Colonial Viper Mk.I My Way

[JohnLogan]

Hello everyone:
Hear are some images of my Viper from the reissued Revell kit. Some are inprocess shots. Hope you enjoy them. -JohnLogan

 

[JohnLogan]

eek Here are a couple more viper inprocess images.
-JohnLogan:lol

 

[JohnLogan]

Just a couple more, I've just about completed with the Viper. A little more weathering and the stand for batteries and a switch for the lighting.:cool
-JohnLogan

 

[Tordoc]

very nice!

 

[JohnLogan]

very nice!

Thanks Ken :lol

 

[Falco3]

Nice work. Top notch!

 

[JohnLogan]

Nice work. Top notch!

Falco3
Thanks for the kind words.
-JohnLogan:lol

 

[Clerval]

Pizza delivery Viper?

 

[JohnLogan]

LOL:lol!!
More like city cab, but you got to ride in the nose.
-JohnLogan

 

[Clerval]

HA! :lol

What's your overall impression of the kit?

 

[JohnLogan]

Well CLERVAL, in all I like the kit. For an old designed kit it's not to bad. I did change it form raised panel lines to scribed. And from what I could find it looks like there were three different burner can parts over the years. The last being the version I have, that are so you can light them. I did change the back plate to a scratchbuild part. The general detail and fit are good. I like how you can turn the pilots head. But the cockpit sucks. In all I might get myself another one and do it up prototypical.
Bye For Now
-JohnLogan

 

[Clerval]

Cool... I've been thinking about picking one up, mostly out of curiosity, bu it seems to me like it could be a bit of a renovation project... I actually think I'd end up removing a fair bit of detail, simplifying a lot of surface detail in favor of really tightening up the areas around the cowlings, rear of the fuselage, etc...

 

[JohnLogan]

While surfing the web, doing image hunting. I run accross someone who had removed all the the little panels, square and triangular bits, and just smoothed out so there was no panel lines. It looked pretty awsome. I was tempted to go that route.
-JohnLogan