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1/32 Polish F-16D Block 52+ (from Academy Sufa)


DoogsATX

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Awesome job so far Matt, and super clean, i love it!!!

 

John

 

P.S. Your photos rock!!!!

 

Thanks! I actually feel like the photos of the pit have been weak - it's INCREDIBLY difficult to light properly. Things should improve markedly as I move into the main construction phase.

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Hi DoogsATX,

 

Take care with the lenght of the piston to open the canopy,the acdemy is a little beat too short.

 

i would try the Wolfapck pit on my F-16D,it's very a great piece

 

Jean luc 

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I've been contemplating doing a custom piston with some metal tubing...will keep that in mind as I progress in the build.

 

Moving on to the *other* internals I need to tackle...

 

The intake was painted Gunze C69 Offwhite and then glued. Squadron white putty has been slathered into the seams and will be sanded off, hopefully doing the trick for further painting.

 

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There's also a NASTY seam in the exhaust channel. WTF, Academy? Instead of doing these as halves, why not as a series of rings instead? It'd to a much better job hiding things.

 

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Painted the intake last night. Here's how.

 

1) Buy white house paint. Lowes sells small sample pots that are perfect. I chose a slight off-white.

 

2) Make sure seams have been filled and sanded reasonably well. Use tape to block the back of the intake.

 

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3) Pour paint into intake and fill it all the way to the top. You'll want to use a smaller container for control.

 

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4) Up end intake and pour out paint.

 

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5) Viola! Remove tape and place intake where it can drain.

 

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It's been a rough weekend at the bench. 

 

After cracking the paint down one side of the intake, I went for a second run...eesh.

 

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Fortunately, tonight, I took another look and the paint had more or less smoothed out, at least up front where it will be visible.

 

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Spent most of last night with the 262, but also took a few minutes to start detailing out the Aires gear bay. Thankfully I've got some crazy-excellent reference pics to draw on, but even so, figuring out which of the rat's nest of cables and lines need to be metal, or black, or braided blue is an exercise in frustration. Ultimately it's totally going to be "accuratish".

 

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Got some more work done on the Polish Viper today...first I finally got around to sticking some of the kit stencils on the bangseats. It was very strange doing this while on a conference call this morning!

 

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I also put some time in painting up the gear bay and finished it off with a coat of Future ahead of weathering.

 

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Really, really wish Aires or anyone made a late-model Pratt & Whitney for this thing...

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Hello Matt!

 

Very nice work in the cockpit and wheelbay  :thumbsup:

 

If I may, here are some pictures of my work around the air intake:

 

 

I did some cutting and bending:

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The result is not perfect but a bit more curved than the initial part:

 

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More pics:

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=43494&hl=sufa

 

 

Hope it helps

 

 

 

 

 

Keep up the good working coming!

It's gonne be an impressive model!

 

 

Bye

 

Rom

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Guest Peterpools

Matt

Nice come back and the intake looks really good. The Aires gun bay looks amazing and the detail painting - well done

keep 'em coming

Peter

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