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mitchem

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  1. I'm afraid that it's been some time since I did any work on this as it had been temporarily shelved.

     

    The flutter of excitement in seeing a 1/72 Poseidon at a recent club meeting, made me pull it down from the shelf and have another look.

     

    I decided to strip the decals off the fuselage and freshen up the paintwork. Bit of masking involved on the cheatline before a light sanding and respray of white. Door outlines were redone and the leading edge of the tail was sprayed silver, before ending up with this :

     

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    Masking the white on the fuselage started with the bits under the cheatline :

     

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    ...before wrapping the whole thing in foil (I've had a couple of bad experiences with masking tape residue on white paint before, so this is my attempt to avoid more tears) :

     

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    Say goodbye to the wing spars, as the wings have now been glued onto the fuselage:

     

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    The wing joints will need a little work to tidy them up before I can splash some more grey on the fuselage.

     

    Hoping to get this completed during the course of the year, but I have a feeling that the Poseidon may very well get over the finish line first 😁

     

    mike

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  2. On 12/23/2023 at 5:43 PM, Viking said:

    "....aahhh nostalgia, nothing today can touch the classy look of these old airline liveries!" - Ain't that the truth! I've been watching live airport feeds on Youtube recently, and I can't say that there was much that had me thinking "I have to build one of those !"

     

    Now I'll have to crack on with that Roden Super VC-10 in the same livery to park alongside it! - 👍👍

     

    Cracking build as usual, John. Looking forward to seeing the Super VC-10 and basking in more nostalgia.

     

    mike 

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