F-111F, 48th TFW, Lakenheath, Operation El Dorado Canyon, 1986

[T Bolt]

Great work Dwight!

 

[B-17engineer]

Sweet!

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff dwight...you haven't gone overboard on the detailling mate she looks real good!

 

[Lucky13]

Awesome work Dwight, mate!

 

[rochie]

nice work Dwight

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Very nice, looks really great Dwight

 

[kgambit]

Thanks everyone.

Gad this kit has tons of stuff to do still. Trying to get the main instrument panel and the rest of the detail painting on the cockpit tub and main wheel well finished. Once the cockpit tub is done, I'll be able to mate it to the forward wheel bay and install both. Then so I can close off the front half of the fuselage and drop the instruement panel into place with forward cockpit covering. When the main wheel bay is done I can install that and the rear and side intake panels and close off the rear half of the fuselage. Okay time to get back to it.

 

[Airframes]

Sounds a lot, but seems like it's progressing well.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks everyone.

Gad this kit has tons of stuff to do still. Trying to get the main instrument panel and the rest of the detail painting on the cockpit tub and main wheel well finished. Once the cockpit tub is done, I'll be able to mate it to the forward wheel bay and install both. Then so I can close off the front half of the fuselage and drop the instruement panel into place with forward cockpit covering. When the main wheel bay is done I can install that and the rear and side intake panels and close off the rear half of the fuselage. Okay time to get back to it.

And when it's all finished, it will be brilliant...................

 

[Wayne Little]

And when it's all finished, it will be brilliant...................

Sounds about right...

 

[kgambit]

And when it's all finished, it will be brilliant...................

Hope you're right.

 

[Airframes]

Poitive waves Moriarty, positive waves.....woof, woof !

 

[kgambit]

Poitive waves Moriarty, positive waves.....woof, woof !

ROTFL

Good one Terry!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Dwight, I apologize for dropping the ball on the landing gear. I'm sorry. Looks like you found some really good material though and this is looking the part sir. Keep up the EXCELLENT work!!! Again, I apologize.

 

[kgambit]

Dwight, I apologize for dropping the ball on the landing gear. I'm sorry. Looks like you found some really good material though and this is looking the part sir. Keep up the EXCELLENT work!!! Again, I apologize.

No problem Aaron! I managed to get the F-111 Detail and Scale by Bert Kinsey, the Verlinden Lock On #5 and the Squadron F-111 In Action. Those three plus the F-111.net website and a couple of great walkarounds have me covered on the research end.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Good deal. I still should not have forgotten though, makes me angry at myself.

 

[kgambit]

Work in progress: Finishing the main instrument panel. This still needs another pass of grey wash to get a couple of areas that didn't set but it's close.

Pic 1: Bare metal PE

Pic 2: Nearly finished version. To get to this point, I sprayed the PE with Tamiya Semi Gloss Black (diluted 50/50) at 15 psi. Let it dry overnight, then coated it with Future (diluted 20% with ISO 91%). Let that dry and then started applying Pro Modellor light gray wash. Let the first coat dry then used a wet brush to carefully remove the wash leaving the highlights only. It needs to be sealed first. Then it gets mated with a colored paper underlay provided with the PE set andboth pieces are attached to the sanded down kit instrument panel.

Pic 3: Just for grins, I decided to do the F111 D version instrument panel as well.

 

[B-17engineer]

Great Dwight!

 

[Airframes]

Nice. That's going to look the biz when all together.