Mel Posted February 12 Author Share Posted February 12 19 hours ago, chaos07 said: The green on the HUD glass captures the look of the real deal perfectly in my opinion. Thank you very much, your advice and opinions are very useful and serve as a guide for me, do not hesitate to recommend things chaos07 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 (edited) While I was doing the F 16, today I received this, but I still have things left to follow F 18, guys sorry for Guys, I apologize for having it "stopped" but until I have everything I can't continue with the kit. Edited February 16 by Mel TankBuster, Landrotten Highlander, themongoose and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 (edited) Today while I was doing the F 16 the quinta sudios set arrived, finally!! Edited February 20 by Mel geedubelyer, Landrotten Highlander, scvrobeson and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted February 25 Author Share Posted February 25 On Friday while I was working on the F 16 I received the double layer reskit tape for the F18 and I'm waiting for the gtresin resin intakes scvrobeson, chaos07, Yamamoto and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Well guys, today I finally received the last parts of the F18, the gtresin resin intakes, today I will follow this hornet, I have left the f16 aside, I had a couple of big problems and I was too lazy to apply the solution, obviously I will be back Fanes, Landrotten Highlander, TankBuster and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted March 2 Author Share Posted March 2 (edited) Hello guys, these days I have been doing the f 18, and I leave you some small progress Edited March 2 by Mel Fanes, SwissFighters, chaos07 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Nice, busy cockpit there! Well done Mel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 wow that was quick! looks great Mel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted March 3 Author Share Posted March 3 (edited) On 3/2/2024 at 7:52 PM, Brett M said: Nice, busy cockpit there! Well done On 3/2/2024 at 11:41 PM, chrish said: wow that was quick! looks great Thank you very much guys, today I have been caulking and sanding the joints of the gt resin intakes so that it is as smooth as possible between the piece and the fuselage, I have also been priming to see any errors Edited March 4 by Mel F`s are my favs, SwissFighters, scvrobeson and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 well guys, sorry for my absence, but after spending 3 days sanding, priming the areas and sanding again, the shots of gt reisn have been perfect, although you see the small lines, this photo is from yesterday, now after finishing again from sanding and polishing you don't notice anything at all, and today a little preshading SwissFighters, Isar 30/07, Ginja Ninja and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Now I’m really interested in seeing how this looks after painting! Mel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaos07 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Nice progress! Glad to see those intakes fit so well too. Mel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel Posted March 11 Author Share Posted March 11 On 3/7/2024 at 10:21 PM, themongoose said: Now I’m really interested in seeing how this looks after painting! On 3/8/2024 at 2:02 PM, chaos07 said: Nice progress! Glad to see those intakes fit so well too. Thank you very much guys, sorry for the absence, these two days I have been and am fine-tuning the last details before gloss varnishing and finishing the ejection seats F`s are my favs, themongoose, patricksparks and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Those screens are looking, pretty smart! Mel and F`s are my favs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALF18 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Nice job so far. The cockpit looks great. The D model comes in two flavours: two-stick pilot trainer, or night attack with WSO in back. The pilot trainer has a control stick like the front cockpit (like in the reference pic, showing the black rear instrument panel from the model next to it above). The night attack version would have a joystick on each side console, that the WSO uses for weapons aiming. That version is not intended to be flown from the back, and the backseater is a true weapons operator, not a second pilot. I found a good picture on a DCS forum site that shows the left console controller, and the fact there is no pilot control stick in the back on that version: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/200160-fa-18d-usmc-night-attack/page/2/ I flew CF-18 A and B Hornets for 10 years in Canada, and I followed the upgrades closely with the C, D, D night attack, then E, F, and G variants closely. Anything with a centre-mounted control stick in back is a pilot trainer, not night attack with the specialized avionics and joysticks on the side panels. For the displays, unless AC power was available, they would be dark (i.e. off). AC power is only available when at least one engine is running with its generator on, or when external AC power is connected on the left side of the nose. They do look nice when they're all lit up, though! I love the big Academy kit, and I have some of those Red Fox instrument panels for three kits I have to build soon. I'll be following this, to refresh my memory on the details of the build. If you have any questions about details, etc, you can send me a PM. ALF Mel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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