Diving back into my stash, I came out with another Fantastic Plastic oldie but goodie. Due to a C&D, all of FP's Star Wars kits are currently retired. The kit is their their Vector Wing fighter in 1:72 scale. It came in 26 parts of white resin, and one clear resin canopy.
It went together with little effort. I had the brainstorm to use the box as a holder for the parts. ;)
The only thing is that it's a bit easier to paint some parts before assembling the craft.
The cockpit area was a little plain, but then again it's so small, that when the canopy goes on little will be seen. But I did add some detail to the instrument panel.
It was at this point that I had my oops. The seat had a little pedestal on it. Was that supposed to be there? was it part of the pour stub that had to be sanded off. I left it there and the pilot looks to be seated correctly in the cockpit ... UNTIL I tried to put the canopy on.
The pilot was well super-glued in so he wasn't coming out, so the only thing left was to add height to the canopy. So I added some styrene to to bottom. I also added it to the back but ended up sanding that all off as I made things fit.
I think it was either a 1/2 mm or 1 mm styrene. That was enuff to clear the pilots head. I was done. Thanks for looking.
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| Tried to image the pilot but got a nice shot of a little weathering on the ship. |
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