Cute F-35

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July 25, 2020
Fuselage painted, in real sun it looks bright.
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July 25, 2020
Different angle, I added Alclad Gold Titanium for a metal effect.
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July 25, 2020
In my daylight lamps. The base is MRP plus metal.
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July 25, 2020
This is "plug and play" with great fits.
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July 25, 2020
Some small parts. Gear white with a touch off white, outside the gray.
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July 25, 2020
The cute pilot with base colors accrding to the manual. Some detail painting follows.
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July 25, 2020
The canopy was clear, so I used MRP thinner, 3 drops clear yellow and 1 drop Alclad Copper. Tested on a sprue, but the canopy gets dull! Dipped in Future cleared it again.
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July 25, 2020
Nice decal option for prototype and two Aussie ones. I like it colorful, so I will do the prototype.
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July 26, 2020
If you pull that wooden stake out of my ass, I'm ready to go, Sir!
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July 26, 2020
The helmet is grey, only the sun blocker is orange.
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July 26, 2020
Trial sitting in the cockpit.
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July 26, 2020
I wanted to mask and airbrush the small lines, but they are to close together and too much lines, so I had to painted with brush by hand. Not easy, since I developed a tremor in my right hand the last weeks 🙁 All the decals added, very nice ones by the way!
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After the decals are dry the final layer of clear coat will be added. The last small parts can be added then and the next project is finished.
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The leg is corrected now 😉
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March 26, 2024
This model won a bronze medal in the Egg-Planes category at the Euro Model Expo 2024.

34 25 July 2020, 19:51

Daniel
I see no difference to the real thing ...😉
looks like fun!😎

25 July 2020, 19:54

bughunter
Thx Daniel! Normally I'm doing old struts biplanes, but sometimes also modern stuff. And the eggs and cute planes are to funny😎 So this is a little side project. The manual says you don't need glue and the fit is great.

25 July 2020, 20:06

bughunter
After a lot of painting the decals are added. Only the final clear coat is missing 🙂

26 July 2020, 17:27

Christoph Kunz
Now that was a quick one. No wonder, just one wing 🙂

26 July 2020, 18:18

BAT21
Now it's time for rigging and turnbuckles? 😄

26 July 2020, 18:40

bughunter
Thank you Christoph and Jens! I wanted to know the magic of those "Weekend Editions"😉 I can say it works!

26 July 2020, 18:56

bughunter
The final pictures are added. The canopy is only plugged on so there is still a small gap.
Project finished! It is a nice kit and provide options to build it in flight. The decals are nice too.

26 July 2020, 20:21

John Thomas
Very cool

27 July 2020, 00:49

bughunter
Thank you John! Yes, it's a nice little bird😉

27 July 2020, 16:02

Alec K
Now, that's OFF the beaten path! Nicely done 👍

27 July 2020, 23:27

bughunter
Eggs, we need more eggs😉 Thank you Roland and Alec! I have some more in my stash ...

28 July 2020, 19:00

Gary Dahlström
I think you deserve an "ovation".

28 July 2020, 19:59

bughunter
Thank you Gary! Let's see, how the F-22 will look beside this one one day.

29 July 2020, 15:50

Slavo Hazucha
Hey, that's an F-35 even I admit to like! - somehow the "features" of the original indeed transfer into a really cute Egg... 🙂

I hope you had fun even without exposed mechanics, machine guns and rigging - the result is really cool, and good choice to make it colorful - well done 👍

@cloudy canopy - in my experience, keep MRP away from clear parts - varnish or clear colors, they all leave a perceivably matted & hard to polish surface...

29 July 2020, 16:31

bughunter
Hey, the jet expert Slavo has found my little side project 👍 I also think it's great how the original character is still in these caricatures! Most live viewers have recognized the type. A not so colorful grey Australian machine (4 are possible with the kit decals) would at least allow a representation in flight (the kit contains additionally closed landing gear doors and an adapter) over the Ayers Rock (in German Eier-Berg) in the form of half an egg, but that would have to be built during Easter😉
From modeling point of view it was fun, bring some variation to the bench and was mostly a paint exercise. Regarding the canopy thanks for the hint! For this egg it is good enough and the beloved future brings back some shine.

29 July 2020, 17:05

Daniel
Well it would be really hard to make an edition of the original that doesnt look like an egg😉

Looks awesome, guess it was maximum relaxation without the rigging, the radial engine and the fake wood parts - and also not needing to roll your giant 1 cent coin into the pics 😄

I would love to see that dio happening, maybe an all-out knife-fight with some evil russian eggs... some fried eggs added to the cliffs of ayers rock and so on 🙂

29 July 2020, 17:51

David Taylor
cracking 35 bughunter.

29 July 2020, 19:17

bughunter
Daniel, you know me and my models frighteningly well, but the fake wood parts are often real wood ones! If you need also such a giant coin you have to check magic supplies 😉
Regarding your "evil russian eggs" there is one: Su-33 Flanker D (Hasegawa 60131, 1:Egg)
@David Thank you!

29 July 2020, 20:50

Peter Hardy
I just have to bring this out of retirement again! Why am I haunting Bughunter's albums? Well I was really looking for inspiration and I did find it, and this gem of a build!

13 June 2022, 09:31

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Very cute! 👍

13 June 2022, 11:27

David Taylor
Where is the rotary in this one Bug.LOL.(nice).

13 June 2022, 15:38

bughunter
Thank you Peter for bringing this old work back to the surface! There are some more unbuilt eggs in my stash 😉 You are going start to setup a collection of eggs and cute planes?
Thank you mates! David, that rotary is called turbine 🤔

14 June 2022, 15:51

David Taylor
LOL,

14 June 2022, 16:07

Peter Hardy
Bugs, I have a few unbuilt eggs myself! And I have retrieved that Fokker DR1 from my stash. Now just trying to decide how "serious" to get with it!

15 June 2022, 01:08

bughunter
After I noticed that there is a new category "Egg-Planes" at the Euro Model Expo 2024, I thought that I had to participate here to fill it with life. So last week I quickly created an egg-shaped base.
The F-35 then won a bronze medal in Master 🙂

26 March, 17:29