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Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:56 pm
by hoefie
Started this model for a SIG at flory models a while ago but things got in the way. I restarted it today and thought i would post the progress over here to.

Here we go with everything so far.
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Used pe parts from the kit and from the Eduard interior PE for the F-35B
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not 50 shades of gray but 50 shades of black....
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Closed up the back of the cockpit and removed the boxes as they are no longer present on production aircraft.
The white thingie is the start of a air/cooling system behind the pilot. Apparently a big screen tv in front of the pilot generates a lot of heat :P
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Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:23 pm
by Leon
nice looking build so far, how's the kit itself? are you scratch building the 'white thingy'?

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:32 pm
by Twokidsnosleep
Cool build
Tell us about that last pic????you in there

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:40 pm
by Jack
Looks great so far, is it an easy kit to put together?

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:59 pm
by hoefie
Leon wrote:nice looking build so far, how's the kit itself? are you scratch building the 'white thingy'?

Hi Leon yes i am. Including some modifications on the rear of the cockpit. Where you see the whit thingie laying. There us to be 3 big boxes. That where used on the test aircraft the production versions don't have these anymore. So i removed it and cloud everything up. When you look at the first picture of the post they are stil there.

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:59 pm
by hoefie
Twokidsnosleep wrote:Cool build
Tell us about that last pic????you in there

haha no i wish. The F-35 is still a long wait for us here in the Netherlands.

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:00 pm
by hoefie
Jack wrote:Looks great so far, is it an easy kit to put together?

No the kit is far from easy to put together it has the usual fit issues. But with some determination it wil be fine :)

Re: Kitty hawk 1:48 F-35A

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:45 am
by Stokesy44
Very nice. You might get it before us here in the UK (and the one we get may not work anyway!!)