1/32 Trumpeter F-105D |
"Built
in 7 days" |
Gallery Article by Uncle
Rick Chin of Uncle
Bill's Hobby on
Nov 7 2003
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Sept.9th--
Just another day of waiting for new shipment. Ahha, four huge
boxes!
Thank you Mr. Postman.
"Yes thank you, Mr. Wayne Wren, I like to build one of them, I have
both a F-105D and a F-105G waiting for you, see you later."
Sept.10th---
"Ok, WW, The credit card charge went through, build it in a week?
Hmmm! I will take a look, just leave me the "D"."
Sept.11th
Nice Cockpit, detailed gun and gun bay, dry fitting very good overall,
landing gear may be a problem, the engine is very detailed and nice, lots of
weapons!
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Sept.12th---
The only weight for the model: fill the ammo. drum with tiny ball
bearings (from Jim-Model Citizen-Penhale), cockpit, gun, engine, bomb bay all
in, selection of 2 wing tanks, six bombs, ecm pod, and the Shrike all done,
canopy masked with Gunze liquid mask.
I guess I will put the fuselage together later, too bad about hiding the
nice engine. have to find a way to put in the tail section without gluing them
to the main body.
Glue all the Spoilers to the top of the wing halves, the flaps and slats
are a bit easier than I thought.
The landing gears are shaky, glue them with superglue all the way to the
doors.
Sept.13th---
No work, out to supper on wife's order.
Sept.14th
Glue the finished wings to the fuselage halves, a bit of thick super glue
will do it fast and easy. No putty needed. The two halves of the main body fit
together like a dream. Doors for refueling probe, gun, bomb bay all snapped into
place.
Cut off the rectangular "tail lock" at the top of the main
body, the tail section can be removed or put in now, good idea.
Wife called at 10:00 PM, yes I will be late for supper! Hands are dirty,
these damn Pollyscale paints dry too fast, but went on nice.
Sept.15th---
These Two Bobs decals are very nice to work with! Gunze decal softener is
a good help too. All decals films disappeared after the Pollyscale gloss and
flat finish.
Both landing gears snapped off! Be careful. the "lubber tires"
sure look good!
Sept.16th---
Time to unmasked the canopy, put on all the small parts like lights,
antenna, etc., give it a bit of "thinned down wash", paint the metal
parts with metalizer..
Sept.17th---
Get the pilot from the Academy F-18 kit, it sure look like Jack after
some minor work.
The kit is a joy to build, very little cleaning needed, very good fit, no
putty needed, good detail overall, all movable control surfaces work and look
good without the "toy look"
It can use more detail in the cockpit area, yet it is quite good as is.
The landing gears should be made stronger with metal inserts and nicer with some
wirings. They should provide the bulkhead or firewall or whatever you call for
the tail and the fuselage so the engine can be displayed in open position, it is
a shame to have to hide the detailed
engine, so does the gun.
Mr. Wang Please take note: I still have a box full of weapons that I
think is a waste, (4 trees!) the price of the kit can be cut to about half , may
be about $60.00 if the extra weapons are not included!
Trumpeter can sell a few more kits if they market it my way!
Now, what is this rumour that Trumpeter will re-release the Century
Series in 1/48?
Uncle (built in 7 days) Rick
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