FROG Gloster Javelin FAW.9R
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This is what you get in the box. Fairly basic, but fairly sound.
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Some major shrinkage on the fin.
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Ailerons cut and hinges made; socket for pitot added.
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Cannon blast tubes added.
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Gear doors were a pretty good fit! All surface detail sanded off.
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Kit had no intake/exhaust tubing, adding it along with turbine faces scrounged from the spares box.
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More of my "seamless" intakes work.
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Rudder was cut, hinged, and socketed in for a good tight fit.
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Reason for the work: the distinctive rounded front to the rudder. The kit had it represented as just an engraved line.
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Making the intake lips into a better, rounded profile.
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Intake profile was too blunted before my fix.
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Exhausts dry fitted. Once again, a good tight fit, I was able to leave these off until completion.
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Brass wing spar added for strength.
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Getting proper fit and dihedral left massive gaps. This called for massive amounts of CA and talc.
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Scribing the airbrakes. Painstaking, time consuming, but worth it.
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Template for scribing forward panels on wings.
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Pilot and the GIB getting comfortable in their new offices.
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Minimal detailing here. Pilots from Airfix, seats from Monogram F-4C, some scratch.
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Alu furnace tape and scrap plastic details for afterburner.
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Though thick, the kit canopy was pretty accurate in shape and fairly clear.
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Rear of canopy corrected.
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Windscreen rain clearing devices added from scrap.
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Special Tool #231...
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....for cutting wing vortex generators.
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Many many vortex vanes, in alternating directions.
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Primered up.
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Tamiya AS-12, decanted and shot through the airbrush, for "high speed silver".
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Vallejo 71.097 for the Dark Sea Grey, 71.016 for the Dark Green. White areas are to back the kit decals.
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Wing tanks and Firestreak missiles (modified kit weapons, new fins and sharpened nose 'glass')
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Gloss coated and ready decals on. The ancient kit decals performed rather well!
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Rather than use the kit walkway markings, I masked and sprayed them.
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..And masked and sprayed the belly tank seals as well.
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Finished.
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Коментарі
3 August 2015, 22:24
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very nicely done, a lot of effort went in to this very tidy model 🙂
Set teaser to picture 45 that way more people will get ti appreciate it😉
4 August 2015, 02:40
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It seems impossible that an old Frog kit can turn into a similar wonder 🙂 🙂 🙂
4 August 2015, 07:21
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Supreme work!
Love the vortex generators! And a miracle that the decals are in such a good condition! How old is the kit?
4 August 2015, 07:39
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Funtastic work. Good to see what a real modeller can make out of an 'old' kit. 👍👍👍
And thanks for the inspiration for that McGyver-style vortex generator cutting machine 🙂
4 August 2015, 08:59
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Thank you guys! Holger, this boxing dates from 1975, and I've found that the old Frog decals though basic tend to be robust and of fair quality.
4 August 2015, 10:19
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That is outstanding, now I'm afraid to even taking mine out of its box...😉
4 August 2015, 11:07
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There are plenty of mistakes, and it isn't the most accurate of kits, but thank you Guido and everyone else
4 August 2015, 13:46
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an old designers maxim 🙂
Modelling is a bit like painting or magic, we're trying to create the illusion of something real, or at least an impression of something real 🙂
4 August 2015, 14:48
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Very good job on this old model ! I hope airfix has plans for a new kit on 72nd scale. Cheers.
5 August 2015, 10:35
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I was hoping that as soon as I finished mine, Airfix would announce one 😄
5 August 2015, 12:53