johnny_7713 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 With my Kulula 737 nearing completion, I'm embarking on my next project, which again has an African subject. As part of my overview of the Rhodesia / Zimbabwe air force I wanted to build a Chengu J-7 in Zim colours. Looking for kits I came across the Hasegawa boxing, which contains two kits (quite possibly for the price of two ). I really like the colour scheme of the J-7s in Namibian service, so I decided on that for the second model. Pictured below is the box top, one set of sprues (the box contains two), the decals (from Mavdecal) and my reference material. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levin Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Sounds and looks interesting and promising; I'll stay tuned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Hothersall Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Looking forward to seeing these built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glatisant Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 Look forward to seeing this.Hasegawa kit seems to be the same mould as the Academy MiG 21.Built one ages ago and made a pigs ear of it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_7713 Posted September 5, 2016 Author Share Posted September 5, 2016 (edited) Welp, had to dig deep to find this thread again, but I'm happy to report progress has been made! I started out with painting some of the smaller bits, as well as testing out some paint colours for the camo schemes. Next up was painting the pilots and applying nose weights In all their wisdom Hasegawa decided that having a whopping big hole in the tail-pipe would be a good idea. I disagree, so I stuk some Evergreen sheet over the hole The 'lets put huge gaps in' philosophy was also applied to the design of the cockpit. I have zero scratch-building skills, but leaving a huge gap on either side of the cockpit floor was too much even for me, so I built some very crude side-walls out of sheet styrene again. With that done the fuselage could be closed up and I moved on to the next challenge: This 'slight gap' between wing and fuselage. I've partly filled it with a shim (Evergreen sheet again) and will do the rest with putty. Current progress is shown below: all the major parts are assembled, but still quite some filling and sanding left to go before we can move to painting (not to mention there's also the second fuselage to do). Edited September 5, 2016 by johnny_7713 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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