Building this one as part of the SEAC GB over on Promodeller and I hope I'm allowed to enter it here as well.

With these decals

The sprue shots



Seat, cockpit and pilot primed.

and then painted

Seat assembled

Cockpit assembled



Fuselage halves together

Blimey, you're not messing about with this one Mish Very swift progress, that cockpit looks very nice indeed

Being a big fan of the Crusader, I'll be watching this one with added interest

Interested to know what the kit is like. Good start by the way.

Hi Mish

off to a flying start!

love the Crusader. Must get one some time.

are those state of the art pink and blue parts holders or the things you stick between your toes to paint nails
i love the ways in which modellers find new and imaginative use for household items.

I believe it's the old Monogram kit Nick. Raided panel lines


Spot on Walrus, there is always some in cheap nail care kits that I pilfer the sanding boards from.

Hi Mish,

Great work so far, I love the Monogram Crusader. the kit is good OOB, there are a couple of faults in the basic kit though, the ejection seat provided is a MB GRU-7 as used in the Tomcat, it is the wrong type for a Crusader which originally had a MB Mk. F5 seat although some were later fitted with a Mk. F7 seat, the seat from a Phantom looks a closer match than the Tomcat seat.

Also the main undercarriage legs are set at the wrong angle resulting in the finished kit sitting too low at the rear when built, Aeroclub do a correction set to cure this or you can just shorten the lower oleo and bend the upper oleo down to raise the rear fuselage off the deck.

Having said that the kit looks good out of the box even without the corrections.

Keep the photo's coming.
Ant

also means you can paint small parts whilst doing your toenails
talk about multi tasking

great work there!
keep us posted!

Bit more construction done this afternoon.

Should be ready for paint tomorrow.

Jez I thought I built quick. Nice work. looks really nice so far

I used to have one of these before steping up to 1/32 only, so Now I'd like to get a trumpeter one in the stash

Seems a bit easier build for you, than the Sea Harrier.

Dave

Thanks Dave, I'm enjoying the build the SHAR has turned out to be a bit of a disappointment .

All masked up, preshaded and ready for spraying. Just got to put on and mask the cockpit.

Looking forward to seeing this one with some paint on!

Crumbs you're fast! Takes me two weeks just to open the box and look at the sprues

Andy

Mish,

Looking good. Have you got a correction set for the main gear as it sits too low otherwise. Not too noticable but also kind of noticable.

If you have not shoot me a PM as I have a few spares.

Julien

I haven't Julian and I've cemented the U/C legs in now they're not coming out in a hurry as it's a one piece part.

There is a way round this, PM inbound.

Julien

Top surface grey airbrushed on today.

Finally got around to doing a little more on this one tonight. I've 'touched' up the grey and applied a little post shading and tried to give it that work look. No pics as the lighting washes out the subtle shading.

Got a bit more done this morning. All the underside is sprayed white and the tailpipe has been sprayed up with Citadel Boltgun and I've attempted to add some heat discolouration bands.

Painting all finished and a coat of Klear/Future on ready for decaling tomorrow.

Very nice Mish,

Stephen

Super job so far Mish!!!


Mark

lovely job so far Mish, good to see you've got her back on the bench

Only half a days work today. Got the most of the underside, top and port side decaled. Decals are nice and thing but it has taken quite a few coats of Microsol to get them to conform over the raised panel lines and detail.

Hiya Mish, Phwoar! nice 'Sader there - . Looking forward to seeing the beast all finished. Great modelling so far!!

Jonners

Thats a nice build Mish.
If you cut and extend the struts on the main undercarriage,you can get rid of the tail heavy sag.
Its what I did with mine after an article came out in some modelling mag years ago.
If you dont do it ,it still looks good...just a bit heavy on fuel.

No critisism offered or intended

Thanks someone else offered me a after market U/C to correct the problem but I had already put the legs in. so I won't be messing around at this stage

Looking good Mish!

Julien

This crouze lloks good to me, Mish.
Well done so far.

woah!
me like!

Have to love these old navy birds Looks to be another good 'un.

nice work so far!!!!

Love it, really nice

Gorgeous Mish!

Chris

Thanks for all your comments.
Got a couple of hours done today, so all the decals are done. Later when they have settled I will give it a coat of Klear ready for weathering with Promodeller wash tomorrow.

Well it's finished but not without a couple of mini disasters. First my rough spraying with the grey made it real hard to take the wash off. Then the AeroMaster decals started falling off! They are very thin and even protected by a couple of coats of Klear/Future a couple came off and one ripped! Luckily I had one spare but there is one major decal missing so I will have to be careful how I take the final photos. I'm not even sure if I will enter it into the GB as it's not that good and not upto my best standard.
Wash on

And finished

Nice one Mish.

Tony

Nice one Mish ........that wash looked a bit scary. I dont think I have the Cajones to go that route.