J-20 in progress
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January 16, 20241st and 2nd step done, tried to dry fit landing gear legs to the wheel bay and the fit is better than my last Trumpeter kit2
January 16, 2024All the weapon bays fitted well enough3
January 16, 2024I choose to close the door of the mean weapon bay since it's a stealth fighter.4
January 16, 2024The kit is obviously designed to be made in an open door status, so I have to remove some molded details that would get in the way.5
January 17, 2024The front gear bay, the good old trumpeter style of front landing gear assemble procedure6
January 17, 2024The cockpit is ok, not going to heavily modify it.7
January 17, 2024JUST REPLACE THEM WITH 3D PRINTED ONES8
January 19, 2024Painted landing gears with a cold white from gunze, and the lights with this interesting marker pen9
January 19, 2024Gunze C307 for the cockpit, gunze gloss black for the ejection seat and the front panel (it needed to be glossy because I need to apply decals to it ), the safe belt and knobs were painted using acrylic paints10
January 19, 2024The fit is fine, or what you would expect from a Trumpeter kit. It needed sanding and filling, but not very much.11
January 19, 2024The two slots for the vertical tail installation were identical, so it's possible to switch the left and the right tail to make a somewhat familiar aircraft look exotic.12
January 19, 2024The final look of the model after filling and sanding.13
January 20, 2024Finished the lower fuselage, the weapon bay doors fit not very smoothly, but since it's the lower side of the model, I'll just let it be.14
January 20, 2024All assembly is done, I'll soon start painting this model !15
January 20, 2024Never thought that an old tripod could be used as a grip for a scale model.16
January 21, 2024First color done!17
January 27, 2024The camouflage pattern I've chosen will take a lot of time to mask the model, I hope the final look will be fine.18
January 27, 2024The outer color is done.
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11 16 January, 17:45