Douglas Skysearcher AEW(K)1

[rickshaw]

The model is moving along well, Kit.  Can I be the fly in the ointment and say I don't think the Skywarrior with those bulges is suited to that scheme?  I know that will get me burned at the stake but I think those bulges at the rear make the scheme look bad.  Perhaps with the later scheme where the tail was also EDSG?  That would work better IMHO. 

I'll now light the wood, shall I? 

[PR19_Kit]

I'll now light the wood, shall I? 

Won't do any good Brian, the model's cast in stone now, or plastic anyway. 

With hindsight it would have been a LOT easier to mask without the aft ECM bulges but they are an integral part of the suite and the aircraft is meant to have been bought 'off the shelf'.

[Thorvic]

The model is moving along well, Kit.  Can I be the fly in the ointment and say I don't think the Skywarrior with those bulges is suited to that scheme?  I know that will get me burned at the stake but I think those bulges at the rear make the scheme look bad.  Perhaps with the later scheme where the tail was also EDSG?  That would work better IMHO. 

I'll now light the wood, shall I? 

I know what you mean there is something that doesn't look quite right with the demarkation line going through the side mounted fuselage sensor fairings. I suppose that could be fixed by painting them either one of the scheme colours or going with a different colour such as black or radome tan to set them off it they are fairings rather than bulges. However its Kit's model and he'll have a better perspective seeing the model first hand and kwowing where the decals will go. Plus don't forget the tail will get the 849 black and yellow stipes with the Bee of B flight so that should look quite different when finished.

Looking rather good there Kit, wondering now how it would look with a Tracer radome above the wing and a twin tail 

[PR19_Kit]

Looking rather good there Kit, wondering now how it would look with a Tracer radome above the wing and a twin tail 

Ah yes, that'd be the later Skysearcher AEW(K)2B of course.......... 

[PR19_Kit]

At last the darn thing's finished, but it really DIDN'T want to get built! So many things went wrong once I'd got past the initial build steps it wasn't true, and the landing gear was a NIGHTMARE! The instruction sheet is total rubbish and it's very difficult to figure out where the various bits go.

As sandiego suggested I modified the nosegear to use a catapult bar and a reinforcing strut forward of the leg, there's no space to put it behind, and I used every one of the optional aerials that they provide in the kit, so it's got lumps and bumps everywhere. 

After I'd sorted out the paint scheme, airbrush failure notwithstanding, I used a mixture of home printed and the kit decals, but the latter were USELESS! They just fell apart into thousands of tiny pixel sized blobs so I sprayed the whole sheet with the same varnish I use to make my own and that recovered some of them.

That's my last model done and dusted for Telford, thank goodness, and all next week I'll be working on the stuff I'll be taking for the Kit Swap, or for you guys, as I'll list them on here first.

[kitnut617]

Cor!  It may have fought you all the way Kit, but that looks decidedly gorgeous  ----- very, very nicely done 

[Logan Hartke]

That looks great, Kit!  Fantastic job!

Cheers,

Logan

[McColm]

Well done 

[JayBee]

Where was it based?
Oh! Sorry Kit I thought it was from the real world.
Utterly fantastic job it looks right.
Ha! even with the normal length wings.

Jim

[kitbasher]

Very, very nice indeed, Kit.  Well done you for persevering, it was worth the effort.

[Father Ennis]

Beautiful job on this one. Outstanding execution.   

[PR19_Kit]

Thank you gentlemen, much appreciated.  

The 'Q' on the fin tells you that 045 was aboard 'HMS Queen Elizabeth' at the time JayBee, but the Skysearcher's homebase was Yeovilton, at the time the only FAA station with a long enough runway............ Yeah, right.  

[ChernayaAkula]

Love it! 

[Captain Canada]

Awesome....looks about right to me ! Love the look of the front end and would like to see some more pics.

[PR19_Kit]

Awesome....looks about right to me ! Love the look of the front end and would like to see some more pics.

Which bits would you like to see and from which angle?