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Started during the 2018 Christmas holidays simultaneously with another 1/72nd scale Hasegawa kit on another US Navy jet from the 1950s and 60s that you will see un due time.

4 were my personal improvements on this kit:

- Drilling cannon and missile jet exhaust holes open.

- Shutting the back end of the jet air intake, which was originally unshut so that you could see the hollow interior of the fuselage through. It was shut simply by cutting a flat piece of plastic card to shape and painted matt black.

- Cutting the flaps out and re-placing them in "down" position. This only helped to make the fit of the wing to the fuselage much tougher and not that good. I need to sand out a lot.

- Making the tail horizontal-stabilizers-elevators moveable by joining them with a bar cut to rear fuselage width. It seems that the elevators of the Crusader could also work as ailerons, moving alternatively, to make the jet tilt, but although I visualized a further modification to let them move like that as well, in the end they move just simultaneously as elevators.

Description
Started during the 2018 Christmas holidays simultaneously with another 1/72nd scale Hasegawa kit on another US Navy jet from the 1950s and 60s that you will see un due time.

4 were my personal improvements on this kit:

- Drilling cannon and missile jet exhaust holes open.

- Shutting the back end of the jet air intake, which was originally unshut so that you could see the hollow interior of the fuselage through. It was shut simply by cutting a flat piece of plastic card to shape and painted matt black.

- Cutting the flaps out and re-placing them in "down" position. This only helped to make the fit of the wing to the fuselage much tougher and not that good. I need to sand out a lot.

- Making the tail horizontal-stabilizers-elevators moveable by joining them with a bar cut to rear fuselage width. It seems that the elevators of the Crusader could also work as ailerons, moving alternatively, to make the jet tilt, but although I visualized a further modification to let them move like that as well, in the end they move just simultaneously as elevators.