Hi everyone!

This is my quick build of the AMT 1/72 F-117. This is going to be offered as a present to a 6yo nephew, as it was his wish to have a stealth fighter by his bed. I happened to have the AMT kit in my stash, so I decided to build it for him.

The kit itself is toyish and simplistic, and not an accurate representation of the Nighthawk. Its general shape only distantly resembles the real thing. This is understandable, as it was conceived in 1989, with only a couple of pics of the real thing being then available. But, this kit can produce a nice stand model, any shape accuracies might be excused!

Here are the kit parts:

Instructions are nice for this basic construction:

Here are the decals:

and here is the progress so far:

I tinted the window with clear paint, painted the cockpit gull gray and attached all underside doors shut.

Thanks for stopping by!

Thanks my friend @j-healy! It looks inaccurate enough to be a better candidate for a dramatized Luft 46 project!

Interesting, Spiros (@fiveten). It looks bigger than 1/72. Being a stealth airplane, once you paint it you won't be able to see it, right?

This is indeed going quick, Spiros @fiveten
Lots of grinding coming up.

Moving on

Coarse sanded, then filled with putty and (at some still rough spots) liquefied styrene, fins added. Her she is: Ihave to admit that wheels up does bare a resemblance to the original (ok, vaguely...).
Thanks for stopping by!

Getting improved, Spiros.
Serious work on those edges.

It is certainly starting to look the part, Spiros (@fiveten). Have Blue would allow you to use something other than black paint.

But that's the cool part, Spiros (@fiveten). Once it is finished and painted it will become invisible, so no one can say it doesn't look right. :o) I have also looked at the Have Blue model, which is cool, but expensive.