YF-117A FSD "Scorpion"
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Very poorly moulded plastic. Uneven thickness and very little detail.
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The top fuselage half has a crack across the rear with holes. Needed to be repaired.
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Fuselage damage and moulding issues while still on sprue.
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Fuselage damage and moulding issues while still on sprue.
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Had to use sprue goo to fill the gaps so as to maintain flexibility of fuselage as it also had a slight bend.
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Fuselage repairs.
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Fuselage repairs.
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Fuselage repairs.
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Very poor cockpit detail and terrible fit. Lots of scrapping and filing.
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Very chunky bombs.
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Weighing down front. Not called up in Polish language instructions but does need quite a bit of weight to stop tail sitting.
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Canopy detail was not the best. Although it was reasonably clear.
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The plastic pitot tube and sensors are poorly moulded and very overscale. I cut them off and replace with brass tube and rod.
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Looks much better!
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Big mistake!! I CA glued the bomb bay doors on the outside instead of the centre. the instructions were not clear on the position and I did not check my reference photos. I had to use CA as this plastic did not take well to the cement.
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Tail fins did not fit well and were very poorly moulded. Lots of filing and filling.
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Finally reached the priming step.
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Chunky wheels.
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Canopy did not fit well. Had to dod a lot of canopy and cockpit filing to get a reasonable but not great fit.
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A bit of preshading/
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Went for the 3 camo scheme so needed to mask up.
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Not really happy with this one.
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Finally finished. Decals were a nightmare, they kept falling apart.
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2 1 October 2022, 02:34
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