**** DONE: 1/48 F-94B Starfire – Your Favorite Aircraft of All Time GB

[N4521U]

If the Exterior ends up looking like the Interior, this will be a rocker mate.

 

[Wayne Little]

Coming along nicely there Glenn!

 

[meatloaf109]

Looking good!

 

[Airframes]

Looking good overall Glenn, and very nice work on those intakes.

 

[Crimea_River]

Agree with Terry.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Those intakes look great Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks guys, but I was not completely happy with the intakes yet.

Picture 1 Now I'm happy with the intakes. The separator plate was thinned down, and thick CA was used as filler run along the top and bottom of the separator plate and filed with a rat tail file to blend it in with the inside of the intake. I then sanded it from 400 to 1200 grit and hit it with a shot of light gray to see if I missed anything.
Picture 2 The jet exhaust tube and the opening for it in the rear fuselage looked just as chunky as the intakes (although I didn't take a before pic) so I thinned them down too.
Picture 3 The balance test showed that it was defiantly a tail sitter.
Picture 4 Placed a chunk of lead on the nose to see how much it would take.
Picture 5 The lead and cockpit tub glued in. I had thought I had fixed the cockpit fit problem but I was wrong. It took the better part of an hour struggling with it before I was happy with the way it lined up.
Picture 6 The fuselage and wing halves glued up although the wings are only dry fitted to the fuselage. That joint looks like it's going to be pretty good.

I'm going to let the glue harden on this one for at least a week before I go any further with it, so I guess I'll get back to the P-47 for a while.

 

[Rogi]

Woo I love that intake The glue doesn't need to harden that much (ie we can't wait that long for another update! ) Looking great

 

[Wayne Little]

Done good Glenn!

 

[destrozas]

looking great so far, nice job glenn, i love this aircraft but i dont, looking before buy it so far.

 

[T Bolt]

Woo I love that intake The glue doesn't need to harden that much (ie we can't wait that long for another update! ) Looking great

Sorry, but I used tube glue for the fuselage joint for strength and if I sand and polish it too soon sink marks will show through the silver finish. I do have some of the smaller bits such as gear wells, drop tanks, canopy, and landing gear that I guess I can work on in the mean time.

looking great so far, nice job glenn, i love this aircraft but i dont, looking before buy it so far.

I happened to find this kit on eBay a few months ago. I just looked through the Hobby Craft kits there a couple of days ago and know there isn't one available now, but if you keep checking, or do a saved search, I'm sure one will turn up there.

 

[woody]

Nice work Glenn.

 

[Airframes]

Great job Glenn, especially on the intake splitter plate.

 

[B-17engineer]

Nice work!

 

[rochie]

nice job Glenn

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Very nice work Glenn.

 

[A4K]

Yep, superb. Good on ya Glenn!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks good Glenn and glad you remembered the lead weight.

 

[Crimea_River]

Lovely work on that intake Glenn. Should be a good one.