Uberdave1 Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 (edited) Hi, guys. Your resident colonial is back to the modeling bench with a Airfix AWACS kit and Flightpath J-Stars conversion set. I figure it just makes the cut at the end of the cold war era. This shot turned out fuzzy. I was learning a new camera. But it tells the tale of disaster trying to trap the blades in the nacelle halves. Then I got the bright idea of using a dowel to insert the blades after assembling the halves. All in all, it turned out better than I'd hoped. The plan is to do this as a memorial for my buddy Charlie Johnson who passed away a few years ago. He built over 50 of these to give to the crew and pilots of these aircraft that fly out of my place of work, Robins AFB GA.. Here's the goal set by Charlie. a pic of one of his.. Hope you like it and that I get to post updates soon. Dave A bit of patting myself on the back but I've seen guys take a pass on the PE fan blades as too much trouble when doing this conversion. Edited January 11, 2019 by Uberdave1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberdave1 Posted January 11, 2019 Author Share Posted January 11, 2019 Maybe the admins can help straighten this out. Turn out pretty goofy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Hello Dave, What a good job on those fan blades. Looking forward to more WIP. Regards, Orion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted January 11, 2019 Share Posted January 11, 2019 Hi Dave, welcome to the forum and nice to see another JSTARS build. The engines look great. I have a stalled build going as well. though I did not use the PE on the engines though I think I should have! Here is my build thread. I realised that the supplied antennas are oversized, I have used them but added a few more smaller ones using reference pictures. Good luck with the rest of the build! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberdave1 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said: Hi Dave, welcome to the forum and nice to see another JSTARS build. The engines look great. I have a stalled build going as well. though I did not use the PE on the engines though I think I should have! Here is my build thread. I realised that the supplied antennas are oversized, I have used them but added a few more smaller ones using reference pictures. Good luck with the rest of the build! I'll have to check out those antennas... Edited January 12, 2019 by Uberdave1 more to say 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uberdave1 Posted January 12, 2019 Author Share Posted January 12, 2019 Okay. seems like I'm not used to this forum. Wanted to add that you re-etching is well done. I have a tremble that won't allow me to follow suit. Also I had tried to post a pic of one of Charlie's planes but, for some reason it disappeared, so I'll try it now. Charlie never use the kit antennas so it may give a clue about size... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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