F-22 Raptor Italeri 1:72

holy cow!!!

that is some damn impressive work there sir!

Very nice work so far! Love the scratch building, wiring, and overall attention to detail.

Very nice work! One thing I might suggest is that the white should be gloss, and very bright. The paint that is used for the F-22, as well as most modern fighters, is glossy and is easy to wipe grease and hydraulic fluid, so is usually the cleanest-looking part of the jet. Plus, the F-22 is a newer jet, and so the years of grease and grime will not be as present as older aircraft. Finally, the weapons bay and landing gear bays on the -22 are far less cluttered with mechanical/greasy object compared to A-10s, F-15s and F-16s, which would also add to the reason for a nice glossy appearance.

I have worked on all of these aircraft, with a 2-year stint of the F-22. The F-22 will show far less weathering than any of the 4th gen fighters.

Nice work Antonio.  I'm liking the reference pics in the thread...nice touch.

Amazing detail...simply AMAZING !

Any more progress on this build?  Impressive so far!

Ok... next stage.... main weapons bay... first correct the big broad intake bulk in the weapons bay for to smaller, separated ones.... next adding some ribs, structures and detailling... here's very important to check the space required for the retracted pylons... here are the photo chronology...

Ok... only the wiring is needed... let's see a overall dryfit of the whole thing to check progress.

Greetings

Antonio 

vector123 wrote:

I dissagree the plane itself is a beauty shape Thats my

That's only my opinion not a sentence, i prefere the aircraft before this generation.

Can be even i not usual at modernaircraft desing, i'ts a radical change

I dissagree the plane itself is a beauty shape

Thats my

Antonioces wrote:

I didn't like the new generation f-22 beacuse it puts every weapon inside the fuselage and It looks so plain.... I know that the sthealthiness requires to hide everything below deck but...i don't know... well a couple of weeks ago a really good friend of mine ask me if I could build a f-22 from italeri for its office and I had to say yes (he's my lawyer so I exchange my work for it's legal services in the future).

i agree with this, even the overall desing of newest seems have no real beauty shapes.

On these types of aircraft the only way is to detail interiors, instruments bay and you done this perfect!

White_R34 wrote:

Hay thank "Antonioces" for starting this build and giving the name of a company that makes the F-22 in 1/72 or 1:72 scale. Now I know where to look for one and at a lower cost. "OOPS"! I take that back not at a lower cost 22. bucks? What that's close to a 1:48 cost. 1:72: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT1207 1:48: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT0850 An othere 1:48s. This one will just stop your hart. http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=MH12212 I posted some of the companys I know of. Like I said in my othere post I'm going to wate to get my hands on a 40% off cupon and then get on at a lower cost as I like 1:48s the most, even knowing they take up a lot of room on my model show case.

White,

Squadron had the Aeroplast (don't know the quality of that kit) at just over 8.00 and the new Revell/Germany at just over 20.00 (which is a nice kit).  

Antonio,

Really looking good, look forward to more.

Thanks Vector....

Ok nows time to scratch the lateral bays.... I'll show the entire sequence of my work althought at first I commit a mistake but later I corrected it. The error was made (at the begining) when I did not built the intake curve section into the bays... affortunatly I realized that and corrected it...

Here I realized of my error and corrected it

Now I'm working on the center bay... next post will concentrate on that...

Greetings

Antonio Ces

Ok.... after painting the bird's office this are the pictures:

Greetings

Antonio

Ok... the sidewinder and bomb bays are little more difficult so let's keep this in the freezer meanwhile I finnish them... instead let's take a look at the cockpit...

first I take out the details (poorly molded) of the cockpit tube and replace them with new details... sidepannels and fron pannel were made of aluminion sheets molded and detailed...

Finished... I also added some struts to the seat... and dry fitted it in the remodeled cockpit.

I also extended the back of the cockpit tube to add the pivoting arms of the glass.

Finnally I dry fittet the cockpit to the upper fuselage and saw that some work has to be done to fit the new tube detailed...

That's all for now... next step painting the office...

Greetings

Antonio Ces

White_R34 wrote:

Hay thank "Antonioces" for starting this build and giving the name of a company that makes the F-22 in 1/72 or 1:72 scale. Now I know where to look for one and at a lower cost. "OOPS"! I take that back not at a lower cost 22. bucks? What that's close to a 1:48 cost. 1:72: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT1207 1:48: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT0850 An othere 1:48s. This one will just stop your hart. http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=MH12212 I posted some of the companys I know of. Like I said in my othere post I'm going to wate to get my hands on a 40% off cupon and then get on at a lower cost as I like 1:48s the most, even knowing they take up a lot of room on my model show case.

Try in Greatmodels.com. I think they´re cheaper. like 18$ or so

Antonio

Hay thank "Antonioces" for starting this build and giving the name of a company that makes the F-22 in 1/72 or 1:72 scale. Now I know where to look for one and at a lower cost.

"OOPS"! I take that back not at a lower cost 22. bucks? What that's close to a 1:48 cost.

1:72: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT1207

1:48: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IT0850

An othere 1:48s. This one will just stop your hart.

http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=MH12212

I posted some of the companys I know of. Like I said in my othere post I'm going to wate to get my hands on a 40% off cupon and then get on at a lower cost as I like 1:48s the most, even knowing they take up a lot of room on my model show case.

Very nice work so far Antonio.  Keep us posted on progress.

Regards,  Rick

Ok... let's move to other part... the sidewinder bays...

Fisrt let´s arrange the length of the sidewinder rails and detailling them

A dry fitting and final rail

By the way that is the sidewinder bay.... something has to be done to bring that to this

Greetings

Antonio

the idea is to achieve something like this... it's a picture taken from the usaf web page... beautifull by the way...

Luftwoller wrote:

What he said. Looks like your off to a flyer. ...Guy

Thanks man...

Daywalker wrote:

Looking good Antonio!  Re-positioning the exhaust petals will add a lot of animation to the model.  Looking forward to more pics.

Thanks daywalker... I thought It could be a nice detail... complicated thought.... I also has more surprises but I like to keep them to my self for now...

Antonio

TheLastPriest wrote:

I will keep a close eye on this as that aircraft is near the top of my to do list, right below my Typhoon. Looking good so far

Thanks Last Priest... an EF-2000 or a hawker WWII one... because I also have the EF-2000 in my next to do list...

Antonio

What he said. Looks like your off to a flyer.

...Guy