MQ-8B Fire Scout 1/48

[Night Owl]

I tripped across this kit looking for carrier deck parts and thought it would be a unique build.

 

Did some reading up on the drone and found out an interest combat proven history in recent conflicts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-8_Fire_Scout

 

 

 

 

This Brengun kit in 1/48th on first look has nice surface detail it will take some careful cutting to get the parts off the carrier sprune. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plans are very straight forward should be a good build I havent done a kit like this in a non traditional format.

 

 

 

[Night Owl]

Tonight stared getting into this kit looking at detailed photos there are many corrections that will need to be made along the way. 

 

This kind of moulding mistake is almost unforgivable I mean common for the price this is not acceptable. So ill have to cut it and fill it and shape it.

Cut off the bottom and ill sand it down we will see if that works.

 

Sanded, reglued and puttied.

 

Lined up ill let it dry overnight and sand it out tomorrow.

 

[Night Owl]

Got alot done this weekend on the fire scout. Filling and sanding adding all the little pieces. This kit is like glass super fragile I can't list all the parts that broke while painting and sanding.

 

 

The aft section looking at photos was missing alot of rivet details so I broke out the rivet decals.

 

 

So because this is a small model after I did the Vallejo light ghost gray primer I noticed that the model without pre shading was extremely boring. So I preshaded NATO black and mist coated Dark Ghosts gray then cut in on the larger surface with light ghost gray. I used Vallejo light gray wash to pick up the panel lines then some gray pigment powder. I sprayed with vallejo satin varnish then applied the decals which are very good quality.

 

Next is the Remove before flight covers and rotor tie downs. Oh also a final coat of satin varnish and running lights.

[dnl42]

Nicely done! 

 

I built this a few years agoi, when it was kitted by Attack Squadron. They also had an even more diminutive RQ-7B.

[Night Owl]

After a day of not looking at the model I referenced some photos and decided to tone down the panel lines l think it looks better.

 

 

For a scale reference here is the fire Scout beside a Sea Hawk

 

 

[phildagreek]

It’s a beast of a thing!