F-4J Phantom II (1:33) - GPM
Nov 9, 2023
✈️ F-4J Phantom II 1:33 - GPM
After 20 months, it's a wrap! 🏁
I could have completed it in 6 months without interruption. However, I find it enjoyable to take breaks and work on smaller projects as well😊
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Nov 4, 2023
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The final stage: Ordnance and fuel tanks to be installed
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Jul 8, 2023
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📅 Day 107 - The ejection handles and optical sight are installed
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Jun 19, 2023
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After completing six S&P 1:144 small planes, I think it's time to resume the unfinished F-4J project.
What remains are the canopy and ordnance...
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Mar 17, 2023
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Today marks the 100th tweet of my F-4J build logs, thank you for following along with me.
I started this project back in May 2022, let's see if I can finish it within a year 😇
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Mar 16, 2023
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All wheels are on!
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Mar 15, 2023
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📅 Day 94 - The gear doors are installed
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Mar 14, 2023
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📅 Day 93 - The front landing gear door
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Mar 13, 2023
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📅 Day 92 - Front landing gear is installed
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Mar 11, 2023
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📅 Day 91 - Landing gear is assembled and ready to installed
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Mar 10, 2023
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📅 Day 90 (1/2) - Landing gear in progress
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Mar 8, 2023
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📅 Day 89 (2/2) - Main strut and wheels are installed
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Mar 7, 2023
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📅 Day 89 (1/2) - Installed the wheels
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Mar 6, 2023
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📅 Day 88 - Building the main strut
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Mar 4, 2023
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📅 Day 86 - Start working on the front landing gear
Many parts are not included in the kit, have to scratch build them...
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Feb 15, 2023
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📅 Day 85 Main landing gear parts are fully integrated
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Feb 14, 2023
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📅 Day 84 Air brake installed
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Feb 13, 2023
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📅 Day 83 Preparing the air break
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Feb 11, 2023
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📅 Day 82 Installed the landing gear door part 2
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Feb 9, 2023
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📅 Day 81 Preparing the landing gear door part 2
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Feb 8, 2023
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📅 Day 80 2/2 - First try standing with the landing gear, and the legos ... (get inspiration from @PanczykLE 😃)
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Feb 7, 2023
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📅 Day 80 1/2 Landing gear doors part 1 is attached
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Feb 6, 2023
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📅 Day 79 - Preparing the main landing gear doors part 1
Adding cardboard inside made the assembling easier. Gonna use this trick more in the future.
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Feb 4, 2023
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📅 Day 78 - Main wheels are installed
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Feb 3, 2023
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📅 Day 77 - Strengthen the part connecting the wheel and the strut, hopefully it's strong enough.
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Feb 1, 2023
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📅 Day 76 - Preparing the parts supporting wheels
The highlighted part will be the support between the strut and wheel, it's certainly not strong enough to hold the weight ...
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Jan 31, 2023
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📅 Day 75 - The wheels
To save time, use the resin wheels, colored with acrylic paint.
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Jan 30, 2023
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📅 Day 74 - Struts of both sides
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Jan 28, 2023
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📅 Day 73 - Main landing gears strut installed
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Jan 27, 2023
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📅 Day 72 - Main landing gears strut and support
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Jan 26, 2023
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📅 Day 71 - The tail flaps are installed
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Jan 24, 2023
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📅 Day 70 - Preparing the flaps
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Jan 23, 2023
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📅 Day 69 - Vertical stabilizer installed
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Jan 22, 2023
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📅 Day 68 - Preparing the vertical stabilizer
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Dec 25, 2022
📅 Day 67 - Assembled the wings
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Dec 24, 2022
📅 Day 66 - Wing flaps for outer wing tips
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Dec 22, 2022
📅 Day 65 - Installed wing flaps
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Dec 21, 2022
📅 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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Dec 19, 2022
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📅 Day 62 - Outer wing tips are ready
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Dec 18, 2022
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📅 Day 61 - Preparing the outer wing tips
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Dec 18, 2022
Dry fitting doesn't go well. The gaps are quite noticeable. Have to do some trimmings ... 🙁
Dec 16, 2022
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📅 Day 60 - Installed the wing hinge wires, and the main wings are ready
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Dec 15, 2022
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📅 Day 59 - Right wing assembled
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Dec 14, 2022
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📅 Day 58 - Landing gear and airbreak recesses of the right wing
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Dec 13, 2022
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📅 Day 57 - Assemble the left wing
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Dec 11, 2022
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📅 Day 56 - Cutting the folding wings.
Just noticed the construction notes of the hinge, need to add patches to the main wing ...
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Dec 9, 2022
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📅 Day 55 - Glued the recesses to the wing
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Dec 8, 2022
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📅 Day 54 - Cutting the wing to place the recesses for landing gear and airbrake
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Dec 7, 2022
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📅 Day 53 - Landing gear recess
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Dec 6, 2022
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📅 Day 52 - Preparing the landing gear recesses
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Dec 1, 2022
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📅 Day 51 - Start working on the wings
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Oct 1, 2022
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📅 Day 50 - The fuselage is done!
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Sep 30, 2022
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📅 Day 49 - Lower fuselage is done
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Sep 28, 2022
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📅 Day 48 - Preparing parts for the lower fuselage
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Sep 26, 2022
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📅 Day 47 - The tailhook
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Sep 24, 2022
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📅 Day 46 - Rear fuselage sections are completed
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Sep 23, 2022
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📅 Day 45 - Fuselage sections part #21
I need to practice more on this kind of shape...
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Sep 21, 2022
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📅 Day 44 - Fuselage sections part #19
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Sep 17, 2022
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📅 Day 43 - Fuselage sections part #17
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Sep 16, 2022
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📅 Day 42 - Start working on the rear fuselage sections - part #16
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Sep 14, 2022
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📅 Day 41 - The engine nozzles are installed.
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Sep 13, 2022
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📅 Day 40 - The engine nozzles will be installed soon.
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Sep 7, 2022
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📅 Day 39 - The engine nozzles are ready to install
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Sep 6, 2022
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📅 Day 38 - The engine nozzels
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Sep 4, 2022
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📅 Day 37 - Fuselage segment #14
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Sep 1, 2022
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📅 Day 36 - Fuselage segment #12
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Aug 30, 2022
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📅 Day 35 - Fuselage segment #11
The length already goes beyond the A4 cutting pad
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Aug 29, 2022
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📅 Day 34 - Fuselage segment #10
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Aug 24, 2022
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📅 Day 33 - Forward fuselage belly and missile recesses
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Aug 23, 2022
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📅 Day 32 - Fuselage segment #9
It's so big 😅
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Aug 22, 2022
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📅 Day 31 - Fuselage air intakes segment installed
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Aug 21, 2022
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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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Aug 20, 2022
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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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Aug 18, 2022
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📅 Day 28 - The air intakes
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Aug 15, 2022
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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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Jul 2, 2022
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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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Jun 30, 2022
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📅 Day 25 - Getting the front fuselage ready
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Jun 29, 2022
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📅 Day 24 - Back to the fuselage
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Jun 28, 2022
📅 Day 23 - Preparing the front landing gear recess flap
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Jun 27, 2022
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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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Jun 24, 2022
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📅 Day 21 - Preparing the front landing gear recess
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Jun 23, 2022
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📅 Day 20 Both front and rear cockpit are assembled and connected.
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Jun 21, 2022
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📅 Day 19 The font cockpit is assembled.
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Jun 20, 2022
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📅 Day 18-2 The control sticks
Made control sticks from the clay
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Jun 20, 2022
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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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Jun 19, 2022
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📅 Day 17 - The rear cockpit instrument panel
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Jun 18, 2022
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📅 Day 16 - The rear cockpit parts.
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Jun 14, 2022
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📅 Day 15 - The front cockpit parts.
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Jun 13, 2022
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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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Jun 12, 2022
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📅 Day 13 - Ejection handles are installed, the seats are complete now.
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Jun 11, 2022
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📅 Day 12 - The ejection handles - painting is done
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Jun 10, 2022
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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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Jun 9, 2022
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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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Jun 8, 2022
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📅 Day 9 - Both seats are done.
Next will work on the ejection handles.
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Jun 6, 2022
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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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Jun 5, 2022
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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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Jun 3, 2022
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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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Jun 2, 2022
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📅 Day 5 - Start working on the pilot seat, it's a very much simplified version😂
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Jun 1, 2022
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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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May 31, 2022
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📅 Day 3 - Nose cone part 3
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May 30, 2022
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📅 Day 3 - Nose cone part 2
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May 29, 2022
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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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May 28, 2022
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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.
May 27, 2022
Thanks for the suggestion, decision is made. Will be working on this GPM F-4J paper model in coming months. 🛩️
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