I painted the interior of interior green and later, I made the details of the
lateral panels in black color. As the kit does not come with seat belts,
nor did I have photo etched ones of the correct type, I used a piece of Tamya tape
and
painted them brown and with buckle details in silver.
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The detail of the part behind the seat is large than it should be, thus catching the
pilots head cushion. I then came to the instrument panel. I remembered one technique
using a colored pencil for the highlighting of the instrument panel
details. Then, I grabbed some of my son's 3 pencils, a white, a silver and a red.
In a glass of thinner,
I placed the tip of the white pencil. I waited 20 minutes for the tip to become soft. While
I waited, I painted of black color the instrument panel. After it was dry, I
used the pencil
white and I colored the panel, logical that it marked all the instruments. But
also some areas that that did not want it marked. I then had to use a dry
brush and fix the panel, not to leave marks in places that did not
want. I repeated the operation to detail the panel. I
also did the details that go under the panel. And with the red pencil I
painted the "trigger" in the stick. The advantages of this technique
to me are: Cheap, and doesn't require much experience or a steady hand.
The
Assembly of the kit, was not so easy, what it was complicated is getting the
nose right which required 2 types of Putty, (Tamya and Green). I had to
apply filler 4 times to get satisfactory results. I alos used putty on the
seam between the wings and fuselage.
As is characteristic of this airplane, the Academy kit requires one weight of NN
gram weight inside the nose of the airplane, to be able to balance well. I
also placed weights in the engines. Thus I obtained a good relation of weight for the center of
gravity of exactly. The painting of the model was done with car paint, using as
comparison base the American F.S. The kit in itself is good. I
planned to do extra work on it, but I found that I lost much time with cited rabbets.
Hiran
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