This is a Desert Storm era
Whiskey overpainted in desert camo and rushed out to the Gulf. The kit
itself is fairly easy to assemble; the engine bay is very two dimensional and
the engine oversimplified. The engine intakes are also wrong as the
openings should be much larger. I detailed the engine bay by adding
various size wires and extending the fire suppressor vent to the rear bulkhead.
I fabricated the engine bay front and rear bulkheads from sheet styrene to hide
the gap between the rear of the bay and the extended fire suppressor vent.
There's an engine brace embossed on the rear bulkhead of the compartment; it
should be up closer so I scratchbuilt that as well.
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I drilled out the
holes for the chaff dispensers as well as the bottom of the anti collision
light; I used very thin copper wire for the intercom wires in the cockpit and
used non fuming superglue to attach to the inside of the canopy. There's 5
pennies in the right front hellfire electronics bay for weighing the nose down;
the right skids were drilled out to attach hard wire to support the weight of
the kit as I'd mistakenly pushed down and
broke the skid off. The weathering was done with various colors of chalk
and a wash.
Max
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