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  1. Great job! I purchased the Hasegawa kit for my Attic conversion and was in the process of fitting a resin wheel ell to the lower fuselage half and was also trying to fit a resin engine as well. The Attic fuselage ends and side seams on my conversion were atrocious beyond belief! I cut off the front to the first panel line and did the same to the donor kit. Looked. Like this wa s going to work, so I did the same to both speed brakes. The resin wheel set fit well but was quarter inch short. I looked at a Wild Hare build and the resin wheel bay was a little short there too but only about 1/8 inch. On to the fuselage side seams. These also bad as well. Ranging from 1/8 inch or less to almost 1/4 inch or more these were equally atrocious. The fuselage resin was flexing all over the place. The solution I came up with was To put some blocks in the same position on the upper and lower fuselage halves and then countersinking a screw that would force hulls together as far as could go without distorting the fuselage. This would be done in six or eight locations. With fuselage stabilizes and the new donor kit parts installed, I would have a stable base where I could seal the openings from the back. Bondo for the front side and sand, sand, sand! The resin wings fit well, but the missile wells needed work. I had resin Big Mouth intake and cockpit which would work. The cockpit tub would require some conversion work around the canopy hinges. This would have been a piece of cake, after all the other work. The instructions sagely advised that was a conversion for the advanced modeler. At this point I put everything back in large plastic box with a lid. It looks like your approach was the more practical solution. Again, great job!
  2. Thank you all for input! I do not know if I will ever finish the Attic conversion kit. I probably will not be able to sell it and expect that it will just gather dust in the closet. I have been able to liquidate a lot of my smaller scale planned builds, which was a surprise. Like some of you, I have accumulated far more builds than I can possibly build in the post retirement years left to me! I was most interested in the news about the Skunkworks brand. I still have some of their kits and was planning on a diorama build using their Nimitz class catapult kit. I will keep my eye out for a wild Hare conversion. I really wanted to build a large scale “what if” version of F-16 XL in the Heater Ferris wrap around camp scheme used on the two seat F-16 XL. I will probably move on to my 1/32 F/A-C Hornet build based the Academy kit. It will be in the Fist of Fleet livery I saw on an F18G in Fine Scale Modeler! I will put together some postings after I start. Thanks again!
  3. I know it has been a long time the Wid Hare 1/32 Airframe I conversion came out, but does know of or could anyone point me to a possible source. I have an ATTIC airframe conversion for the Hasegawa kit it is so poorly made that I have taken to calling it Franstein. Extensive grafting of donor kit fuselage sections is required is required on the front and rear of the resin parts and the side fuselage seams have quarter inch gaps. These are just some of the issues. The resin is too flexible and prone to breakage as well. I really wanted to build the single seat F-16XL is required prototype in the Heater Ferris wrap-around color scheme. I just do not want to spend the the time on the massive amount Bondo and body work needed to bring the ATTIC conversion into buildable shape. ANy suggestions would be helpful!
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