The butchery has commenced
not much left on the nose
still a bit rough
the refuel probe bay edges are gonna be fun to fix. also the resin set blocks it a bit 🙁
plans for the upper fuselage
looks nice, nightmare to fit in🙂
The spine is in. It fits nicely but attaching the nose fuselage part will be tricky.. Also I am adding some wiring in the wheel bay but it does look sub par so far
Comments
1 26 June 2019, 08:17
Martin von SchreckensteinWelcome Holger! My last ambitious project took 7 years so you are def in for a ride🙂
26 June 2019, 09:08
Patrick HagelsteinWasn't it easier to further butcher up the FineMolds kit? It already has those panels as an option. Just thinking...
26 June 2019, 14:27
Martin von Schreckensteinwelcome Slavo and Patrick! As much as I felt bad for cutting into my most fav kit ever, I'd feel worse for cutting into Finemolds. Also the Hasegawa kit has a lot more resin accessories available and I like it more🙂
26 June 2019, 14:40
Martin von SchreckensteinProgressing on the intakes and engines. one of the intakes will be very visible on account of the engine being out of the plane so I had to sand everything down to perfection. That took a lot of time. Also perfection was not achieved. But I will move on. I changed the engine exhausts for the aires parts. They are lacking detail but the shape seems more accurate. I am working concurrently on finishing the panel bays and the intake ramp mechanisms so that the two fuselage parts can finally be glued together but there is a long road before that still.
29 July 2019, 10:54
Martin von SchreckensteinWorking on the access panel bays. Soon I will be able to start filling them up with sweet sweet details. Tried to put the wings on to see the general scale. I will not use the hasegawa wings though. The GWH kit should arrive this week so I'm gonna use the wings from there.
12 August 2019, 12:25
Patrick HagelsteinI love the GWH kit! I even think it's better than the FineMolds one and that was awesome already! Can't wait to start mine after some other stuff on my table.
12 August 2019, 14:01
Martin von Schreckensteinwelcome new faces! I am planning to review the kit, loot the wings and drop the box back to the stash lol. serves them right for first making a delta. There is a big commercial opportunity the model companies are missing imo. If they made a kit depicting the first prototypes, everyone would have to buy seven kits each. I know I would🙂
12 August 2019, 17:56
