Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk (1:72 Hasegawa)
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22 3 January 2022, 09:51
Harald BesoldDanke Chan,
ich habe das Projekt zwischenzeitlich fertiggestellt und noch ein paar Fotos vom fertigen Modell hochgeladen. Ich habe das Titelfoto geändert. Danke für deinen Kommentar.
20 February 2022, 09:24
Chan LiI guess you said the photos weren't all of the project and you have changed the title photo, still thank my comments.
I dunno if I got it right or not, but I have to tell you for a moment while I was trying to guess what your words mean I felt myself was a genius.
Still like your F-117, to have a night hawk model was one of my childhood dreams.
21 February 2022, 11:30
Markus AntoniusWie ich finde, hast du die im original sehr komplex erscheinende Oberfläche der F-117 sehr gut für den Maßstab am Modell umgesetzt! Ich werde dies auf jedenfall für mein geplantes zukünftiges F-117-Projekt als Gradmesser hernehmen.
21 February 2022, 14:01
Harald BesoldHi Chan, I haven't had much time to do model building or upload photos in the past week. So I took your comment as an opportunity to upload the photos of the finished model. Sometimes you need a push to take action. I also looked at the photos you posted and I must also say that your models are built beautifully. Especially since you haven't been building models for that long - just like me. I have been building models for about 3 years and I am therefore very happy about your positive comment.
21 February 2022, 20:07
Harald BesoldHallo Markus, vielen Dank für deinen Kommentar. Ich habe mir eben die Fotos von deinen Modellen angesehen und muss sagen, dass ich sehr beeindruckt bin.
21 February 2022, 20:07
Richard ChealsNice build, Harald! Looks good sitting on the tarmac in the later pics. Is it my vision, or does this kit have the smaller tailplanes of the first 5 FSD aircraft? This is not a criticism, but I do recall many of the earlier F-117 kits were (of course) based on those early photos of this groundbreaking a/c.
21 February 2022, 20:37
Markus Antonius@Richard: With no other aircraft is the appearance so dependent on the focal length when photographed than the F-117... That is why it looks so different in all the publications, especially when photographed as a Model kit. The Hase 1/72 kit is spot on with available Blueprints.
@Harald: Vielen Dank für dein Lob.
21 February 2022, 20:58
Chan LiHarald, a new working day just started over here, got some energy from your words, thank you.
22 February 2022, 01:12
Harald Besold@Richard: Hi Richard, you raise an interesting point and you obviously know this aircraft very well. I believe that the Hasegawa kit has the newer, longer tail fins. From what I could gather, the short tail fins were rhombus-shaped throughout. The newer, slightly longer edges have two additional edges, which can also be found on the model. However, towards the top of the tail fin, these edges taper so much that the top edge of the fin appears like the old, shorter rhombus-shaped shape. In the top view and also when looking closely at the model, this can hardly be seen. These edges can only be seen with the appropriate incidence of light in the side view diagonally from the front.
22 February 2022, 09:38
Richard Cheals@Harald, Markus: Thanks for those comments, guys, I'm just commencing a build of the Dragon 1/144 kit (which proudly claims "all new tooling") and I can see the tail fins are shaped as for the FSD aircraft - which is good for me as I want to paint it as the camo "ship one" of the first flight. I have a copy of "Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk" by Robert F Dorr & this includes 1/72 scale 3-views of the FSD & later a/c. According to these, the FSD fins are 33mm long at the base x 51.5mm at the leading edge while the production fins are 38mm at the base x 60.5mm at the leading edge. The Dragon 1/144 fins are 17mm at the base x 30mm leading edge, so will need some trimming in length. Regarding the cross-section of the fins on the later, production a/c, this publication refers to them as "polygonal".
22 February 2022, 13:53
