I remember being scared during an airshow display from a Lightning in the 1970s. The noise was insane as the aircraft flew in to begin its display. There was also a static aircraft I was fascinated by. It has remained a favourite aircraft.
I want to do one of these but i definitely need extras for it. Cockpit and exgausts. I can add wiring to the wheel bays. Also some scribing needs to be done. But it is such a cool looking aircraft.
Firestreak goes on the F2a only, BUT you can use both Red Top and Firestreak on the F6. Both missiles were kept in service until 1988 and the retirement of the Lightning, and it was usually the pilots choice as to which were loaded as some preferred the simpler Firestreak as they thought that missile slightly more reliable. The Red Top was more all aspect (up to 60 deg lock on from the rear aspect compared to 20 deg for the Firestreak and the Red Top in theory could lock onto a supersonic target head on).In regards to the belly fuel tank, the version without the gun pack can be used for BOTH the F2a and F6. The no gun pack fit was quite common in the earlier days of F6 operation where missiles were considered king. You can fit the F2a in 4 gun configuration using the upper and lower fuselage gun panels. In this fit, which wasn't commonly used, the aircraft were not fitted with missiles as the lower fuselage guns used the space where the missile pack was fitted (the pack contained coolant and electronics associated with the missiles which could be loaded separately onto the pack launch rails if the pack was already fitted to the aircraft, or pre fitted on the packs for faster turn around times where both missiles and the pack were swapped as one unit) The overwing tanks were only fitted to the F6 as only the F6 wing had overwing hard points. The tanks were supposedly able to be jettisoned, but I understand there were issues with this in service use, and they were only removed on landing by the ground crew. Hope you find this useful.
I've read some reviews that point out a lot of shape inaccuracies. Apparently there is a thread that goes through the needed corrections in some detail.
I am pretty sure. that anyone who likes this will will watch this. Modellers, as you know. simply because. they seem to forget what modeling is about, You buy a model, looking at the spres. Great, but then you realize. not quit right. so think how to make it better. yes some sanding etc, but gives you. The chance to make it better. Our job is to adapt and show better performance
They've just taken Airfix's 1/48 kit and copied it, those sprues are identical. 1/32 isn't my scale but I've not heard too many good things about this kit. Looks wrong dimensionally when built.
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I remember being scared during an airshow display from a Lightning in the 1970s. The noise was insane as the aircraft flew in to begin its display. There was also a static aircraft I was fascinated by. It has remained a favourite aircraft.
I want to do one of these but i definitely need extras for it. Cockpit and exgausts. I can add wiring to the wheel bays. Also some scribing needs to be done. But it is such a cool looking aircraft.
Firestreak goes on the F2a only, BUT you can use both Red Top and Firestreak on the F6. Both missiles were kept in service until 1988 and the retirement of the Lightning, and it was usually the pilots choice as to which were loaded as some preferred the simpler Firestreak as they thought that missile slightly more reliable. The Red Top was more all aspect (up to 60 deg lock on from the rear aspect compared to 20 deg for the Firestreak and the Red Top in theory could lock onto a supersonic target head on).In regards to the belly fuel tank, the version without the gun pack can be used for BOTH the F2a and F6. The no gun pack fit was quite common in the earlier days of F6 operation where missiles were considered king. You can fit the F2a in 4 gun configuration using the upper and lower fuselage gun panels. In this fit, which wasn't commonly used, the aircraft were not fitted with missiles as the lower fuselage guns used the space where the missile pack was fitted (the pack contained coolant and electronics associated with the missiles which could be loaded separately onto the pack launch rails if the pack was already fitted to the aircraft, or pre fitted on the packs for faster turn around times where both missiles and the pack were swapped as one unit) The overwing tanks were only fitted to the F6 as only the F6 wing had overwing hard points. The tanks were supposedly able to be jettisoned, but I understand there were issues with this in service use, and they were only removed on landing by the ground crew. Hope you find this useful.
Superb information.
Thank You.
I've read some reviews that point out a lot of shape inaccuracies. Apparently there is a thread that goes through the needed corrections in some detail.
I am pretty sure. that anyone who likes this will will watch this. Modellers, as you know. simply because. they seem to forget what modeling is about, You buy a model, looking at the spres. Great, but then you realize. not quit right. so think how to make it better. yes some sanding etc, but gives you. The chance to make it better. Our job is to adapt and show better performance
They've just taken Airfix's 1/48 kit and copied it, those sprues are identical. 1/32 isn't my scale but I've not heard too many good things about this kit. Looks wrong dimensionally when built.