Modeling woes.

[GooglyDooglyV.2]

Sadly, I'm blaming my gorilla-like strength for this disaster. It started off so well. I decided to build a model of the BEST FIGHTER KNOWN TO MANKIND. The F-22 Raptor.

There's two models available in the market right now. The Academy model, and the Hasegawa. What's the difference? In dollie terms, Academy is supposed to be the ZOMG INFERIOR Korean version, and Hasegawa is God. Plain and simple. >>

So I decided on the Academy kit! The packaging was beautiful. Plus it's $50 cheaper. ._.


Started working on the cockpit. I wish I have teensy girly fingers. I'm not used to small scale anymore.

[Greyhaunt]

ok, I give - what did you do wrong? Being an utter modeling ignorant person, it looks great to me!

[K2!]

ok, I give - what did you do wrong? Being an utter modeling ignorant person, it looks great to me!

All the control surfaces are missing, not to mention the radome and avionics package, armaments, airframe, and those cuddly Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofans.

[Greyhaunt]

ok, I give - what did you do wrong? Being an utter modeling ignorant person, it looks great to me!

All the control surfaces are missing, not to mention the radome and avionics package, armaments, airframe, and those cuddly Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofans.

.....ooooook....I'll take your word for it

[GooglyDooglyV.2]

Grey: What K2 says. xD

Here it is 98% done. I just needed to make some follow-up touchups, but I just realized I have modeling ADHD, so now I don't want to finish it.

010 by GooglesdeDoogles, on Flickr

009 by GooglesdeDoogles, on Flickr

Compare the radome (the nose) to the real deal:


I SANDED MINE ALMOST ROUNDED. D: Instead of looking like an advanced, 5th Generation Stealth fighter, mine looks like something you can order off Adam and Eve.

[Geektopian]

OMGWTFBBQ11111 Inferior Academy models! Oh, how shall the world survive? See, if only you would've build the clearly superior Hasegawa kit from JAPAN *sound of angelic chorus* you model wouldn't have been... been... uhg! So... imperfect!


(Yes kids, all hobbies have these weird elitist cults and beliefs. It's a long, nonsensical and convoluted story but Academy has emerged as a kind "pet hate" in some scale modeling communities.)

[K2!]

Here it is 98% done. I just needed to make some follow-up touchups, but I just realized I have modeling ADHD, so now I don't want to finish it.

Meh, close enough.

[roxygotmoxie]

Some artists get "artistic blindness" from looking at their work for too long.
The model looks great, and with the right photography and lighting, it will look gorgeous (and super realistic.) Don't let model-snobs get you down, finish that beauty and take some great pics.
If you haven't already built a lightbox, I can show you how. I've found that "fudged up" items look unbelievably fantastic when photographed in one.