Fallon Viper 53

Dave Flitton
Got to watch this!!

Dave Flitton
I have to watch this!!

Stephan Ryll
Just started that journey yesterday 🤔
quite some issues to overcome - but I found the part of the fin that is not in the instruction already 😄
added some styrene here and there
did some dry fit of the engine rear section and the main hull - the tensionless state can be seen in the picture above
getting the shape of the eduard engine cone to the hull will be a nice sanding party I think 😄

Murad ÖZER
no matter how much aftermarket eduard can throw into these boxes, these are crappy kits and they will still be crappy kits.
been there done that the their danger zone and i will not touch any eduard reboxings ever. good luck with the build Stephan.

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Dave and Murad, you're welcome 🙂
@ Murad, I agree I also thought after the Mig Kits that this would be the same quality
But whatever I have to overcome those issues🤔

Stephan Ryll
Not that much progress on that till weeks
I first had to move my mancave from the roof :-D and had to do an investment into a compressor
now my life is much quiter :-D

I glued the gun muzzle into position - had to do a lot of sanding
finished the air intake - also a lot of sanding
and glued everything into place - but the fit is not that nice - a lot of sanding will follow when I close the hull 🤔

Eric RENOUX
I'm taking a seat !

Stephan Ryll
You are welcome Eric 🙂

arne vd burg
Watching!
I have the same kit in my stash , will use this as reference .
Enjoy! good start Stephan.👍

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Arne 🙂 take a seat

Thomas Bischoff
I fetch some popcorn to watch the show!

Patrick Hagelstein
Hi Stephan! Interesting build! May I ask why you chose to put the Tamiya front fuselage section in? If you have the Tamiya kit, why not build that kit?

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Thomas take a seat🙂

@Patrick - the Front fuselage came with the Eduard kit - there is no other option 🤔
The nose section doesn't fit at all - I will post some pictures this afternoon

Stephan Ryll
It´s a putty and styrene monster :-D

Eric RENOUX
Seem to need some filler ...

Patrick Hagelstein
So, that is the original Kinetic front fuselage? Strange that it has different colored plastic. In picture 16 you plugged two holes with putty, those should be open! Those are heat exchanger vents and have a metallic liner on the inside.

Patrick Hagelstein
Also note the one on top of the fuselage directly under the tailfin.

Stephan Ryll
Yes indeed it needs some filler... 😄

@ Patrick - yes I know that there need to be some holes ... the whole who were there, were to big and looked ugly... so I closed them to get some stabile ground for drilling the right ones
but thank you for telling me - by the way I have the same reference picture...

nose section is now sanded and rescribed...
next is the aft section...

Patrick Hagelstein
Great! 🙂

Murad ÖZER
holy putty magnet.

Stephan Ryll
looks now much better than before - not ready yet but... 🙂

@ Murad - will buy some putty shares 😉

Stephan Ryll
Not that much progress with that bird during the last weeks - I put some camo on - next step is to make it more used

Günther Debiscop
Following

Stephan Ryll
You are very welcome Günther 🙂 take a seat..

Eric RENOUX
Good painting job

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Eric 🙂

Stephan Ryll
Finaly I got this bird done - hope you like it 🙂

Thomas Bischoff
I certainly like it 👍 but the crew looks too glossy for me 🙂

Stephan Ryll
Thank you for your comment Thomas 🙂 I think I can fix the crew issue 😉

Clifford Keesler
Excellent.

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Clifford much appreciated 👍

Murad ÖZER
end result well worth the effort, kudos Stephan for persevering! 👍

Stephan Ryll
Thank you very much for your comments James and Murad 🙂 much appriciated

arne vd burg
Very nice viper stephan

Konrad -
Cool Viper the camo is great! The scenery where you show the bird is also very nice 👍

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Arne and Konrad for your kind comments 🙂 glad that you like it

Tim Heimer
Good work on a nice Dio!

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Timothy 🙂 much appreciated

Thomas Bischoff
Stephan, did you "ungloss" the figures? They look much better now (my opinion) 👍 👍 👍

Soeren R.
Nice work. Did you paint the canopy in this yellow color?

Stephan Ryll
Yes Thomas 🙂 I followed your idea - looks much better now

Sören thank you, yes I used a clear glass gloss with a tiny tip of orange color

Thomas Bischoff
🙂

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and finish 👍

Björn Svedberg
Looks like it was a rather difficult build, but it turned out great! Nice presentation and figure painting too! 👍

Stephan Ryll
Thank you Thomas, Christian and Björn your comments are much appreciated 🙂
@ Björn - I needed a lot of patience putty and sanding paper to get it into shape