gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 (edited) have had this kit for some time now and decided that I should get it "on the go". It all looks very nice, good level of detail, the cockpit detail looks better to the eye than it looks on these photos. This kit comes with decals for 16 aircraft from 6 Airforces!Canada x 3Greece x 5Norway x 2Netherlands x 2South Vietnam x 1USA x 3 Edited November 23, 2014 by gregair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 The fuselage has a horrible looking parts breakdown, might be some joint problems there! A dry fitting looks ok but we will see Assembly of the extreme rear fuselage Engine nozzels fitted ok but will need a good cleanup Rear fuselage assembled, the fit was ok, I got a bit of seam to cleanup on the spine which I have done and was quite easy because the plastic is soft. I got a not so good seam on the lower right sight of the fuselage as you can see in this pic, hopefully an easy fix, the other side was fine. The shrapnal hole in the middle of the tail fin I made last moment as I was glueing the whole lot together when I noticed the instructions showed some small parts to be inserted there only to discover later that I won't be using those parts so I need to fill and sand that hole too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 The basic cockpit colour is done and I have sanded the lower fuselage join and the hole in the tail fin so she is starting to look better now. The sunken areas for the panels in the forward and rear fuselage are deeper than their inserts so some careful work is need to get them flush.The panels are not a great fit either so some filling and sanding will be needed. The photo etch is a "Kinetic" set that I had bought seperately and was actually manufactured for Kinetic by Eduard.I struggled a bit with the fiddly bits and the cockpit paintwork needs some tidying up but it does look nice to the naked eye. There are a lot more photo etch bits to add to the cockpit but this is as far as I am for now. One snag is that now that I have the photo etch attached to the main instrument panel, the upper part of the front fuselage does not fit properly so I will need to do some trimming.I will try take better quality pics of the cockpit to post here later as the low quality of these make everything in the cockpit look like they have jagged edges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 After some trimming of the photo etch main instrument panel I got an okayish fit on the front fuselage and finished the major fuselage parts assembly..I will need to do a bit of filling and sanding on the fuselage. Here is a clearer photo of the cockpit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 I finally got round to filling in the seams around the fuselage inserts and sanded them down.I will have some re-scribing to do. Then the next problem arose...the wing tip tanks are "handed" and the kit gives you two left hand tiptanks, so the right tank must be turned upsidedown...but then the wingtip does not fit the aerofoil shaped cutout in the tank properly.So I modified it all to fit as best I could. So I added the air intake assemblies, not too difficult but I got a bad gap in the one intake/ fuselage join. Photobucket is not allowing me to upload any more photo's, I will add the latest photo's when I can. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snapper_city Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Watching with interest as I fancy building One of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Looking good so far Which colour sceme are doing? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Looking good so far Which colour sceme are doing? Roger Thanks guys, I'm going to do it in the Botswana scheme, I got the decals from Mavdecals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted November 28, 2014 Author Share Posted November 28, 2014 Finally got some photos loaded into photobucket so here are some updates. I used a lot of glue in this area to ensure strong joints, the wings are not glued, they were just in place to help hold everything in the correct position. Before... After sanding, now to rescribe the lost detail I still have some cleaning up to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 Nice work so far, I keep looking at these at Telford over and over again. Might get two to do a 'Mig-28' as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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