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VF-4 assembled on my lunch break at work and base coated tonight. Detail work begins tomorrow night.

Base coated. That will do for tonight. Tomorrow will be the detail parts like verniers, cockpit, Undercarriage, turbin3s and nozzles plus any touchups on the body before a layer of future or slclad clear for decalling.

Quick correction. The canopy CAN be modelled open. It just opens in an unexpected way as shown in the VF-4 Master File. My VF is now undercoated and reassembled ready for pre shading and base colour painting. Just off for a quick late night blat round the hills on the other halfs KTM then I'll post up some more progress pics. Super motard mode rocks!

Ok... so after a total elapsed time of 15mins which includes taking photos the main structure is complete up to filler and primer stage. Pretty impressed. Seam running along the centre of the front section, behind the canopy will need filling. Seam running along the engine nacelles will need filling, especially the piece above the intake/ below the nacelle cannons. Wing bottom centre sections need glue. They have no snap fittings. The cockpit can be built, detailed and then installed separately after body painting.... nice touch that. The intakes, if you are glueing this model together, should have the upper locating pin trimmed off so it can be slid I to plan after nacelle painting. This way the turbine blades can be alclad painted and slipped in after the intakes get the white wash treatment. No masking required! The exhausts, vanes and verniers can all be fitted after painting with ease. Undercarriage and body mounted AA missiles as well. All fins, singlets and wings are well fitted and quite strong so no breakage in handling or incorrectly located and angled fins. Dislikes.... lack of an opening cockpit. Lack of a main gun. The master files show them with one and sometimes two main guns. Minimal decals and a boring version of the fighter chosen. I know why they chose it, it' still boring. That' honestly all i can bag it for so far.

The canopy cant be built open.

The canopy cant be built open.

Initial build begun. Main body slips together in 15secs!. Seams, as to be expected from WAVE, are positioned to be virtually invisible. Ram jet intakes and exhausts will need painting before assembly of the body halves. Although its snap together it still needs gluing to seal it firmly. Panel lining is good and the airframe cover snaps in beautifully with a perfect panel line gap at the edge.

I love how they have a canopy frame as a separate piece though! Nice

No... the book needs to be the size it is for marketing. All kits like it are in boxes that size.

My wave kit has arrived. Pretty simple instructions and construction. Not much to the kit really But... it looks good!!

4.30pmml20171228_194031_zpsk6nh5rny.jpgl63srri is One work in progress VFA-41

the 22.1 measurement you have should be from rear (where you have it) to CENTRE of the pin

I like the tigermeet one

I can lay a ruler across the parts and photograph them if you like. You caught me last night while I was working on the vf-4

Yellow centre of wing pivot pin to centre of wing pivot pin is 47.5mm Pink centre line of wing pivots to rear is 20mm

Very tempted to attempt a bigger section of deck that just a single waist cat. I have a set of nimitz class deck plans so.... it's possible.

3 decks. My last three italeri ones until I find more

De sprued and primed

They are fine. Just not based on US carrier designs. The JBDs are different and no catapult system. Russian and Chinese systems rely on the planes own thrust to get off the deck which is why you don' see many on the carrier deck... need all the length they can get to launch, and why they can't run full ordnance and external fuel loads... too heavy.

Armoured??? Thats not armoured. Thats death blossom mode! Damn!!!

I'm guessing that Ba is a fantasy machine? Or was it in the series and I missed it?

wait... is the movie different from the series?

The figures I bought ... so far - eyeing up another 25 for the Destroid dioramas... Plus the 1/72 scale chains, hooks and tie downs. A Wave Corp. VF-4 of VFA-213 Black Lions is going on one of the Carrier Deck displays in a weeks time.