chuck540z3 Posted March 21, 2019 Author Share Posted March 21, 2019 11 hours ago, Squizzy said: Looking great Chuck! Blending those fuselage sections together must have been a PITA! But the results you're getting must be very rewarding. Great work. Thank you sir. Like most modelers, I spend the most time on the very thing I hate, which is sanding. When you get nice and smooth results, however, all those hours of sanding seem to disappear and the end result is well worth the effort. As I've mentioned many times before, using a dark panel line wash is an excellent way of checking your work and revealing flaws that cannot otherwise be seen. After a first coat of paint I will inevitably find a few more flaws, but it's so much easier to fix most of them now. Cheers, Chuck Harold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel111 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Usual absolutely perfect and pristine modeling! Just beautiful! chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Always enjoy your pre-paint work, Chuck! Highlighting the surface details to illustrate the work really raises the bar since close-up photography can such an unforgiving perspective. Making those unsightly joints disappear takes lots of patience and re-iterative work but like you say, the results make it worth the effort. chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck540z3 Posted March 22, 2019 Author Share Posted March 22, 2019 (edited) Intake Update! It looks like the Phase Hanger seamless intakes are coming soon: Phase Hanger Resin Accessories on Facebook And GT Resin will have some of their own in about 3-4 weeks? GT Resin Since I haven't seen either, I can't vouch for which ones are going to be the best (nor would I), but either product has to be a lot better than PVC plastic pipe! With intakes en route, all that's really needed now is a decent resin cockpit. Cheers, Chuck Edited March 22, 2019 by chuck540z3 Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 great to see you back Chuck and the F-5 looks awesome so far. This might help (I hope you can see these) - it's a Brazilian F-5EM but hopefully lots of the details will be applicable to your aircraft https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.2119456571651287&type=3 for future reference, that's from a fantastic Facebook group called aircraft walkarounds, well worth joining chuck540z3 and Out2gtcha 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck540z3 Posted March 24, 2019 Author Share Posted March 24, 2019 On 3/22/2019 at 3:13 AM, richdlc said: great to see you back Chuck and the F-5 looks awesome so far. This might help (I hope you can see these) - it's a Brazilian F-5EM but hopefully lots of the details will be applicable to your aircraft https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.2119456571651287&type=3 for future reference, that's from a fantastic Facebook group called aircraft walkarounds, well worth joining Thank you, and to be honest, I should never have left. When I click on the Facebook link it won't let me in. How do I do that? Cheers, Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Chuck, You do beautiful work. Your scribing is excellent and I wish mine looked half as good. Gaz chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 ''I am in love'' with your builds Chuck!!! John chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 19 hours ago, chuck540z3 said: Thank you, and to be honest, I should never have left. When I click on the Facebook link it won't let me in. How do I do that? Cheers, Chuck OK Chuck go to facebook and search for 'aircraft walkarounds' in groups. Request to join the group et voila! Once approved, search for whatever aircraft you want in the 'search this group' box. You may even be able to do that without joining the group, but I don't think so chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck540z3 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) Thanks! March 28/19 As shown earlier, I used white styrene sheet at the rear of the front intake parts, to both fill the gaps and provide a sharp demarcation line between the black at the front and the white that will blend into the front of the intake pipes. Before assembly, the inner parts were painted so that the finish would be smooth, avoiding airbrush air turbulence. The parts were then glued together, oozing Tamiya Extra Thin Cement (TETC) into the join from the outside, to avoid paint damage on the inside. As you can see, the kit parts fit like crap, so there was a lot of work to sand down the raised lips and fill the seam line. I also painted the inner sides of the intake while the surface was exposed, again to create a smooth paint finish. I’ve done this as well on the insides of my F-15C Eagle intakes and the vari-ramps (splitters) on my F-4E Phantom. Better to paint this area now than try to squeeze paint in there later. The front intake parts don’t fit the fuselage very well either, partially because KH decided to make the rear of the navigation lights fit into a slot on the fuselage. There’s no reason for this, since the lights are not recessed into the fuselage on the real deal, but it forces you to place the intake in the very center with no allowance to move it up or down to create a better fit. Further, the join does not exist as a panel line, so it must be filled and eliminated. BEFORE: AFTER- Using lots of CA glue and sanding to create this much smoother finish. BEFORE- The other side has the same problems. AFTER: BEFORE. The bottom, as usual, is worse. AFTER. The lines in purple should be filled and eliminated, while the weak detail on the kit parts needs to be rescribed and the rivets repunched. Same pic without the colored lines, which still show “ghost panel lines” from prior staining. Edited March 28, 2019 by chuck540z3 Coneheadff, Out2gtcha, AceofClubs and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuck540z3 Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 (edited) A view from the top, showing in purple which joins to eliminate. Same pic without the colored lines. With the front intake extensions painted on the inside and glued on, the sharp contrast from black to white creates a nice sense of depth and unless you use a flashlight like this pic, you really can’t see where the join is. Could this be the first build of this kit with full intakes? That’s it for now. Next up will be wings and landing gear, which have their own set of challenges! Cheers, Chuck Edited March 28, 2019 by chuck540z3 Out2gtcha, scvrobeson, zaxos345 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark M Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 man this looks like a nightmare to build like the revell bug, keep up the good work chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Nice determined work, Chuck! I get the feeling the kit isn't exactly Tamiya fit... chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Plenty of nice work to oogle over, Chuck. Great work and results. Sincerely, Mark chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 28, 2019 Share Posted March 28, 2019 Looks great so far..............and indeed good news about two sets of intakes to choose from too chuck540z3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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