F-111 in progress

Steve Wilson
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Hi Heico, excellent progress on the cockpit!!!
But I'm intrigued, you're tickling my curiosity, what's the brick for???
and why's it got masking tape on it???
Please tell!!!😮

Clifford Keesler
I like it.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks guys. Steve, it isn't a brick 😛 It's a sanding-cork. And i cut a piece of sandingpaper in the size of the cork, tape it stuck and so i have 2 different grains of sanding paper in one hand.

Steve Wilson
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Ha! ha! ha! Lol (((😄 ))) Now I see it... And I use them myself😠 Duuuhh!!!

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Hehe 😄 👍

Wim van der Luijt
That's one big bird! I'm going to follow this one

Augie
Now that just decided for me to get these instead of acadamy ones... whats the shape like?

Marko
Excellent cockpit. Well done.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks gents. Augie: It looks good but i can't really tell yet in this stage😉

Gerald
Well done Heico van der Heide 👍

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks Gerald, it's a reasonable kit and with a lot of dryfitting you can make something nice of it, allthough there are some gaps etc but so far nothing major.

Bill Spargo
Great build so far, this is a very nice kit in my opinion, looking forward to watching the progress.

Kerry COX
Augie, My two cents worth. Hobby Boss make the BEST F-111 series.in 1/48. I have the Aussie 'PIG' in I/48 and the wing span is a little longer than the "Ardvark" which was used mostly by America. Fantastic surface detail and I found very little that was out of wack, (No filler).

Heico, thank you for letting me jump in there for a few words, and if you are going to detail the engines, I have some up close and personal pics of one from my visit to the Australian base at Amberley some years back.

Oh, :-/ and I like the progress you are making too. LOOKING GOOD> 🙂

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks for the positive comments guys.
Kerry: i was planning on building it straight oob, but thanks anyway for giving the option 👍 it's thing like that that makes me appreciate this hobby, everybody is willing to help each other. 🙂

I did have some issues with this kit so far, specific around the cockpit/ejection area.

Murad ÖZER
fit of the fwd bomb bay door doesn't look very promising, good luck Heico.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
You are right Murad, the fit wasn't superb, good eyesight😉

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks Clifford 👍

John Coverley
Heico, there's some pictures of the F-111 at the South Australian Air Museum in one of my albums that you might find helpful.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks John! I saved some of them 🙂

Evan Dwyer
Great work so far! I've been looking for a proper Aardvark kit, just added this to my wishlist. Best of luck, looking forward to seeing it evolve.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks Evan, although this kit has some small issues it looks terrific When we are talking about detail etc.

Augie
Yanno.. I think I am going to replace my Academy Varks..

Kerry COX
It's good to see you back with your F-111.
Finally I get to have a beer and watch the rest of this build. !!! Yipee ! 🙂

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Augie, I can't say anything about the Academy but i've heard the HB is better... But that's just hear/say 🙂
Kerry,it was slow on building time lately, hopefully it won't take too long before the paint will be on.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Colour is on.

Kerry COX
Looking the goods Heico, 🙂 Well done mate.

Wim van der Luijt
Looks promising Heico!

Kerry COX
Will it have US or Australian markings ?

Holger Kranich
Great work, Heico! Lovely Aardvark!!! The HobbyBoss (?) kit hast wonderful details, it seems!
Have you ever thought about using Liquid green stuff for filling, especially around the canopy?

scalemates.com/kits/275374-g..189956004-liquid-green-stuff

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks guys.
Kerry it will get US decals, sorry for that 😛
Holger, never heard of it but if I run in to it I might give it a go.

Kerry COX
Heico, I just wondered as I don't believe we had the short winged version here, but it will look wonderful mate. 🙂

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks my friend. Some people found the tan too light coloured, what is your opinion guys?

Kerry COX
No, not at all. You just have to look at all the other aircraft of this period to see that there were differences on all of them. What you have done here is just fine and don't let 'rivet counters' influence your interpretation , because the weather conditions in the areas where this bird was deployed were some of the harshest, and unless it was undercover all the time, the paint scheme often got 'bleached out'.
You are doing a splendid job Heico. 🙂

Clifford Keesler
It looks totally awesome mate.

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks guys!

Clifford Keesler
Very nice!

Kerry COX
Heico. !!!! What a "PIG". An awesome result mate, and all the pics certainly have let us know just what you have done.
I love it. 🙂 👍

Christian Ristits
Great!

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks 🙂

soheil moghisi
Very nice.

Christian Bruer
Nice finish, I much like the blurred edges along the separation lines between the colors. Following your excellent photo documentation it does not look like an easy build. A lot of filling and sanding all along the parts?! But excellent surface detail and you restored it very nice and clean. Very good modelmaking in all aspects!

Heico van der Heide kirjailija
Thanks guys! Christian, i had some work on some parts yes, but i had much worse 😉 It was a fairly fun build, but i had some setbacks that slowed it down. Now it's finished and the final pictures can be found here: Final pictures | Album by heico1980 (1:48)

Christian Bruer
To have fun with modelmaking is the main issue🙂
Thx for the link with the final pictures. As mentioned before – excellent work!