srkirad Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Hello mates, First of all, I wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New 2022! Time has finally come to get to work on some new model(s) For this (ST)GB I've chosen Dragon dual kit pack of F/A-18E Super Hornets in braillescale. Decals are given for VFA-31 Tomcatters and VFA-105 Gunslingers. As wings can be assembled fully stretched or bended for parking in carrier hangar, I plan to make one of them (most probably VFA-105 as it's less colorful in general) in that pose, but fully armed. Here is the preview photo, and see you soon with some photos from the bench! Cheers, Srđan 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted January 5, 2022 Share Posted January 5, 2022 Hi, Srđan, I hope you had a good holiday season. And now back to work at the bench! I love the box art on your kit. It reminds me of some old comic books. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatol Pigwa Posted January 6, 2022 Share Posted January 6, 2022 Happy 2022! I love the possibility of having the wings in parked position, Something which isn't an option on many 1:72 kits! I bet they'll look good side by side! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzio Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Happy New Year! I built this kit for the last F-18 GB. But I didn't get these two finished and they are still sitting on my shelf of doom. The kit builds up pretty nicely and is better than the older Dragon offerings with the melted pilots in them! Look forward to seeing what you do with this one. Kind regards, Dazz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Ouch, I clearly would not be able to handle those nifty little pieces of 1/144 scale plastic… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 13, 2022 Author Share Posted January 13, 2022 And so we go.. first steps are done, just to get into the rhythm after holidays. All is prepared for first layers of primer and color - interior area... Cheers, S. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted January 20, 2022 Author Share Posted January 20, 2022 a bit of progress with painting of cockpit and exhaust area... Cheers, S. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 That's quite a nice scale to work with, you can make an instant air force in no time! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanmi Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 Nice progress, you are almost half way done! 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 19, 2022 Author Share Posted February 19, 2022 Few days after last photo was made I've got first symptoms of Omicron, and as expectedly positive AG test, so the following period was just taking a rest and a ton of medicines and vitamines... All of that is now behind me, thankfully everything went well, so I'm finally back at the work table, and continuing where I stopped at (almost) full speed Fuselages are assembled, although their alignment wasn't perfect - it seems Dragon messed up a bit joins of fuselage parts, so I had to use a lot of putty and sprue goo to repair that bottom part of strakes and around horizontal stabilizers... Kit with fully stretched wings is going to be VFA-31, while the other one, in parked wings position will be VFA-105. Few more parts to be glued and we're ready for primer... Cheers, S. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfa1983 Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Glad you're all better srkirad. Those models look great and are really detailed for 144. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wings unlevel Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Glad you’ve recovered from Omicron and I hope you get to make up for lost time at the modelling bench. 🤞 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted February 26, 2022 Author Share Posted February 26, 2022 Tails are attached on the fuselage, as well as weapon pylons under the wings. What's left to do before primer is sanding seamlines on canopies (they are moulded right across the center line 😠) and polishing of canopies. Hopefully next photos will be in primer/painting stage... Cheers, S. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 Sorry you were ill Srđan but these two look great. They look like really nice little kits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 Well mates, I'm officially giving up on these two - Dragon made my day with its inventive/modernised canopy design, which I do not so prefer.... I was about to mask canopies with Tamiya tape, and as soon as I've pressed tape onto windscreen, I just heard "craaaaack" sound... and canopy just split in half... there was a seamline visible before this, but I thought it was just inside_plastic_seamline that wasn't surface based and impossible to repair .... anyhow, I don't have any creative idea at the moment - maybe in future I will make canopy just like on these photos, and make SF-18 Space Hornet, but frustration is high at the moment, and I'll just shelf them... Cheers and thanks for organizing this GB - see you in some other themed story Srđan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan P Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 Ohhhh no 😬😬😬 I really liked these builds as well 😢 I guess it wasn't to be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfa1983 Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 Oh that sucks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingerbob Posted March 5, 2022 Share Posted March 5, 2022 You may be able to get replacement parts from Dragon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srkirad Posted March 6, 2022 Author Share Posted March 6, 2022 On 3/5/2022 at 8:49 AM, gingerbob said: You may be able to get replacement parts from Dragon? I doubt it would arrive in a month, how much is left until the end of GB, and probability that replacement parts are also prone to the breakage is high. Nevermind, they are shelved until I find some inspiration and solution to this problem. Maybe they will be finished as what-if, I'll think about it Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Cheers, S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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