Demon
- in ancient Greek mythology - a supernatural essence, a deity, spirit
which can possess both positive, and negative qualities.
My experience with building of this rather interesting model of
this interesting plane has ended and today I present to you my finally
completed model.
My acquaintance with this plane began
at the end of the1980's when I saw its photo at one of VMA stands.
At the end of the 1990's I found out about the existence a model in 1/48 scale and at last in 2004, with Sergey
Arkchakov's help, I became the owner of this model.
On the internet and in printed
editions, this plane is not very common, basically because of its short
service life, but nevertheless thanks to Howard Mason and Don Hinton on
the Internet are some little remarkable walkarounds of this machine.
Armed with the given
material, I started construction of my model a brief story can
be found on this forum.
Work did not involve special
difficulties although all elements of the plane have been modified to some
degree.
Work included the following
areas; rescribing the fuselage panel lines, air inlets, a tail beam, a lantern,
refuelling probe and its fastening were modified.
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WING
In the top side of the wings I
made the air brakes and posed them slightly open. I also posed some
of the main wing flying surfaces in a slightly lowered position. The place of a joint
with a fuselage, is executed with the help of a foil, according to the
original.
The cockpit is built from
scratch, with excellent results. I decided to pose the canopy in the
open position, to show off the highly detailed ejection seat.
Also to completion the stabilizer has
undergone. The main weak point of this model, in my opinion, is full absence of
a weapons load, so I studied photos
and added missiles from a Hasegawa weapons set.
At last I ready ready for painting and
first I wiped down the model with white spirit, and then applied a base coat of
automotive silver paint, painted with the help Tamiya and Modelmaster acryle.
Weathering was done with water color and a pastel. The decals were applied
without complexities, over a coat of Future, before sealing them in with dull
coat. Finally I put on the wheels and carefully moved it to my
display shelf.
Yours
faithfully
Vladimir
Saint
Petersburg 2007
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