I had used a black sharpie on the primer to make a few dots on the right wing for the color demarcations. A really weird thing showed up after the dull coat dried. I added a coat of Future, then the decals and then a coat of flat clear lacquer. I got a little more work done on the F-100 over the last several days. The kit does not have anything for this feature, so I added it with Bondo body putty.
#Darwin project best loadout plus#
There is a variable exhaust to the AB plus the external eyelids similar to the plastic piece, but the AB exhaust is further back inside the fuselage.Īll F-100s have a rather prominent bulge under the top of the air intake for the AN/APG-30 Fire Control Radar. I couldn't find any photo evidence to prove either one, but I think the resin version is closer. The Legend tail cone and the kit tail cone were considerably different for the afterburner exhaust. Both required extensive sanding and fitting. I attached the Legend AM resin tail cone and the vertical fin.
040 shim and now it fits about like the other one. The port lower wing panel fit fairly well, but the starboard one had a huge gap on the fuselage end. I appropriated the anti-sway braces from the Monogram F9F-5P Panther kit and installed them in recessed areas that I cut under the pylons. There was no material to work with at the start so I had to come up with something different.
#Darwin project best loadout update#
The last update showed the work on the outboard pylons and this one will show the inboard ones. The remaining seven discs are those little white dots in the center. The picture shows the before and after, with the after having just one adjusting thingie installed.
It looked like crap, so I modified it by carving away most of it, drilling small holes through the flanges, inserting a piece of fine wire and glueing a 1 mm disc to the bottom end. The stock kit part has some blob under the pylon that is supposed to represent the ordnance mount and the anti-sway braces. I played around with the outboard weapons pylons a little bit. I have rescribed some of the lost panel lines, but need to do some more. Since I was using CA anyway, I just applied a bead to the joint, hit it with accelerator and then sanded it smooth. I had the whole join line sanded & filed to a pretty good dry fit, but managed to get a fair gap in a couple places while glueing. The upper wing has to go in the upper fuselage prior to joining the two fuselage parts. Anyway, I glued one side from tail to landing gear, then the other side the same amount, then one side from LG to nose, then the last forward fuselage section. Even then, the fumes sometimes get to me. I have to have a fan blowing across my face while wearing goggles and an organic vapor resipirator. I am super allergic to CA, but the epoxy takes too long to cure, even the 5 minute variety. Since they are resin, the glue had to be either CA or epoxy. I took the giant leap and glued the upper and lower fuselage parts together.
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