Post by eaglecash867 on Oct 1, 2023 19:23:00 GMT -5
Slowly working this one alongside the Boss 351 Mustang.
Just have the rear seat to finish and put in. Anybody who picks this kit up, beware of the ejection seats if you plan to have a closed cockpit. They sit WAY too high in the cockpit and won't allow the canopy to close all the way, and, well, they're just so high it just looks goofy. I cut out the middle portions of each of the seat bases and then reattached the bottoms of the seat bases to the bottom of the seat. Had to carve out the slots for the seat bases in the floor to get an easy, yet snug slide-in. The cockpit is a mish-mash of kit parts, Eduard parts, and Quinta parts (the belts and ejection handles), with the nasty Tamiya throttles having been removed and replaced with scratch-built throttles that I made by scaling down the measurements I took off my HOTAS Warthog. I think they came out looking decent...much better than the little pegs Tamiya had as "throttles". The screens are all the original Tamiya clear parts painted on the front with Tamiya Clear Green and Clear Red to get a good, translucent brown, then I painted the back with Alclad Gold Titanium, and covered that with gloss black. Just realized I still have to paint the O2 bottle bracket, but that should be easy to do.
Just have the rear seat to finish and put in. Anybody who picks this kit up, beware of the ejection seats if you plan to have a closed cockpit. They sit WAY too high in the cockpit and won't allow the canopy to close all the way, and, well, they're just so high it just looks goofy. I cut out the middle portions of each of the seat bases and then reattached the bottoms of the seat bases to the bottom of the seat. Had to carve out the slots for the seat bases in the floor to get an easy, yet snug slide-in. The cockpit is a mish-mash of kit parts, Eduard parts, and Quinta parts (the belts and ejection handles), with the nasty Tamiya throttles having been removed and replaced with scratch-built throttles that I made by scaling down the measurements I took off my HOTAS Warthog. I think they came out looking decent...much better than the little pegs Tamiya had as "throttles". The screens are all the original Tamiya clear parts painted on the front with Tamiya Clear Green and Clear Red to get a good, translucent brown, then I painted the back with Alclad Gold Titanium, and covered that with gloss black. Just realized I still have to paint the O2 bottle bracket, but that should be easy to do.
