French AD-4N Skyraider
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Major construction and filling completed.
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Upper surfaces painted.
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Upper surfaces painted.
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Lower surfaces pre-shaded.
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Painted green wingtips and fin, as well as lighter spot on fuselage side.
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Painted green wingtips and fin, as well as lighter spot on fuselage side.
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Painted black exhaust and anti-glare areas.
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Painted black exhaust and anti-glare areas.
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Painted wheel wells.
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Painted bare metal leading edges. Cowl accidentally knocked off, but was only lightly glued in order to add prop later.
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Painted bare metal leading edges.
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Painting completed and glossed.
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Painting completed and glossed.
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Painting completed and glossed.
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评论
1 24 December 2017, 06:55
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I have the Minicraft French Skyraider in my stash. How is the kit?
24 December 2017, 18:24
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This one went together pretty well. Only a little bit of putty in places on the fuselage seams and the leading and trailing edges of the wing. I didn't get a good fit around the canopy, but that's most likely due to modeler error. Since the kit has the breaks optionally open or closed, to make the French version, I had to close and seal them up. My one issue here is that I wasn't careful enough when gluing them in and they sank into the fuselage a little. Putting some kind of spacer behind the brake to keep it flush with the fuselage would have made it easier to seal. It would have also saved me from having to try to blend in the depression with the rest of of fuselage. Hopefully I won't have any issues with the landing gear and gear doors. I'm not particularly looking forward to having to cut them apart. If I had a spare pilot figure laying around, this would have been a good option to do a wheels up display with PropBlurs.
26 December 2017, 17:54
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Finally getting back to working on this. Poorly insulated workspace has been a little too cold lately to do much of anything.
14 January 2018, 20:22