An amazing entry, my friend @kistuz! A bird not often seen built.
Looking forward to it!

Great choice! Fortunately the scratchbuild will be easy as the sprues are actually for a civil version, with add-ons and filler for the deleted windows on the military boxings. Strangely Sword has not yet issued a civil boxing, but as long as the trees are the same it should be manageable.

Do you have a particular civil plane in mind Gabor?

Thank you guys!

I hope I can build it in a reasonable time.

@airbum It will be in some ways and not. I will scratch mostly the cockpit and I shall the engine, since the civil version has different thrust reverser system and a dispenser for noise reduction, which together are very prominent. Or I simpy put engine covers on and leave as it is, which I lean towards at the moment, since the fan blades ar really off as well. I will see.
I do have a particular plane, to which I was attached for a few years. Actually this project is about making a memory of my past 4 years 🙂

@kalamazoo the old and nice rapid dragon. I've heard those were used by RAF also to train Tornado pilots. Very nice planes, just those Viper engines were converting fuel rather into noise than thrust.

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@airbum
I was thinking the same. Unfortunately the TFE731 engine has a large variety and also the thrust reverser systems might differ form type to type. On the modelling market there is only one aircraft that was equipped with the Honeywell TFE 731 engine, the Amodel Falco 50, however it should have the 50's series, instead of 5BR, which I need. Also I've checked the kit's pictures and the Falcon has a something rather made-up or earlier exhaust, not what I need. I was disappointed also because I was considering that kit as well.

Anyways I made a little progress on the kit. Nothing extraordinary, just cleaning the instrument panel, since my plane has an upgraded Pro Line 21 avionics system, with nice big LCD screens. Also started to modify the cockpit bulkhead, because the kit is lacking completely the APU control panel. I don't want to overdo things, since not much will be visible, but that might be visible. I have to resist the temptation to go further and build up the entry door area. I might just pose the dividing curtain rolled down.

Also painted the PAX windows, since on the original those are smoked.

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Solid progress, my friend @kistuz! Looking forward to your improvement works!

The diffusers will indeed be a real challenge! The smoked windows looks very nice.

Nice job on the cockpit, my friend @kistuz!