PhilB Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Glad to see you back with this one Doug! Nice work in those wheel wells! Looking forward to seeing more! Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cipher74 Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 Hey all. I was finally able to some work on the Hunter. Just a few shots. I've primed the gear bays for the metallizer, still doing scribing work, will be priming and cleaning up the gear soon and a host of other things. Sorry about the quality of the pix. Not entirely sure why the ambient light shifted from normal to that orange tint. I didn't make any adjustments or anything. Oh well, you guys get the idea anyway. Used Tamiya NATO black for the pit. Dry brushed silver and used a white colored pencil for all the gauges and control panel details. Picked out stuff with red and yellow here and there. Filled in the gauges with Future for the shiny glass look. Electrical wire for the ejection handles and a guitar string for the green oxygen hose sittin' on the seat. Mixed the blue and the khaki colors for the harnesses. Close as I could get. Used some spare decal pcs. on the sides of the headrest. Looks pretty close...no? Don't know if you see it or not but my intake assembly is all warped. After I assembled it and did a dry fit in the fuselage it was bunk. Huge gaps between the splitter plates and the bottom of the intakes. Oh well, guess I'll have to make intake plugs for 'em. Looked like hell when fitted. Thanks for lookin'. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Fantastic work on the ejection seat, which is easily the stat of the front office. Looking good. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Wow! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantastic Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Fantastic work on the pit!! The seat looks great! I wish mine looked that good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 That seat is insane. Nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 Who says black cockpits are boring? Very nice indeedy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cipher74 Posted September 19, 2010 Author Share Posted September 19, 2010 Thanks for the kind words guys. I really appreciate it! Dug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timvkampen Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Very nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Excellent work! Cockpit looks awesome! Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cipher74 Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Hey all Got some work done on my Hunter. Not much but, progress is progress. So without further ado... The pit in place. Also, all the weight that's gonna be crammed in the nose. I used something like 25-30 grams to keep the nose grounded. Before I zipped up the nose halves, I made a shelf for the large lead slug and all the lead pellets out of thick card stock. I attached the shelf with a ton of CA glue. Then, I mixed up a batch of 5 minute epoxy and started shoveling the epoxy in with the slug and the lead pellets and, voila! I didn't like the mounting tabs on the kit so I got rid of 'em and added my own. Not only are they stronger, they help to align the fuselage halves. The attachment points. Minimal sanding and shaping needed to clean up the joins. All zipped up! Thanks for lookin'. Dug \m/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollieholmes Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 That looks very nice. I have one of these kits that i plan to make a two seater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 i wrestled with that joint too, nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David66 Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 She's lookin good , can't wait to see her finished. Do you have a colour scheme in mind, if not, I may have some spare decals. I've got the Fisher T.7 conversion for my next Hunter and it is lush! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 7, 2010 Share Posted October 7, 2010 Looking good Doug. I've merged your 3 threads on this build into one. Best thing for you to do is bookmark your thread, so that when you have an update, you can go straight back to it and tack it on the end, rather than creating a new one. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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