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chrispisme last won the day on November 12 2020

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  1. Agreed! beautiful job on that!
  2. This was a used/ started kit (all the upper and lower wing halves were joined) there were no decals and a couple of missing parts (nothing big) I Started it last Sunday, finished today (Saturday) but there's very few parts to the kit and fit was fairly good I added tape seatbelts brake pipes and ignition cables...and a bit of paint Thanks for looking
  3. Well done sir! be warned the (Tamiya) Tomcat is addictive! I built one, loved it so much built 2 more then a trumpeter 1/32! I think I’ve got that monkey off my back.
  4. Not so much a "Ready for inspection" as just another finished model. This is a WHIF project based on a April fools joke (google Mig 21 redhawk) the model is painted with Alclad metals, Vallejo and, Tamiya ascrylics and a Kg of putty As always, striving for mediocrity The fit of the canopy(s) wasnt great and I didn't get it perfect, my clearcoat blemished the bare metal on the port side behind the cockpit (I may try polishing that out) I added an aoa vane and cobbled together spare decals from other builds, mostly Leading Edge decals, some Hobbycraft Canada and Revell 1/32 Huey
  5. The cuts made to remove the kit parts are critical and there’s a cast flaw on one of the intakes (which Cris at Zacto owns up to in his instructions) and indicates the easiest way to fill the resultant gap. I made all my cuts with the issue in mind thinking I could alleviate the problem with the foreknowledge in mind, nope it still ends up having a gap (although slight) at the rear edge of one Zacto engine intake where it meets the kit part. The instructions aren’t very clear on how to cut the upper wing outflow vents, I cut one of mine (the first one) in the wrong place and had to re-install and fill some kit plastic. The open wing Bladders have to be thinned where they join the upper part of the fuselage to lower them or a step will occur. I’m not sure if the closed wing bladders have the same issue. if you haven’t got them, definitely go get the Reskit F-14 landing gear with wheels these things are a work of art all on their own. I took the ones I bought to a club meeting for show and tell and the folks there were jaw dropping gob smacked, I did nothing to my landing gear but paint them and glue them on…they even fit the Aires gear bays like a glove. thanks for the encouraging feedback/ positive comments!
  6. First the disclaimer/ excuse I try and I try but I'll never build a perfect model I bought a ton of resin upgrades for the model, not so much to make an accurate kit but to prolong the build as I seem to burn through my stash in the winter months (I'm sure it's understandable when winter is around -32c without the wind) In any case I figured the build would, with all the add on's get me through the winter...I was wrong Included in the build are but not limited to, Aires resin cockpit and gear bays, Zacto intake correction set, Phoenix pallets wing bladders, Reskit main gear legs, weapons, exhausts and wheels and a Master turned metal pitot (not seen in these images) As usual, striving for mediocrity and my first attempt at a heavily weathered naval fighter Thanks for looking stay safe
  7. Ver nicely done ive built a couple of these and really enjoyed them…I like floatplanes. Here in Canada everything has floats, well…maybe not everything but they’re quite easy to find. we were actually just watching a Cessna 185 take off from the local airport here a couple of weeks ago. It was a float plane on a flat trailer being pulled down the runway by a pickup truck with its engine running until it reached flying speed and lifted from the trailer. Quite a thing to see take off (I bet it’d be a lot tougher to land that way hahaha)
  8. Night and day difference there! Come on admit it, you built a new model dint ya? kidding beautiful work!
  9. Built for fun (if you can call building a complete turd of a kit fun) there's a reason I didn't capitalize the academy credit to the kit as it is most assuredly a Kangnam kit in an Academy box. the best part of the kit is the decals. I used a half tube of putty and probably a yard of masking tape to build and finish this...thing. I made no attempt at corrections, accuracy or anything else great or even good modellers will strive for. about the only good thing I'll say about the model is that it's done. Now that I've done my time in purgatory I'm going straight in through those pearly gates when I run out of quarters. I went with a kind of WHIF but the way things are going in the world it may not be so much of a WHIF at some point. To call it "ready for inspection" is a bit of an exaggeration but in any case...Here it is; Thanks for stopping by
  10. welcome aboard sir! enjoy your stay. now get busy posting pics!😄
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