Taking the rhino by the horns...
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21 14 March 2021, 17:51
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Since the mig is done but the dio stuff seems to take forever to arrive I am now moving on to something that will probably keep me busy for a while...
Big thanks to mr Petiers over at largescaleplanes who built a fantastic super hornet out of this mess and also did a fantastic documentation:
forum.largescaleplan..ith-lessons-learned/
Will keep close to his advice and hopefully come out victorious 🙂
14 March 2021, 17:57
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cheers roland!
My suspicion: "We need a large super hornet that is cheaper than the trumpeter one" was the only thought that was really persistent throughout this endeavour. Probably also written on a golden wall plaquette in the design bureau 😄
But its still some weird kind of fun to work through it once you have accepted that it sucks and also have the tricky parts pointed out by someone before you start
15 May 2021, 13:44
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I always admire when I see a difficult assembly that requires a lot of work: putty, engraving, scratch ...
was the ECS late pipes in the kit or is it from the aftermarket?
15 May 2021, 21:46
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Welcome Stefan and Juskifo and thanks!
The kit comes with both ECS exhaust versions and lets you choose. Thats good. Bad: In 1:32 scale I would have expected some real pipes with a hole at the end...but I had to carefully drill them out myself.
16 May 2021, 21:25
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thanks mates and welcome sarunas!
I can really recommend the link from my 1st comment if you plan to tackle this mother. Helped me a lot and is much more step-by-step than my posts here.
some work finished on the canopy, really happy with the result! (now careful not to damage it...)
25 May 2021, 18:12
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the anti-reflective glass roof adds a touch of realism;
followed by mirrors at 32 which are perhaps easier to mount than at 48 Thanks for work idea
1 June 2021, 05:53
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I`m so glad I didn`t buy this kit. Thank you Daniel. I hope God gives you all you need to finish the model.
1 June 2021, 13:15
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Primer down, the hard part is finished. The fins took a LOT of super glue, putty and sanding at their roots, they seem to be designed for a completely different model...
@juskifo: thanks mate, everything is easier at 1:32;) But mirrors in 1:48 are not that uncommon. My tip if you cut mirror foil: try to do several strands with a bent nail-scissor choose the one thats most parallell and cut it into smaller pieces. easy. 🙂
@jorge: Thanks !May God help me 😄 Its not that bad, as you see I got it going together 🙂 I wouldnt recommend that kit to anyone of course, but its far from unbuildable, most italeri-kits I've build so far gave me more trouble... I just feel the need to correct some issues with the shape, thats the main prob
2 June 2021, 18:49
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For me the major problem is time spend. Unfortunately I`m not getting younger but the stash keep on growing. So when I know about kit`s like this I have to get away. I`ve done a few like this or even worse so I know what it is like. Of course we always have the feeling of the challenge , the acomplishment of a hard work etc etc........don`t care with that anymore...????
3 June 2021, 09:50
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?Thank you very much for these very precious information for my model assembly
3 June 2021, 11:10
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shading applied to create some depth later on, generally this will be a rather clean specimen.
@jorge: pragmatic approach, I see the reasoning: To many good kits out there to waste time on bad kits... If there was a Tamiya 1:32 version of this bird I wouldnt be doing this as well. Well maybe yes, as I am sold on this livery 😉
(ah yes, theres the trumpeter, but is not a joy to build as well, though not this bad...but here the surface detail is much better)
3 June 2021, 17:14
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Seems like you're progressing at a good pace, considering a complicated kit.
3 June 2021, 17:26
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Jep, after all the tedious sanding I am now in the lane and making good progress, no landing gear is also a huge time saver.
Gonna stick this on a pole in a steep climb, this looks cool + saves the most horizontal space. Still plenty of vertical space left in my little room here...
6 June 2021, 10:06
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Definitely some very nice porgress you made with tackling this controversial kit. 👍 Joining the seats and stay for the rest of the ride.
26 June 2021, 19:51
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some outdoor decaling done on the balcony. Did I already say that I am sold on that livery? 🙂
30 June 2021, 17:33
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you could, as an alternative, rename yourself to roland vampire for some months 😄
I was also really tempted by it as I prefer actual fleet squadrons - but the vx-9 looked just too cool 🙂 thanks!
30 June 2021, 17:56
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spent some time on the pipes, sadly this is not that much visible in there later...its not a mig 25 🙂
2 July 2021, 18:21
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Awesome progress on this super bug?! Looking forward to the final rollout 👍!!
2 July 2021, 18:21
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?Nice stencil: "No step" home-made I imagine ?
this marking is all in color, it changes after the "low visibility" version
3 July 2021, 08:51
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Many thanks Konrad Alexander and Juskifo!
Roll-out or fly-out in this case is just a matter of days 🙂
The metal stencils are from an eduard set, I dont regret that purchase, especially as I got more 1/32 Hornets waiting in line
5 July 2021, 18:35
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the bug is operational!
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7 July 2021, 20:08
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Revells infamous take on my favourite plane...lets see what we can salvage🙂