📅 Day 65 - Installed wing flaps

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📅 Day 64 - Main wings glued to the fuselage, not able to fix the gaps completely, but at least make them less noticeable 😌

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📅 Day 62 - Outer wing tips are ready

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📅 Day 61 - Preparing the outer wing tips

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Dry fitting doesn't go well. The gaps are quite noticeable. Have to do some trimmings ... 🙁

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📅 Day 60 - Installed the wing hinge wires, and the main wings are ready

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📅 Day 59 - Right wing assembled

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📅 Day 58 - Landing gear and airbreak recesses of the right wing

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📅 Day 57 - Assemble the left wing

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📅 Day 50 - The fuselage is done!

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📅 Day 49 - Lower fuselage is done

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📅 Day 48 - Preparing parts for the lower fuselage

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📅 Day 47 - The tailhook

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📅 Day 46 - Rear fuselage sections are completed

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📅 Day 45 - Fuselage sections part #21

I need to practice more on this kind of shape...

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📅 Day 44 - Fuselage sections part #19

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📅 Day 43 - Fuselage sections part #17

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📅 Day 42 - Start working on the rear fuselage sections - part #16

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📅 Day 41 - The engine nozzles are installed.

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📅 Day 40 - The engine nozzles will be installed soon.

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📅 Day 39 - The engine nozzles are ready to install

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📅 Day 38 - The engine nozzels

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📅 Day 37 - Fuselage segment #14

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📅 Day 36 - Fuselage segment #12

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📅 Day 35 - Fuselage segment #11

The length already goes beyond the A4 cutting pad

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📅 Day 34 - Fuselage segment #10

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📅 Day 33 - Forward fuselage belly and missile recesses

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📅 Day 32 - Fuselage segment #9

It's so big 😅

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📅 Day 31 - Fuselage air intakes segment installed

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📅 Day 30 - Fuselage air intakes segment

The inner side of the air intakes is has no color, decided to add a black cover. One more day to get them assembled 😅

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📅 Day 29 - Shaping the fuselage air intakes segment

Spent lots of time to shape the parts, hope the assembling will be smooth.

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📅 Day 28 - The air intakes

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📅 Day 27 - Preparing the fuselage part 8

After completing the A-4F, I'm back to the work of F-4J

F-4 in 1:33 v.s. A-4 1:144

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📅 Day 26 - Put cabin inside the fuselage

Quite challenge to fit it in. I think I have glued the rear cockpit to the wrong position which is too high, need to fix it before the next step...

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📅 Day 25 - Getting the front fuselage ready

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📅 Day 24 - Back to the fuselage

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📅 Day 23 - Preparing the front landing gear recess flap

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📅 Day 22 - Some interior details of the front landing gear recess

Lego bricks are the perfect tools for shaping and gluing the cube corners 😁

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📅 Day 21 - Preparing the front landing gear recess

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📅 Day 20 Both front and rear cockpit are assembled and connected.

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📅 Day 19 The font cockpit is assembled.

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📅 Day 18-2 The control sticks

Made control sticks from the clay

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📅 Day 18-1 The control sticks

No corresponding parts from the paper sheets, but a simple diagram...

Decided to make them from the clay

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📅 Day 17 - The rear cockpit instrument panel

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📅 Day 16 - The rear cockpit parts.

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📅 Day 15 - The front cockpit parts.

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📅 Day 14 - Working on the front cockpit.

To make the edge sharper, I tried cutting the folding line slightly, then did some color retouching on the white edge.

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📅 Day 13 - Ejection handles are installed, the seats are complete now.

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📅 Day 12 - The ejection handles - painting is done

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📅 Day 11 - The ejection handles - continue...

Not much experience on painting... covered the surface with surface primer before painting the actual color

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📅 Day 10 - The ejection handles.

The instruction is not detail enough, took some photos as reference, not sure if it's the exact model though. Will do some painting works afterwards

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📅 Day 9 - Both seats are done.

Next will work on the ejection handles.

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📅 Day 8 - The rear pilot seat is in progress

Added frame support to make the assemble easier.

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📅 Day 7 - The front pilot seat is almost done

Will add the ejection handle after the second seat is done.

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📅 Day 6 - The front pilot seat

Not much progress yesterday, just did some edge touching up, shaping and dry assembling.

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📅 Day 5 - Start working on the pilot seat, it's a very much simplified version😂

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📅 Day 4 - Nose cone is done

The edge of each parts are still visible, but I'm happy with the result.

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📅 Day 3 - Nose cone part 3

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📅 Day 3 - Nose cone part 2

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📅 Day 2 - Nose cone part 1

According to the instruction, each segment to be glued individually before connect together. I'm taking a different approach and hoping it can make the connection smoother.

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📅 Day 1 - Cutting the nose cone.

I'm a bit concerning the black border around the edge, so tried to get rid of it using sandpaper. Will it work? Let's see after the assemble.

Thanks for the suggestion, decision is made. Will be working on this GPM F-4J paper model in coming months. 🛩️