After building WWII aircraft to start to practice and build my skills, I decided it was time to try a modern fighter jet, still in 1:72 scale. All the kits I have built until now (this is my 4th) have been 1:72 scale. The reason being that they are cheap and normally go together relatively quickly. The challenge however is to work with such small parts when you don’t have small hands.
With today’s glues it is not so difficult to build the model. The real skill comes with painting and weathering (making the model look used or old) the model. Each type of model has its own techniques for painting and weathering. For instance cars are done differently from aircraft and armoured vehicles are done differently from both cars and aircraft. I think it is for this reason that most modellers stick to one theme and then master the techniques applicable.
There are however many of techniques that overlap and are used with any type of model.
Enough of that, let’s go through the sprues as they came out the box.
Sprue 1
Sprue 2
Clear Parts
All the parts have been moulded well with minimal flash on some of the parts that needed clean up. I did find the plastic very soft and in the beginning difficult to work with.
Ejection pin marks are visible in unsightly places as can be seen below.
In part 2 we assemble the fuselage, we glue the wings and apply filler to fill all the gaps where the plastic did not go together properly.
Scale Model Adventure 