Here is my first SMT with the brassin cockpit it should qualify for the delta wing I think

Nice Mirage, Ken. It looks great.

Thanks for sharing

My Eduard Mirage is just about ready to under coat. I hade a few problems with the air intakes but I'm really enjoying this kit.

Thanks, Jesper.

Great progress of your mirage, John.

Winston, your mig is looking good.

Nice office in the Mirage, John.

I have decided on a "true" delta wing, the F-106 Delta Dart.

More to follow

Definitely going with the F-102. Old hase kit, Mini Craft boxing.



Decals are of dubious quality, they're what 30 years old?

Years ago someone suggested that the best way to build this kit included cutting off the short chunk of rudder on one fuselage half and glueing it place on the other half. Then do all of the filling and sanding on the rudder / fuselage intersection. Anyone tried that lately?

Hi all

Great work on show all round! It's really interesting to see the impressive Brassin cockpit in the MiG-21 - I thoroughly enjoyed the standard kit, even though I "don't build modern jets".

A close family bereavement has meant any thoughts of modelling have been all but forgotten for the last few weeks, but I'm slowly beginning to refocus and hope to get started on the Lippisch this week. It'll be the first build in a new workshop and a new beginning, so this'll be a nice way to kick things off.

All the best

Rowan

Rowan,

Sorry for your loss. Hopefully some time at the bench will help you to feel a little more back to "normal" (whatever that is).

Michael

Hi Michael

Thank you. As silly as it sounds, it will be such a treat to get back to building something again.

All the best

Rowan

Some more progress

A little progress on my F-106. I decided to go with an early model Dart--bare 'steel' landing gear, 'interior green' interior, old style canopy, etc.







Keith

Looking good guys good work on the gear

My F-16 ready for paint:





Awesome kit, slapped most of it together within a week. But really had to focus all the way. No give, no room for error.

What really hurt was cleaning up the intake. Used my trusty dental motor and the pouring technique.

Again: awesome kit but slip once somewhere and you're in for a lot of pain...

Update

A little more completed. Installed some shims from scrap styrene stock to fix a 'step' in the vertical tail and the wing halves:


Glued the fuselage halves together and putties the significant seam on the starboard side:



And the wing halves:


Not very exciting, but it should get interesting soon.

Keith

Painfully slow progress. Finally got the fuselage halves glued together. Wheel well / cockpit floor installed and seat in place.

Mark,
Your build is mirroring mine! (See the post above yours)
And it's only taken me since mid-January to get to this point. At this rate I'll be enlisting it in the "Hangar Queen III" campaign.

Good luck to us!,

Keith

I've got enough fodder for hanger queen III, IV, V, VI,.........

You at least have a lot of paint laid down, I forgot to paint the interior of the fwd wheel bay before I glued it up.

Well, given the time and my other commitments, I've decided the 1/32 Academy F-16I is biting off more than I can chew. But I want to do something here, so I'm "scaling" back a bit in size and time. Here's my plan:



Hope this meets with everyone's approval. I have a couple of days off here, let's see what I can do!

Michael

It's time to throw my hat in the ring. I'm going to build one of the most impressive triangles ever to fly. The Tu-144.

Sure it was pretty much a politically-motivated failure, but that didn't stop it from being impressive. Even 3 decades after it was removed from service, it's still evocative. Oh, what might have been...

I'm starting by painting the insides of the clear parts black, since ICM didn't include window decals. It's going to be a fiddly masking job...

So far so good with the Hasegawa 1/48 A-4N:



Added a True Details seat and an extended tail pipe from I'm-not-quite-sure-where. The seat needed to be sanded down a bit on the sides (which you can't see) and the tail pipe doesn't fit exactly (probably my fault)so some puttying is going on.

Michael

Progress on the Academy Mirage, main assemble complete now and it went together quite well. The wing root was almost perfect, no putty required, and the main fuselage seams will need just a touch between the tail and the cockpit. I had to use a small piece of evergreen to fill a gap at the rear of the wing assembly/fuselage join on the underside.




I'm going to give the cokpit a quick sludge wash then close it up, then it's off to the paint shop !

BTW, everybody is going really well. Winston, stunning cockpit interior. Keith, that u/c is superb. Shorty, your cockpit detail leaves mine in the dust mate.

Cheers, D

Starting to look like a Skyhawk!




Pretty typical Hasegawa 1/48 jet, tricky fit in places and hard to eliminate seams, but it's coming together!

Unfortunately it's back to work tomorrow so progress will slow drastically from here.

Michael

The major subassemblies



Test fit



The elevons are designed to fit only in the neutral position. This is a pity, since they're most often drooped on the ground, and especialy when the canards are deployed; the elevons were designed to act as flaps, so they were always drooped at least 10 degrees when the canards were out.

Making them fit while drooped would be a chore, involving quite a bit of sanding and chopping all 16 actuator fairings.