**** DONE: 1/48 F7F-2N Tigercat – Night War of WWII

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Glenn!

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

More work done on the interior

Pic 1) The rear cockpit. I made the seat canvas out of paper coated with Future. Still needs the belts.
Pic 2) Landing gear doors
Pics 3 4) The main gear well interiors.

Still quite a bit to do before I can start closing everything up

 

[Crimea_River]

Slowly taking shape.

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

 

[Wayne Little]

Well done Glenn....reminds me of my P-61 interior....

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Glenn!

 

[JKim]

Nice work on the interior. I like the drape of the seat!

 

[T Bolt]

I did a lot more detail painting last might but didn't have time to take pictures. I'll have some pictures tonight after I put on the seat belts.

 

[rochie]

Looks really good Glenn

 

[Airframes]

Coming along nicely Glenn.

 

[T Bolt]

Some more progress shots.

I finished all the detail painting, made up harnesses from wine bottle foil and assembled and installed both forward and rear cockpits.

When all that was done I did a test fitting of all the parts. No surprises, looks like it will all fit together all right, but it's going to be a lot bigger than I thought it would be.. Did a quick balance check and it will take a whole lot of lead to keep it from being a tail sitter.

Also ordered CMK resin wheels for it today. Never tried CMK before but they looked a bit more accurate that the True Detail wheels and they were the same price so I thought I'd give them a try.

 

[Airframes]

It's looking the biz Glenn - going to be an impressive model when it's done. And yes, it's bigger than you'd first think. When I saw a real one close up, having only seen it in the air previously, I was surprised at the size; being slim and fairly long, it's size is deceptive.

 

[Wayne Little]

fantastic work there Glenn!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking really good. Looks like plenty of room up front for the weights.

 

[JKim]

Great work on the interior! Looks really good!

 

[Gnomey]

Looks great so far Glenn!

 

[T Bolt]

I've been doing a lot of clean-up on joints and a bit more assembly. The nacelles looked like they would be a fairly easy assembly until I actually put glue on then, then it got ugly. If I got a tight joint at the front than the rear opened up and visa-versa and a very difficult shape to clamp. You can see one of the 2 clamps I broke trying. Finally I just sat and held it for a half hour as my fingers went numb, but it all worked out in the end and should look fine with a bit of cleanup and maybe a small shim on one of them.

 

[Wurger]