Greetings Diego Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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