Angus Tura Posted May 13, 2018 Share Posted May 13, 2018 Hello. I'd like to add this to the group build: There are pretty nice RAF decals in the box but I have also got some Caracal ones which have more stencils and so on: There are two kits in the box and it looks very nice quality. Alan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockeyboy76 Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 (edited) Will watch with interest dude. Fancy building ding one of these myself. Edited May 14, 2018 by Hockeyboy76 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Stuart Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 This will be interesting, what sort of size are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted June 5, 2018 Author Share Posted June 5, 2018 Evening. Thanks for comments. Size-wise, Robert, here is the Reaper dry-fitted beside a (still not finished!) 1/72 F-15: I've cleaned up most of the bits and pieces as you can see. The air intake and exhaust at the upper rear of the reaper are in right and left halves which don't fit too perfectly to the upper half of the fuselage. I've assembled them to the upper fuselage, concentrating on that fit. In doing that I've forgotten about a splitter plate in the intake which isn't in the kit. Doh! That would have been a lot easier to do with the intake in two halves. There's also a NACA intake on the top just behind the intake which needs a bit of love. I saw a completed one at Hinckley a couple of weeks ago by Geoff of A580 Modellers. He'd got over the splitter-plate problem with an FOD guard which is apparently a rubber mat sort of affair shoved into the intake. I might yet resort to that! More later, Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Stuart Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 6 hours ago, Angus Tura said: Size-wise, Robert, here is the Reaper dry-fitted beside a (still not finished!) 1/72 F-15 Thanks, HUGE compared to what I'd imagined - and with that wing, a relativly slow flyer. Good to see progress, despite the problems with the kit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 Hello. I'm glad there are two kits in the box as I couldn't figure out how to get the intakes to look neat having assembled. So, I've started again. I've put blanking plates into the intake and outlets: and some extra tabs, These should help a bit. With the front blanking plate in it is easy enough to add the splitter-plate and the tabs should make the fit to the upper fuselage better. Thanks for looking, Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Swindell Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 That's definitely the worst bit of the kit, Alan, the rest is pretty straightforward. I put a blank in the middle to prevent the see through look after joining the two halves together, and made the splitter from microstrip which covered most of the intake join, the rest took a tiny blob of milliput faired in with a damp brush. Inside was painted black for depth. For the one you've built up already, the intake and exhaust blanks in the photos on this page appear to fill the whole inlet/outlet and shouldn't be too hard to mould from a blob of milliput shoved in the hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted June 23, 2018 Author Share Posted June 23, 2018 Thanks for looking, Dave. I've got the splitter plate in and am pretty happy with it: The NACA scoop is OK. Needs a few more blobs of Mr.Surfacer to smooth it out. Might actually finish this one! Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angus Tura Posted July 8, 2018 Author Share Posted July 8, 2018 Curses! I really want to get this done on time and find.....I don't have the right paint! Looking in that model-room I couldn't have conceived that there could be any shade of grey that I don't have! I've got a day off this week and had hoped to get well ahead then. New paint ordered on-line... We'll see, Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReaper09 Posted February 5, 2019 Share Posted February 5, 2019 Total thread resurrect! Did you finish both these kits? How did they turn out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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