Testors F-19 Stealth Fighter

1986 box art backside 

1986 box art 

A five dollar kit from a flea market. I built this kit as a child in about three days. 

 

 

Adding blanking plates to the see-through intakes 

Each one painted black before intake diverters were installed 

Intake diverter assembly prior to installation 

 

Pilot figure borrowed from an old monogram kit, as I stole the figure from this kit for my YF – 23 project last year 

Open cockpit floor and missing cockpit side walls were added with sheet styrene  

 

It will be displayed in-flight with all gear and weapons base closed up 

Sanding and blending the large mismatched edges 

With everything as smooth as I could get it, the remaining gaps around the intake diverter were filled with Vallejo acrylic putty 

Surface sanding with 280 grit reveals lots of depressions and irregularities from the molding process. 

They are easily sanded away and polished with #0000 steel wool  

Upper fuselage nearly complete  

I modified the pilot’s right arm to actually hold the control stick.  

The cockpit and modified pilot are complete  

The cockpit (with sheet styrene floor and extended sidewalls) is installed with Sprue Goo.  

After the cockpit was installed, the fuselage halves were glued together, taped, and clamped