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  1. That looks fantastic! The folding wings really are genius!
  2. I'm so on board with this build! It's looking excellent so far. Curious to see what you do with the inlet bump. Do you know armament yet? I was completing mine for a group build (ended this past weekend) so I had no choice but to finish! Super excited to see how @Rizon build turns out. Like MiG-37's, there can't be too many F-117N's.
  3. Thanks for the kind words guys, I'm glad you like it!
  4. I don't have a made up backstory, but in the 90's Lockheed was really pitching this idea to the US Navy. Here is a summary from Tacairnet:
  5. I just finished this for a GB on another site. Largely 3-D printed, with the front 2/3 of the upper fuselage coming from the Hasegawa F-117 kit. Vacuformed canopy and landing gear are from a 1:72 F-14.
  6. This is looking awesome! I really like the high contrast black (or is that a really dark grey)!
  7. 😂 That's very true! The funny thing is I just read Yefim Gordon's book on the MiG-29/35 where he mentions what you're talking about. Had I know earlier, maybe I would have put them on the inside of the verticalish stabilizers. Although I think one of my other considerations was having the decals contrast enough with the paint that they could be seen so I put them on the lighter color. Thanks for the information Serge!
  8. I stretched the bottom fuselage of the kit, smoothed it out and used that as a mold for vacuforming. I scratch built the wheel wells and weapons bays with strip and sheet styrene as well as some Aves Apoxie Sculpt.
  9. I don't want to thread-jack Mikey-1980's interesting build so I just posted it in the finished build section https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235074933-mig-37-smt-172-whif/
  10. I mentioned this model in another post and I didn't want to thread-jack an interesting build so I thought I'd post it here. It's from a group build I did a couple years ago using the old 80's Italeri kit which I lengthened and modified. The original kit had two very small weapons bays, I wanted to give a it a more realistic internal payload which is why I lengthened it. My second goal was to make it look more "stealthy", as these kits were made before stealth aircraft where known to the public.
  11. I'm not sure if you're planning on hanging them under the wings or putting them in the internal bay, but I don't think they'll fit. I did a 1/72 version and lengthened it by 3cm and still barely got 2 KAB-500's in an internal bay.
  12. Wow, this is coming along well, I'm looking forward to the finished product. The landing gear look great, I'm going to need to learn how to do that since I always seem to be in need of landing gear.
  13. I love those old Testors/Italeri "stealth" kits from the 80's. I built a stretched version of the ferret that blends a little bit of the Mig-2000 with the testors kit (splinter camo too). I'm super excited to see how this one turns out.
  14. I'm using the 1/72 Hasegawa "Grey Dragon" kit. Like yours, there's not much left, I'm only using about 75% of the top and the vertical stabilizers. The rest is 3D printed with some scratch built details in the weapons bay and wheel wells. I'll be using F-14 landing gear. Your scratch built landing gear are really nice. What type of 3D printer did you use for the wheels, the detail looks very good. While I was doing research for this project I think I saw the same models you mentioned above. I think the geometry on mine is better, but not perfect either. I think the later concepts had more volume in the fuselage, mine seems a little flatter. I also went with the earlier V-shaped exhausts vs. the F-22 style. So cool seeing someone else doing this, I'm really excited to see more of your build. Jason
  15. Oddly enough, I'm working on an F-117N as well. It's interesting to see how you're tackling some of the same issues that I had. Although sadly, mine won't have folding wings or movable flaps, which look awesome by the way. I can't wait to see how yours turns out!
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