Maciej Bellos
After some elementary work on the cockpit and more work on the seat (belts and some decals), I managed to close the fuselage with upper wings already attached on the fuselage halves. With this approach I managed to minimise the wing-fuselage gap. Some elbow grease now in order to fix the fuselage join.

Maciej Bellos
Welcome Luc!

Maciej Bellos
My modelling skills are not that good to depict a broken canopy, a pilot with arms flailing in the wind and a parachute tangled on the tail. So let's say it will look like before taking off for that specific flight. Or maybe at the moment the seat ejects, which should be much easier. I might push this project up the queue and do a dual build with a Marine EA-6A, since both are Italeri kits with the same camouflage, but different squadrons and eras (nearly 20 years apart).
Thank you for your interest Hans and I'll keep you posted!

Łukasz Gliński
Following

Maciej Bellos
Welcome Łukasz.

Thanks Hans for the link, I missed that one.

Nigel
Hell's teeth, what a story!

Maciej Bellos
Welcome Nigel!

Holger Kranich
When i first begin to like the Intruder, that freaking scary Story was one of the first i ever heard.

Maciej Bellos
Unfortunately I have to cancel this build. I am not able to print the decals. So it will be build as one of the box decals.

Łukasz Gliński
Pity Have you tried contacting Mr.Decal?

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Clifford!

Łukasz Gliński
Oh man, that's simply gorgeous!!! Hard to believe it's not the new AH kit

Bart Goesaert
with that I can agree...

Michael Phillips
Fantastic work Maciej! That is one striking scheme, and you pulled it off perfectly. Impressive indeed!

Stephan Ryll
Very nice result

Ekki
Excellent result!

Peter Klin
Congratulations for the excellent work!
Your finished model encourages me to take the same kit from my stash and give it a try...

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Łukasz! You exaggerate a bit. Up close and personal and you can clearly see the shortcomings of the Mastercraft kit.

Thanks Bart!

Thank you Michael! The whole thing was a test of my skills and I think I passed it!

Thank you Stephan!

Thank you Ekki

Thanks Peter! Do try it! All the info for the problems I encoutered is in this album and ofcourse I will be here for any questions that might arise.

Łukasz Gliński
Awesome job, cool subject and nice details on top of it all (I like the exhausts and lamps)

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Łukasz for your kind words! The lights are cool, but I think the exhausts are cooler (and were a bit more difficult to do). There is also an antenna made from really thin naylon thread (pic 59).

Łukasz Gliński
You are absolutely right, the antenna is impressive, for me in particular. It's so thin I couldn't spot it

Maciej Bellos
The antenna went on quite easily. In fact, if it wasn't for my clumsiness while cutting the excess thread that ripped it off, I would have succeeded on the first attempt.

Bart Goesaert
Very nice result. Splendid..

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Bart!

Patryk S.
Great build! Congratulations!

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Patryk!

Maciej Bellos
Any ideas on which Humbrol red to use for the tricolor?

Łukasz Gliński
14 & 60 ? Or 25 & 60?

Maciej Bellos
Didn't think of 60. Thanks! 14 is my pick too for the blue.

Łukasz Gliński
Classic numbers, I know them by heart. You're welcome as always

Maciej Bellos
Went through my stash. Got Revell's 32152 which might be too blue for a french blue. Humbrol 25 has a hint of purple which could be ok. I'll see if I can get my hands on a tin of Humbrol 14.
As for the reds, I have Humbrol 19 (too red), Humbrol 60 (a faint hint of orange there-kinda matches the overcast photo) and Humbrol 174 (rather dark). I'll make some paint chips to check them all out, or even better I'll paint pieces of paper cut in the shape of the tail.

Łukasz Gliński
Consider also the varnish, which usually darkens the colour a bit.