jrlx

July 19

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

July 18

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

July 18

7 hours ago, k5054nz said:

Beautiful work Jaime, I'm really enjoying this build! I want one of these kits now, to do as an Army version!

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

July 17

27 minutes ago, Vesa Jussila said:

I will follow. Looks good so far.

Thanks!

July 17

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:

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Here we can see some of the buckles, already shaped to form:

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After installation of the seatbelts on the seats, I used a 1 mm-thick Liquid Chrome pen to paint the buckles:

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There's a decal for the instruments on the central console between the seats. Here's the set-up for applying the decal:

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After application of the decal and installation of the seats, here's the result:

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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:

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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:

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The main engine cover parts were glued together. The fit is nothing to cheer about:

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Next, the nose was glued to the fuselage:

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The holders for the torpedoes were also glued in place:

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Finally, here's a view of the underside:

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That's all for now, the thread is up to date.

Thanks for looking

Jaime

July 17

8 minutes ago, Tomjw said:

Excellent. I have this one in my stash so I hope you don't mind if I tag along?

Cheers,

Tom

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

Cheers

Jaime

July 17

43 minutes ago, Hook said:

Shaping up nicely, always good to see a Lynx.

One small tidbit, if I may - for the timeframe of the markings, the title should read "Bundesmarine". The Kriegsmarine ended in 1945...

Cheers,

Andre

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

Cheers

Jaime

July 17

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:

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The bulkheads behind the cockpit and behind the passenger cabin were glued in place:

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Next, the interior was painted medium grey:

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The cockpit parts were also painted: instrument panel, cockpit base, control column and seats:

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There are decals for the instrument panel and seatbelts. Here's the set-up for applying the decals:

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The decals were applied. The instrument panel decal doesn't correspond exactly to the raised detail on the instrument panel part:

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and the cockpit parts were glued together:

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Next step: assembling the wings and engines. First, the raised panel lines were rescribed, after which the wing halves were glued together:

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Then, the engine cowlings where glued in place:

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As can be seen, fit of the parts could be better and some filling with putty and sanding will be needed:

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Thanks for looking.

Jaime

July 17

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:

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Next, I glued the parts making up the main rotor:

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Lead weights were inserted in the nose, being kept in place by Milliput:

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The interior was latter painted matte black.

A new dry fit shows that the model is now comfortably a non-tail seater:

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Next, I painted the interior of the model matte black. Here is the cockpit and passenger cabin base:

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I also painted black some smaller parts. The pilot seats were painted medium grey:

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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:

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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:

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Thanks for looking

Jaime

June 8

On 04/06/2022 at 23:35, JOCKNEY said:

Hi @jrlxJaime

We have a 2 week extension on this GB, hopefully that will give you an opportunity to come back to this one.

Cheers Pat

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

April 18

On 16/04/2022 at 04:36, RC Boater Bill said:

Any progress? I just found this thread- I just acquired this kit last week! I’ve already learned a lot from your progress so far…..

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

April 13

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:

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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:

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The top of the fuselage and engine cover can be seen here. There are two lateral parts to be glued:

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Dry-fitting all the fuselage parts I concluded that the doors cannot be inserted after glueing the top and lateral parts of the fuselage:

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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:

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I'll add some weight to the nose, just to be sure.

Here we can see all parts ready for painting:

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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

April 7

On 03/04/2022 at 00:05, JOCKNEY said:

Hi Jaime

Have you had a chance to make a start on your Lynx yet ?

Cheers Pat

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

March 5

Hi again,

Continuing with the PE, I glued the lateral panels to the cockpit walls:

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The port panel got some detailing:

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The throttle lever is made of several PE parts glued in layers. It will later be glued to the tubular structure of the cockpit:

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The instrument panel is also a PE part, which must first be bent in several places:

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Several PE levers were glued to the lateral consoles of the instrument panel:

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There's an additional side panel, which needs bending in several points:

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It was finished with additional PE detailing:

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The panel on the starboard cockpit wall got some PE detailing as well:

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Finally, I applied a PE part to the wheel well:

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Cheers

Jaime

March 5

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

March 4

Hi again,

Some more progress, this time with PE.

The kit's seat will be replaced by several PE parts, which provides a lot more detail:

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The bulkhead behind the seat also gets a PE improvement on its top. But first the top of the plastic part must be removed, as shown in the following pictures:

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The control column also gets a bit more detail:

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The tubular structure around the cockpit and the open bottom of the cockpit are completely made up of PE parts:

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The rudder pedals are also replaced by PE parts and a 0.5 mm copper wire:

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Finally, the rudder pedals are glued to the cockpit tubing:

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Thanks for looking.

Jaime

March 4

14 hours ago, Col. said:

Good progress Jamie and some decent aftermarket upgrades to help you along the way

Thanks Col. The upgrades should make the model much more realistic.

March 4

Hi again,

As usual, I didn't progress any further with this build for a long time. Now, I'm using the opportunity of the Bomber/Strike/Ground attack GB to try and finish it.

Picking it up where I left, I removed the resin parts (front intake, wheels and pitot tube) from the moulding blocks:

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Next, I had to remove the cockpit walls detail from the fuselage halves, as I'll be using the PE detail set from Eduard. Here we can see the raised detail moulded in plastic:

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All this was removed with a curved bladed, sanded and polished:

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The radiator flap will be replaced by PE and needs to be cut off. Here's the area to remove:

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After removal:

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The spine behind the cockpit has a guide for the sliding canopy. This is moulded in plastic but will be replaced by PE, and needs to be removed.

Original:

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After removal:

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Next, holes for installing the rocket pylons must be opened on the undersides of wings. The cartridge ejectors must also be opened. This was done in two steps: first, by drilling small holes:

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Finally, the openings were finished using a nº 11 blade:

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I'll finish this update showing a comparison of the various tail planes I have for this build.

On the bottom right of the picture we can see the original kit parts, which are not correct for the machine I'm building, since it used a horizontal tail plane similar to the Tempest Mk V. On the left side of the picture we can see the tail plane parts of the Academy Tempest Mk V. However, I managed to find the Quickboost correction for the Academy Typhoon, which is shown on the top right of the picture:

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Cheers

Jaime

March 1

13 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said:

Great to see you in this GB

Thanks Pat!

I've been very quiet on the modelling front in the last year or so but hope to be back on track now.

12 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said:

have you decided on what version to build yet

Yes, I'll do the Deutsche Kriegsmarine version, shown on the box art. The blue-grey on top and white bottom scheme looks great.

Cheers

Jaime

March 1

14 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said:

I had no idea the kit originally came with sheets of kitchen roll !

I always insist that my kits come with kitchen paper. It's really useful during the build!

February 28

This was my second entry to the 2022 Matchbox GB.

As usual, I didn't manage to finish the build within the GB's timeframe. So, the thread is now moved to the WIP area.

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Dear all,

this is my second entry to this GB: Revell's rebox of Matchbox's Twin Otter in 1/72. I'll build the Canadian Rescue Service version with skids.

Here's the box:

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There are 3 light-grey plastic sprues and 1 transparent parts sprue:

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There are parts for three different versions: wheels, wheels + skids and floats.

The decals look excellent:

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I haven't started this build yet but expect to start it in about two weeks after I make some substantial progress in my Westland Lynx.

Cheers

Jaime

February 28

This was my first entry to the 2022 Matchbox GB.

As usual, I didn't manage to finish the build within the GB's timeframe. So, the thread is now moved to the WIP area.

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Dear all,

This is my first entry to this GB: Revell's rebox of Matchbox's Westland Lynx in 1/72:

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Here are the sprues: 3 sprues of light grey plastic and 1 of transparent parts:

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There's some flash in places but not too bad and the level of detail is good, considering the age of the kit.

The decals are a bit yellow on the backing paper , but I hope they work well:

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I've started work by removing the main parts from the sprues:

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A quick dry fit of the fuselage shows that fit is reasonably good and some weight should be added to the nose to avoid a tail sitter:

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I removed a few more parts and cleaned them of flash but haven't progressed much yet.

Thanks for looking

Jaime

February 6

6 hours ago, vppelt68 said:

Yes of course, if I got that right you have superdetailed the interior but it's all still in little pieces? Welcome! V-P

Thanks V-P! You're right: I've applied the masks to the transparent parts and glued the cockpit PE in place and painted the interior but the fuselage halves are still open and all other parts are still in the sprues.

Cheers

Jaime

February 6

27 minutes ago, Col. said:

Yes Jamie this one is good to continue in our GB; both the subject and the progression level are fine

Thanks Col. !

February 6

To the attention of the GB hosts:

Would this build be acceptable to enter the GB?

Thanks in advance.

Jaime

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