Pappy

Noice! Are you going to in-fill the extra material on the outboard pylons or just swap them out? Looking forward to more, cheers, Pappy

I have not measured it for scale accuracy but it certainly looks accurate. The whole thing weighs about 300g so quite hefty for its size, I am glad I went the soldering route. I ended up ordering the NVA figures, can't wait until they arrive to add some human scale comparison Pappy

I could put on a skirt and poms poms if you like (you don't wanna see that, nobody does) but what is seen cannot be unseen! cheers, Pappy

G'day people, I have started to throw some paint at the tiggie but one last job was to add a fairing to the rear of the emergency arrester hook actuator as the FV20 was not fitted with a hook inmy reference pics The radome has been painted first as this is a different colour to the rest of the jet plus the paint tinlet for scale cheers, Pappy

G'day people, Starting to get some paint on, Family photo This is starting to become very awkward to handle and I have already broken a few parts off like the right dish's feedhorn The transport chassis. I still need to paint the tyres obviously The paint tin to give a sense of scale cheers, Pappy

Arnold, Arnold he's our man, if he can't do it no one can! I am very interested to watch you perform your magik on this one, cheers, Pappy

Thanks SS, I like doing the littl'uns as I tend to finish them quickly and they occupy less space, are easier to transport etc. I think at this scale, the detail is more representative than a complete nuts and bolts recreation. I also find that when you start adding details in 1/72 your kit can start to stand out as the 'kitchen sinkers' tend to aggregate around 1/48 and increasingly 1/32 scale subjects. In Oz, the older gents still model in 1/72 while the newer generations are drawn to the larger scales. 1/72 is still popular in Europe but in the US and on US centric fora it is definitely less popular. I find that when you go back to a 1/48 kit after 1/72 it seems that there is more scope for detailing, cheers, Pappy

Yeah I don't know what the Airfix guys were smoking but all the legacy Bricks have it, so the moulds werr never re-tooled to correct it Pappy

Thanks Craig. No luck with the tip. I even dragged a magnet through the carpet to see if it would find it. It didn't. I have 'swept' the floor along the most commonly used routes, so I know that area is safe Yeah, it is almost a WHIF but sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. For Northrop it was a case of double bad luck dipping out first with the YF-17, getting a second shot with the USN/Hornet development, finding no buyers for the F/A-18L then missing out with the F-20 against the F-16. Still, just goes to show what a great design the F-16 is. Thanks James

G'day Colin, did you fill that weird oval shaped depression on top of the port fuselage? I dunno what Airfix were thinking but it seems common to all boxings, cheers, Pappy

These are not differences IRL, just between the models. The second one includes some detail of the LRS the top one doesn't. The second one has more prominent print lines on top of the headbox (compared to the first) which may not be that prominent when viewed at normal scale. Essentially pick the one you like best, neither is really wrong Pappy

Hopefully there will be a lot more progress to look at when you get back from the velt, cheers, Pappy

Noice! Is 'Guns a go go' included on the decal sheet? I don't see the name on the pic of the kit decal sheet. It seems that there is areal lack of options for the AC-47 and UH-1C in 1/48 even there there is an abundance of great schemes to choose from cheers, Pappy

Great job, it looks the business cheers, Pappy

I think that the Italeri (Esci) kit has finer details but the Airfix is an easier build. The only real issue I have with the Esci kit are the weird 'humps' on the underside of the wings at the outboard stations. I think these represent aerodynamic fairings installed when the pylons are not fitted. The kit out board pylons have a scallop to fit directly over the top but to be accurate the humps should be sanded off and the outer pylons replaced or modified. Given the small size of the kit pylons and the healthy anhedral of the wing, it is not that noticeable and many modellers don't notice it until it is pointed out cheers, Pappy