the Fokker 50 fuselage being cut in several section

The sanded and cut out vacuform fuselage halves, with the cuts made for the Fokker 60 and the lower half already assembled. Note inserted pieces of bended strips and because of the flat half, straight alignment is possible! Glue and let dry a long time. Add strips inside to get strength.

The assembled lengthened fuselage, still being sanded and added putty needed in areas.

     Some parts of this Classic Plane Fokker 50 kit used are shown here

     resin parts

    Chaff pods included for the RNLAF Fokker 50/Fokker 60

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vacuform fuselage

cockpit area with clear part

For information, here above are shown the older AIrfix F-27 1/72 kit parts

Check out more of the kits' details here for the Fokker 50..

The Fokker 50 I already made in 1/72 so I decided to make the special Dutch AF Fokker 60 model variant. This is a dedicated transport aircraft with a longer fuselage a large cargo door in the forward right fuselage. The Fokker 60 is thus longer, thus the Fokker 50 kit thus needs significant modification in the fuselage area.

The Dutch AF Fokker 60 has a special
camouflage paint scheme
with various grey paints so is a special model in the collection. See the links on bottom of this page for more information!

The resin wings with nacelles fitted. Quite some filling is needed here. Note the Fokker 60 forward engine nacelle shape with intake.
 

              F-27         mk.500     Fokker 50    Fokker 60 
     fwd of  wing:      14 mm      14 mm          28 mm 
     aft   of  wing:        7 mm       7 mm           15 mm 
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NOTE: without the radar nose separately, being 6 mm longer (the Airfixd kit re-issued 2009 has these longer nose parts!)
The Classic Plane mixed media kit is correct for the Fokker 50 and thus does NOT have the appropriate fuselage for the Fokker 60; lengthening is needed.
 

First, carefully sand out the fuselage halves, the cockpit glazing being a separate transparent part of thin acrylic plastic. The normal vacuform technique is used here. 

The fuselage extension itself is NOT easy. I had to cut at some different areas. I choose to make ASYMMETRIC cuts on right and left halves to get a stronger fuselage in the end. Add strips and bits of bended cart. Take your time, you need to be patient here....

The fuselage is than endlessly sanded, putty added etc etcetera. Several times of sanding and puttying is needed. Take care to get a straight result, using sanding blocks of long length.

Also, the canopy / cockpit glazing was fitted as supplied in the kit, after some detailing with three seats and an instrument panel the cockpit area. This gave no problems, the transparent section edges being puttied and sanded.

Also check out the Airfix conversion of the Fokker 50 ..  and the Fokker 50 using the iMC kit

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