Grumman TF-9J Cougar

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Holes for switches of 0,25 mm wire are good visible.
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December 17, 2016
Kit-decals for the consoles applied over the etched panels for 3rd dimension. Switches of wire and knobs of round rod in place: 3rd dimension completed.
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The fit of the windscreen is OK except a little step which had to be removed with 0,13 mm plastic.
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January 15, 2017
Landing gear. The nose strut is too short and so I inserted a piece of tube. Unfortunately I lost a half of the nose wheel and had to replace them.
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January 22, 2017

Bernhard Schrock
Painting nearly completed minus tail leading edges in "coroguard". I'm not too happy with the separation lines between orange and white on the wings... Maybe I mixed orange too matte 🙁
Walk ways:
After masking I airbrushed a thick coat (really thick) with unthinned paint (Humbrol) with very low pressure (0,7 bar). Approx. 5 min later I pressed 1500 micro mesh into the still wet paint and produced an uneven surface. This looks in my opinion very similar to the anti skid areas.

3 January 2017, 21:24

Bernhard Schrock
After one week of "hard work" 🙂 I'm nearly ready with the decaling. The Furball - decals are well printed, especially the white is very bright. But on the wings the national insignia (stars) should be applied over the border between orange and white. You can probably guess next problem: the orange colour was faintly visible through the white star. Fortunately the huge decal sheet offers full markings for two models so I could use spare parts of stars to patch up the problem (picture 23).

12 January 2017, 21:10

Michael Phillips
This is looking outstanding! That is some really awesome, crisp paintwork there. Love it!

12 January 2017, 21:12

gorby
WOW! Absolutely stunning Bernhard!

22 January 2017, 15:48

Bernhard Schrock
It was an curios project: it consisted to 1/3 of sanding & restoring of panel lines, to 1/3 of airbrushing and only to 1/3 of the normal staff🙂

22 January 2017, 15:56

Holger Kranich
Ja wat is nu denn? Ich habe ja garnicht mitbekommen das man hier schon wieder fertig ist! Sieht klasse aus und die Farben strahlen sehr schön!

22 January 2017, 16:14

Christian Ristits
Wunderschönes Modell, super Arbeit Bernhard!

22 January 2017, 16:50

Gary Brantley
Wow! fantastic modeling work Bernhard! 👍

22 January 2017, 17:04

Soeren R.
Really nice work!

22 January 2017, 17:36

Christian Bruer
Very nice and fast work Bernhard 👍

22 January 2017, 18:48

Hanno Kleinecke
This orange-white scheme is very pretty, what a sight !

22 January 2017, 19:19

Martin Oostrom
That's stunning!

22 January 2017, 19:24

Stefan Schacht
Hallo Bernhard, very nice model, hope to see it on the Euro Model Expo. Cheers Stefan

22 January 2017, 20:01

Bernhard Schrock
Thank you mates! I'm very glad that you like the orange cat! By the way: the white is not a 100% white but in reality a very light gray. And my international orange consists in reality a little bit of fluorescent orange (H209) because I was so enthusiastic to see the result on my Hellcat drone. Despite of 6 several fluids (incl. the Tamiya decal adhesive fluid) I had very big trouble to avoid silvering: it took one whole week just applying the decals.
Stefan: the Cougar will go to Lingen. By the way: Hanno and I will take both Hallcat-Drones to Lingen.

22 January 2017, 20:08

Holger Kranich
Cool, dann sehen wir uns in Lingen!

23 January 2017, 08:56