Dansk Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 nice 👌 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Hello Martin It‘s been very interesting so far to watch you put this thing together! Very nice work, I am looking forward to more of it. 👍🏽 Sam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share Posted June 24, 2022 12 minutes ago, Sam said: Hello Martin It‘s been very interesting so far to watch you put this thing together! Very nice work, I am looking forward to more of it. 👍🏽 Sam Thanks Sam. Really wanted one of these in my collection so hopefully try best with it. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 Martin @Lightningboy2000, I meant to say that the Valom kit benefits from replacing the wing fences with card. Sorry. Great work on the jet pipes, by the way. Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted June 25, 2022 Share Posted June 25, 2022 Very nice work Martin, and thanks for sharing the pictures which show very clearly what to do for those of us that want to achieve an accurate A model Voodoo. 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 6/25/2022 at 8:23 AM, RidgeRunner said: Martin @Lightningboy2000, I meant to say that the Valom kit benefits from replacing the wing fences with card. Sorry. Great work on the jet pipes, by the way. Martin Thanks Martin, back on the modelling wagon after a few days stint taking pics of real jets! 😉 I really can't understand why Valom didn't include a few strips of plastic on the sprues for the wing fences??? Just this afternoon been cutting some out of plasticard for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 On 6/25/2022 at 9:07 AM, modelling minion said: Very nice work Martin, and thanks for sharing the pictures which show very clearly what to do for those of us that want to achieve an accurate A model Voodoo. 🇺🇦 More pics coming shortly. Just been off work holiday for a fortnight, finally found one day to do something to the Voodoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 22, 2022 Author Share Posted July 22, 2022 After two weeks off work doing anything but modelling, mostly trying to find an excuse to enjoy this country & enjoying the mediterrainian sun. Actually still managed not to get sunburned, really surprised myself with that! Anyway excuses not to enjoy the great outdoors today led to a return to the Voodoo. Stage one from where I was last time.. glued the nose cone halves together & added some lead strip, roughly 15/20 grams ish. Packed in with the usual bluetac. Missed taking a photo but glued some sprue into the inside of the nose to help keep the nose weight in place, especially when the blutac eventually goes hard. I then focused on the instrument panel. So, when you place the coaming over the top, you find that the IP is too tall or that the coaming doesn't sit flat against the surrounding fuselage. So I added some depth to the coaming (part 19) so that it sits properly. Also before glueing the coaming in place make sure that the IP is sitting centrally otherwise everything will set the clear windsreen skewiff. So I had to detach the IP & centralise it. Dry test of the canopy. Will be posing the canopy open, so the two halves are shown in this photo. Note that the front end of the canopy where it meets the nose is completely wrong as the side windows should blend into the nose, especially at the front edge of the windscreeen. That might have to be filled & faired in at a later stage. The old Hasegawa kit shows this correctly with the front canopy. Drilled out the gun ports then after studying photos made the correct placement either side. Gave up looking for underside photos of the A/C single seat version as I was looking for images of wether the glass panels were in place & to aid the rescribing. Glass camera panels have been glued in place & now sit flush. These will not be masked. Done rescribing. All sanded & cleaned up & showing the coaming with it's minor adjustments. Sits well under the canopy windscreen. Re scribed & cleaned up the re-enforced exhaust area. One of the wing fences. Really rediculous that these couldn't have been represented on the kit sprues! That's it for now, hopefully some time this weekend I'll have all the necessary parts attached then the primer will be applied. Thanks for looking! Martin 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 7 hours ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Thanks Martin, back on the modelling wagon after a few days stint taking pics of real jets! 😉 Fairford, mate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Really nice work Martin, you have brought her on very nicely. You are doing a good job of pointing out and dealing with the issues there are with this kit, including the missing wing fences, a very strange omission. 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, RidgeRunner said: Fairford, mate? Oh yes, Friday to Sunday. Too much jet excitement & now getting withdrawal symptoms! 😆 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 3 hours ago, modelling minion said: Really nice work Martin, you have brought her on very nicely. You are doing a good job of pointing out and dealing with the issues there are with this kit, including the missing wing fences, a very strange omission. 🇺🇦 Strange kit with its inaccuracies considering everything, cost of the kit etc. I'm now even thinking of replacing the canopy with the Hasegawa part. My placid patience is starting to get stretched with this kit! 🤪 I will eventually beat it into submission! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 Canopy windscreen challenge! I will be correcting this. The actual thing... The Valom canopy... The Hasegawa canopy. It would have been easier to build the Hasegawa kit with the Airwaves resin nose! I'll just be using the front half of the Hasegawa canopy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Hmmm, that front canopy doesn't look right at all does it Martin, the way it joins the fuselage (and the contours of the forward fuselage) just look wrong to me. Will be interested to see how your fair the Hasegawa canopy into the Valom fuselage. Is that a Hasegawa kit in the background I can see? 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 hour ago, modelling minion said: Hmmm, that front canopy doesn't look right at all does it Martin, the way it joins the fuselage (and the contours of the forward fuselage) just look wrong to me. Will be interested to see how your fair the Hasegawa canopy into the Valom fuselage. Is that a Hasegawa kit in the background I can see? 🇺🇦 That is the old Hasegawa kit in nice old fashioned hard green plastic!😉 Done the carving. Hasegawa canopy sitting pretty. This is how the carved recess looks. Mostly carved & fettled with these three tools. Now all I've got to do is split the Hasegawa canopy, will still use the Valom main section. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Very nice work Michael, you've improved the look of the forward canopy fit no end. 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, modelling minion said: Very nice work Michael, you've improved the look of the forward canopy fit no end. 🇺🇦 Thanks Tarquin, & the names Martin, but thats all right. Just for this evening I'll tell the visiting inlaws I've just changed my name by deed poll! 😆 Yep, some therapeutic carving has resulted in a more accurate canopy. Cheers Minion! Michael, formerly known as Martin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Sorry Martin, not having a very good day today, very tired and its clearly affected the noggin a bit. 🇺🇦 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 2 hours ago, modelling minion said: Sorry Martin, not having a very good day today, very tired and its clearly affected the noggin a bit. 🇺🇦 Funny enough I've been feeling the same today. Had to pop into town where the hordes of eejuts gather en masse & I very nearly lost all sense of sanity. Thankfully we have an oasis of calm called The Model Junction! Was glad to get back to voodoo fettling this afternoon! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 41 minutes ago, Lightningboy2000 said: hordes of eejuts gather en masse Ah, you have them too then. I have come to refer to such gatherings as "mong-regations", I believe they "mong-regate" like this all around the world. 🇺🇦 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 Just had a big catch up on this, rather pleased now I have the Hase kit in stock, but impressed with the job you're doing on this one. Carry on. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 13 hours ago, Lightningboy2000 said: Oh yes, Friday to Sunday. Too much jet excitement & now getting withdrawal symptoms! 😆 Ah ha! I was there on Monday 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted July 23, 2022 Share Posted July 23, 2022 52 minutes ago, modelling minion said: I believe they "mong-regate" like this all around the world. They do 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 1 hour ago, modelling minion said: Ah, you have them too then. I have come to refer to such gatherings as "mong-regations", I believe they "mong-regate" like this all around the world. 🇺🇦 Mongregate! 🤣 Perfect! That needs to be added to the Oxford dictionary unless it's already in there! Reminds me of the Bergens in the Trolls movie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lightningboy2000 Posted July 23, 2022 Author Share Posted July 23, 2022 53 minutes ago, RidgeRunner said: Ah ha! I was there on Monday Hope you were hard at work taking loads of fine departure pics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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