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So, about a month ago I’m looking at my Gerry Anderson shelf, particularly at the conspicuously bare spot I had reserved for something to make the collection complete – the White Falcon from New Captain Scarlet. In a fit of madness, I put aside my ongoing battle with the Airfix Harrier squadron and decided to scratch-build a White Falcon.

I had some reasonable plans from the internet, which I blew up to a good 1/72 scale, plus a little Corgi diecast Falcon to aid in constructing it. I considered many kits for the basis around which to build it – Rafale, Grippen, Typhoon, even thought seriously of cutting up a super-rare Monogram F-19, which seemed to have the right kind of intakes. In the end, however, I sacrificed an F-16XL kit.

To start with, I had to slit the rear fuselage, cut out some darts, and crush it in a vice to get the back half of the plane flat. This was fine for the upper fuselage, but the crushing of the lower fuselage pulled the lower half of the wings in, so they didn’t fit the upper wings, to I had to split them from the body, spread them out again, and putty up the gap, and…well, you can tell I didn’t really have a plan as such! It’s Art, not Science :)

I’ve included some photos of it pre-painting, to give you an idea of what a dogs-breakfast of putty, spare bits and plastic card it really is!

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The canopy is from a Typhoon, the distinctive hump-back from some carefully moulded droptanks. The hardest bit was the nose, which is a very unique shape and was assembled out of a strange little droptank, part of a Mirage nose, and lots of putty and sanding. Then I sprayed it with Mr Surfacer (and sanded it, and sprayed it with Mr Surfacer, and sanded it, etc, etc) then sprayed it black…..

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….then white….

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…and – TA DA! Here is the result! I don’t usually do shiny planes – much prefer dullcote – but the gloss just looked right here:

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So how did I do?

Thus completes a major work!

If you would like to see the full collection in my little pan-Gerry-Anderson-Universe backstory, it is here:

http://galloglaigh.blogspot.com.au/

Paul

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If you would like to see the full collection in my little pan-Gerry-Anderson-Universe backstory, it is here:

http://galloglaigh.blogspot.com.au/

Paul

Paul, that blog is great and some of the ideas completely feasible. I suggest you look at Claveworks illustrations for fantasy aircraft which includes an RAF TB2, UASF XL5 and a really quite excellent USAF Colonial Viper and ..

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Nice - one of the better redesigns from the new series.

Just one nit pick though - the old style Spectrum "S"s on the fuselage side are rotated 90 degrees.

Graham

ps - and just read your back story - brilliant and some interesting models and designs too !

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Just one nit pick though - the old style Spectrum "S"s on the fuselage side are rotated 90 degrees.

Yes, but with no way of getting a New Style Rondel I had to make do with a modified Old One, and it was the only way to get it to fit. But in Whiffworld there are any number of plausible explanations :)

Paul

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