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Nice looking little cockpit that is.

Finally on to the main construction after waiting for the glue holding the liquid metal to set.
This pic also shows the new resin rear fuselage and the new WDNS nose, different to the recce nose in that it only has one window in the front for the laser rangefinder.



Also the view from my work area today.



Wont be going anywhere today in a hurry

Yeah, me too...


The Draken is coming along nicely too, the nose info was interesting as my Heller one doesn't really show what windows it has.

Cheers Marky. Check this site, it may help

http://www.airvectors.net/avj35.html

Good view of recce nose here

http://www.x-plane.org/home/urf/aviatio ... -s35e.html

Asymmetric camera ports

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f9/55/c4 ... 2dc443.jpg

http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/air ... .jpg?v=v40

Thanks kit, that's a massive help. Cheers. Off to camera the Draken's nose!!.

You boys have had quite a covering of snow. So far it's been much less in my part of West Yorkshire but we are quite low lying.

Here's a quick snap out of the dining room, showing our ancient and much bodged bird tables plus resident Blackbird:

hi kit enjoying watching your progress cockpit looks good and think the WDNS(ferranti !) nose will look cool ,i think these might have been an upgrade in the early 80's cheers craig

Yep 1980, ( gets me out of the worn paint scheme )

That's some nice progress and I'm also enjoying the wintry photos.

No snow here yet but the rumor is it's on the way.

The Great Auk

Some progress today, finally taking shape. Decided the easy option with the rear fuselage was to modify the kit parts to match the resin parts, extending the intakes to add the chaff dispensers behind ( basically what Maestro have already done as the resin parts fit the opposite plastic parts perfectly). Nose was a good fit , just a bit of blending in.



Resin pylons and ALQ-162 Jammer and EMCD chaff dispenser pods added



Started adding the Danish antenna which are different to the Swedish fit provided in the kit.



Getting there

That's shaping up to be a real looker and I especially like the way the intakes blend into the wing root.

The Great Auk

Nice looking Draken, As for the snowy pics, 36c here today with 38c forecast for tomorrow

Nigel

It's coming along really well. Nice work

Clashcityrocker wrote:Nice looking Draken, As for the snowy pics, 36c here today with 38c forecast for tomorrow

Nigel

My car said it was 2 1/2C last night!!!.
Australia is weird! (and rubbish at cricket.......)

Looking good, Kit, the Draken is so distinctive.