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  • Frog Vengeance
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      Posted May 14, 2011 5:14 PM

      This one's been making slow progress on my bench for a year now. this group build is the excuse I need to finish it.

      The Frog kit is basic and so some extra details were required.

      Wheel wells boxed in and a little stretched sprue:

      [IMG][linked image][/IMG]

      The Frog engine is undernourished, so I've replaced it with one from either an Airfix or Matchbox Hellcat. It looks much better in either case:

      [IMG][linked image][/IMG]

      Frog provide a ficticious cockpit interior. I added a few extra ficticious details:

      [IMG][linked image][/IMG]

      The canopy is simply awful. I used the kit one to vacform a new one (just set in place here):

      [IMG][linked image][/IMG]

      Most of my time was spent on the cowl. It's a really prominent feature on the Vengeance. I cut away the kit parts and added new cowl flaps. The exhaust is a slice from a cotton bud (Q-tip) stem:

      [IMG][linked image][/IMG]

      The ultimate aim is an RAAF a/c, so the next step will be to enwhiten the tail and wing leading edges.

      Thanks for looking.

      Andrew
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