This is a nice profile shot of the aircraft:
Under the rear-mounted wings is what appears to be a structure, such as air-intakes for the atomic rocket engine, but no. What the modellers did was to glue the entire wing sub-assembly (wings and central fuselage with wheel wells/doors under the tail.
This is a nice shot showing the markings and the white/black diced band on the wings. You can also see the yellow tip to the very dark grey 'missile' - in actual fact the belly-mounted fuel tank. The cockpit canopy is missing because Troy Tempest (flying to save Phones, Marina and Lt Fisher trapped from a crippled Stingray) has just ejected.
An unfortunate shot here, as you can clearly see the hollow underside of the wing centre-section behind the tail, and the gaps where the wings don't meet the fuselage. Had I gone the route of an accurate studio-scale model (using either large scale Aurora or Hawk models) I would have one very naff model!
You can also see that the diced band is only on one wing... the model was only finished on one side for filing. Well, I suppose it saved time...
Here's Troy at the controls... as you can see the instrument shroud is dark blue-grey and there's this weird white thing on top... possibly a radar or gunsight. The mesh texture on the rear panel is nice, and I can recreate that. The seat is silver with blue cushions and head rest. Nice.
Finally, the beast prior to take off... this just looks ungainly...
My model will be less like the actual prop, and more like what the real aircraft would have been like - so finished on both sides, no gaps in wing roots and certainly no exposed hollow sections of the model.
Next update should be the cockpit interior and the painted pilot/chair.
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