Here's and update with more pics!
Enjoy...
William
here's the Mitchell Gant (Eastwood) pilot figures for the replica sculpted by my friend, Masao. He really captured the likenes to Clint on these, espeically considering how small they are. The standing Clint actually looks just like the old movie poster, face and all.
Here's the Defense pod master pattern before chaffe...sp? "rocket launcher" barrels were added. there are several of these on the plane. two on the vertical stabilizers, two on the trailing edges of the trailing edge of the wings, and two on either side of the engine nozzel shrouds.
And here the barrels are installed...looks like the filming miniature now! this master was molded to save time of having to make 6.
This photo shows the overall rear of the plane, main fuselage. Here i've redone the drag/drone chute, the wing tip fences, the vertical stabilizer master, and the rear engine nozzel shrouds have at this point, been detailed and faired in as well. I will still need to add the two defense pods here.
I been able to get certain details photoetched as per my patterns for the cockpit and various details of the plane... here you see a belly detail, the F.O.D. collectors, air brakes , wing brakes, and details for the cockpit, namely the glare protection shroud for the instrument panel as per the film miniature/full scale mockup. From left to right: main air brakes, FOD collectors top and bottom for the "air splitters"not sure what they are called",above them are the side plates to the glare shroud,to the right of those, the wing brakes. To the right of those is the belly detail, then below that the top of the glare shroud. to the right of that are the cockpit sill details and below that the main shroud master that gets bent to shape as you'll see in the next pic. there are some other details that aren't mine. The gentleman wanted to use all space, so he did.
here are the flat pattern developed turkey feather nozzels masters before folding to proper shape. I've decided to make this a resin detail so there's no fowling up the specific bends to get the nozzels faceting correct.
I'm also utilizing several details from a Tamiya F4 C/D Phantom as this is the kind of aircraft they stripped for the Firefox gear and certain details, including the stripped MK 7 Martin Baker Ejection seat.
here's a close up of the patterns, can also see above the interior wall panels for the missle bays, and finished glare shroud for instrument panels, and the instrument panel accurate to film version.
This photo shows the Gant pilot in seat with various details. To this right of this is a close up of the details on the leading edge of wing for the plane. The part on top is the vertical stabilizer with defense pod attached.
