FeResin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II - Completed

First completed resin kit the TA-7C Corsair II from FeResin, got to say at the moment i prefer injection kits but that's only because Ive been building them since i started modeling.

The aircraft depicted is from the U.S Naval Air Weapon Station China Lake, its where the US Navy test out there new weaponry, wonder how you get a cool job like that, bombs away.

The Ycraft decals, very thin and look great once applied. Need to be a bit more defined and have sharper colour, his website no longer works?

Pirates firing laser beams from there only remaining eyes, yep your screwed.



Best cockpit ive done so far, tried to copy a 1/48 resin kit, can just  see the rivet on the wings using the trumpeter river maker, not really made for the scale.



Used the camera on my new phone Nexus S, freaking close-ups are better than both my other cameras, what up with that?
Ian

FeResin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II - Wip 3 - DECAL DISASTER!!!!

Decal disaster, while trying to fit the vac form canopy i totally didn't realise that the decals that i applied earlier this weak where being rubbed off by fingers. Luckily all the decals which where destroyed are generic safety, warning and national insignia which i can replace and no aircraft specific decals which would mean buying a new kit, phew.

That will teach me with to give a model a protective coat straight after decaling.

Cleaned up the surface, to be decal again, sign. Rubbed off the destroyed decals with blu-tac which worked great and have a look through my spare decal stash to find the same types that need to be replace.

Going to use the landing gear from the f-toys kit, much better that the resin one supplied with this kit which are basically sticks.

Ian

FeResin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II - Wip 2 - Paint work.

Painted up all the US Navy jets at the same time, along with this TA-7C, i also painted up the f-toys A-7E but for some reason took no pic. A-7E has the same grey on top, white on the belly with a green tail for VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet.

Very happy with the way the paint turned out on this one, was a bit fearful about this being my first resin kit.
Ian

Trumpeter Rivet Maker

 Something i wanted to try on the TA-7C Corsair II to replicate the marking on F-toys A-7E but the metal wheels which you use to make the rivet with are far too big for 1/144 single fighters might be better on a airliner. Is kinda disappointing as i bought this and it looks like i will probable never use it again, better using a sewing needle or something similar

Mr Surfacer on the resin kit worked great, mainly the under surface of the wing which was pot marked with lots of bubbles in the resin and in appears to have worked. Lets hope they don't suddenly appear when i give the jet a panel wash.

TA-7C, A-7E, F-14A, F-14D and the Hawkers Hunter all ready for paint, which if i'm lucky i can set up the airbrush on Sunday.

Ian

FeResin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II - Wip 1

Been doing slight adjustments to this kit all week, been trying to gets these pieces to go together correctly took some time, then super glued together and once all that glue sets got no chance of adjusting i reckon.

When i started sanding this yesterday, they amount of dust! Had to take it outside.

Then added what i hope is lots of detail to the cockpit, might have the canopy open on this one.


Today i went to glue the final pieces off the kit on when i realised that one of the canards was missing, luckily quite a easy piece to bash with some plasticard.

Bit more sanding to do on the seams then a coat of MrSurfacer to hopefully fill in all the tiny bobbles in the resin, lots on the underside of the wings. If it works should be good to go paint wise.

Ian

[Kit Review] - FE Resin 1/144 - TA-7C Corsair II -

Back to modelling after the christmas and new year break and this time i think i will build multiple models at the same time instead of only one the go.

 

Going to be making both the single and double seater of the LTV A-7 Corsair II, 2-seater will my first resin kit using the FeResin TA-7C and the single seater A-7 will be made using the very nice F-toys Gasphon.

Ian