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Andwil

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  • Birthday 02/10/1958

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    Adelaide, South Australia
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    Things with Wings, Aces, RAAF, RAN, Harriers

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  1. Not seen a Vickers Vilaint before 🤔
  2. Nice! I’ve always wondered about this kit, could a Land Rover really manage to pull a Bloodhound missile? AW
  3. Was the blue too thin? I’ve had similar in the past when I’ve over thinned paint and it just gets under the tape no matter firm it’s been applied. Especially on a compound curved surface. AW
  4. Masked up for the dark green: And: a little bit of paint lift on the grey to touch up, but otherwise on to the black underside. Thanks for looking. AW
  5. Nacelles attached today. They needed a bit of fettling to fit snugly, I think that I may have made them a tad too narrow when I assembled the halves. Wheels and props: Photos of Dusty show that the prop hubs were painted black. Thanks for looking. AW
  6. Back home having cut the holiday short due to extreme temperatures (40C is not conducive to hiking….) which has allowed me to get back to the bench sooner than planned. Yesterday I attached and masked the canopies: You can see the nose weight in its pool of PVA in the nose, which will be painted over. The instructions call for 10g, I used a 13g sinker which looks to have done the trick. Today I attached the ventral gun pack after drilling out the gun ports and assembled the complex main gear which has to be built before the nacelles are attached. I strengthened the various attachment points with CA after the assemblies had set. They are stronger than they look, so should take the weight of the model. I’ll leave these overnight before attaching the nacelles. I have also painted and made up the engines: I’ll give them a wash to pop the detail. Thanks for looking. AW
  7. Today I airbrushed the dark sea grey on the upperside. Not much darker than my primer which was a bit tricky. After it had dried I gave it a coat of my local Future equivalent (Pascoes Long Lasting). Thanks for looking. AW
  8. Back from a short break and time to make some progress with this build. Primer airbrushed today. Thanks for looking. AW
  9. This will be my entry in the GB: A look at the sprues: Looks and feels very much like Sword kit. Decals and Master brass pitots: I will be doing the second option with the red diamonds: I wont be starting straight away as I’ve still got builds underway in the Frog Squad and WWII Twins GBs. AW
  10. I’ve been rather remiss on not commenting on this excellent build, there are so many builds to try and keep track of that I tend to concentrate on the 1/72 ones. I find that the larger scales have me trying to replicate the wonderful details on my smaller scale models without much success! Anyhow, a very fine result, well done. AW
  11. Wings and tailplanes on, a little bit of fettling was needed but otherwise fit is quite good, very little filler will be needed. The worst fit so far has been the intake inserts on top of the wing. The canopies front and rear dry fit nicely. However I have had my first setback with the kit as the cockpit top piece broke in two when I was removing it from the sprue, it is an easy fix as it broke cleanly along the panel line separating the clear canopy top from the rearward extension, but it scuppers my original plan to have it open with a milliput dinghy. This is where the build will stop for the next three weeks while I am away from home. When I get back I will have this and the Frog Canberra to complete and a Lansen in the Baby Boomers GB to start, plus by then the P-51 STGB will also have commenced. I think I may have over committed! Thanks for looking. AW
  12. That’s North Vietnamese. They had some interesting camouflage schemes. AW
  13. Today I got the cockpits into the fuselage: and the fuselage closed up: The cockpits needed a bit of sanding to allow the fuselage to close up, especially at the nose, which wasn’t apparent when dry fitting. I think the hight of the instrument panel may have been the culprit, it always seems to be IPs that don’t fit! Thanks for looking. AW
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