FROG Gloster Javelin FAW.9R

This is what you get in the box. Fairly basic, but fairly sound.

Some major shrinkage on the fin.

Ailerons cut and hinges made; socket for pitot added.

Cannon blast tubes added.

Gear doors were a pretty good fit! All surface detail sanded off.

Kit had no intake/exhaust tubing, adding it along with turbine faces scrounged from the spares box.

More of my "seamless" intakes work.

Rudder was cut, hinged, and socketed in for a good tight fit.

Reason for the work: the distinctive rounded front to the rudder. The kit had it represented as just an engraved line.

Making the intake lips into a better, rounded profile.

Intake profile was too blunted before my fix.

Exhausts dry fitted. Once again, a good tight fit, I was able to leave these off until completion.

Brass wing spar added for strength.

Getting proper fit and dihedral left massive gaps. This called for massive amounts of CA and talc.

Scribing the airbrakes. Painstaking, time consuming, but worth it.

Template for scribing forward panels on wings.

Pilot and the GIB getting comfortable in their new offices.

Minimal detailing here. Pilots from Airfix, seats from Monogram F-4C, some scratch.

Alu furnace tape and scrap plastic details for afterburner.

Though thick, the kit canopy was pretty accurate in shape and fairly clear.

Rear of canopy corrected.

Windscreen rain clearing devices added from scrap.

Special Tool #231...

....for cutting wing vortex generators.

Many many vortex vanes, in alternating directions.

Primered up.

Tamiya AS-12, decanted and shot through the airbrush, for "high speed silver".

Vallejo 71.097 for the Dark Sea Grey, 71.016 for the Dark Green. White areas are to back the kit decals.

Wing tanks and Firestreak missiles (modified kit weapons, new fins and sharpened nose 'glass')

Gloss coated and ready decals on. The ancient kit decals performed rather well!

Rather than use the kit walkway markings, I masked and sprayed them.

..And masked and sprayed the belly tank seals as well.

Finished.

Comments

3 August 2015, 22:24

Bill Gilman
Very nice work indeed! 👍 👍 👍

4 August 2015, 02:23

Choppa Nutta
very nicely done, a lot of effort went in to this very tidy model 🙂
Set teaser to picture 45 that way more people will get ti appreciate it😉

4 August 2015, 02:40

Mike Grant
Lovely work Erik 👍

4 August 2015, 03:07

Cristian Bordina
It seems impossible that an old Frog kit can turn into a similar wonder 🙂 🙂 🙂

4 August 2015, 07:21

Holger Kranich
Supreme work!
Love the vortex generators! And a miracle that the decals are in such a good condition! How old is the kit?

4 August 2015, 07:39

Soeren R.
Awesome work, especially the paint job!

4 August 2015, 07:47

Burkhard D
Funtastic work. Good to see what a real modeller can make out of an 'old' kit. 👍👍👍

And thanks for the inspiration for that McGyver-style vortex generator cutting machine 🙂

4 August 2015, 08:59

Marko
Very well done indeed.

4 August 2015, 09:14

Erik Houghton
Thank you guys! Holger, this boxing dates from 1975, and I've found that the old Frog decals though basic tend to be robust and of fair quality.

4 August 2015, 10:19

Ekki
Lovely work. Love it.

4 August 2015, 10:39

uncle chop chop
Very nice indeed

4 August 2015, 10:41

Łukasz Gliński
That is outstanding, now I'm afraid to even taking mine out of its box...😉

4 August 2015, 11:07

Holger Kranich
1975??? Awesome, it older than me 😄😄

4 August 2015, 11:21

soheil moghisi
Really nice.

4 August 2015, 12:34

Erik Houghton
There are plenty of mistakes, and it isn't the most accurate of kits, but thank you Guido and everyone else

4 August 2015, 13:46

Choppa Nutta
an old designers maxim 🙂
Modelling is a bit like painting or magic, we're trying to create the illusion of something real, or at least an impression of something real 🙂

4 August 2015, 14:48