superbug, twin tails ´n twin engines FINISHED

[blackbetty]

bought the kit a while ago and collected some aftermarket for it: intakes, decals, the baird stacks. the seat will be blackbox

 

Edited October 17, 2019 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

started on the fuselage top, there are some things to correct (disclaimer: your milage may vary, the faults in the kit are just my opinion, i love trumpeter kits, everyone is allowed to do OOB builds and has my full respect...did i forget something - i appologize in advance  )

first i made some templates to cut the PE screen from Aber:

 

 

and cut the screen to fit:

 

[blackbetty]

the engine bypass vents are very basic, so these will be modified and thinned. for the whole build i will use jakes superhornet book as a reference, its invaluable!

the vent on th right has been thinned:

 

and some detail added. the cutout behnind it has sharp edges that are not present on the real thing, so i rounded them with some sanding

 

Edited April 10, 2015 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

here you can see the quickboost stacks, very nice detail on them compared to the kit stacks

 

 

the round vents behind them are in the wrong place, so the got filled

 

 

stay tuned

[blackbetty]

some more work on the fuselage:

locating the points to drill:

drilled close to the edge:

[blackbetty]

cut from the back:

and from the front and popped out:

care fully opened up until the quickboost part fits the hole:

relocating the vent is next.

[Jack]

veeeeeeery interesting, going to follow this one closely

[LSP_Kevin]

Nice work Karl!

 

Kev

[Loic]

Looks good !

[blackbetty]

thank you all, this makes a nice break in glueing a zillion vortex vanes to my scooter

 

stacks finished (not glued), vents relocated

 

the flush mounted antennas on the spine are heavily engraved on the kit, so i puttied them and sanded them flush. i think i will use a decal to represent them

Edited October 2, 2014 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

i have started to fit the seamless intakes from rhino models, these are very nice, but carefull fitting is in order

first i attached the lower lerx part:

Edited October 10, 2014 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

here is the dry fit, pretty good. since the lower fuselage of the kit consist of seperate sidewalls that have to be shortened to use the intakes, i have first attached the resin parts to the lower fuse

 

careful to avoid extensive cleanup here:

[blackbetty]

this is the sidewall. it joins the upper and lower fuselage part at a very visible place. i will first fix the part to the lower section to avid filler here and around the main gear bay

[blackbetty]

this is the shortened sidewall that has to fit against the resin:

[blackbetty]

i only glued the inside and the bottom in front of the chaff ejectors first

 

and used some sprue and thick CA to get some stability further back

 

after drying i will try to fit the sidewall as clean as possible and later fit the whole assembly to the upper fuselage part

stay tuned

Edited April 10, 2015 by blackbetty