My vintage resin AMX
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And off we go
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A bit of merciless macro photography 😉
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Lots of flash everywhere 🙁
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Fuselage closed, lots of sanding ahead - started from the nose.
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This is Warrior Model's hideous exhaust proposal 😄 Will have to scratch sth
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Closed the cockpit and started the wings.
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And the stabilisers followed.
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Prepared some place for the exhaust pipe.
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Lots of bubbles on the undersides 🙁
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Next stage: blending in the rudder and the canopy.
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So I reattached the canopy
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And filled the rudder root
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Then another round of primer
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Some corrections will definitely be needed
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Another canopy-blending session
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Aaaand on its own legs for the very first time!
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So, looking carefully at this picture I found out the landing gear geometry is simply wrong in this kit.
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Therefore it needed some correction: back-before, front - after.
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Adding the bits and pieces...
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... here and there.
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Ready for colouring me thinks.
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Ready for colouring me thinks.
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Camo grey is done, next mode Eagle grey on top.
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Camo grey is done, next mode Eagle grey on top.
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Main colours added, couple of corrections still needed on the light grey, where the masks peeled off some paint.
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Reinforcements have arrived!
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More scratchbuilding...
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Finally on her own wheels
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Reinforcements have arrived 👍
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Adding all the bits and pieces
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Once again lots of kudos to Davide! 👍
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And now I have to think how to get rid of it 🙁
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You can now scroll back to pic #16 🙁
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Doesn't feel like a lot of gain 🤔
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The last stretch
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In the background the traces of PLZ/PLN redenomination can be seen, it was 1995!
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You can clearly see the kit's geometry issues
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Aaaand back to the hangar
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