Gazzas Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 That's great, modelling with your daughter. Stokey Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 18, 2022 Author Share Posted December 18, 2022 10 minutes ago, Gazzas said: That's great, modelling with your daughter. It’s amazing to share the hobby with her. She has real enthusiasm for the construction, and has some skill with recognition of the different types I have built so far. Kagemusha, Gazzas and Greg W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 A slow start for me with this one, not been feeling too great. I have a box with the cockpit parts all trimmed and primed, ready to paint. I made a start on the intake trunkings, to create my own seamless ones. I stopped building them as one piece after the very first Eagle I built. LSP_Kevin, Greg W, themongoose and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Pete, I hope you feel better soon! Good solid start, even while feeling unwell. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 Good news! I can commit to this fully now. I had a little delivery in the mail this morning. As with all Cartograph printed decals, they look beautiful, with clear lettering. Also, a little nod to the service from DXM. From the order to Taiwan, to my door in the U.K, in a little over 3 weeks. To put that in perspective, I ordered some F-16 decals from a UK supplier 30 miles from me, at the same time as the DXM order. I’m still waiting for the viper sheet. Kagemusha, Alain Gadbois, denders and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Funny I just took mine out of the box today and thought the same thing, absolutely beautiful! There’s just no way I would use those thick Tamiya decals out of the box. What a mess it would make. I’m interested to follow your seamless intakes for sure. I opted to keep it all together so I guess I will see how it goes… Knowing you’ve only done it that way once and never again fills me with dread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 2 hours ago, themongoose said: Funny I just took mine out of the box today and thought the same thing, absolutely beautiful! There’s just no way I would use those thick Tamiya decals out of the box. What a mess it would make. I’m interested to follow your seamless intakes for sure. I opted to keep it all together so I guess I will see how it goes… Knowing you’ve only done it that way once and never again fills me with dread I’d probably do the same if I were building a wheels down version. Cutting up the intakes is easy if it’s built wheels up. There’s no realigning of the wheel bays, etc needed. I also think you’d have hefty gaps to fill if you were to try and cut them, and install them with the bays intact. After seeing a few photo’s of intakes, and how far the paint stretched into the ‘tunnel’, I knew my solution was the one for me. This is my Strike Eagles intakes, forgive the poor phone quality, but it shows the effect well. Greg W, themongoose, MikeMaben and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Those are some really nice decals Pete. If I were not trying to keep my Ki-61 build oob I would have gotten some AM decals. The Hasegawa decals that came with the kit are, like most of the Tamiya decals, not very good. Ernest Stokey Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhodie78 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 6:18 AM, Stokey Pete said: I’ve had a great result from the UK Tamiya distributor too. They have sourced me a ‘C’ lower fuselage half which I can cross kit into the ‘E’ kit, to loosely ‘convert it into a ‘DJ’ After I read this I emailed the US Tamiya team and they sent me the C lower half as well. I fell into a Tamiya F15E for a steal and I wasn't wild about the paint options for the E, so had been kicking around the JASDF DJ schemes, but didn't have the solution to the bottom fuselage. Thanks for the tip - I will jumping in on this one seen too, waiting on decals. Stokey Pete, themongoose and Kagemusha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 1 hour ago, Rhodie78 said: After I read this I emailed the US Tamiya team and they sent me the C lower half as well. I fell into a Tamiya F15E for a steal and I wasn't wild about the paint options for the E, so had been kicking around the JASDF DJ schemes, but didn't have the solution to the bottom fuselage. Thanks for the tip - I will jumping in on this one seen too, waiting on decals. Welcome to the JASDF club Rhodie!! This will end up being the most colorful group build LSP has ever done Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 Not a huge amount of progress for me aside from getting rid of sprues and spares to the storage box. It always spooks me a little to see so few parts used if I choose gear up and few weapons. LSP_Kevin, Landrotten Highlander, BradG and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokey Pete Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 On 12/27/2022 at 12:56 AM, Rhodie78 said: After I read this I emailed the US Tamiya team and they sent me the C lower half as well. I fell into a Tamiya F15E for a steal and I wasn't wild about the paint options for the E, so had been kicking around the JASDF DJ schemes, but didn't have the solution to the bottom fuselage. Thanks for the tip - I will jumping in on this one seen too, waiting on decals. Which scheme do you have in mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Nice progress Pete. The model looks like it will be fairly large when finished. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Nice progress. I prefer jets gear up... that way they actually look like they can be speedy things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhodie78 Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 On 12/28/2022 at 11:36 AM, Stokey Pete said: Which scheme do you have in mind? Sky blue splinter effect, think it will look pretty sharp I just joined the the GB. Race you to the finish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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