Well the past few days were the final push… since the pilot reminded me of Adolf Galland, I made a cigar from stretched Sprue and added that in the corner of his mouth. The only change I made to the kit aside from hollowing out the exhaust pipes and cannon bores
Then he was glued in place…
Then I glued the canopy in place… the rubber band kept it in place while the glue set
and then I added all the last bits…
All finished now!!! I’ll get some multi view photos up in the finished section tomorrow
Smallest update ever. I was trying to get the AM ejection seats to fit in the F-4 with some issues. So I decided to partially build up the included seats to use as a test fitter.
Got that figured out, but in the mean time, I was taken aback by how little detail the stock seat had.
Pretty sure I’ll never be satisfied with a stock seat again.
I’d watch the video of that PE install! That is amazing! I bet that took a LOT of patience and skill to bend all that PE and make it fit in that tiny space!
Thank you, yes, it’s the smallest, most detailed thing I’ve ever painted actually. I wasn’t even sure how I was going to do it until I just grabbed the smallest brush I had and my magnifying glasses and started painting away.
Spending a quiet lazy relaxing weekend building all these leftover Trumpeter 1/350 scale US Marine Armor Accesories vehicles that I’ve had for a very long time, but never used.
Still not sure what I’m going to do with them all. Since the weather is cold again with snow on the way today, I figured I’d try and keep myself occupied by doing “something” at the kitchen table.
I was just looking at the HB F-86 kit today in that scale, and was intrigued but, it seemed to be, as you say, not especially detailed. It’s almost like they just upscaled a 1/48th scale kit without adding any details which is a darn shame as in this scale, you could really go to town.
My scratch building skills are infantile at this point so I put the kit back on the shelf.
I’ll be following your progress with great interest though.
