J7W2 - no turning back now.

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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A few weeks ago I made new plunge molded intakes for this and now I have begun to slice up the model. There is no turning back now. This conversion is to take the J7W1 propeller driven Shiden and make a turbo jet version as would have operated over the Korean Penninsula during 1946.

Here it is with the original small intake removed and the front section of the oil cooler vent removed.

You can see the replacement intake in the foreground. The other pieces of sheet stock are to be placed inside the fuselage to provide some support to the putty work.

Here it is with the intake in place, the rear section of the oil cooler has been ground off and the putty has been sanded down.

The interior of the intake has been painted flat black and the panel lines have been rescribed over the puttied areas. Lots of little bits of plastic scattered around the work table now.

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I really like your conversion work Matt. What was your first one ever and how’d it go??? Seeing yours makes me wanna try it for the first time. I might after I get some other stuff I committed to done.

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My very first conversion was a Romulan Bird of Prey into a Nautilus submarine thing back in the late seventies. It really was more of a scratch work than a conversion. My first serious conversion was the Koster PB4Y-1. Before that everything was pretty much OOB. Once I did that it opened up a whole new world of modeling for me.

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I’d say.
You’re doing subjects most of us wouldn’t even come close to trying (well, me anyway).
Your conversion looks like it’s coming along nicely.

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Great to see that project going, Swanny…!

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Go Swanny, go!!