A-4F, 1:144

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July 10, 2020
Main parts
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July 10, 2020
rest of the parts
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July 10, 2020
decals from the kit
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July 10, 2020
Cut out the slots
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July 10, 2020
wing halves joined
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July 10, 2020
flare dispensers need to be recessed
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July 10, 2020
first mark the size with a scalpel, next put the blade with the straight edge to the outside and deepen the borders. That way you create a kind off barrier when you scrape/cut away the inside.
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July 10, 2020
ready for dryfit
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July 10, 2020
and glued
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July 10, 2020
Not a big fan of prepainted cockpits, but in this case it saves a lot of work....
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July 10, 2020
Cockpit fitted and openings in the wings filled with putty. droptanks are dryfit. These consist of 3 parts, and the tailpart has some serious sinkmarks...
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July 16, 2020
PE wheelbays assembled and main hull parts assembled
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July 16, 2020
this join is a hard one to clean up, so scraping, adding CA, scraping sanding.... to achieve a presentable result...
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July 16, 2020
satisfied
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July 16, 2020
plugs in place, 20mm guns removed, sanded smooth and tested with paint...
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July 16, 2020
ready
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July 16, 2020
started removing some parts from te seat to replace them with PE
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July 16, 2020
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July 16, 2020
and with all belts etc added
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July 16, 2020
prepainted PE is euh... very delicate to work with....
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July 16, 2020
and bangseat in place... also the hud was added
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July 16, 2020
original canopy
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July 16, 2020
and some carefull cutting later
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July 16, 2020
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July 16, 2020
one tiny thing...
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July 18, 2020
added some wire to the front legg
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July 18, 2020
and to the main leggs too
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July 21, 2020
basecolors
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July 21, 2020
washed
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August 11, 2020
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August 11, 2020
So I cut the original part in pieces, drilled a small hole (0.5mm in a 0.6mm plastic part...) not that deep, but...
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August 11, 2020
bended it according to the drawing
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August 11, 2020
glued all parts into place and bummer... to long, bend isn't good etc... why a wrong template then???
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August 11, 2020
and adapted
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August 12, 2020
Reworked the refueling probe... could be done better. Had to heat the brass, it couldn't be bent in such sharp corner without breaking... The material get's softer, hence I loose my rigidity... the wifey will be pleased ... 😉
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August 12, 2020
it is small: 84mm
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August 12, 2020
canopy added... was a dread... seat sat a little to heigh, so had to file a bit off... then this breaks off, that breaks off, then this again...
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August 12, 2020
al closed up... to rework the scribing or not... detail is pretty soft

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2 10 July 2020, 07:00

Bart Goesaert autor
some more progress on this kit. almost ready for paint.

16 July 2020, 07:04

Bart Goesaert autor
added some hydraulics to the landing gear...

18 July 2020, 07:25

Greg Baker
Oh, I've got five of these in the stash... sign me up for the how to course.

18 July 2020, 12:08

Bart Goesaert autor
Thx Greg.

19 July 2020, 06:05

Bart Goesaert autor
added some detail painting to the landing gear and doors

21 July 2020, 09:24

Dave Flitton
Wow! Lots of intensely minute work going on here

21 July 2020, 18:37

Bart Goesaert autor
Thx Dave

22 July 2020, 03:46

Łukasz Gliński
Wish my 1/72 detail washing looked that good 👍

22 July 2020, 09:06

Bart Goesaert autor
thx Lukasz.

Next up was the refueling probe. That was a plastic part, mainly 0.5mm diameter, that needed to be bent... recipe for disaster I thought, so I've replaced it with some brass rod (more solid then copper wire)
The template from Eduard isn't up to scale, and shows the wrong bend so I had to change in the end...

11 August 2020, 14:29

Greg Baker
This is really looking great, Bart.

11 August 2020, 17:45

Bart Goesaert autor
Thx Greg

11 August 2020, 18:06

Bart Goesaert autor
Redid the refueling probe... it extended too far, and still wasn't right... then closed the canopy before painting... did some dryfitting before, but the seat was a tad to heigh, so had to remove it, some unwanted thing were also removed in the process, so from an easy job to a full afternoon... finally it was closed up... now, deepen the panellines or not...

12 August 2020, 14:37

Björn Leichsenring
I#m waiting for the finish. Nice project.

31 August 2020, 11:46

Bart Goesaert autor
Something went wrong with my AB and it spilled a lot of Paint on the model. Now I'm busy restoring the damage done before going on with the paintjob.

31 August 2020, 13:26

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