Revell 1/72 F-89D Scorpion
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May 23, 2021Laying out the sprues, very nice kit. Bought ages ago and finally picked up to build.2
May 23, 2021Cockpit is quite nice out-of-the-box, figured out that the F-89D s/n represented by the decals used the F-89J cockpit panels that the kit provides, to which I later added the backseater radar scope which is missing.3
May 23, 2021Closing up the fuselage, fit is good4
May 23, 2021Intakes, exhausts and separate canopy frame installed. Do not like this type of kit design but works out well enough. Adding a simple representation of the backseater windscreen, which is missing.5
May 23, 2021And on to the wings, man this thing is massive!6
May 23, 2021Canopy installed, it had been scratched in the box but polishing and a dip in HG51 saved the day.7
May 23, 2021Canopy masked, small air intakes installed and installing and aligning the wings. Fit is OK but care is needed here.8
May 23, 2021Did not get away without filler but not much needed.9
May 23, 2021Assembled the massive wingtip pods and already progressing to the priming stage. The wire handle stuck in the tail was a bad idea, cracked open the tail...10
May 23, 2021Sprayed a white undercoat for the arctic red and the black areas. The anti-glare panel is a decal, with hindsight I would have been better off spraying and masking it.11
May 23, 2021Colorful bits completed... or not? Got myself a pretty expensive bottle of Insignia Red acrylic "for arctic camo" but this turned out too orange to my liking. Here and there the stuff did not play nice with the undercoat either... Darn.12
May 23, 2021Oh, and I forgot to mask the white in the areas that will be covered by the B/W checker decals later on. Sigh... Ploughing on nevertheless. Masking the arctic reddishness...13
May 23, 2021... and another coat of white, followed by Vallejo Metalcolor Aluminium. Great stuff, even I appear to be unable to mess up working with it.14
May 23, 2021Spraying some panels in Duralumium and the area around the exhausts with a more darkened mix.15
May 23, 2021Demasked and checking out how it looks, the orange look is still bugging me...16
May 23, 2021...and after a few days I deciced I had to fix that. Luckily the stores just opened here again so a short trip to the LHS and I had me a much cheaper Vallejo Insignia Red which was sprayed over the orange. Much better!17
May 23, 2021The area around the exhausts was not dark enough, so some more rework needed here too.18
May 23, 2021After an epic struggle the anti-glare panel decal was installed with only a small section damaged and touched up. And guess what? I managed to forget the square area around the USAF decal that remained in NMF. Great going, but fixed soon enough.19
May 23, 2021Checking off the checkers. Loads of decal softener required for the wingtip pods and far from perfect, but it will have to do.20
May 23, 2021Busying up the rest of the airframe with the remaining decals...21
May 23, 2021... including the nice shark mouth.22
May 23, 2021Weathering with pastel powder, bringing out the panel lines and introducing more tonal variation in the NMF.23
May 23, 2021Brought the main parts together and sprayed on the final satin coat to seal everything up.24
May 23, 2021Final touches, adding the white surround to the canopy glazing with decals from the spares box, which conveniently hides the sprue gate damage inherent in the kit canopy design.25
May 23, 2021Installed gear and wing tanks and another one done!26
May 23, 2021Happy with result and a colorful addition to my collection.
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10 23 May 2021, 13:40