The Duke's Joint Build with Steve

Hey all! Since i also have a JF-17 kit, I offered to build mine in a joint venture with Steve here. Mine is in 1/72 scale so this will be an interesting comparison.

I started with the cockpit as usual, in particular the seat. This sub-assembly has nine parts in it and I still have to add the photo etch. The cockpit tub only has five parts:





Here they are mated together:





Letting that dry, we moved on to any other sub-assemblies we could do. The main landing gear bays needed to be assembled (3 parts each) and then we installed them inside the lower fuselage:





There's some pretty sharp detail in there:





After that, we completed the rear fuselage sans burner can. All that was needed was adding the tail feathers:





There it sits until we can get to the photo etch....