MaksArt 1/72 Lun Projekt 903

It has been unsocially wet the last three weeks and I haven't even dreamed of prepping up the air brush to advance any of my plastic models...

So in the mean time I started this:

In a way I had to as I have been collecting and promoting Maxim's models since I first discovered them a couple of year's back...they are very good quality, generally large scale model of unusual Russian subjects...Maxim releases these for free and I think that there is no better way to thank a designer who shared his creations, than to build them...so off I went...

I started this some weeks ago but didn't want to post any progress until I was substantially down the track i.e. to try to head off my chronic DNFitis...

The first step was to enlarge the model from its original 1/100 to a more civilised 1/72 Increase by 139%), just in case I opted to do a cockpit or anything silly. That done, I used spray glue to mount each of the A3 sheets on card...

Here you see the first of the forward fuselage formers cut out...

Some more...

And all of them ready for assembly...

Assembly under way

Looks OK...

...but the card I was using for the formers was too thick and soft which will learn me to go to a printer I don't know for cardstock...instead of fitting the longitudinal formers as one piece, I had to chop them into individual lengths to fit them between the formers...

The forward fuselage done...kinda...