SPA Modeler

Hello All, here's a quick catch up of my glacial progress.........


Photoflash compartment cut out of the fuselage and scratched together, I may open the left side as well after finding out they used the left side banks first after I opened the right side for a "post" sortie setup, and since the doors don't exist on the Tamiya C I would have to scribe them anyways. Everything is dry fitted, the cartridges are the 123's commonly used in this era. I still need to trim the size of them but you get the idea......















The Cutting Edge Seamless intakes I have were full of wrong or missing panel lines as well as pin holes galore ,,, so I either had to use the kit pieces filling and sanding 1/8 inch ledges in it or.... take a dremel and grind away at what was garbage to make it useful ,,,, so I ground the resin paper thin and mated the kit pieces too it.




























All I have to do now is prime the insides and sand all the raised panels down and scribe in one missing panel line, as always thanks for looking!

Wow! Very nice scratch work!

Hello Everyone, sorry to have not been on here for quite some time. The past weeks/months have been helping a parent who's health bottomed out. It has yet to get better , but there are at least a few more hands helping now,, which lets me do something completely different.......


Most bench time as of late has come during weird hours but so far my camera bay has come together, with ten pounds stuffed in a five pound bag,,,, bulkheads, station 3 with KA 55 camera and gyro mount, viewfinder tube , ducting , wire bundles and forward control rack with various boxes are all stuffed inside. All of the inner works had to be scratch built.
















































Here is the rear main IP..... scope with a dull foggy "turned off" look. I made the rest of the ip's and panels with decals made from both the dash-one and graphics sent too me by the crew chief.................













Here the front gear bay is taking shape...............







And the missile rails are filled and doors added.... a bit more work to do on this.......







Well that's all I have for now,,,, hope to have the MK 7 seats done soon,,,,, hopefully soon I will be able to pick up the pace with this and on the rest of the Forum as well.

As always Thanks for lookin!!

That is some of the best scratchin' whats been seen in these here parts.

Blessings on you and your family.

Outstanding work!

Wow Handi. You're packing a ton of detail in this baby! Good to see you back at this project again.

extrem detailed, extrem good work

Some very outstanding work there! Wow! You have made huge improvements to the basic kit(s)...

LyleW wrote:That is some of the best scratchin' whats been seen in these here parts.

Blessings on you and your family.