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Hello @Scooby, Thank you very much for the details about floats and landing gear. I was planning to build 806 with skids around the wheels, like in this picture: It would be a bit out of the ordinary. But I'll consider the idea of building 809 on floats. Cheers Jaime

Hi @Scooby, Thanks for your interest and for the real life details of operating these aircraft. I'm very sorry to know about the loss of the 807 aircraft and crew... Just a question: was it usual to fit these aircraft with floats instead of a regular landing gear? Or there were a few permanently fitted with floats? I ask this because I couldn't find a picture of the 806 box art aircraft with floats but I found pictures of 802 in both configurations. Cheers Jaime

Thank you very much Zac! This specific kit might be difficult to find and is a bit old. I believe Hobby Boss has several Lynx versions available, which should be a bit more detailed. I have the boxing for the Portuguese Navy Lynx. Cheers Jaime

Thanks!

Hi again, Continuing with the thread update. Due to the kit's age, the interior detail is basic. Since the cabin doors will be closed, only the seats and instrument panel will be visible through the front windows. So, I decided to make seatbelts to provide some detail to the seats. The belts are done from painted masking tape and fine copper wire bent to shape for the buckles. I started by cutting 1 mm-wide stripes on a piece of masking tape glued to the cutting mat. These stripes were painted medium grey: IMAG7596 Here we can see some of the buckles, already shaped to form: IMAG7609 After installation of the seatbelts on the seats, I used a 1 mm-thick Liquid Chrome pen to paint the buckles: IMAG7613 There's a decal for the instruments on the central console between the seats. Here's the set-up for applying the decal: IMAG7603 After application of the decal and installation of the seats, here's the result: IMAG7614 Before closing the fuselage, I decided to apply masking tape to the lateral windows. Since these clear parts were held in place by filing around the gaps with clear glue, it would be risky to apply the masking with the fuselage already closed. So, I covered the clear parts with pieces of masking tape, and cut the tape to shape with a sharp modelling blade: IMAG7615 IMAG7616 The parts making up the fuselage underside where the main wheels will be installed, were also glued together. Some filler will be needed: Next, the cockpit and cabin base was glued to the inner side of one of the fuselage halves and the fuselage was closed. The previous sub-assebly was also glued to the underside of the fuselage: IMAG7628 IMAG7629 The main engine cover parts were glued together. The fit is nothing to cheer about: IMAG7631 Next, the nose was glued to the fuselage: IMAG7632 The holders for the torpedoes were also glued in place: IMAG7633 Finally, here's a view of the underside: IMAG7634 That's all for now, the thread is up to date. Thanks for looking Jaime

Thanks a lot for your interest, by all means please do! Cheers Jaime

Thanks for your comment and correction. I've updated the thread title Cheers Jaime

Hi again, I didn't manage to finish this build in the Matchbox GB, which is perfectly normal with me... The build is now in the Aircraft WIP area, where I'll press on till it's finished. I did progress a bit during the GB, though I didn't manage to update the thread. I'll do it now. I started work by removing the fuselage parts off the sprues. The panel lines in this kit are represented by raised lines, so I rescribed them. The following picture shows the rescribed lines on the fuselage half on the top area of the picture. The fuselage half on the bottom still has the original raised lines: IMAG7580 The bulkheads behind the cockpit and behind the passenger cabin were glued in place: IMAG7589 Next, the interior was painted medium grey: IMAG7601 The cockpit parts were also painted: instrument panel, cockpit base, control column and seats: IMAG7602 There are decals for the instrument panel and seatbelts. Here's the set-up for applying the decals: IMAG7604 The decals were applied. The instrument panel decal doesn't correspond exactly to the raised detail on the instrument panel part: IMAG7617 and the cockpit parts were glued together: IMAG7618 Next step: assembling the wings and engines. First, the raised panel lines were rescribed, after which the wing halves were glued together: IMAG7624 Then, the engine cowlings where glued in place: IMAG7625 As can be seen, fit of the parts could be better and some filling with putty and sanding will be needed: IMAG7626 IMAG7627 Thanks for looking. Jaime

Hi all, As usual, I didn't finish the build in the GB. I did progress a bit more during the GB but I didn't manage to update the thread. I'll do it now, and keep pressing forward till I finish the build. After all, it's not such a complex kit... In a previous post I said the doors couldn't be installed after gluing the top part of the fuselage (i.e.: the main engine cover). Therefore, I decided to glue the doors in the closed position: IMAG7571 IMAG7572 Next, I glued the parts making up the main rotor: IMAG7573 IMAG7594 Lead weights were inserted in the nose, being kept in place by Milliput: IMAG7574 IMAG7575 The interior was latter painted matte black. A new dry fit shows that the model is now comfortably a non-tail seater: IMAG7576 Next, I painted the interior of the model matte black. Here is the cockpit and passenger cabin base: IMAG7600 I also painted black some smaller parts. The pilot seats were painted medium grey: IMAG7598 Inspection of the clear parts shown that there are moulding lines inside the parts. These defects are not superficial and cannot be removed, so I have to live with them: IMAG7591 IMAG7592 The clear parts were bathed in Alclad Acqua Gloss and left to dry for a few days. Next, I glued the lateral windows in place. The parts are slightly smaller than the openings, which didn't help. I had to use some Revell Clear glue as filler around the parts to keep them in place: IMAG7593 Thanks for looking Jaime

Thank you very much for the heads up Pat. I haven't been able to progress much and I very much doubt I'll manage to finish the build in time

Thanks a lot for your interest! I managed to solve the problem of how to create acceptable intake tubings and already glued the wings to the fuselage. I have several new pictures but haven't found the time to update the thread yet. I'll try to do it soon. However, the build is on hold right now because I'm doing builds for the Matchbox GB and the Bomber/Strike/Ground Attack GB. Cheers Jaime

Hi again, As I said to Pat above, I've been progressing very slowly in this build. I've only managed to prepare the parts for painting. I'll show a few pictures taken in the process. On the inner face of the doors, a small piece was glued to allow the doors to slide. It can be seen on the lower left corner of the door on the left of the picture: IMAG7562 I also glued the parts making up the lateral extensions where the main landing gear will be installed. They can be seen here, together with the lower back part of the fuselage: IMAG7563 The top of the fuselage and engine cover can be seen here. There are two lateral parts to be glued: IMAG7564 Dry-fitting all the fuselage parts I concluded that the doors cannot be inserted after glueing the top and lateral parts of the fuselage: IMAG7565 So, it isn't possible to paint the doors and fuselage separately and install the doors later in order to have sliding doors on the model. I decided to glue the doors in closed position and paint the whole model in the end. There's no special detail to be seen inside anyway. This is a more complete dry-fit, which shows that the model seems not to be a tail-seater after all: IMAG7566 I'll add some weight to the nose, just to be sure. Here we can see all parts ready for painting: IMAG7569 That's all for now. I think I'll have to try and finish first my Typhoon, which I'm also currently building in the Bomber/Strike GB, as that GB ends first. I still have to start my Twin Otter as well. So, too many builds in parallel... Thanks for looking. Jaime

Hi Pat, thanks for your interest. I have all the parts taken off the sprues, cleaned and ready for painting. I'll try to post some pictures in the next few days. The daily job has been very time consuming and haven't managed to get much workbench time. Cheers Jaime

Hi again, Continuing with the PE, I glued the lateral panels to the cockpit walls: IMAG6506 The port panel got some detailing: IMAG6507 The throttle lever is made of several PE parts glued in layers. It will later be glued to the tubular structure of the cockpit: IMAG6509 The instrument panel is also a PE part, which must first be bent in several places: IMAG6510 Several PE levers were glued to the lateral consoles of the instrument panel: IMAG6511 There's an additional side panel, which needs bending in several points: IMAG6512 IMAG6513 It was finished with additional PE detailing: IMAG6514 The panel on the starboard cockpit wall got some PE detailing as well: IMAG6518 Finally, I applied a PE part to the wheel well: IMAG6519 Cheers Jaime

Hi @stevehnz it's great to have you on board. I admit I'm an AM junkie I think it results in my being quite slow in my modeling. Right now I'm also building two matchbox kits in the Matchbox GB and I'll do them OOB for a change. Hopefully, these will be finished in a short time. Cheers Jaime