Pascal Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 The plastic landing gear of the kit is very weak. The metal replacement is a lot stronger, but I didn't like the way it was supposed to be fixed to the underside of the fuselage. No hole to insert the leg of the gear, it's just butt glued. I drilled a hole in the underside of the gear bay :Glued a piece of 4 mm plasticard to inside of the bay and drilled the hole through the plasticard : The legs of the main gear were also drilled and a piece of brass tubing was glued in the hole : The brass tube can then be inserted in the hole in the wheel bay :It's offset a little bit to the outside of the fuselage, just like the landing gear of a 1/1 F-15 : The metal nose gear is a poor copy of the plastic one. So I made a groove in the curved part of the leg, glued a bent metal pin inside the groove, filled it with CA and flour and sanded it smooth :SincerelyPascal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 Good work on sorting out those gear legs Pascal. The extra effort will impart much greater strength to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted December 21, 2014 Author Share Posted December 21, 2014 Thanks Col. Update :The resin engine fans were sprayed with primer and silver from a spraycan using this template I bought for my homework in school (30 years ago !). The template leaves a nice clean ring for the CA-glue :The fans were then glued to the backside of the intakes : And with a generous amount of Revell Contacta both intakes were glued to the fuselage : The tube for the JSF received a piece of plasticard to give it some extra strength, the little black plastic squares are there to cover the big vents in the underside of the fuselage. The white pieces of plasticard on both sides will make the joint between both fuselage halves stronger and prevent the sides of the upper part from bending towards the inside : SincerelyPascal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 Update : The two fuselage halves (top and bottom) have been glued together, the gaps were filled with CA + flour and Tamiya Extra Thin Cement : The hole for the canon was filled : The triangles at the front of the air inlets fit poorly. I can blaim Revell, but it's my own fault. All the rivetting (and dropping the fuselage parts a few times on the floor !) has somewhat altered the shape of the plastic fuselage parts. A bit of dryfitting and some plastic strips ... : ... and they fit nicely :I added some more rivets :And thinned the plastic around the large holes that hold the engines : This makes these holes a little better so I can glue the exhaust tubes INSIDE the holes instead of butt glueing them to the outside of the holes. To do this I enlarged the diameter of the tubes with plasticard :A dryfit (the inverted U-shaped cutouts will be opened up) :The diameter of the exhausts was sanded smaller so it fits inside the holes :Work has started on the cockpit. The throttles were cut out and will be moved more to the inside. Thanks for the tip Bruce :The resin seats are narrower then the Revell ones. The sidewalls were widened with plasticard : The rear bulkhead of the cockpit is covered with fabric with a diamond shaped stitching in the real aircraft. I made a new rear bulkhead and scribed the pattern : Sincerely Pascal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A6-EHJ Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Very nice, can't wait till the next update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Hello Pascal, I normally work MY way through a thread at the last page (it's a detective thing) and it's what happens when you open a new thread in MY case. But I started at the beginning and OMG , it's A SPECIAL build as I love everything about NASA too. The work with copper and aluminum is SENSATIONAL.. LOOKS THE BIZ!!! Will look in to see how your NASA Eagle flies as you continue this stunner of a build. (MY LIKE is none left) but I LIKE IT ALL... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 Thanks for the replies Did some work on the cockpit. The rear one was modified a few weeks ago : But then I decided to go into overdrive. Used PE-saw and my Dremel to remove some plastic of the area in front of the front instrumentpanel. The floor was lowered and boxed in with plasticard. The sides will also be boxed in after I've added some tubes and wires : The floor is now in 3 parts. The sides are a little higher up, the part in the middle is lowered : This middle part will receive my rudder panel construction. The 4 holes in each panel were drilled : I need 3 for both kits, so I made all 3 at the same time : The sidewalls of the cockpit will be widened with more plasticard : I also drilled out all the holes for the instruments : Both seats got their rails and I've started to add the first details. Front seat : Rear seat : Both seats dryfitted in the cockpit hub : The seats are attached to the rear bulkheads in a different way. For the front seat I've made 2 square holes that will hold the brackets : Sincerely Pascal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeano Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 amazing work ! I can't wait for next updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 The space between the seats and the sidewalls still wasn't good. So I cut off the sidewalls : "Look mama, it's a convertible" : Glued everything back together, the sidewalls have been moved 1 mm inward : Now the space between the chairs and the sidewalls is OK : Sincerely Pascal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pascal Posted February 19, 2015 Author Share Posted February 19, 2015 Not much spare time lately, but I've managed to spend an hour behind my modelling desk. The F-15 has a some tubes, wires and things to the left and right of the pedals. With plasticard, sprue and soldering wire, I made this. The left one is ready, the tubes on the right one need to be cut to size : A dryfit shows the little details : But when everything is installed, very little will remain visible : The sides of the bathtub are rough, these will received very thin pieces of plasticard. Sincerely Pascal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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