Ripple Intruder

[Gary F]

  Decided to give this one a go for the GB


Mr Maverick's nice profile
Italeri 72nd Intruder kit(s)
decals from  Xtradecals TSR2 sheet with the Ripple scheme on it plus some roundels/numbers where I can find them

  Hope I'm not breaking rules but went ahead and glued up the intake parts, added some tube inside, and started adding putty to fill in the intake to shape and tweaking with q tip and nail polish thinner ... haven't tried that before so will see how it works.  No pics yet ...

regards

Gary F

[GTX]

It's going to be a pretty bird

Regards,

Greg

[nev]

can't go wrong with RR 

[Gary F]

Progress report for the past week ... Intruder has been joined by an Italeri Typhoon which will be in one of BlackOps profile schemes, and 2 Has 72nd Prowlers (schemes to be picked from Mav's recent Prowler profiles ... thinking standard SEA and not sure on the 2nd one, maybe another R Ripple?).
  First up the family portrait after this weeks work


along with shots of the Typhoon's wing root seam and intake seam work underway

[Gary F]

Next, the 2 Prowlers, fuselages just taped so I could try to align the intake parts and get the boarding ladders put in ... bit of a fiddly fit but will sand down ok.  I plan to untape the fuselages then do some work on the intakes similar to the Intruder.  After getting glued back to gether the tail football will be removed and new tail built up, and then refueling drogue from KA-6D will be applied to bottom of fuselage(s).

[Gary F]

Finally the Intruder taped together so I could work on the intakes ... tubing installed then several apps of putty smoothed with q-tip and polish remover.  Still will need some sanding inside but seems to have worked out okay.

[Gary F]

Little bit of an update.  Here's one of the Prowlers ... fuselage together along with the bottom keel piece in place (radome went on shortly after taking these pics), wings together, pods and tanks being cleaned up.  I'm trying to clean up some of the panel lines before main sanding but the plastic is kind of hard and my scribing tool is slipping around quite a bit so it's slow going, but overall, progress is being made.  Oh, and this Prowler will be in Mav's Ripple renditon of the Prowler in RAF service.
  The othe 2 pics show 2  2 seater Typhoons (Italeri 72nd) kits being rushed to catch up to the single seater seen earlier.  Both will be JASDF aggressors done up in profile by BlackOps.  Kits aren't bad, just need a little shimming inside the wing edges to keep the bottom pieces from sinking in too far.



 

[Gary F]

And the aforementioned profiles to work from 

[nev]

3 beauties on the way! 

[Damian2]

Duuude you're a machine!!!


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[John Howling Mouse]

That's quite the production line you've got going there! 

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Holy Poo !

Could be a record for the number of entries to a GB.

Keep 'em coming Gary - The GB needs more like you 

Ian