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Bob C · March 22, 2021, 07:34:56 PM

Is yours one of the extra F-35's the RAF will get.

Bob c

kiwichappers · March 22, 2021, 07:58:42 PM

F-35s they might get!

chriswil42 · March 23, 2021, 02:04:23 PM

Probably.

Red Lancer · March 23, 2021, 07:46:12 PM

Your build looks good ,Chris, but the aircraft looks ugly!
they used to say if it looks right,etc. but modern stuff

Mind you, Lord knows who looked at the Blackburn stuff, Botha,
Skua, Roc etc!

chriswil42 · March 24, 2021, 02:22:35 PM

Quote from: Red Lancer on March 23, 2021, 07:46:12 PM
Your build looks good ,Chris, but the aircraft looks ugly!
they used to say if it looks right,etc. but modern stuff
Mind you, Lord knows who looked at the Blackburn stuff, Botha,
Skua, Roc etc!

Quite!
I think they look uglier now because they are fly-by-wire and computer controlled so they don't necessarily look flyable.

MSea · March 24, 2021, 03:37:54 PM

I would rather be ugly and fly by wire and get out of the sights of the other fighter, than look good and get shot down

chriswil42 · March 25, 2021, 04:18:14 PM

Quote from: MSea on March 24, 2021, 03:37:54 PM
I would rather be ugly and fly by wire and get out of the sights of the other fighter, than look good and get shot down

I think that sums it up!

chriswil42 · March 28, 2021, 03:10:31 PM

First coat of another shade of grey. This shade was very close to the primer colour - needed good lighting.

Bigkev · March 31, 2021, 08:55:32 PM

Hi Chris,
Looking good.
The raised panels blend in better now after the primer.
Not my favourite aesthetically looking aircraft, but we now live in different times when being 'pretty' does not mean 'surviability' in the current times.
I'm sure you will squeeze everything out of this model to perhaps convert me??
Cheers,
Bigkev

cph64 · April 01, 2021, 04:06:29 PM

Looking good Chris and not a rotor in sight, unless you count the fan ducting!!!
I disagree Howard I think the inter-war designs like the Skua etc have a certain strange loveliness. Either that or I'm wired up wrong!!!

Red Lancer · April 01, 2021, 08:10:09 PM

Quote from: chriswil42 on March 25, 2021, 04:18:14 PM
Quote from: MSea on March 24, 2021, 03:37:54 PM
I would rather be ugly and fly by wire and get out of the sights of the other fighter, than look good and get shot down
I think that sums it up!

It's ugly.......And its not very good either!

Red Lancer · April 01, 2021, 08:11:54 PM

Your model looks good though!

chriswil42 · April 04, 2021, 04:20:00 PM

Upper surfaces with second shade of grey - tricky and very slow.

cph64 · April 05, 2021, 04:48:15 PM

There's a lot of chat online about the real thing being an expensive bust, so we'll probably order lots before the cost cutting exercise!!!

MSea · April 05, 2021, 04:51:48 PM

Quote from: cph64 on April 05, 2021, 04:48:15 PM
There's a lot of chat online about the real thing being an expensive bust, so we'll probably order lots before the cost cutting exercise!!!

Cynical but true

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