F-20A Wolfpack What if
1October 18, 2024The kit
2October 18, 2024The decals. Just a few will be used
3October 18, 2024An asortment of spare decals, to complement the kit's decals.
4October 18, 2024A pair of F404 exhausts from AIRES
5October 18, 2024One will be used in this kit, the other in the X-29
6October 18, 2024The afterburner ring
7October 18, 2024Dry fit
8October 18, 2024I put the exhaust on the tail to check if the kit was tail heavy.
9October 18, 2024Size comparison with the F-16...
10October 18, 2024... and the Iskra. I still wonder how the F-20 was expected to rival the F-16. It's such a small aircraft with little growth margin.
11October 18, 2024The crude seat. I will probably use the F/A-18 seat with some modifications. Afterall it's a what if project.
12October 18, 2024The canopy opening assembly.
13October 18, 2024The pit. The side consoles were a bit narrow for the decals so I added some plasticard at the inner walls.
14October 18, 2024The kit's shallow exhaust
15October 18, 2024A close up on the kit's exhaust.
16October 18, 2024The resin exhaust from Aires. Some surgery will be needed.
17October 18, 2024Comparing the kit's exhaust with the Aires
18October 18, 2024
19October 18, 2024I cut the ring carefully and after some sanding the resin exhaust sits perfectly.
20October 18, 2024Next is to widen the inner side of the ring so that the inner exhaust fits.
21October 18, 2024Perfect!
22October 18, 2024Some more surgery. I plan to paint and weather the whole exhaust assembly before glueing in place. Thus I hope I will save the masking effort on this area.
23October 18, 2024After some thought I understood Hasegawa's approach on this thing.
24October 18, 2024Base colour
25October 18, 2024I added something that resembles the throttle, If you can spot it.
26October 18, 2024Some arbitrary boxes were added behind the seat, I wonder if they will be visible.
27October 18, 2024
28October 18, 2024I used a sharp black pencil to highlight the edges
29October 18, 2024Looks ok-ish.
30October 18, 2024
31October 18, 2024Some wiring added.
32October 18, 2024It fits nicely.
33October 18, 2024This Hasegawa could have done better.
34October 18, 2024
35October 18, 2024Some plastic is needed here too.
36October 18, 2024Fit is ok-ish.
37October 18, 2024
38October 18, 2024A gap in the intakes.
39October 18, 2024Some plasticard on the inner side of the intakes.
40October 18, 2024Gunze gloss white.
41October 18, 2024Prepainted and glued in place.
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45October 18, 2024A small gap.
46October 18, 2024
47October 18, 2024Wings in place.
48October 18, 2024Hasegawa's Sniper pod.
49October 18, 2024Kinetic's Sniper pod test fitted under the intake.
50October 18, 2024The pylon that will be used for the Sniper pod.
51October 18, 2024Kinetic's Sniper pod was assembled too. It looks so different to the Hasegawa one.
52October 18, 2024The aluminum foil was used so that the liquid goo (made from sprues) would not come in contact with the kits plastic. The rest of the contraption is to get the correct allignment of the pylon.
53October 18, 2024
54October 18, 2024Yes, the pylon is under the Sparrow missile.
55October 18, 2024Kinda got it right.
56October 18, 2024The result after all that aluminum foil shenanigans.
57October 18, 2024The pylon deformed after time, so I had to correct it
58October 18, 2024Glued in place and some putty added to hide the terrible fit.
59October 18, 2024Kinetic's JDAM up, Hasegawa's JDAM down. Hasegawa wins.
60October 18, 2024Gunze olive drab.
61October 18, 2024I managed to brake a fin off during painting...
62October 18, 2024This also I didn't like but I understand why.
63October 18, 2024
64October 18, 2024I cut it off .
65October 18, 2024The plan is to glue it here.
66October 18, 2024Done.
67October 18, 2024The airbrakes are a bit on the crude side
68October 18, 2024At first I thought of posing them open and adding some ribbing, but this is work cut out for other excellent modelers, like Ronan and others, and not me.
69October 18, 2024There was an accident.
70October 18, 2024One of the thingies I cut off and glued broke off and disappeared.
71October 18, 2024One of the missile rails had the same fate.
72October 18, 2024So I decided to use a pair of LAU-128 rails cut off from a pair of F-15 missile rails.
73October 18, 2024The HUD made from thin metal foil and the HUD glass glued in place.
74October 18, 2024Tail planes glued with the help of some LEGO.
Коментарі
13 18 October, 16:50
Maciej BellosThank you for all the likes gentlemen!
S B, the aluminum foil was used to protect the underlying plastic from the sprue goo I used so as the sniper pylon fits better to the fuselage. All Sniper pylons I have are either for the Eagle or the Viper so one had to be modified to fit.
I will sort the photos and add some comments too.
19 October, 08:37
