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Posted: Monday, September 06, 2004 - 02:02 AM UTC
The roden Mohawk in progress





The wings are not glued on yet.

One of the wing tip comes short-molded, so I have to repair it with tons of putties, the right wing is the one came short molded

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Posted: Monday, September 06, 2004 - 02:25 AM UTC
Great work on the cockpit Dave, impresive detailed painting. Shame about the extra work needed to correct the wing.
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Posted: Monday, September 06, 2004 - 03:23 AM UTC
Hi Dave

Looking good!

Apart from the wingtips, how has the overall fit been? - you've gone way beyond what I could cover in my in-box review.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 01:05 AM UTC
Hi guys, thanks for the feed back.

The Mohawk although has its fault and pitfalls, is one of the best airplane kit I had done OOB. The details are simply amazing, Nothing is overlooked, the cockpit is amazing, and is on par with many resin ones I had done.

All things said, it's not an easy kit, the overall fit although is very good, but due to the lack of many locating pins/slots, a lot of dry fit is needed.

I enjoy the building of this kit a lot.

The kit also has parts that is already molded for modern Mohawk circa. late 70s to early 90s, with different instrument panels and such. So maybe we can expect a later Mohawk very soon perferable with an SLR

Cheers.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 03:05 AM UTC
Very nice job Dave!

I'll probably get one of those Mohawks when they issue one with a SLR.

Keep up the good work!

Is it me or is Roden issuing neat kits at very reasonable prices?
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Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 03:20 AM UTC
Looking good Dave More pics as you progress, please
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Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 - 03:31 AM UTC
Your cockpit work is outstanding. Is the bad wingtip just bad luck or is it a problem in the model?

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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 01:33 AM UTC
one more pic. The Mohawk kit is giving me more troubles now, with bad injected parts, but well....still enjoyable.

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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 05:10 AM UTC

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one more pic. The Mohawk kit is giving me more troubles now, with bad injected parts


Could you elaborate on that please? I find it interesting that with all of the bad molding there is on this model, you still seem to love this kit. I'm interested why? I can see :sticking the course", but "sticking the course and liking it" is sort of unusual. I admire it.

Jeff
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 05:30 AM UTC
Great work Dave !!!
I'm amazed by the detail in the cockpit !
I heard somewhere that Roden should be releasing Mig-23s someday... if they come with such detail, it should be more than exiting !
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 09:34 AM UTC

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one more pic. The Mohawk kit is giving me more troubles now, with bad injected parts


Could you elaborate on that please? I find it interesting that with all of the bad molding there is on this model, you still seem to love this kit. I'm interested why? I can see :sticking the course", but "sticking the course and liking it" is sort of unusual. I admire it.

Jeff


Hello Jeff,

For instance, one side of the airbrake come without the 2 hinges that attached to fuselage, so I have to fill the gap with putty again.


There is some place that there should be a locating hole to put in the blad antenna, but there aint.

Nevertheless, the details are still awesome, check out this landing gear pic, it consists of more than 12 parts, even Tamiya/Hasegawa is not that good.



I believe being able to correct problem from a kit is what a modeler do, hence, I really enjoy the kit.

Besides it's a subject I been waited for years.

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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 04:17 PM UTC
Looks great Dave
excellent interior paint job!
cheers
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 11:28 PM UTC
I would check on the underside of where you suspect the locating pins are supposed to be. The hole may not have gone through completely.

I remember doing a P-40N. For those of you who don't know about the P-40N version, the canopy is rectangular and not with the caved canopy that was molded on, and the canopy glass was molded for the rectangular canopy. I must have looked over it a hundred times, missing the guidelines that you use to cut the caved in part off.

So (after that tangent) I would look for "cut hole" on the underside. Now that may not be possible as you seem to have the fuselage glued together. But in the future...

Jeff
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2004 - 11:45 PM UTC

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I would check on the underside of where you suspect the locating pins are supposed to be. The hole may not have gone through completely.

I remember doing a P-40N. For those of you who don't know about the P-40N version, the canopy is rectangular and not with the caved canopy that was molded on, and the canopy glass was molded for the rectangular canopy. I must have looked over it a hundred times, missing the guidelines that you use to cut the caved in part off.

So (after that tangent) I would look for "cut hole" on the underside. Now that may not be possible as you seem to have the fuselage glued together. But in the future...

Jeff


Jeff, I did. LOL.... and nope still not there. since I usually build without following exact step of the instructions, so I usually get a full pic of the kit, and know before hand if some of the thing is missing.

but don't let my comment deter you, this is one awesome kit, just need a bit work.
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Posted: Monday, December 27, 2004 - 04:51 PM UTC
Wow, that is some nice work.

Again, you have produced a beautifuly detailed cockpit. Thetime and detail work you put into these is evident.

Can't wait to see more

Congrats Lord Cockpit
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Posted: Sunday, January 02, 2005 - 03:43 AM UTC
Really nice work on the Mohawk! I just picked one of these up last week,looks great in the box.
I will get it started when I get the very nice Academy CH-46E finished.

Thanks for posting your pictures
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