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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Franken-hawk

I got frustrated with the model and took a break.  Now resuming work on it.  From now on if I want to build any TA-4 the Hasegawa kit will be the way to go.

First I gave up on the wing and trying to reshape the leading edge slat areas.  So now building another wing.  This time I used a razor-saw to cut out the slat areas.  Glued the wing halves together.  Added sheet plastic to the cut slats.  Now awaiting the glue to dry.  Will resume work on the other wing later on and this time get it right.

As for the fuselage above, progress and title of this post.  Squared tail-tip from Hasegawa TA-4J.  The dark gray tail fairing came from the parts box, a Monogram of Germany OA-4M.  Engine intakes came from the Monogram A-4E.  Rear fairing resin part for the cockpit came from Missing Links.

Plus used sheet plastic to fill in hole where the spine of the airplane should be.  Let me say I screwed up when I did this originally.  The hole was a bit irregular in shape.  The sheet plastic I had originally made and installed the vent, started to twist around as I sanded it to fit.  So started again with just blank sheet plastic.   Soon will drill out and re-add the vent.  Then scribe panel lines that got sanded off.

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