Thank you all for the kind comments
so far its been a huge heat wave here and with no ac, have to do things sparingly. I've recently found an excellent resource that showed the ENTIRE
front Radar with a special treat as well, I'll be using this for the project and will hopefully have something rigged by next week.
Apart from that, I looked at the kit and thought, well when the aircraft is parked or under maintenance, it always has it's rear tail fin folded (my understanding is that the tail fin is folded on the ground and during taxing. When it starts up and is in flight, it is extended as you can see with this Shenyang F-8IIM coming in for landing, I've highlighted the tail fin portion:
The kit only comes with the extended option:
With two pairs of additional side fins attached to the main fin. I can't find that this is on the variants of the 8-IIM, if during the build I find a clearer shot of the tail I'll scratch these parts a new, since they have to be removed to be able to cut the tail fin section in the ground position:
another reference photo from the Museum Shenyang (the first prototype)with the tail fin tucked:
My next step was to place the instrument panel in the proper position, after a couple hours of fighting with the position, it sat in nicely:
I then debated (and still am to some point) so would love your opinions on the subject:
The conundrum at hand is this, to display the radar, wires etc of the front nose section I can keep it as is, or expand to another panel (as I found a detailed and nice reference for this section), this would involve cutting some more plastic away as such:
It would come very very close to the instrument panel,
and would require removal of one section of the seat support rest (which won't be used):
I'm keen on attempting this but it is a one shot, one go, it'll either fail or succeed and I'm curious to what the other members of our forum think?
attempt or just avoid and keep it as is.
Thank you all for your comments,
Igor