Hi,
Attached are some photos of my latest completed build, the 1/72 Emhar F3H-2 Demon. This build literally took me about 22 years to complete! I bought this kit and started it when I was in still high school, I think maybe 1989 or 1990. When I stopped building I had the presence of mind to save a lot of my old kits as I knew that I would return to model building at some point. Fast forward to 2010 and my Demon was on the workbench once again.
This kit built up okay for an Emhar kit. Much better than their Fury I built and posted here last year! I had both old Airwaves photo-etch sets and some Aeroclub white metal sets for this kit and that helped out. I made a few modifications to the kit as follows.
Starting from the nose, I added the small pitot tube at the base of the windscreen. In the cockpit, I used the Airwaves photo-etch parts and I replaced the bang seat with an Aeroclub Martin-Baker set with wire added for the ejection handles. I added some scrap styrene bits to all three wells and used the Aeroclub metal gear in favor of the kit-supplied gear (which isn’t too bad actually). I used the Airwaves blanking plate to cover off the top pair of 20 mm cannons for the aircraft I was modeling. The existing cannon ports were drilled out with a pin vise. The upper small splitter vane (or support?) in the intakes is molded in the horizontal position when it should be at an angle. This was cut away and replaced with a small strip of styrene at the correct angle. The intake vent behind the cockpit on the spine was added with a little knife work and sandpaper. The Airwaves wing fences were added to the leading edges of the wings. I used a razor saw to cut out the slots and then super-glued them into place. They were way too big and had to be filed down which was a chore but worth it in the end. The clunky kit molded top wing spoilers were replaced with the much thinner to scale Airwaves parts. I also used the nice Airwaves speed brakes. They are simply glued over the plain kit speed brakes and add a lot to the finished model. The blanked off exhaust was opened up and a cap of a Sharpie marker was used as the tail pipe. At the tip of the “beaver tail" the small light was added with a bit of stretched sprue faired in with putty.
My Demon was airbrushed with MM enamels. The decals came mainly from an old SuperScale sheet with a few bits and pieces from the spare decal bin. The red edges of the main gear doors were added with a red fine tip Sharpie marker. After the decal were sealed, a little black pastel chalk was used to simulate the dirty exhaust stains on the fuselage vents. With that she was complete and parked next to the Emhar Fury on my display shelf.
Hope you like it, on to the next one!
-Derek
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, A great effort there viking 73. I like early jets of all types and the Demon is one of my favourites. Thank you for sharing this model with us.
