Hasegawa 1/72 Stealth Fighter

Started by Spiros Pendedekas · 16 · 1 week ago · 1/72, F-117, Hasegawa, Stealth Fighter
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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks, 4 days ago:

    Hi everyone!

    Got rhis oldie...

    ...thinking it would have been a reboxing of the very good current Hasegawa 1/72 F-117. Instead, it is the initial late 80s tooling, which is an approximation of the real bird, as, by that time, little info was available. The kit is very simplistic and can only be built with wheels up. Here is the progress so far... The shape not even comes close to the real thing, but my sons love it, so I might paint it in another camo than the "obligatory" black.

    More to come!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 weeks, 4 days ago:

    A nice kit, Spiros @fiveten
    To me it looks a bit like an egg plane with this shape.
    Good idea to use a different camo scheme.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks, 4 days ago:

    Thanks my friend @johnb!
    Yes, it looks strange 🙂

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks, 1 day ago:

    Couldn't live with those humongous intakes, so I covered them with some sort of mesh. Also some puttying...

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 weeks, 1 day ago:

    Nice work on those intakes, Spiros @fiveten
    What kind of car/aircraft is that in the background.

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    George R Blair Jr said 2 weeks ago:

    It will look great when it is done, Spiros (@fiveten). I didn't know Hasegawa ever did anything without an option for the landing gear.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks ago:

    Thanks my friend @johnb!
    In the background is a Hot Wheels Cloud Cutter that my kids deemed suitable as a background 😄😄😄

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks ago:

    Thanks my friend @gblair! Oh yes, this is a totally simplistic and wrong shaped "F-117”, but, back in the late 80s, the world had little clue of how the bird looked like.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks ago:

    Some more putty around the meshed intakes, also the top antennas (whatever they are 😄) were added and canopy masked with liquid mask...

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 weeks ago:

    Some nice progress, Spiros @fiveten
    Seems like there is also progress on a Hornet.
    Edit: just found the progress update on the Hornet 😉

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 weeks ago:

    Thanks my friend @johnb!
    Let's hope this bench will somehow be less crammed 😁

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 week, 4 days ago:

    Painted and decaled...

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 week, 3 days ago:

    Nicely painted, Spiros @fiveten
    Also the decals look fine.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 week, 3 days ago:

    Thanks my friend @johnb!

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    After some small jobs and a final coat, I call this off-shaped "Stealth Fighter"...

    Done!

    Thanks All who followed!