Thanks guys! I've purchased my magnets from both Amazon and EBay. The smallest ones (1.6mm and 2mm), which I used for the drop tank and Phoenix missiles, were from EBay. Just search "neodymium magnets".
Just to show that the magnets can hold the weight of the AIM-54A and drop tank...
The wing pylons are mounted an extreme angle, which might make magnets trickier to install. I'll have to let the glue dry before I play with these further.
The jet intake fans have been painted.
Filling the seams of the ducts is a little tricky but do-able.
The magnets that I mounted in the engine intake nacelles stick up ever so slightly on the inside.
But they didn't seem to interfere with the fit of the intake ducts.
It's been a few years since I last looked at the exhaust nozzles.
The Eduard resin trunks are deeper and offer much more detail but it'll be difficult if not impossible to make out this detail.
There are some very delicate photoetch parts that enhance the resin cans.
Assembly looks very fiddly, especially folding part PE4 and trying to glue it onto PE1.
I want to keep these parts completely flat so I use a small sheet of glass to work on.
The inner rings fit without too much drama. The tabs need to shortened considerably to clear the circumference of the exhaust tubes but once you do that, they fall into place pretty easily. Eduard even provides little slots for the tabs to fit into.
I decided to paint these cans before installing any of the PE. Alclad Steel was used.
Once the PE parts are set, they were glued down with thin CA glue. The interior of the can was then misted with a layer of Alclad Dark Aluminum.
The fiddly PE4 was next. PE1 was kept on the fret to help keep it straight and flat during fitting and gluing of the PE4. Once the general orientation was established, I glued the part down one leg at a time.
Mounting the completed part without bending doesn't look right nor does it fit correctly.
I'm not sure this is correct but bending the appendages like I have on the right allows it to fit better.
These parts were also painted with Alclad Dark Aluminum. Once dry, I'll fit them into the exhaust cans.
