Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk

James C
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Clifford Keesler
Thank you James.

Augie
Another I almost missed! lol

Maciej Bellos
Warching interestingly. Mine is on the shelf of doom, or rather in the box of almostnevergonnafinishit 🙁

Clifford Keesler
Welcome Augie, Maciej and Roland. It came to me a couple of weeks ago while watching Great Planes on You Tube that I had never built an F-117, so I bought one, this one was inexpensive and looked pretty good. I found an Acadmey one for a good price. It is more detailed than this one, but I will finish this one.

Clifford Keesler
Got all the putty work done, time to start thinking about primer.

Neil
Looking good Clifford 👍

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Neil. The challange with this one is going to be making an all blck aircraft look interesting, and not just an all black blob.

John
Various dark greys as an undercoat and build up black until it gets interesting?

Villiers de Vos
Lots of hard work.

Clifford Keesler
@ John, that is what I plan on doing. @ Villiers de Vos, yes it will bebut it will be worth it.

Clifford Keesler
Got the first coat of primer on this one today.

Clifford Keesler
Finally some progress on this one, it required a sanding down and total re-paint, after I put the first coat of the base color down. My paint went wonky on me, I do not know if it went bad in the bottle or recated with my primer. I almost threw it in the trash. But I sanded it all down and re-primed and re-painted it. I got the gloss coat on today. Will let it dry good for a few days and then start the decals. In the mean time I start a Hasegawa Rhino.

Clifford Keesler
I have not given up on this one, the decals were unusable. I am waiting on new decals to arrive.

apoth
cockpit decals? who needs cockpit decals when you have a steady hand, a fine brush, and the patience of a monk.

Clifford Keesler
It was the national and squadron markings. I have a new set from Carcal, on the way.

Robin (WhiteGlint)
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You still got some seats free? Very nice cockpit, Clifford.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Robin, and welcome. The new decals arrived yesterday afternoon, so I started the decals today.

Clifford Keesler
Decals finished. I applied the wash today, will take it off tomorrow and get some pictures. I am not at all happy with how this one is turning out.

Clifford Keesler
Finally finished this one.

Augie
Nice going 🙂

Villiers de Vos
A very nice paint finish.

Maciej Bellos
Well done Clifford!

Neuling
Looks very good, therefore deserves better pictures!

James C
Nice work Clifford and good save re the issues with paint and decals you had. 👍
I was surprised at how big the F-117 was when I was looking over my kit.

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Augie, Villiers, Maciej, Neuling and James. Your kind words mean a lot. @Neuling, maybe someday I will master the photo part, but I will try and get some more better ones. @ James, it is bigger than I thought it would be, but luckly it fits in my display case.

Neuling
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Robin (WhiteGlint)
Damn nice result, Clifford 👍

Clifford Keesler
Thank you very much Robin. Your kind words are much appericated.