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Is that a moveable exhaust nozzle?! If it is, then it might piqued my interest.
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I hope they will have the nose shape issues corrected. Last time I made Academy's old F-14 the nose puts me off...
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Man, I dropped one once even with full instruction. Made lots of mistakes with that certain F-14B.
Hasn't put me off from making another Hase F-14's tho. And yours are good-looking too. Still the best F-14 in gentleman's scale :3-
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Started the cut a few days ago while I'm at my friend's home (he's making a Crusader so that's that hahahaha), so far things are not too shabby
Minimal filler but I need to scratchbuilt the light on top of the fuselage. The one molded is too large and too far on the center anyway.
Then we get into the airbrake bay detail. Or rather lack of it. I mean, come on, Hase, you could do with a little extra embellishment if you want to, wouldn't hurt a cat or two.
I decided to look at @Navy Bird's Fujimi SHAR build for the reference in the detail of airbrake bay and tried replicating it with a piece of thin styrene strips. Looks a bit c**p to be honest, but I promise the second one would be a bit better. If I hadn't have too much of a drink hahahaha...-
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My birthday was long overdue, and the birthday present I bought for myself has been in shelf for a long while now (been working on Hornets and SLAM Eagles and whatnot...). I guess I'd jump in to this group build with my pair of Sea Harrier. Dunno if I can finish both or just one, so let's hope for the best.
There won't be any aftermarket addons since they're expensive to buy and even more expensive to ship to Indonesia. And because I am currently having to deal with post-graduate study registrations, I think this is going to take a while to finish... But we're made out of tough stuffs so to hell with everything-
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8 hours ago, Col. said:
Yes that's correct. So long as the subject was designed and/or build in Britain it matters not where in the world it operated
Sounds a grand plan to me
Then again the Sea Harrier is my favourite aircraft so I'm somewhat biased
Good luck getting the F-4J finished. Do you have a WiP thread up on BM?
The thread's are on WIP section. Getting on with the stencils now (ugh...
). My eyes are hurting hahaha
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Just received Hase's Sea Harrier combo as my birthday present to myself last Saturday. I am tempted to enter one for the group build...
But that F-4J needs to be finished first-
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HAPPY NEW YEAR! And sorry for going under the radar for over a month and a half, having issues with work and my health (those resin dust and thinner mists wreaked havoc on my respiratory system perhaps
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Aaaaaanyway, some small progress after entering the paintshop. Tamiya Sky Gray for the upper part and Flat White for the lower part. As for the cans and heat shield, I have been using the technique done by Giemme during his excellent F-4J build, by having a coloured first layer followed with silvery top layer. For this one I decided to go with Tamiya Blue on the first layer, followed with Clear Red to give an impression of burnt metal before topping it off with Gunmetal Grey. The result is much better than what I had expected before, thankfully...
... Come to think of it those Satin Black under the front coaming does look a bit crap. And for some reason I can't upload the picture of the exhaust. Sad reacts onlyOh, and Mr. Color Leveling Thinner works magic on my paintjob. Will definitely use this again in the future.
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Finished it in a month?! I struggled to finish it at all sometimes, what with the fitting issues and massive numbers of parts... But your end result is really good though.
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Been missing in action for a week, haven't had much time for a meaningful update. But I made something, at least.
First up, the exhaust. First time dealing with resin, having to saw everything is a bit of a PITA. But it's worth the pain.
Look at how different the Aires exhaust compared with Hase's exhaust. Pity it costs me a fortune to buy. After the exhaust has finished, I turned my attention to the kit itself. Started with cockpit, I decided to use decals because I can't find any detailing set or resin cockpit at my local shop, so that's that. Fitting is, for most of the time, non-problematic. Apart from the seam between the fuselage halves, which isn't exactly a deal-breaker for me. A bit more irritating is the intake, which doesn't seem to fit nicely, so it's sanding stick time again
As you can see, it's not seamless, and I forgot to apply putty before painting. I think I need to check if I have short-term memory loss...
Anyway, things are actually going on OK so far. Until I tried to dryfit the exhaust. I didn't realize that the exhaust from Aires is too long. Here comes another hacksaw, and away goes about 7mm of the fuselage tabs...
Ignore my fingers please
Wings go without issues, as is the seam between the fuselage and wings. That's it for now (I guess), next stop: To The Paintshop and Decal Shop!-
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Now, as a disclaimer, this is not my first time making Hasegawa's F-4J Phantom II (IMO the best F-4J kits in 1/72... that I can actually buy). But somehow that Phantom Phever hits again and I decided to bag this VF-31 jet home. At first I intended to make it an OOB... until I realized that the exhaust was wrong. Hasegawa's J79-GE-10 exhaust has 18 petals, whilst the real thing got 16. Tried to ignore that gave me a sleepless night, TBH. So I decided to scratch that itch and ordered Aires resin exhaust from my trusted kit shop... which was 100 miles away. I know, sad life.
BTW, for this build I have decided to go for Felix 101 (BuNo 157293), the aircraft that shot down a MiG-21 in April 1972. To be honest this build is inspired by Giemme's magnificent Felix 100 (if only I can make it as good as he did)Obligatory box photo, because why not...
Contents before they're unpacked...... and the Aires resin exhaust. First time ever using resin aftermarket parts, I hope I can come out of this unscathed (it costs me a fortune to buy this. You'd better be good, Aires.)
So that's the preview for the build, any comments and critics would be more than welcomed.-
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3 hours ago, helios16v said:
What carrier are the VF-213 decals off of? They look suspiciously like USS Abraham Lincoln...which would put it circa WESTPAC95. If so, I need to make a note to try to find a set of those.
Look forward to seeing this go together.
Yes, it was from USS Abraham Lincoln during 1994 cruise. BuNo 160390 was last flown by Lt. Kara Hultgreen and RIO Lt. Matt Klemish during that infamous accident in 1994, when the left engine stalled during approach to Abe. Both ejected, but Kara didn't survive after hitting the water because she was basically ejected downwards.
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19 hours ago, F-32 said:
You can never have too many Tomcat's!
Good work, thanks for sharing.
Yep. There is no such thing as too much Tomcats. If anything I already asked my friend who is currently in Japan if he can find me a Fujimi Tomcat kits, since it's almost impossible to find one here in Indonesia.
I'm prepared to receive 2 hours of complain from my brother who thinks I have too many F-14s -
So I had this Hasegawa F-14B VF-11 Red Rippers kit since June, and up until 3 weeks ago the only thing I made was just the front and top fuselage and nose gear, while waiting for paint to come. Then I just remembered that this week marks the 10th anniversary of F-14 Tomcat's retirement, so I decided to kick everything up and started working again so I can have a photoshoot before the end of September. TBH decals are good in terms of solidity but hard to put down. Need dabs (Dabs? You sure that's not a douse?) of acetic acid since Mark Softener is hard to come by in my hometown. Paint is Tamiya's acrylic, and this is the first time I tried salt weathering, though not extensively since I'm still a newbie in this salt weathering business. Gotta say I'd give it a try again in the future.
As for the kits? Flash in many places, ejector pins in difficult places, frustrating fitting problems in many places, 12(!) exhaust petals to fit one-by-one, and fiddly cockpit to fit. I had a thought of retiring from making Hasegawa's F-14...
... But only for a second or two. To be honest I'm looking forward to snatch some more from my seller. Oh, and my Rippers 100 CAG is accompanied by F-14D Lions 213 Skipper Bird I made 2 years ago
P.S.: I lost the USS JOHN F KENNEDY decals on the wing glove. My room's carpet is an absolute hell hole for modelers.Sorry for the wheels, my cackhandedness seemed to ruin it
And here it is with VF-213 skipper, still my favourite scheme for F-14 of all time. Along with VF-2 farewell scheme and VF-14 Tophatters 80th Anniversary scheme (of which I can't find the kit anywhere D: )
Feel free to criticise and comment, every helpful critics are very much welcomed ^^-
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Great to see the pride of Indonesian Air Force to be featured here... Looks sweet!
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Hello again everyone, looks like I managed to get some free time to paint my Osprey so I decided to do so. This time I made sure I did all the right things... and still isn't quite good enough. Not up to excellent standard, but probably passable. As before, starting with Tamiya's Sky Gray, followed this time with a 70/30 mix of Dark Sea Gray/White and topped off with Tamiya's Light Gray. For the first time ever I decided to clear coat my aircraft.
Here she is without all the maskings...
... Quite a lot of things visible through the windows. Speaking of which I forgot to paint the top sunroof thingy with smoke grey.
And obviously, I can't hold the temptation to install the propeller.
That is as much as I can do for today, see you again.-
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... Utterly gobsmacked when you tell us you decided to make diorama with Tu-95 and Typhoon
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If I'm honest I really like this rendition of Osprey. It's challenging, but there aren't many issues with it. As expected from Hasegawa's new tooling. Can't wait until US Navy received their HV-22, so Hasegawa will have enough reason to release limited editions with new decals. Hopefully not at overly inflated price. And thanks for the comments...!
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Finally managed to finish (most) of the airframe, including the engine pods and (again, most) of the antennae bits and bobs. For this... I don't know what this thing that looks like static discharge rod, the same way Nigel thought in his Osprey build that it was oversized, I also decided to do some scratchbuilding with stretched sprue (first time doing this so pardon for the ugly wobbly shape). I lost one of the fins so it's time for exacto knife and thin plasticard, and replaced both of the fins. Now it looks... ummm... passable. But only just.
After that bit of painstaking stuffs (I know, a bit of a hyperbole), time for painting, with Tamiya Sky Gray for basis, Dark Sea Gray for the second layer of camouflage, and Light Gray (which looks a bit bluish) for the top of camo. Was too lazy to do masking so it was freehand, doesn't like the way it looks. So here she is covered with tapes and papers for repaint on the first layer of camouflage scheme. Looks horrid. And that small window suffered crystallization from my cack-handedness with super thin glue.
Last thing is the tailplane, for the VMM-165 White Knight's CAG scheme, using Tamiya's Semi-Gloss Black and Lemon Yellow. Really like the result, apart from some masking issues but several touchups won't hurt.Well, I have to wait until Saturday before she reenters paint shop, I got presentation for tomorrow (about military stuffs, WOOOHOOO!) and some volunteer works in Friday. That's all for tonight, gotta eat my braised noodles before it gets too cold. Ciao!
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Thanks mate. Flory models wash followed by some light pigment and dry brushing. The Indonesian Flankers seem pretty clean.
Yeap, as far as I know from my (far away) observation during my visit they were pretty clean. We rarely fly those Flankers since they're expensive to fly (my pilot friend told me it was around GBP20,000 for just one intercepting flight).
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I've managed to get my hands on free time before started working on my final project again, so I decided to go make some progress with the Osprey. Pity I forgot to take much pictures. Build started with vertical tailplanes, which got some nasty gap and requires Tamiya's putty and some sanding
Tail assembly follows, which is not a problem at all (Thank God Mr. Hobby's Extra Thin Cement!!), followed by engine pods (I know, sounds chaotic, isn't it?) and wings. For the engine, since I can't afford buying PE or resin bits, I decided to do some scribing on the exhaust vents to replicate the mesh on the vents. Worked... sort of.
(Sorry for my annoyingly massive fingers and the iffy camera work)
The engine pods are only half-finished, though, I need to do some scratchbuilding on the underside vents and I haven't even installed the engine intakes. Prop-rotors are next and, as I thought it would happen from Master Nigel's experience, there's an annoying seam gap, which I managed to cover (just about) with putty.
Hopefully that line wouldn't be all too visible when it enters paint shop. For the inside, I decided to spice it up (just a tiny bit) with the doors, which I left half-open, and I hope it would be visible from the front and (just a little) from the starboard side.
Here's before I installed it to the fuselage...
... and here's after the installation. I know, doesn't look nice, eh...? I was contemplating whether to make an open ramp or not, but in the end I decided not to because I need to do a lot of rework on the interior and I just don't have enough tools to do just that. Besides, it already looked nice without the open ramp.
The oddball with another, more sober aircraft, and that EA-6B on the bottom left is another WIP, and you can see 2 F/A-18Fs and an F-14D. That F-4J lurking is my friend's WIP, which he hasn't managed to finish because he's losing his patience too often. Dunno why. And I just realized how massive MV-22B is... It's almost as long as my E-2C Hawkeye and with prop-rotors installed, nearly as wide as well. I guess US Navy's decision to place orders for HV-22 to replace C-2A can, after all, be justified.
That's all for tonight, I gotta prepare for quiz on aircraft display tomorrow. See you...!-
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Still a chick, will be interesting to see it become a fledgling and out from the roost to snatch unwary Eastern Block birds...
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I've seen Master Nigel's link (details are jaw-dropping, kinda inspires me as well to make Osprey lol), but this will be pretty much OOB... with some extra small scratchbuilt bits. Won't be as extensive as that one, though.
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Hello, it looks like my previous F-14B project is stalled for a moment for canopy reasons, but I'll be starting this MV-22B in the meantime between my classes, internship, and my undergraduate final project. Acquired it for around $50, so not cheap. It better be good...
Here's the box, obviously...... and some shots of the contents
Sorry about the mess, by the way. I did my modelling works along side paper works and everything else there...
That's it for today, still uncertain when to start the first cut, probably in the weekend when I got free time...
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Then again the Sea Harrier is my favourite aircraft so I'm somewhat biased 
). My eyes are hurting hahaha
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. REALLY looking forward to all the progress and final results...
Oriskany's Most Colorful C.O.
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On 9 October 1966 Cdr. Richard M. Bellinger became the first Navy pilot to shoot down a MiG-21. He was flying an F-8E (149159 AH 210) leading three other “Hunter” F-8s as escorts for A-4s from the USS Intrepid. During the flight they were intercepted by a group of MiG-21s which were the newest communist aircraft and a real leap in technology. Using two Sidewinder missiles, Bellinger was able to nab one of the MiGs marking the first Navy kill over the new MiG-21. Back aboard Oriskany, Bellinger said, "I've waited 20 years for something like this. It was a tremendous feeling.". Cdr. Bellinger was awarded the Silver Star by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara aboard the Oriskany one week later.
Now to the kit. Academy's F-8, eh... One of the best F-8 Crusader kit around, and the reputation is not without reason. I could go on and on about it, but I won't bore you guys since you can read all the reviews on the internet. Long story short, this is a build I really enjoy despite several complexities like the main landing gear. The reason why I decided to take 149159 as my build subject is because of the story of Cdr. Bellinger's kill that I read once when I was a little boy. As for the decal itself, Academy didn't actually provide decals for BuNo 149159, so I have to improvise by looting numbers from my friend's F-8C conversion build, and cut out the colourful stars on vertical tail plane decals and in place painted the rudder in yellow so I can get the normal all-yellow stars. Now some of you might notice that orange rusty panel on the gun ports, that was because I followed Academy's painting instruction a little too far and forgot to check my reference back so that's that.
Enough banter, now for the (not-so-good) photos taken with my Sony Xperia Z1 phone camera. There will be more photos from my actual camera soon but for now this is what I got. Any comments and critiques would be more than welcomed.