Academy 1/72 A-37B Dragonfly

[Scratchbuilder]

Great build, all the plaudits have been said. Well done.

[Andy T]

Thanks Mike

She's now standing on her feet and I've attached the canopy. I dropped it twice, breaking the refuelling nozzle in two places, but it's not too noticeably wonky.

Just a few more pieces then I can get the noisy bangy things on.

[papa 695]

Looking great.

[yak face]

Looking excellent up on its feet andy , for the antenna I’d consider a synthetic paintbrush bristle ( the ones they sell now for household decorating - gutted that you cant get a proper natural bristle brush anymore without paying a small fortune ! sorry rant over !) or one of my faves the good old toothbrush bristle . The advantage of both of these is that they will withstand knocks / dusting etc and bounce back , cheers tony

[Andy T]

Thanks Ian & Tony.

After several attempts I managed to stretch some sprue to my liking. The academy stuff just wouldn't play ball but I found a piece of Eduard which worked first time.

Flexible bristles might be a good shout though as I'm bound to knock them about.

[flyjoe180]

You mentioned earlier about the various antenna. Can I ask what you used? I'm toying between a guitar string or trying to stretch some sprue really thin. Most of what I have is too thick for the scale.

Hi Andy, just seen this query. I used thin electrical wire and attached them to the model with CA glue, then painted them black. The plastic, bristle or filament options proposed by others here will all do the same job. The tail horizontal stabiliser antennae were the trickiest as they are so small. Your Dragonfly is looking good, I'll keep an eye out for the finished thread.

[Andy T]

Thanks Joe, I ended up going with Tony's suggestion. I had a paintbrush with black bristles so it worked well, if fiddly like you say.

The competed thread is here :smiling3: