Silver City Models Eagle 997 (transkit)
May 3, 2023 15:11:35 GMT -8
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Post by kyledehart5 on May 3, 2023 15:11:35 GMT -8
Skip the back story to get to the photos. I learned a lot from this build. I enjoyed the process and plan to do more with resin kits in the future. It is far from perfect (as are all my builds) but it sure looks the part up on my shelf.
Resin body and kick ups by the rear tires used in conjunction with the old Revell Reynard for suspension, wings, etc. I have long loved this particular Eagle, even if it wasn't particularly successful. I also want to support those people that are coming out with kits and things that make this hobby I love so much better. Well, I've never worked with resin before at all so I reached out to Kevin to get some advice and pointers. He was very helpful and I ordered this Eagle and another. This has been a few years back now.
This and my couple other resin kits have been languishing ever since. January 1st of this year I decided I'd better give it a try because I had acquired a Reynard kit that wasn't all there and was generally just begging to be a donor kit. So I cut all the suspension off the Reynard, cut the front wings off the nose cone. I measured and marked about a 100 times for the suspension and wing locations on the resin body. This was all new to me. I have done some drilling and pinning of things on normal plastic kits before but nothing of this scope. I made plenty of mistakes, but it was all part of learning and I enjoyed it very much. Typically, I don't ever take 4 months to get through a build but I was extremely cautious and slow with this one so it has been going on in some form or fashion while I also completed other projects. I am happy it is done and can't wait to get into my next resin build. The donor kit had a broken set of speedway wings and only came with the wet tires, so what we get is rain tires and road course configuration. Decals from Indycals, as usual. The nose was tough but it's on there. Goodyear tire markings came from some random stuff I had in the stash.
Thanks for looking
Kyle
Resin body and kick ups by the rear tires used in conjunction with the old Revell Reynard for suspension, wings, etc. I have long loved this particular Eagle, even if it wasn't particularly successful. I also want to support those people that are coming out with kits and things that make this hobby I love so much better. Well, I've never worked with resin before at all so I reached out to Kevin to get some advice and pointers. He was very helpful and I ordered this Eagle and another. This has been a few years back now.
This and my couple other resin kits have been languishing ever since. January 1st of this year I decided I'd better give it a try because I had acquired a Reynard kit that wasn't all there and was generally just begging to be a donor kit. So I cut all the suspension off the Reynard, cut the front wings off the nose cone. I measured and marked about a 100 times for the suspension and wing locations on the resin body. This was all new to me. I have done some drilling and pinning of things on normal plastic kits before but nothing of this scope. I made plenty of mistakes, but it was all part of learning and I enjoyed it very much. Typically, I don't ever take 4 months to get through a build but I was extremely cautious and slow with this one so it has been going on in some form or fashion while I also completed other projects. I am happy it is done and can't wait to get into my next resin build. The donor kit had a broken set of speedway wings and only came with the wet tires, so what we get is rain tires and road course configuration. Decals from Indycals, as usual. The nose was tough but it's on there. Goodyear tire markings came from some random stuff I had in the stash.
Thanks for looking
Kyle
