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Onto the cockpit, I finished that up finally. I added the missing handles to the IPs

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Then I finally closed up the fuselage. 

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Getting closer. 

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Test fitting the forward fuselage to the rear half, I noticed a gap on one side along the shoulder. 

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I used a spreader bar to expand the forward fuselage slightly and that did the trick. 

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Hey Carl, I just noticed a major boo-boo on the HAD Models decal sheet.  The bottom fin decals are both for the left side!  
 

When time comes, I’m going to make an attempt to cut one corner out, flip it around and then add the straights for the right side. 

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Just checked the decal sheet and Scott is correct, there's two of the right side ventral tail stripe. Guess I'll be painting them on. 

 

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Time for an update. I've been mostly assembling and painting several smaller bits of the Tomcat. 

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I got the vertical tailplanes painted. 

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The nose cone was attached and the seam cleaned up. 

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Lastly, I sanded out the canopy seam and polished it up. 

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And the cockpit is all done. 

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Nice progress with the big cat, Carl. It seems, your up and making it to the deadline with your actual speed. I like the 'spreader' idea and keep it stored on my brain-HD.

Cheers Rob

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More progress this morning. Mostly, it's painting bits and bobs in white. 

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I did get the ventral fin stripes done in yellow. Now to mask them off for the black. 

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I just picked up something new watching the dogfight scene yet once again.  The walkway on top of the intake is only on the left side, not both sides like a lot of decals have.  I’m sitting here looking at Tamiya decals and they are black. Got a Revell set that is yellow.  Movie appears to be a medium gray.  

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Left side makes sense as the boarding ladder is on that side. 

I'll probably just mask and paint the walkways.  They're just squares so shouldnt be too hard. *

 

* Famous last words. 

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The ventral fins are painted. 

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Thanks to Scott for the heads up on the decal issue. Made it easier to do them now reather than when attached to the fuselage. 

Speaking of the fuselage, I did a quick test fit together. 

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I started work on the canopy. Masking the clear bits and slowly gluing the frame on.

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A coat of black. 

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Still plugging away. 

Missiles are painted. 

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Gear has had Hasegawa Mirror Finish applied to the oleos.

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Fuselage is coming together as well.

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Forced perspective might be throwing the proportions off a bit. :D

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Thanks Peter. Looks like I'm going to just miss the cutoff. That's ok as I finally got this build off my bucket list. 

Here's more progress. Here's the nose section masked and painted. 

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There's some touch-ups needed but those will wait until I've joined the two fuselage sections. 

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One thing I've always hated on Navy aircraft is the red outline on the landing gear bay doors. Then I tried a red Gundam marker and now it's easy peasy. 

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