A-4F, 1:144

Main parts

rest of the parts

decals from the kit

Cut out the slots

wing halves joined

flare dispensers need to be recessed

first mark the size with a scalpel, next put the blade with the straight edge to the outside and deepen the borders. That way you create a kind off barrier when you scrape/cut away the inside.

ready for dryfit

and glued

Not a big fan of prepainted cockpits, but in this case it saves a lot of work....

Cockpit fitted and openings in the wings filled with putty. droptanks are dryfit. These consist of 3 parts, and the tailpart has some serious sinkmarks...

PE wheelbays assembled and main hull parts assembled

this join is a hard one to clean up, so scraping, adding CA, scraping sanding.... to achieve a presentable result...

satisfied

plugs in place, 20mm guns removed, sanded smooth and tested with paint...

ready

started removing some parts from te seat to replace them with PE

and with all belts etc added

prepainted PE is euh... very delicate to work with....

and bangseat in place... also the hud was added

original canopy

and some carefull cutting later

one tiny thing...

added some wire to the front legg

and to the main leggs too

basecolors

washed

So I cut the original part in pieces, drilled a small hole (0.5mm in a 0.6mm plastic part...) not that deep, but...

bended it according to the drawing

glued all parts into place and bummer... to long, bend isn't good etc... why a wrong template then???

and adapted

Reworked the refueling probe... could be done better. Had to heat the brass, it couldn't be bent in such sharp corner without breaking... The material get's softer, hence I loose my rigidity... the wifey will be pleased ... 😉