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  1. Hi all long time no progress updates. I blame a trip to Spain (it rained) and a few little family problems. So, I dug out the red LED, replaced it with a white led, re-filled the big hole I made and have been carefully making the repair invisible. BTW, I've been using a Carplan spray can of grey acrylic primer thus far. All looked good, so I flashed some buff-colourd acrylic gloss over it to look for problems (again, Carplan acrylic). A couple of minor edges visible, so I thought I'd rub it down and then give another coat of primer (Carplan acrylic white this time, as I'm doing the hemp/grey scheme). TADA! :- G&T time. Then bed. Tomorrow I'll rub it all off. Might even cut my losses and Mr Muscle it all off, and never use gloss again. Any ideas why this happened, my good buddies? G'night. John Well-Oil-Beef-Hooked H.
  2. Messrs Mentalguru and V; like most classic British aircraft, I think the VC-10 (and the Comet/Nimrod) are absolutely beautiful examples (not to mention the Victor of course, which IMHO is the most beautiful aircraft that ever graced the skies) of the immense British contribution to aviation engineering. As far as I know, there are no current 1/72nd VC-10 kits on the market (but would be hugely grateful to anyone correcting me via PMs!), so if I can't find anything S/H I'll take the Nimrod. Mattie Bee, didn't mean to divert the discussion away from your post which I recognise is about YOUR contribution and I'm VERY keen to follow your progress! So how's it going? John
  3. Looking good! It amazes me that kit producers make such silly mistakes like your landing light positions (I'm building the Matchbox Victor K2........... ), and I'm taking heart that you're taking the time to correct them. Good effort, I'm following this one closely as it will be one of the next models I'll tackle (Nimrod or VC10, haven't decided yet) so keep us all up to speed on your work! JH
  4. The last piccie of the current version used in Iraq shows the Yanks don't mess about. Am I the only one who's noticed they've bolted a miniature tank to each skid? What firepower, awesome.
  5. Dahut, that assembly is a 78mm recce camera, hence the side windows. Quarryman, what a beautiful subject, such clean lines. It's looking very good! The GF chose well, she gave you a nice gift and I think you ought to give her one, too. John H
  6. Oh, woe is me! I went to RAF Cosford today to see their Victor, what a lovely sight. Took loads of detail pics so I can get the model looking good. Oh, woe. Oh woe! I visited the shop in the cold war hangar, and found a lovely DVD on the Victor, so I bought it. Thrice woe. I've built the tail now, ready to scribe-up; embedded therein is a red LED feeding two fibre-optic filaments imitating the rear ant-collision beacons. It looks absolutely wonderful, especially lit-up. Thrice woe and another woe for good luck. I watched the DVD, and thought "they've got the wrong colour rear anti-collision beacons"... But then I realised the awful truth; 'tis me wot got the wrong colour, I had assumed they'd be red, but in reality they're white. Buggerit. Now I've got to open-cast mine into my beatifully finished tail to change the LED. Ah well, there's probably a good side to this, somewhere.
  7. Looks like the motion is carried, The Forum is hungry for more of your excellent photographs!
  8. Ryan, thanks for the reply, that company definitely looks very useful! I spent quite a few hours experimenting with LEDs to use as the light source for the tail anti-collision lamps on the Victor, together with some scrap fibre-optic filament I got from work. I ended up drilling a hole down to the internal chip and using CA to bond the filament in just the right place; very fiddly and frustrating. Now I know where to get something ready-made, and I hope other people will also appreciate the fruits of your search. Lighting for models is (IMHO) a very interesting extra dimension. Cheers! John PS You posted any pics of your trucks? If not, fire up people's imagination! JH
  9. Thanks all, for the comments, it really is music to my ears. I think that, fortunately, as this is only the second model I've gone-to-town on, I have the patience to carry on with it; it really is a dis-heartening kit. I can appreciate why others have shelved it, great shame though. BTW, the first "big-job" was an Airfix 1/72nd Sea King, I converted it to a RN model in arctic camouflage, added ECM sensors and dispensers, working anti-collision lights (one atop the tailboom, one under the "chin") AND (!) motorised the main and tail rotors (I built a right-angled drive out of bits of an old watch). Don't have any pics of that one, it resides at 301 Sqn ATC in Bury St Edmunds (or it did a couple of years back). Robin, very pleased to hear from someone who's actually flown on Victors! I'd like to bash a few questions at you via PMs, would that be OK? Inflatable cushions propelling you through an emergency exit... Though the reason for its existence is certainly not to be laughed at, the idea conjures up some unseemly thoughts! More pics of the build's progress will come, I promise. Regards John
  10. All thanks for the comments, all helps with the determination to see it through! Bex; WOW, I feel a trip out coming up! John
  11. John awsome pics, V handy for me, I'm building the K2 at this moment! My offerings Many many thanks, very useful. John
  12. Hi all nothing else "on the bench", I'll post progress as it progresses (no wife to spoil things, either!!!). Bex, I intend to illuminate the cockpit, so that's why I'm keen to crawl over the one at your museum; I want to know how much CAN be seen through the canopy! regards John
  13. I've had so much pleasure looking at other people's work, so I decided to show what I'm doing. Here-goes! I'm tackling the Revell 1/72nd Victor K2, because IMHO it's an astoundingly beautiful aircraft. The kit isn't nearly so beautiful though, and I made the mistake of downloading lots of images of the real thing, then looking lovingly at them. So, I found myself in the situation of finding some parts of the kit unacceptable and "Something-Has-To-Be-Done"! The tail fin is too thick so I've thinned it down and re-profiled the ECM intake housing. I cut-off the rudder and scratch-built new. I cut the tee-tail hub off the tail fin, re-profiled that as well (too fat yet not enough "belly"). I cut the tail-planes off so I can reset them pitched slightly "nose-down". There's an extraction fairing of some sort just before the reat RWR, I've added a representation of this. The HDU pods taper wrongly at both ends, so I'm re-profiling them and adding a couple of features seen on the prototype. The engine air-intakes...yuk. Apart from the airflow vanes being wrongly positioned, the main aperture as supplied is cigar-shaped but should be almost triangular. This I can't let go, but it will be a nightmare to correct. I also re-profiled the tail-cone a little; it should be almost a pure cone with a domed-end, the kit gives one with a compound taper which I didn't like. The canopy is a minefield, I think a lot of other modellers have done wonders with it, but it can never compare with the real thing. So I plan to build from scratch. And, so that I can detail the visible parts of the cockpit, I've cut-out the forward radar dome so I can trial-fit the cockpit after the canopy's fitted. I also cut-out the rear radar dome (?), so I can get post-fuselage-assembly access for my other pet mod, i.e. working external-lighting. So far you can see all the anti-collision lights and a couple of the night-tanking lights at the tail end). And I want to clean-up the undercarriage, too. I plan to build this model in ready-for-take-off trim. And add the APU... anyone got any pics of it's exhaust? I know I've bitten-off a lot (especially as I'm rather a beginner!), but so far I'm chewing OK! I'm afraid I haven't taken any pics yet to show before-and-after progress, but here's a few of where I am now (and an example of why I'm doing so much re-working). So, that's what I'm up to. I hope a few people find this is of interest! John
  14. Bex, a Member Of Staff is a Member Of Staff; you are still, in my eyes, a Great Master. I'm willing to bet you'd let me get a lot more close and intimate with the hardware than RAF Cosford etc., so sometime soon I'll touch base with you and find out when this might happen. Meanwhile, I happen to think Canberras are darned good looking, too (I used to live near Duxford, and once heard one being started by cartridge... weeee!). Might just follow up with one (or a Hunter) if I don't go mad first, tidying-up the Victor's engine air-intakes... I've looked at the resin replacements, and I'm not particularly impressed By The Way. Cheers! John
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