Ed Sunder
SMF Supporter
The build log (started partway in...) can be found here. I haven't built a proper kit in a couple years and started this one to kind of get my mojo back. I really was intending it as a quick build, without worrying about details, but I was so happy with it, I wound up doing quite a lot, which you can see in the build log.
This is a recent Airfix kit and goes together pretty well, though the clear section of the sliding canopy was overshot and required quite a lot of work to clean up. It represents ZD433 from Operation "Herrick" in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2009. I have modified the ordinance, swapping out the kit-supplied Paveways with Mavericks. The drop tanks, CRV-7 rocket pods and AGM-65 Mavericks (along with their launch rails) are all designed by me in Fusion 360 software and 3D printed on my Anycubic Photon Mono X resin printer. Other than that, it's pretty much out of box.
I've really enjoyed building this and am quite happy with the result. And most importantly, I am excited to get back to building more kits soon or at least finishing some of the shelf of doom.
And here it is:
This is a recent Airfix kit and goes together pretty well, though the clear section of the sliding canopy was overshot and required quite a lot of work to clean up. It represents ZD433 from Operation "Herrick" in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2009. I have modified the ordinance, swapping out the kit-supplied Paveways with Mavericks. The drop tanks, CRV-7 rocket pods and AGM-65 Mavericks (along with their launch rails) are all designed by me in Fusion 360 software and 3D printed on my Anycubic Photon Mono X resin printer. Other than that, it's pretty much out of box.
I've really enjoyed building this and am quite happy with the result. And most importantly, I am excited to get back to building more kits soon or at least finishing some of the shelf of doom.
And here it is:
