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22 April 2013, 23:24
Greg SolomonDecided to scratch-build the thruster ports and tail cone for the AA-6 Acrid missiles for my FoxBat. The original missiles that came with the kit may as have well have been twinkies.
1 May 2013, 22:12
Greg SolomonAdded side thruster thingys.... scratch built from old sprew. Also re-engraved some pannel lines. The fins are still way too thick but I'm getting tired of fooling with these things... so its off to the paint booth!
3 May 2013, 18:59
Albi Hitzpicture 10 seem like a lot of work to go ... wow ...
I am excited about ...
15 May 2013, 17:57
Greg SolomonArgh! Story of my life! Work my buut off trying to make a bland model look a lot better, and someone releases it with new tooling! Oh well. Do you kow the scale of the Kitty Hawk version?
16 May 2013, 19:39
Albi HitzYou do the right thing Greg ... I'm sure your Foxbat will became a beauty (... or a beast 😉 )
by the way :Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 PD/P..t (Kitty Hawk KH80119, 1:48)
16 May 2013, 19:44
Greg SolomonCool, hope to see it sometime. Maybe it will be at the IPMS US convention in Colorado in August this summer? I'm going to it!
17 May 2013, 17:03
Greg SolomonLittle by little I'm gettig to the point I can start painting this thing! I had to take a break when I had to go in for surgery on my plumbing a few weeks ago, and then my back gave out and I have been slowely recovering from that. Now I am getting a cold. Sheesh! What did I do to deserve this?
23 May 2013, 18:01
Greg SolomonGot the pre-shading done and the canopy inside paint. I'm assuming its aqua blue, refference photos don;t show much. Next, the over-all paint color. Hopefully my preshading with show through!
28 May 2013, 21:23
Greg SolomonFinally finished my Fox Bat! Took all summer and into the fall... But it was fun.
12 November 2013, 20:41
Greg SolomonThanks guys, it was fun to weather... lots of streaks, rain drip marks, discolored panels, darkened panel lines... real "used" looking... I read that a lot of Russian planes were not housed in hangers and really took a beating from the elements.
12 November 2013, 21:53
Greg SolomonThanks, weathering is sure nice to help hide any flaws.... Hard to do that with new, shiny sport cars!
12 November 2013, 23:03
Wim van der LuijtGreat looking piece of cold war hardware...it is a big beast isn't it?
12 November 2013, 23:37
Greg SolomonThanks, I wish I had known about the Kitty Hawk version before I spent so much time on the Revell model.
13 November 2013, 19:56
Greg SolomonThanks Es-Haq, I'd love to see a real FoxBat in person! Next is the Vought V-173 flying pancake!I think I'll incorporate a bottle of maple syurp with it!
14 November 2013, 19:36
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Like a giant, cold relic from the cold war, I want this to look like it has seen a lot of use...
