Smokey

This arrived the other day. 
 

This arrived the other day. 
 

This arrived the other day. 
 

This arrived the other day. 
 

Engine compartment is finished. 
It went a bit too far as many of the details are not visible once the roof is placed. Many of the details are not accurate but again my main goal was not be be fully accurate but to show that every space aboard was cramped. The two tanks in the foreground illustrate that quite well.
 

 
I know there are one big and one small tanks outboard of each engine but I was not able to pinpoint accurately their position. So I chose the best Iocation possible to populate the area.
 

View to the forward bulkhead. It is already quite busy out of the box, I made it even busier.
 

Aft bulkhead. Less busy, just a couple technical closets added
 

Roof and exhaust pipes are still missing.
These are very hard to mate together, but since I still have to do the lighting system I have no choice but to leave them on the side for now.
 

I'm happy with the cut of the foreground engine. It's just high enough to fill the lower spaces and not too high to obstruct the view inside the compartment
I still need to assemble and paint the engine crew and main engineer and their tools to populate the compartment.
 

The roof placed but no exhaust. It's getting very dark in there and all details in the background become invisible
 

 
One final compartment left to do. 
As for the diesel engine, only one electric engine is supplied, so I'll have to design a lot of parts as well.
 
The STL files for the Diesel compartment will be available on cults 3D shortly
 
Thanks for looking. 

I hope they give us extra parts like short and long engine nacelles.  I'm glad they will be coming out with this and hope they do an actual one.  

This just showed up from Andy's

 
 

Much bigger than I expected, it takes the crown of largest kit box in my stash. 
 

 
Still a bit stunned at how big it is, especially compared to the Andy's Tiger 1 kit. 
 
Carl

This just showed up from Andy's

 
 

Hello all
Here is my JETMADS AJ37 #264/500
I haven’t seen any content referencing the AJ, so I figured I’d post this up.
Everything written about JetMADS resin & 3D printed kits are accurate. Very challenging, but bags of fun.
I decided not to use the kit's M70 rocket pods or 2x RB04 Anti-ship missiles (for the moment), instead mixing options for Shrikes, RB71 (Skyflash), RB75 (Maverick) and RB74 (Sidewinder) 
All pylons are fitted with tiny magnets, thus all weapons and the fuel tank are detachable. 
Thanks to JETMADS, and please enjoy.
 


 
 

Time to get the duct tape out:
 

 
Jari

These two came all the way from Germany.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This just showed up from Andy's

 
 

These two came all the way from Germany.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This just showed up from Andy's

 
 

These two came all the way from Germany.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Aaannd a short update, nothing, absolutely nothing to do with my modelling abilities, the Quinta Studios cockpit bits have been glued in, that is, most of them, still have the seats to do and the control stick handles decals will not fit the Revell control stick I've stol...borrowed from the Revell kit

 

 

I really do enjoy detailing and painting cockpits but, how can I beat these?!
Amazing stuff and fits perfectly!
Thanks for looking

Will be following along with your build.  Great start.

Here are the parts printed so far. I have used two A0 size blue thick paper as background (one in landscape other in portrait orientation) but still I was in difficulty placing all parts on them. Also I had to fill the areas with blue using Photopaint that was not covered by the background papers:


 
And here are some close views:

 
Next five weeks I will be on vacation but it will not stop me working on decal artwork.
Serkan
 

Hi All
 
Finally brought yet another F-16 across the finish line. An F-16AM from the Belgian Air Force - or Belgian Air Component as I believe they now call themselves.
The moment I saw that Model Maker Decals were releasing a Masking & Decal set for the X-Tiger, I knew I simply had to build it.-
I got a chance to see the real thing up-close at the Danish Airshow in 2022 and I thought it looked really cool.
The kit used is actually the Tamiya F-16C/CJ kit. I had the NSI air intake and rear end left over from a Thunderbird kit build where I used resin aftermarket stuff instead.
 
I used quite a bit of other aftermarket stuff so here goes...
 
Aires Cockpit Aires Wheelbays (only main) Wolfpack Ejection Seat PWMP Belgian F-16 Conversion (Tail base and Carapace) Kopecky Pylons (LAU 127 & 129, Sniper Pod pylon and short centerline pylon) Orange Hobby static dischargers Eduard Sniper Pod Reskit AIM-120´s and ALQ-131 Brengun AIM-9X KASL Light Weight Gear doors Crossdelta strengthening plates  
I am really happy how this turned out and my display cabinet is turning out to host quite the F-16 party by now.. 
 
The images are really high resolution so please click on them so they open in a larger format 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Thanks for looking
 
Niels
 
 
 
 

Here are the rear fuselage halves and main wheel bays together:

 
The exhaust assembly print job is currently running.
 
Serkan
 

I have managed to print the rear fuselage halves. It took around 19 hours to finish this job. And again just by pure luck the rear half fit exactly the maximum printing volume. There was no margin in z axis and the bottom end was still in resin vat when the job was finished:

 
As expected they didn't fit into cure station either:

 
Fortunately now it is summer and (sometimes) the sun shines here too. I will leave the parts in the garden for 15 minutes to cure them with natural UV light.
Serkan

In both cockpit tubs I have identified some flaws in printing  as well as errors in model. They have been fixed and re-printed.


 
Also the gauges were too shallow to paint them properly. Therefore I have slightly increased their depth.

 
Last but not least, The engine rotor fan and inlet guide vanes as well as afterburner rings were printed.

 
Next step is to start printing bigger parts.
 
Serkan

Before attempting large parts I continue to print relatively small parts with my Mars 3 printer. First three different chine root fairings (dummy, IRST and canard versions):

 
And nose wheel bay and doors:

 
I am progressing a bit slowly but continuously.
 
Serkan

Hi David, I have updated the title with "Project Kedlock". Thanks for your attention. 
 
 
 
Many thanks for having interest on my printed models. I am not sure if it is allowed here in this forum to collect orders. Currently I am not offering any models in any scales but if there is a significant demand I can make them available. It is not easy to name a reasonable price for such huge model because the amount of work, effort and material increases not linearly but in cubic scale:
 

 
I have printed and delivered several models for 125-150€ in 1:72 scale and for 250€ in 1:48 scale. But in 1:32 scale it will not be less than 500-600€. Because the parts are too big to fit in wash&cure station, print time is extremely long, almost each fuselage parts have to be printed in separate print jobs due to their sizes. I will post photos soon to have an idea how big all these parts are.
 
Serkan
 
Thanks lot! Yes the intention is to offer an opened engine bay option. I already modeled the outer wing half but inner engine cowling half modeling has not been started yet:


 
Basic J-58 modeling has been done as well. Adding all pipes and tubes will require a bit time:



 
Engine dolly model is also almost complete 
 
Serkan