Well, almost predictable from me anyway.

As related elsewhere I've started work on one of my Airfix Lightning F2A kits, and I'm VERY impressed with it. Hardly needs any filing or sanding anywhere and is superbly engineered. The way the little fairing at the back of the cockpit interior fits EXACTLY onto the forward end end of the fuselage spine is a case in point, magnificently moulded.
Anyway the plan was to make a PR version with longer wings. Wow, what a surprise.

I eschewed the ugly PR fit that the Saudis bought for four of their Frightenings and decided to put the cameras in the forward end of the belly tank only, where the ADEN cannon go on the F6 variant, and more of that later in the thread as I build it. Naturally it would need extended wings to get up higher

and I planned to saw up one of my other F2As and add an extension with a lesser sweep back angle from the notches outward, looking a bit like the planned swing-wing Naval Lightning but with fixed outer bits and starting further outboard. So I got this far :-

After a mammoth sawing, filing, fettling and fitting session y'day I'd assembled all the sawn up bits from the 2nd kit, for just one wing I might add, and glued it altogether and let it dry overnight. This morning I checked it out plugged into the fuselage to see how it looked......................
DISASTER! An 'Epic Fail' to use a term I've picked up from a Canadian railway modeller I know. It looked really terrible, as if some extra bits had been tagged onto the wing tips, which is what it was of course, but it didn't work at all.
So the Lightning PR7 is going to have standard wings, but maybe I'll add a rocket booster or something. Or maybe not, we'll see as things progress.
Of course I've now got an F2A kit with only one wing, and ANOTHER F2A kit with only one wing too, as I had to use a good one to replace the terminally wrecked original.
What do you do with two Lightning F2As with only their starboard wings???
