**** DONE: 1/48 Vought F-8E Crusader VF-211 "Checkmates" - Carrier Aircraft GB

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The main gear bays are reasonably well detailed, but oddly enough, there is nothing at all on the front wall. A couple of chunks of plastic and some bits of wire later and its fixed. The brake line was added last, mainly because I almost forgot it.



 
Nice work Paul, looks suitably 'busy' in the wells now. In the first pic, on the lower, horizontal leg, is that a moulded -in brake line, or a moulding seam?
 
'Tis a moulded in line, good sir.
I believe the brake line is the one on the lower front leg, where I added the wire up to the cylinder.
The one you noticed seems to be for the hydraulics to move the whole b****y thing.
Sharp eyes!
 
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It is the little things that make me happy, like the extras I put into my Ju.52. It is done as Goerings personal craft; an extra wide seat and repeater instuments for "Der Dickie". Odds are, no one but me (and now you all) will ever know, but it was fun.
On to the F-8, the two intakes that will be on the @$$-end abaft the rudder; left, as supplied, right, as modified.

 
Yep, the front just gets a brake line. Adding the wing locking mechanisms today and a couple of fiddly bits, then if the rain will hold off, paint!
 
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