Dale Brown's Cheetah

[K5054NZ]

Yes! Many thanks to Alvis 3.1 for his generous donation of 1.5 F-15s.

Here is the first of many progress pics on my F-15F build.



Sorry to tease, but Lana's    almost finished tea! Mmmmm......


Will explain/detail more tomorrow.

[KiwiZac]

Ok, so two things have changed: no Lana, and no cockpit.

A la Christophe, I'll paint the canopy rather than put in the originally-planned two-seat pit. Canards have been fitted - they certainly look unusual! - as have wings, canopy and hori stabs. And yes, for you fans of the novel, I am planning on a camera mounting between the vert stabs!

Just wondering if a nosecone will surface, or if I WILL end up going for the Concorde shnozz.....



JUST NOTICED: this build has recommenced after just over three years! Go me! 

[Shasper]

Food for thought here young hobbit, back when I did my 1/100 proto Cheetah I placed the mount for the dorsal camera pod half way btwn the verts and the paddle.


Shas

[KiwiZac]

Great idea Bud! I'll do that, methinks.

I've gone for smaller canards purely because they're all I have.....and I need to rip into my sheet styrene to do the 2D nozzles...gear up, btw

[KiwiZac]

You can just make out the canards - these were scrounged from my old RNZAF Hawk build from a couple of years back.

[Eddie M.]

Looking good Zac! I'm eager to see where this ends up.