Here are some photos of the detail work on the landing gear & doors of my F-105. The Trumpeter kit is massive but the landing gear, gear doors and wheel wells lack detail. I used reference photos from the book ‘F-105 walk around’ to try and get the detail right or at least close to the real thing.
The interior of the kit doors are just plain smooth plastic with ejector pin marks in them. I used white putty to fill the pin marks. I also used my Dremel grinding bit to thin the edges of the gear doors.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/Maingeardoor1.jpg
The main gear doors also have raised rivets along the door edges. I made a simple template from masking tape to mark where the rivets will be placed. I used a #11 blade to make the marks and then used a drill bit to make small holes. I used stretched sprue as the rivets and attached them with Pro-weld.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/Maingeardoorrivettemplate.jpg
I added structural detail to the gear doors using sheet styrene and brass sheet cut and bent to shape.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/Maindoorsmodified.jpg
There are a pair of small wheel doors that are just as plain as the large ones. These doors received the same treatment for detail.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/Smallmaingeardoors.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/Smallgeardoorsmodified.jpg
I used the after market metal landing gear for this kit and added brake lines and electrical lines for the taxi light in each main gear.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/Csaulet2001/CorrectedStbdgear.jpg
That’s all for now. More to follow soon.
Thanks for looking