Civil War Set 76047; Black Panther Jet; little tidy-up

[r5-j2]

I`ve started on my trio of civil war sets, with the Black Panther Pursuit; first thing to say is that is worth every penny of £30.00, it really was a fun build and the Black Panther Figure is so good!.The only fly in the ointment for me was the use of a really yucky green colour in the build of the jet and also an annoying gap at the front of the cockpit canopy which lets you see even more of this vile colour (did LEGO find an old forgotten batch of this snot green cr*p and decided that they had to use it..who knows?).

Any way ,I dipped into very my meagre spare bricks box and got rid of all the Green.I then ditched the cockpit fire extinquisher, allowing Panther to sit further back into the cockpit.This gave me room to build up inside the front part of the cockpit , allowing me to seal the annoying gap.I then raised up his instrument panel and cobbled together a gunsight for him, again doing the best with what few spare bricks I had..it now looks a lot neater, but it`s nowhere near perfect!

IMG_1419 by kenny burns, on Flickr

IMG_1422 by kenny burns, on Flickr

IMG_1427 by kenny burns, on Flickr

IMG_1424 by kenny burns, on Flickr

IMG_1437 by kenny burns, on Flickr

Edited April 1, 2016 by r5-j2

[Bricky Dee Williams]

I do like how you took out the green, that's much better.

[ThunderDrako]

Good work ;)

[r5-j2]

Thanks for the kind comments,I think the set designer needed to get some contrast into this set, because there is so much black in it, including Panther himself, but this vibrant green seems a strange choice. Light grey or even some white would have worked inside the cock-pit, making Black Panther stand out more, I used grey to replace the green jet exhausts, but silver would have been even better , there a couple of silver studs under the tail-unit, they really stand out, so why didn`t LEGO use these options. Also I have gotten rid of the gap at the cock-pit, which could have been done at the design stage in a neater fashion than I did it .Anyway that`s the moaning over!, it is a great very solid build and as I said before, it`s worth every penny.

Take care

Kenny

Edited April 4, 2016 by r5-j2