mgbooyv8 Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Thanks guys! Has it really been more than 3 months ago? Time's flying fast! I did some work on the F-35 but did not get around posting it, life got in the way etc. Started making a post, uploaded new pictures to Flickr only to find out that the forum software did not allow the Flickr URL to be inserted into the post. Apparently something has changed. Maybe something within Flickr? Hmm, I have to sort this out first before I can continue. Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 Sorted! Anyway, where were we... ah, yes! After making the canopy frame, I attached the hinges to almost all the doors and gave their interiors an additional layer of white: The small doors were put into the outer weapon and the main gear legs were painted :bay doors Deviating from the instructions, I installed the large inner weapon bay doors first: Followed by the small inner weapon bay doors: This way, they were much easier to install than toe other way around, as suggested by the instructions. Adding the pylons for the AMRAAMs was very fiddly. what I should have done was putting their mounting plates to the hinges of the small inner doors, before mounting them to the fuselage. This acually WAS suggested by the instructions! Now I had to remove small alignment pins in order to make them fit. Here are the results: The outer weapon bay doors were easier to install, but nevertheless fiddly due to the large amount of hinges: On the picture, the main landing gear is already installed. To be continued in the next post... Cheers, Peter LSP_Kevin, Marcel111, Gazzas and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted July 13, 2019 Author Share Posted July 13, 2019 As mentioned in the previous post, the main landing gear was installed. Remember that the instructions wanted you to put in the main gear in an early stage. Putting it in later could be troublesome. Well, indeed, withhout modification it would not be possible. The trick was to enlarge the holes a little bit and make the top surface of the pin above the main gear strut angled instead of 90 degrees by filing it skewed. I hope this makes sense, I forgot to take a picture of it. This way you can swing the main gear leg into position by rotating it around the side stay in the vertical gear bay wall. The gear legs will then click into position. By adding the drag brace (the forward strut) and the retraction jack, the gear will be secured in place. Here are the results: Then, work started on the stores: the GBU-31 JDAMs and the AIM120 AMRAAMs: The photo-etch parts on the JDAM's was fiddly to bend. In hindsight, I should have annealed these parts first. Painted and decalled, the weapons look like this: The AMRAAMS: The JDAMs without pylons: And here the JDAMs with pylons: And here are the weapons installed in the weapon bays: To be continued! Cheers, Peter jgrease, LSP_Kevin, Whitey and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted July 13, 2019 Share Posted July 13, 2019 Well done! mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josebagasteiz Posted July 14, 2019 Share Posted July 14, 2019 Excellent work!! I am not very fond of super modern planes, they are too smooth to make them in a model but I have to admit that you are doing a great job. mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruZz Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 Nice. but... check photos of real plane... RAM palels grey goes over the edges of bombbay doors to the inside.... mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 Thanks guys! CruZz, you are right! With the doors on masking and spraying is not an option anymore. I think I'm going to spray some clear decal sheet in the lighter RAM colour and put decal strips on the inner edges of the doors. Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 Hi guys, Ooh, already a month has passed! Time flies, I have several "biggies" on the go now. Some of them will only get a RFI. Anyway, some things have been done with the F-35. I've sprayed some clear decal sheet with my light grey RAM paint mix: It will be cut into strips to decorate the inner edges of weapon- and wheelbay doors. The ejection seat got some attention. As moulded by Italeri, it is appropriate for an early version of the F-35. In the mean time, the box behind the headrest has been changed and that version is installed in the RNethAF F-35. The kit seat was assembled and the headrest box was modified with card and strip: The etched metal seat belts were annealed first before thew were attached to the seat: The seat belts are pretty representative. Note that the central locker should stand upright as it is fixed to a fairly rigid strap. This was altered after the picture was taken. Also, when not in use, the shoulder belts are neatly hanged on a small hook at the side of the headrest. I choose to ignore that. Fifty shades of gray paint later results in this: Well, makro shots are always a little harsh for your work... Anyway, it is now ready to be installed in the cockpit. To be continued! Cheers, Peter R Palimaka, GMK, Gazzas and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 Great looking seat! mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted November 6, 2019 Author Share Posted November 6, 2019 Hi guys, Oooh, more than two and a half months after the last update... Well I had to build something for our IPMS NL region display, for the forthcoming Euro Scale Modelling on 23 November in Houten, The Netherlands. It is Large Scale, but not a plane...or is it? All will be revealed in the Non-LSP Works section after the ESM. Anyway, back to the F-35. I added grey decal strips on the inside edges of the inner weapon bay doors: A very tedious job, so I decided to leave the other doors alone. The inner faces of the inner doors are most visible, so the effort was worthwhile. The sensor under the nose was added. A little scraping on the edges was needed to make a drop fit and secure it with a little Kristal Kleer: Its transparent cover is blurred in the background of the picture. This cover followed, also glued with Kristal Kleer. Its mating edge was touched up with some paint. I forgot to take a picture. The boarding ladder and its door were next. They were easy to put in with the model upside down. A picture follows later in this post. Next it was time for the wheels. They were painted according to the pictures from the walkaround on the IPMS NL website: And then it was time to mount them on their legs. Ofcourse, there is always something with aftermarket. Spot the difference. The kit wheel in place: The aftermarket wheel in place: See? It is further away from the wheel strut. Not good. The offending small bush was grinded away: And all was well! There is a wash to dirty-up the brakes, but apparently not visible on the picture. The wheels were fitted with Araldite and the model turned over on its wheels to ensure that the flat spots are at the right position while the glue hardens. The F-35 is on its feet! And here is the promised crappy picture of the boarding ladder and its door: That's all for now. To be continued. Cheers, Peter TorbenD, Kagemusha, LSP_Kevin and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbgtv8steve Posted November 6, 2019 Share Posted November 6, 2019 From one MGBV8 owner/driver to another, lovely work!! Steve S. mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Looking good! mgbooyv8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 Thanks guys, It's appreciated! Work continued this weekend. I had promised a picture of the transparent sensor cover under the nose. Here it is: The pitot tubes had also been installed. This is a fiddly butt joint. The navigation lights were installed next. It's basically 3 lights in a silver box under a transparent cover. So I painted 3 dots and a silver rectangle on the base of the transparent parts. There is distortion, but so be it. They were glued in with Kristal Kleer in the upper and lower wing tips. Here's one on the left wing tip: Here are the wheels after the glue hardened overnight: That's the underside done. Time to paint the exhaust. The reference pictures show that the exhaust petals have a brown-grey coating, with grey metal rear edges. I tried to match the color with this very scientific approach: And finally settled on these paints: The ratio was: 2x H186, 1x CC ACUS41, 2x R91. This mixture was sprayed on, the edges painted H53 gunmetal, which is greyish. Then it was covered in Alclad AquaGloss, followed with a wash of Tamiya smoke between the petals. Finally, the ceramic white surface (R301) inside was touched up and the petals accentuated with pencil lines. This is the result: To be continued in the next post. LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 (edited) Now it was time to finish the canopy. I had pondered a long time how to give the raised shattering cord in the canopy a silver colour without ruining it. Finally I used a silver gel pen. The gel ink barely holds on the clear plastic. It was sealed with some Klear, applied with a small brush. It's still fragile, but as long as you don't touch it... Four cream colored rectangular decals had to be added. That was done with Klear and Daco Red. Here is the result: The separate inside frame that I made earlier was sprayed R9 Anthracite and slightly drybrushed with H125: To glue them together, I used the new Revell UV hardening glue (by the way another useful product fur us from the dentist world ) . A bit of gel was put on the forward side edges and on the rear edge. You have time to position the parts and when ready hold the small UV light next to it. It works very well: The gaps between the frame and the canopy were filled with Kristal Kleer and painted R9 Anthracite. And that was the canopy finished: Both the ejection seat and the canopy were not glued in place, to facilitate transport of the model upside down on its foam support: And this means......The F-35 is finished!!!!! Here are some crappy pictures of the finished model: When I have the time, I will make proper daylight pictures for RFI, hopefully next weekend. That's all folks!!! Cheers, Peter Edited November 10, 2019 by mgbooyv8 typo's corrected Squizzy 78, USMC Herc, ShelbyGT500 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntert7 Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 HI Peter Again a great model is finished. It looks stunning. Hope you bring it to Euro Scale Modelling next saturday Cheers Henk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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