Pete Fleischmann Posted June 5, 2022 Author Share Posted June 5, 2022 5 hours ago, scvrobeson said: Printed bits look great. What's the plan for the raised rivets on the exhausts? Matt I’m thinking I’ll drill holes and place them one by one scvrobeson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 6 hours ago, scvrobeson said: Printed bits look great. What's the plan for the raised rivets on the exhausts? Matt should be fun! P Rockie Yarwood, Martinnfb, scvrobeson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 6 hours ago, Timmy! said: Looks like the primer working well… yep! It’s the bomb. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geedubelyer Posted June 6, 2022 Share Posted June 6, 2022 She's taking shape nicely Pete. It's weird but from that angle she almost looks like a single seater. Those polished cans look amazing. Is that photo of a T-bird jet? Looks like a smoke pipe between the nozzles. If so, were line jets just as brilliant? Very much looking forward to seeing you tackle that feature, keep at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 6, 2022 Author Share Posted June 6, 2022 4 hours ago, geedubelyer said: She's taking shape nicely Pete. It's weird but from that angle she almost looks like a single seater. Those polished cans look amazing. Is that photo of a T-bird jet? Looks like a smoke pipe between the nozzles. If so, were line jets just as brilliant? Very much looking forward to seeing you tackle that feature, keep at it. hi Guy! I believe it is a Thunderbird jet, yes. All of the AF T-38’s/AT-38’s are gloss painted; so they tend to stay pretty clean. The tailpipes on the Wing or Squadron Commander jets were typically kept pretty clean as well. The T-38 is a jet that just didn’t soil itself like others. The hot metal areas could get grungy however- cheers P geedubelyer, GreyGhost and Uilleann 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 Took a look at the initial fit of the wings, flaps, and ailerons- pretty psyched- cheers P Out2gtcha, A-10LOADER, Timmy! and 22 others 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Pete Fleischmann said: pretty psyched- Rightly so! Been a long time, and seeing the full silhouette come together is surely rewarding. Pete Fleischmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Got some skin in the game- Top of right slab: .005 aluminum sheet. The leading edge went down first, and wraps around the bottom. The skin stops short of the trailing edge, because there is a small step-down there on the real jet. I’ll fair that in with some Bondo or similar. cheers Pete denders, scvrobeson, easixpedro and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 Bottom skin My shop buddy Cosmo is unimpressed P themongoose, Fanes, Starfighter and 18 others 19 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyGhost Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Very nice ..! -Gregg Pete Fleischmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-10LOADER Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Very, very impressive work Pete. Steve Pete Fleischmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 Damn Pete! Looking great! Cheers Alan Pete Fleischmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 T-38 skin wrinkles- cool modeling challenge- P scvrobeson, Uilleann, Seversky and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geedubelyer Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) A challenge but something that brings life to your model, especially in this scale. Is this a feature you'll create firstly in the plastic skin before you apply the metal or will you wrinkle the metal as you apply it? One tip I can think of is you don't need alot of depth for the effect to be apparent and it's easy to overdo it. The Hawk has quite exaggerated wrinkling behind the cockpit. When I built mine it only took a quick pass with a curved blade followed by alot of smoothing out to give a neat effect. Have you done this on your models before Pete? Very much looking forward to seeing how you tackle this. Edited June 12, 2022 by geedubelyer Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 There was an article years ago in Fine Scale Modeler by a guy who was a master at depicting wrinkles in stressed skin. He made it look so easy and the results were grand. Here to tell you that it tweren’t as easy as it looked and my feeble attempts ended up in the can. So, Little Dude and I are going to watch this with great anticipation. I mean, I have yet to unpack my modeling stuff and he’s probably got trench foot and crotch rot from being soaking wet all this time, so this will be a nice distraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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