Starfighter Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hansen Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Those cameras look great! In your evaluation process, did you ever take a look at the cameras in the Revell RF-4, just to assess their usability? -d- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 45 minutes ago, David Hansen said: Those cameras look great! In your evaluation process, did you ever take a look at the cameras in the Revell RF-4, just to assess their usability? -d- 4 hours ago, Starfighter said: Beautiful! Thank you Ben For David: In fact no. I do not have the RF-4 kit. I just used the Squadron WA as a reference. May be Ben, could you answer David ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 18, 2019 Author Share Posted June 18, 2019 The cameras are finished and ready to be installed Greg W, scvrobeson, Jackman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 Very nice! The cameras look tremendous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Nice paintjob on the cameras! I have used the cameras from the RF-4 kit indeed, but they had to be modified. I think I have posted a photo in Eric's thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 19, 2019 Author Share Posted June 19, 2019 Hi fellows modelers, I reached an important step in my build today. I sprayed a first coat of primer on the underside of the fuselage to highlight the defaults following an long phase of several adjustments. It is not perfect yet but I am happy of this first result. It could had been worse. Marcel111, Out2gtcha, Greg W and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo59 Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 excellent work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hansen Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 Eric, i'm sure if you mention it earlier in the thread, but why did you need to add shims to widen and fill the lower centerline joint? Did it have something to do with the Nose Wheel well, or the Aires cockpit? -d- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 21, 2019 Author Share Posted June 21, 2019 5 hours ago, David Hansen said: Eric, i'm sure if you mention it earlier in the thread, but why did you need to add shims to widen and fill the lower centerline joint? Did it have something to do with the Nose Wheel well, or the Aires cockpit? -d- Hi David, You're right. Everything comes from the Aires Nose Weel weel which is a bit larger than the Fisher's one. I don't know what is the impact on the real fuselage to the scale width since the Aires part is adapted to the Trumpeter kit. Eric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 24, 2019 Author Share Posted June 24, 2019 Hi! I spent the past three days working on the fuselage to reach this level of finishing after several hours of primer spraying and sanding. Working on a short run kit is very very demanding but in the end the satisfaction is there. I still have some minor imperfections to correct but nothing difficult. I will scribe the panel lines on the final coat of primer to get the same depth as the aft part of the fuselage otherwise we may have seen the difference. A lot of work is still needed on this model but I would say that the most challenging one is behind now. See you soon for updates Cheers Eric Starfighter, Coneheadff, LSP_Kevin and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 After night of rest I took again on the general lines and I discovered that there is an issue on the shape of the air duct. It is too flat as shown compare to the pics of the real thing. So, more filling sessions to come ...... johncrow, Starfighter, Out2gtcha and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Well observed! I have to admit I would not have expected this conversion to cause so much work... just don't stop right now, it'll look excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricF Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 Just to have an idea of the work in progress for correcting the issues Coneheadff, Marcel111, Out2gtcha and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel111 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Looks all good, perfect scratch-building on those cameras! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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