JMac
cut. glue. paint. repeat.
- Joined
- May 24, 2009
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It's been about two months since I've had the time to sit down at my bench and really build something (the Ta-183 was just finishing up something I'd already had started).
Now things are starting to settle down; I've managed to finish up a course I was taking, and my home renos are at least insulated and the exterior is finished against a cold upcoming Alberta winter. So now I have some time to build again. I was looking at the stash and my shelf queens trying to decide what to do, and I decided to start on my Italeri Flanker D (shelf queens are shelf queens for a reason ).
I know this is not the best Flanker in this scale. A quick look online reveals that it has a long list of areas where the kit falls down in terms of accuracy...But I'm not concerned with the accuracy issues (I'm planning to add a Hasegawa Su-33 to the stash soon). I'm just looking to get the mojo flowing again, as well as dust off the chops, before I start into some bigger builds. As this kit is not very involved I'm still chipping away at some of my shelf queens and other started WiP (my Albatros DII and the CC-130 both visited the bench last weekend ;D ).
And to boot, I was kind of inspired and really enjoyed following along with Nick Sagan's Flanker builds here on SMA;
http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php/topic,5236.msg85189.html#msg85189
http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php/topic,7968.0.html
So last night, I managed to assemble and paint the cockpit, it took about 1.5 hours. Then I closed up the fuselage. I'll post some pictures of the build a little later tonight.
Jason
Now things are starting to settle down; I've managed to finish up a course I was taking, and my home renos are at least insulated and the exterior is finished against a cold upcoming Alberta winter. So now I have some time to build again. I was looking at the stash and my shelf queens trying to decide what to do, and I decided to start on my Italeri Flanker D (shelf queens are shelf queens for a reason ).
I know this is not the best Flanker in this scale. A quick look online reveals that it has a long list of areas where the kit falls down in terms of accuracy...But I'm not concerned with the accuracy issues (I'm planning to add a Hasegawa Su-33 to the stash soon). I'm just looking to get the mojo flowing again, as well as dust off the chops, before I start into some bigger builds. As this kit is not very involved I'm still chipping away at some of my shelf queens and other started WiP (my Albatros DII and the CC-130 both visited the bench last weekend ;D ).
And to boot, I was kind of inspired and really enjoyed following along with Nick Sagan's Flanker builds here on SMA;
http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php/topic,5236.msg85189.html#msg85189
http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/SMF/index.php/topic,7968.0.html
So last night, I managed to assemble and paint the cockpit, it took about 1.5 hours. Then I closed up the fuselage. I'll post some pictures of the build a little later tonight.
Jason