Minicraft 1/144

I only took one photo of the finished model for some reason, minicraft 1/144, but I've added a minicraft 1/144 of extra shots I took before I realised that I'd forgotten to paint the nose cone! Being a predominantly white aircraft, the blue background probably suits it better anyway. It's just a shame I was too lazy to take more photos once the nose cone was done!

This is a very simple kit, and I've already done quite a bit of assembly work. Here's the fuselage, with the insides painted black, the nose wheel bay fitted, and nose weights fixed in place with Blu-Tack:. That's a total of 6 kit parts! And for those of you wondering why I bother painting the interior of the fuselage in black, notice the difference in colour between the fuselage and the wings. The plastic is translucent enough that you can see a hint of the internal black colour on the outside. The point of doing it, though, is to lessen the number of coats of paint you have to use on the outside to eliminate any translucency effects. I like it Kev.

Minicraft 1/144

It is really hard to add to all the usual stuff I have said over the past year about this aircraft. I have always found it interesting that when one manufacturer brings out a kit that modelers have wanted for many years, all of a sudden we are 'inundated' by other kits of the same thing. One has to wonder what the marketing guys used for a barometer to see what we modelers would buy. Now as nice as all of these kits are, I can't see most of us building more than one of each. There is no difference at all in the parts of this kit and the previously issued KCG kit. In fact, there are parts missing off the sprues and those have been x'd out on the image above I used the image from the KCG kit rather than rescan the sprues. As nice as the Minicraft effort is, the kit is not really that highly detailed and suffers from toy-like wheels that have no detail in them at all and are too skinny. It also has zero engine detail in the nacelles and the props are close, but no cigar. Fortunately, there are replacements for the props and engines available in Cobra Company's set What can be done about the wheels I do not know. As for other detail, there isn't much. There is no wheel well detail and they are not even boxed in. The struts look quite weak, but perhaps they will be strong enough to hold up the kit. You do need to add quite a bit of weight to the nose of this aircraft to keep it on its nose gear. One thing that I like about this kit is that there are no cabin windows.

Alex Posted January 31, At least this part was fairly simple.

Like airliners. Anyway, I decided, upon looking at the toy-like wheels, that this one would be built gear up as I did the B-1B. First thing I did was to glue the main gear doors onto the nacelles. The larger doors fit perfectly with no problem. The smaller ones fit in place, but they are flat vice the curved surface they should be. I then went to the nose gear doors. These do not fit at all well and so I had to use judicious amounts of glue to get them in place in each fuselage half.

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Minicraft 1/144

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Same with attaching the wheels. First I'd make a concentrated effort to fix that tail. After the upper metallics were applied, the lower panel was given a Future coat to cut down on the stick. The engines come as 2 parts per nacelle, and the part fits the interior of the nacelle very tightly. Beginners should stay clear of it and most intermediate modelers will find it a frustrating kit to build. Mig88 Posted February 11, However, the only aftermarket decal sheet I could find wasn't one I liked either so I prepared to do the kit markings. Once the nacelles were ready and the engines were ready, the mating surface had superglue applied to it and the resin engines were set into the glue. At that time, a group of Japanese officers were attempting to kidnap Hirohito to stop the announcement. All I had to do was use a medium to coarse sanding stick on both sides of the back of the clear part until it matched the fuselage on both sides.

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Nice kit Kev. The main gear doors were troublesome. The fit is ok, but you will need to use filler on most of the seams as well as sandpaper on the parts to get rid of some extraneous pips and bumps that have crept into the mold. Sorry, I can't find them again, it was an image search, and I can't get it to repeat. The engines were painted black and drybrushed to bring out detail. It meant a trip back to the construction table to fill in the holes for the nose radome which wasn't used on this aircraft. Posted February 11, Even then, it's often more practical to cut it into shorter sections, as ultra-long skinny decals can be a real challenge to apply! After building it, I can see why I have never seen one at a show. Alpha Delta Posted February 9, My brother-in-law used to run a sign shop.