The Last Gunfighter from Prague

[Dalibor Dalcor Zeman]

Good Evening Ladies and Gentleman,

Greetings from COVID Stricken Prague, mater urbium. As an employee on air travel and cargo industry I have a lot of time now, so after long time of persuation I decided to return back to scale modeling for the time being as a sidequest from Wargaming - you can see some of our gaming endeavours in gallery and blog.

 

Introduction is behind us, let's talk about the models. The Crusader will be my 2nd model after as long as 15 years I believe. I found out that the hobby changed a lot. As a figure painter you do not need all those fancy photo-etched parts and specialist tool for this or there, nor you care about the perfect hue. But I love aircrafts. I love scalemodels and I need diversion from battalions of tsar’s Infantry and Fantasy elves. And I am not the only scale modeller in Prague Wargames Club fortunately . Deks encourage me to start again and help a lot with all those new toys. So we decided to go for mutual build.

 

So we opt for Academy 1/72 F-8E Crusader VF-162 Hunters.

 

I like The Last Gunfigter very much and I tempted to buy one. Now returning back its time to fullfill my wishes 😄 as I always wanted one. I am not so strong believer in my skill for Eduard 1/48 so 1/72 is a good start. As I have experience with resin and detailed painting from all those 28mm minis,  I purchased resin cockpit from our homeland company Aires.

 

 

And on its ways are Aviprint decals (It seems it was a Czech company as well?) for MiG killer Crusaders. I would build aircraft of Cdr. Dick Bellinger who shot down a MiG-21 with it (VF162 BuNo149159 AH210).

 

Probably some additional tools will pop up later on.

 

You can watch Dek´s WIP here:

 

We will start tomorrow. I will build up the cockpit, preshade it and start to paint it very slowly... 

 

Any advice is more then wellcome

 

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by Dalibor Dalcor Zeman

[Dalibor Dalcor Zeman]

First Day of Effort and a lot of disasters. I lost my grip. Anyway the cockpit is build, even though I lost some small parts.

Pretty wee weed of Aires because you do not find in their Instruction what do you need to cut of from the model so its Try-Mistake proces.

One of the missed part is seat belt, as I hate photoetched parts due to my clumsiness, I will buy a new seat from Aires as well with resin everything…

Nevertheless it’s not too much bad