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This is a lineup of three F11F beta versions
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I chose the F11F Tiger, because it's a jet I had always liked - it's so very classic: One Engine, regular swept wings and air intakes at the side of the fuselage. I used my old Hasegawa 1:72 F11F to check on several details, particularly the landing gears and the structure on the lower side, since it wasn't included in my three-side view. I figured, that since the fuselage of Aircraft is symmetric anyway, it might be enough to build a half fuselage and then mirror it with the computer, but that failed utterly.
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Here you can see the half fuselage I built. The edges were just to unexact. |
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The Tiger was a heavy birth compared to the Skylancer. The air intakes turned out to be too big and the landing gear well as to complicated to build in the prototype, so the first beta version still had undetailed landing gear. I also had to completely redesign the nose for the short-nosed version, which turned out completely wrong in the first beta.
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The fuselage with too big air intakes |
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The line structures of the Blue Angels versions caused further complication. They have to pass between Canopy and Air intakes. I corrected both air intakes and Canopy several times, and built a sized up fuselage to draw the lines, which I scanned again to get the transitions between the pieces right.
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| The prototype before the attachment of the wings |
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| The prototype with long nose |
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The prototype with short nose |
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| The prototype cut apart, getting prepared for scanning |
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These are paint scheme prototypes, printed 144% bigger to get the paint schemes right. |
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