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    1/72 Trumpeter Fairey Gannet AS. MK. 1/4

    in Here comes the Fleet Air Arm GB

    Posted

    Yeah just ok! It's a bit of a blitzbuild and experiment in brush painting and weathering anyway. 

     

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    I used a lot of oils and grey panel line wash to try get a weathered effect on everything. 

     

    Then I finished all the main assembly and viola! Should look a bit better when I photograph it properly. I will need to add the antenna and tidy up the canopy a little but more or less it's done. 

     

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    1/72 Trumpeter Fairey Gannet AS. MK. 1/4

    in Here comes the Fleet Air Arm GB

    Posted · Edited by arfa1983

    3 hours ago, PeterB said:

    Hi Arthur,

     

    The Trumpeter kit certainly seems to go together easier than my recent Revell version! Neither of them are "perfect" according to reviews but yours is looking good so far, and yes, it does take a lot of ballast to get the nose down.

     

    Pete

    I guess it needs the scale equivalent of a real Double Mamba up front!


    Your finished Revell wouldn’t indicate you had too many problems! 

     

    I think in the hands of a 1/72 master this kit would go together almost perfectly. I’m trying to downsize my collection so switching over from 1/48 to 1/72. It’s a lot more fiddly and the old eyes probably aren’t what they used to be either! But it’s good to try something different also.

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    1/72 Trumpeter Fairey Gannet AS. MK. 1/4

    in Here comes the Fleet Air Arm GB

    Posted

    Got back to this tonight and got almost everything off the sprues now. Most of the fit is pretty good.

     

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    I dry fitted the wheels, spinner and the vertical parts on the stabilizers...

     

    But uh-oh!

     

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    Even with all the nose weight, I still need two more sinkers! There must be at least 7 of these inside already.

     

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    So no choice but to drill (hack) out the front and chop up two sinkers and put them in in pieces. 

     

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    I also cleaned up the canopy sections which had a mould like running down the middle with sandpaper, micromesh and polishing compound. Then of course I couldn't help but give a little dry fit.

     

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    The canopy sections don't fit perfectly, but everything else is very good. I'll hopefully spend some time tomorrow gluing and filling the canopy gaps plus tidying up everything else. Oktoberfest party tomorrow evening so I don't think I'll get started painting by then. 

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    1/72 Trumpeter Fairey Gannet AS. MK. 1/4

    in Here comes the Fleet Air Arm GB

    Posted

    I've been snooping around here for a while, mostly looking at the numerous Gannets which are being built. (Can you imagine a Gannet STGB?) Me either, so this is as close as I'm going to get! I'm going to have no option  except to blitzbuild it, and I have wanted to see how I can go brush painting for a change as I have seen some amazing work done by brush in some of the other GBs recently.

     

    The victim. A BRITISH "Gannet".

     

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    I assume this scheme is FAA, please correct me if I am wrong. 

     

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    The bagged sprues. The plastic is very nice, the exact softness/hardness (🫠) that I like, and the surface detail looks good.

     

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    The rounders are out of whack which is a shame. I will use some from the spare box which have an thin outer white ring but I think it will have to do. Most of my stuff is 1/48 so I don't have a huge selection of suitably sized decals. 

     

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    So I made a good start tonight and built up the cockpit and fuselage. I put a good amount of sinkers under the cockpit so hopefully it won't tail sit! The kit is not bad. There are a few ejector pin marks in awkward areas, but the fit so far is good. I put a lick of filler along the top seam but I think I could have avoided it with a little more care during gluing. 

     

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    While not my first 1/72 model, it's certainly my first 1/72 in a GB! 

     

    By the way if you are interested there's also a final push to try get this very similar, flavoured/flavored (burger and fries rather than fish and chips) group build into the bumfight! Not my GB but I would love to see it go through! 

     

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    Special Hobby 32nd T2 Buckeye "Camouflaged Trainer"

    in Aircraft Modern

    Posted

    I've got it but haven't built it yet. It looks quite OK for a short run kit. I pulled it out for the go big or go home group build recently  but knew that I wouldn't have the time :,( so it went back to the stash 

     

    On 9/2/2023 at 11:59 PM, PeteH1969 said:

    Has any body built the 32nd Scale Special Hobby T2 Buckeye and how did the build go?

     

    Pete

     

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    Oops! Hawker Hurricane IIc, Arma Hobby 1/72

    in I feel deserted GB

    Posted

    8 hours ago, franky boy said:

    Nice airbrush work. 
     

    Having been dragged around IKEA kicking and screaming like a child several times you have my deepest sympathies ☹️
     

    James 

    I almost left my heavily pregnant wife there after she said we were going in to buy just one thing and still hadn't left 3 hours later! I went and sat in the car and listened to music and didn't leave her there though... I'm not a total monster. 👹

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