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  1. Barry
    I've started adding the structural stiffeners to the burner petals. I desided even thou this will be an inflight build that the burner would need some added details. The details is styrene strip .010x.010 and .010x.020. The four on the left have been sanded to shape. Nice photos of both earlier and later style burner petals in Squadron's F-8 Walk Around #38, pg 45. If your build requires the earlier style and want a more detailed burner you might consider the F-102 style burner from Master Details. Back to the bench, Barry
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    And that's what counts. Nice Work!! Barry
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    Main structures taped up. Gear doors, gun bays, IFR door fitted. As I am going to display inflight and have desided to go with copper tubing or acrylic rod up the tail pipe. I am going to have to engineer internal structure to support the weight. I am going with the kit cockpit to help reduce the weight it should paint up into reasonable rendition but I will be using AMS's resin seat when it become available. Aslo by eliminating all the wheel wells, landing gear and gun bays internal details this will get me a reasonable weight to work with. I am hoping that Master Details (Steve said he was) will bring out a Naval Aviator for the Vietnam period for the pilot figure. So here's the photo of the initial mockup. Photo was prior to nose fairing addition.
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    Thanks Jack, I will do my best but I am not a prolific builder. I only wish to produce the most accurate recreation I can. I will sacrifice schedule for quality anytime. That is why my A-7 has taken nearly 3 years now. Next effort will be the afterburner and getting what will be visible in the cockpit area up to par. Still not commeted to the refueling probe and speed brake. Will be in touch, Barry
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    Crash, Your photos are further conformation. The close up of the L/H side is great. The F-8P incorporated all of the E refinements plus the double droop leading edges. No doubt at all now that the fairing of the raised panels on the kit is the correct answer. At least in my mind. I believe Trumpeter has ealier versions at least planned and the raised panels would make it very easy to eliminate them. If they had created the fairing then it wouyld have required a larger change to their molds. My thoughts only no proof to back it up. Just between all of us I do not know that much about the F-8 either. I do know that it is/was a sleek pure fighter. I'm an Phantom Phanatic and I am getting my skills tuned up for my first 1/32 F-4 build. Barry
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    Guys, In the second close up photo. Take a look at the access panel just aft and below of the vents. Look at the forward vertical edge of this panel. Is it not obviously curved from bottom to top? I am glad you guys sent me to Airliners.Net looking. I am now convinced the fairing of the panels is correct. Now does anyone know when the AIMS Altimeter system was incorporated into the F-8. You will see second Pitot/Static Probe located aft of original Pitot Probe. This probe contained both Pitot and Static sensor capibility. This was a requirement of the AIMS Encoded Altimeter system. I know that the USAF A-7s did not receive this modification until after 1972/73. Thanks, Barry
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    Closer shot.
  8. Barry
    Jack, Rob, I have found a couple of shots from Air Liners. net They are of French F-8s.
  9. Barry
    Is it not great that we all have nothing better to do than this, Man I Love this hobby! Jack, I concurn with your latest photo Jack, it is most assuredly a E/J. I would call your attention to the very obivious curvature of the radome at the point in intersects the fuselage. If you look for the fairing from that point back into the fuselage I believe you can see it though not as well as in the other photo. Having Fun, Barry
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    Jack, Take a look at page 60 and 61 of Naval Fighters #16. Looking at the view of the nose profile on the plan view, view looking down. Compair the profile of the C model on page 60 with that of the E model on page 61. You can see the bulge of the fairing below the line of the windscreen of the E as compaired to the nearly flat profile of the C. You can also see where the nose profile curves back into the radome on the E compaired to the C. I am sure either way you will have an excellent model. Best Regards, Barry
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    J, I do not believe that the forward section shown in the photo is an E, it clearly has the 3 vents of the earlier versions not the 4 of the E/J. Also you can see that the sides on the nose and radome are much flatter that those of the E/J. I am curious as to what the one in the back is though, it has vents that I can see? I also believe that the "shadow" is what makes the fairing visible in the photo. Barry
  12. Barry
    Color is better in this shot.
  13. Barry
    Face Curtain was still part of seat during the 70s.
  14. Barry
    I rebuilt the canopy breakers.
  15. Barry
    Here are a few Ejection set shots, Aires seat with Eduards PE.
  16. Barry
    The photo is from a post under Crusader Stuff on the Discussion Forum.
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    last, better photo
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    next, not a good photo
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    next
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    Now for the fairing built up using styrene sheet.
  21. Barry
    I thought I would start this off. I know some of you are already working on the new Trumpeter F-8. My first impression was Nice Kit. Looks like and F-8 and It is certainly big enough. I am building an inflight display. I thought that I might extend the refueling probe and maybe have the speed brake extended. If I go with the refueling probe extended I will build a drogue and hose then position a/c on approach to contact. Like I said I did not see any really glaring issues until I got to looking at the cooling vents for the forward avionics (radar) bay either side of the nose just aft of the radome. Trumpeter has molded these on a raised panel. All the photos I have found show the vents but they are blended into the fuselage in a tear drop shaped fairing. I know that the nose of the "E" model was enlarged to accommodate the new larger radar. After fitting up all the landing gear doors, RAT and gun bays doors I set about reworking the vents into a fairing. First photos are of the kit fuselage with the basic outline of the fairing marked off with tape.
  22. Barry
    Thank you for your comments. The wood block you are asking about for the canopy and windscreen was laid out by hand on basswood and carved the same way, no machine other than a Zacto knife and sandpaper. Barry
  23. Barry
    Another bay shot.
  24. Barry
    The reworked hook bay.
  25. Barry
    Another shot this time of the "Horse Shoe".
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