A Shocking Italian!

[Mossie]

The proposal for Italian Lightnings was from 1965, which may predate the Saudi "Magic Carpet" deal and additional lethality.

I can always say it was a mid life upgrade for outer pylons otherwise it's just a straight build.

Gondor

Your on safe ground.  The proposal included a variety of options including the wing pylons.  It looks quite like the Saudi and Kuwaiti Lightning's.  There's a weapons diagram in the Lightning Genesis & Projects bookazine.

[Gondor]

Got as far as takeing the Eduard Zoom set out of the packageing and sorting out which paint I am going to use for the interior, rest of the time has been catching up on Britmodeller and YouTube video's as well as looking after the cat.

Gondor

[Gondor]

Decided that I better be productive rather than saying that I will get it done later. The kit itself as most people on the forum will know is a simple and streightforward build, you just need to do some parts first such as the cockpit.



As you probably know by now, I am rather enjoying my photo etch, at least now that I can see what I am doing Not sure that I like the self-adhesive versions of the etch though.
It's looking alright as you can see, there is some fiddly bits to add inside the pit and a lot more to go onto the combing which I am definatly leaving untill later when I am much nearer fitting that in place.

Gondor

[Mossie]

What don't you like about self adhesive PE? I've not used it myself yet, is the glue not very forgiving?

[Gondor]

What don't you like about self adhesive PE? I've not used it myself yet, is the glue not very forgiving?

The fact that it is instantly adhesive. I use "Formula 60" canopy glue which because it's a liquid alows me to move the part to aligne it properly, the self adhesive etch does not so you have to be careful in your handling and placement of each part.

Gondor

[NARSES2]

For a lot of etch I use Johnson's Klear. As long as you are dealing with a flat surface it's remarkably effective. Although various issues mean I'm not using much of it nowadays 

[Gondor]

Painting and prep of parts tonight. Hope to have the cockpit finished tomorrow and to actually start on the bang seat further than haveing glued the two parts together.

Gondor

[jcf]

EE Fulmine of the Aeronautica Militare.

[Gondor]

EE Fulmine of the Aeronautica Militare.

  

Gondor

[Gondor]

Painting and prep of parts tonight. Hope to have the cockpit finished tomorrow and to actually start on the bang seat further than haveing glued the two parts together.

In hindsight that was a bit optimistic as I have only just now achieved 90+% of that as there are a couple of parts to go into the cockpit tub



Like the Hunter's Bang seat, the cushions are seperate from the frame of the seat which makes fitting the belts fairly easy as far as I am concerned.

The exhausts are fitted to one fuselage side and the intake assembly is ready for the finished cockpit which it isn't or I would be looking at closeing up the fuselage but obviously that will have to wait.

Gondor

[Old Wombat]

Looking like its coming along nicely.

[Gondor]

Looking like its coming along nicely.

So far so good. I nearly lost one of the rudder pedals which have two thin straps, one which goes over the foot and the other that goes under the part the foot rests on. I was maneuvering the part in my fingers so I could fold the part under the foot rest when it dissappeared and I heard a faint ping. 
I eventually found the part as you can see two rudder pedals in the picture, so far that is the worst that has happened and I hope it is the only one as well.

Gondor

[buzzbomb]

Coming along very nicely I would say.

Very interested in the scheme you choose.  A few years back myself and a couple of my club buddies did a "challenge" of the 1/72 Airfix Lightning in a What if scheme, one of the crew picked an Italian scheme

The other choices were Finnish, Swedish, Indian and Lebanon.

[zenrat]

I remember seeing tham at Expo.
 

[NARSES2]

Super looker