CAF SuperHornet

John Howling Mouse · February 11, 2004, 08:45:28 AM

Some close ups of the nose and main gear.
One problem with the digicam: it blows all details up in size, even the undesirable ones! But, if I can refrain from screwing this up, this will be my finest Hornet (clue: it's my ONLY Hornet I've ever built! ^_^ )

John Howling Mouse · February 11, 2004, 08:48:12 AM

Main gear. I use a very simple wash of a few drops of gloss black in a solution of Future (Johnsons Klear). All the weathering, including that on the landing gear, is a touch exaggerated but this is on purpose so it will show up a little better in regular photos of the finised model.

John Howling Mouse · February 11, 2004, 08:49:48 AM

Fun shot of the Black Box cockpit in place. Oh well, PaRt of the pic is in focus to allow you to see at least SoMe of the details involved.

John Howling Mouse · February 11, 2004, 08:53:48 AM

E X T R E M E
C L O S E
U P !!!!

And, yes, decals on struts are no fun at all to apply!

But I like the finished look. This is supposed to be a heavily used
a/c in the 2016 era after the Americans have deemed the SuperBug as obsolete (and Canada jumps right in to pick up their throwaways at inflated pricing).

Ollie · February 11, 2004, 08:55:04 AM

Simply amazing Barry!

The level of detail in the 'pit is impressive!

Keep it up!

Tilt · February 11, 2004, 10:20:35 AM

DAMN!!!

That's looking soooo good dude!!!

I'm jealous!!

Cheers,
Tilt

p.s. I need to hang around here a bit more!!

nev · February 11, 2004, 11:42:47 AM

Wow! Looks amazing Baz

I gotta dry that future/black trick, sounds pretty nifty. :ar:

tilt you got that right!

Mairfrog · February 11, 2004, 04:05:44 PM

That's a good looking model!

I hate weathering and Hornets bore me

but that is a smart job. Even that 'exaggerated' weathering is 100 times more subtle and realistic than the average JMN job.

John Howling Mouse · February 11, 2004, 07:04:12 PM

Thanks, guys!

Been working on the Luftwaffe F-16T today.
Plenty of swearing going on, too.
Have NO idea how the supplementary supports for the main landing
gear are really supposed to fit together. Reference photos and Italeri's instructions only made it more confusing. Wish Elmayerle could have been here today with some landing gear blueprints.

I love Italeri kits but I have to admit there's always plenty of swearing
going on when I attempt to build them.

Shasper · February 12, 2004, 06:41:37 AM

Stupid Q, but whats the scale on that rhino?

Ves, the avitar-ed one B)

lancer · February 12, 2004, 01:30:31 PM

Jesus Bazza, that is awsome..... You Sir, are the MASTER!!!!

Hay Tilt, good to dsee you here again, you're right! you DO need to hang out here more often.

Sisko · February 12, 2004, 02:11:39 PM

Nice kit can't wait to see it in full

John Howling Mouse · February 12, 2004, 03:45:05 PM

QuoteStupid Q, but whats the scale on that rhino?

Mine is the Italeri 1:48 version.

All I can say is watch out for the main landing gear if you ever build it.
The main gear struts fit into a slot (not a round hole) forcing the gear to sit in a predetermined angle. Since the wheel fits on a fairly long axle, you're stuck with
the angle you're given.

On the starboard set, this predetermined angle is wrong, wrong, wrong, resulting in an incorrect "yaw" effect. Even though I knew this from dry-fitting, I still could not twist the gear enough to correct the angle and my wheel is not parallel with its counterpart!

Blah! Hate it! Didn't like the alternative though (cutting and repositioning the wheel's axle). I have another, unbuilt kit of this (going to be a VG winged SuperBug) that I'll have to experiment with to see if it will be buggered too.

Oh well.

CAF SuperHornet

Ollie

Tilt

Mairfrog