1/32nd F-8E Crusader

Xi kwiet hawn minghajr Marco!!!!

Proximo41 wrote:Xi kwiet hawn minghajr Marco!!!!

nahseb qed jixxkatla xi wing!!

J.Fenech wrote:

Wayne wrote:My humble opinion is that your seat is a Mk 5. Look at the side (bottom) the almost horizontal 'bar' is missing in the Mk 7. Also there is a handle between the legs.

Sorry Wayne it is not a mk 5 but a mk 7.One simple and obvious difference between the seats is the parachute pack. In the mk5 it is a 'softpack', the parachute is in a canvas inverted u shape bag while in the mk 7 the chute is in a 'hardpack',the chute being partly enclosed in a rigid U shaped box. The least to be done is to address this area!! Other than this, the top of the seat where the drogue chute is a bit different and the cushion layout which is a minor thing.

Also bear in mind that there are different variation of mk.5 and mk.7 seats to accomodate different aircraft.


p.s. - Paul and Ray, this time I will side with and support Marco, it is important to get the right ejection seat variant, just as much as getting the right colors and markings. After all ejection seats are prominent part of modern aircraft cockpits.

I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE & RE AFFIRM & PLEA MY SSM INDUCTION VOWS of 1986 (the year I joined SSM) WITH MARCO'S BELIEFS

Chris push it in all the way to hammer home your modelling skills

Ray wrote:

J.Fenech wrote:

Wayne wrote:My humble opinion is that your seat is a Mk 5. Look at the side (bottom) the almost horizontal 'bar' is missing in the Mk 7. Also there is a handle between the legs.

Sorry Wayne it is not a mk 5 but a mk 7.One simple and obvious difference between the seats is the parachute pack. In the mk5 it is a 'softpack', the parachute is in a canvas inverted u shape bag while in the mk 7 the chute is in a 'hardpack',the chute being partly enclosed in a rigid U shaped box. The least to be done is to address this area!! Other than this, the top of the seat where the drogue chute is a bit different and the cushion layout which is a minor thing.

Also bear in mind that there are different variation of mk.5 and mk.7 seats to accomodate different aircraft.


p.s. - Paul and Ray, this time I will side with and support Marco, it is important to get the right ejection seat variant, just as much as getting the right colors and markings. After all ejection seats are prominent part of modern aircraft cockpits.

I HUMBLY APOLOGIZE & RE AFFIRM & PLEA MY SSM INDUCTION VOWS of 1986 (the year I joined SSM) WITH MARCO'S BELIEFS

Chris push it in all the way to hammer home your modelling skills

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Proximo41 wrote:Xi kwiet hawn minghajr Marco!!!!

Daqsek qattu kwieti.........

Now lets come back to modeling , beautifull finished cockpit chris..........

this weekend progress was a little bit slow beacause i was locked up at Mater Dei but i manged to 'convert' the ejector seat, finished deatailing the Emergency Power Compartment, and since i needed another two Zuni rockets, i decided to do all four of them so that there will be uniformity on all four rockets. I succeeded in finishing the first one.sorry about the quality of the photos.





speaking of Zuni rockets, i found a photo that the port and starbord mountings of these rockets were different from each other. Marco, this is for you now, was this standard or what? look to the photos below.



according to these two photos both side mountings look the same.

No I don't think so ...first of all, most of the photos show they don't always carry all those zuni ...

Altough this sqd, most of the photos shows the full load..

and by the way yes they are different , in position from port to starboard

WHEEL WELLS ALMOST READY

Prosit Chris kemm inti bravu hi Issa "paying attention" qieghed hux

RayCaruana wrote:Prosit Chris kemm inti bravu hi Issa "paying attention" qieghed hux

he he better be... otherwise.........

Wheel well now ready, sorry about the quality of the photos.

Prosit Chris,

Nice job, EJJA LOL We want to see the beast up and running.

ps

Where are the 109s Marco

Nice work mate!

Marco's (and my) 109s are still on their way from china. They left there on the 18th and I suspect that the strikes in Frankfurt have affected delivery.

Hopefully they will arrive soon

Wayne wrote:Nice work mate!

Marco's (and my) 109s are still on their way from china. They left there on the 18th and I suspect that the strikes in Frankfurt have affected delivery.

Hopefully they will arrive soon

Well, we waited for 12 long years to see marko building a model, i think a couple of days more will not do any harm

Wow Chris They look real , welldone...

Proximo41 wrote:

Wayne wrote:Nice work mate!

Marco's (and my) 109s are still on their way from china. They left there on the 18th and I suspect that the strikes in Frankfurt have affected delivery.

Hopefully they will arrive soon

Well, we waited for 12 long years to see marko building a model, i think a couple of days more will not do any harm

You see thats why I always told you ..that when I start doing something the world will seems stoped......

this is the last sub assembly before joining the fuselage halves. a lot of detail was needed in there, and it's a pitty that a lot of it will be hidden by the wings.



one zuni rocket left to be scratch built.

very nice work Chris and very tidy welldone....