Started this one about 5 years ago for the Hyperscale Classic British kits page and had to stash it on the shelf of doom a few times "on account'a." I call it Frankenvark because it's a kit bash of three F-111 kits and an ancient Verlindin cockpit set with modified Pavla modified A-4 Skyhawk Escapac ejection seats. I chose to do 151792 because it was the least modified F-111B in the bunch thus easiest to build.

I'm posting it here due to the fact that China Lake has the last remaining F-111B carcass, which may wind up at the Naval Air Museum at NAS Pensacola FL, if you haven't been there, it's a must see.

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Thanks, Spiros. Maybe an update in the morning. (my time, US eastern standard)

Looks to be a work intensive project, David @davekight
Looking forward to it.

Wow, that is quite some gap, David @davekight
For sure you will take care of that, but it is not the most exciting part of modelling.

Thanks, guys. Will be at that unexciting stuff today...

Looking super, my friend @davekight!

Thanks guys. I had the old '60 something Revell kit too. The only parts I've used from it are the wings and nose, the nose isn't quite shaped right, the upper half needed flattened out. I sanded the top half flat and it became too thin. I backed it up with sheet plastic but it began to delaminate so I made a resin copy. That bubbled so I had to slather it with Mr. Surfacer, and sand some more. The original intent was a naval aircraft group build using Airfix, Frog or Matchbox kits and I got the idea to do the F-111B using the Airfix F-111F kit, or that's what it was billed as on the box top. In the 1960s Airfix was Johnny on the spot cutting molds for the latest thing and the "TFX" was one of them. They put boundary layer air vents on the top of the fuselage and on the fuselage sides under the wings, as the first few F-111Bs had them. Every one else I've seen do this used the Hasegawa FB-111 kit and leave the vents in the wrong place. I should note that I have used AMT F-111 parts too...

Over the last few days I've spent most of the effort on Frankenvark filling the forward section gaps. I got a little too aggressive rubbing out the Milliput and wound up back filling with Mr Surfacer. That meant lots of sanding, it turns out on examination, that 20 to 30% of the raised panel lines have already been sanded off.

Looking at the in flight photo of the bird I'm intending on doing, I've decided to sand the entire model smooth and replicate most of the panel lines with variations of the ghost grey.

Here's how gap filling has come so far. I've also done some work on the aft end and the exhaust cones. More on the exhaust cones themselves later, they're not quite ready for pictures. The old Revell wings have nothing but raised lines, I'll have to cut some recessed lines for, at least, the ailerons and slats.

More to come

Dave

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