1/48 Skunkmodels MQ-9 Reaper 432D Air Expeditionary Wing USAF Creech AFB Nevada

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Hi all, with all the big builds I have been working on lately including a 1/35 K-5 Leopold, I wanted a quick build to keep the sanity. It is OOB, I used Italeri dark ghost grey for pre-shading and Italeri light ghost gey for main colour and shades of light ghost grey for weathering. I also mixed an oil wash with paynes grey to highlight recessed panel lines. Also added lead in the nose otherwise she would be a tail sitter for sure. Protected with Satin vallejo polyurethane varnish.

Overall a pretty good kit but it does has problems, like the weapon pylons do not match up with the holes in the wings, and the GBU-12’s don’t line up with the pylon locator tabs, very strange.

Thanks for looking

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Excellent work, Grant, thanks for posting. The detail work and finish are first rate, glad you were able to make a silk purse out of a kit with issues. Did the wings come with a static droop, or did you do it yourself?

Another solid hit, and an unusual subject.

Patrick

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Thanks Patrick, the wings just sat that way, if I wanted them to be on the horizontal to the ground I would have had to modify as that is where they sat flush to the kit’s fuselage

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Understood, Grant. I have seen them on the ground with and without fuel and wing external stores, When unloaded the wings were nearly level to the horizon, loaded they had a very prominent downward bend. Looks like you nailed the correct stance. Thanks again.

Patrick

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Nice work Grant! Pretty cool looking drone! What is the overall wingspan on that kit?

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Cheers mate, wingspan is about 41.5cm.