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decalled the two kits, and weathered them

puttied up the prop hubs for the older kit and painted a tractor from the airfix stirling kit was assembled the airfix dambusters gift set dam arrived from Ebay and i set to work canopy masking

The pair ready to tow into the paint workshop for priming and painting. Masking off for the green masking removed some new method i tried was to do my weathered fading for each individual colour. Followed by masking off for the black.. The easiest task.. and finally the smoke stains for the exhausts, using a mix of black, grey and brown..

After sanding (A heck of a headache on the old tool revell kit), some priming and preshading, it was time to paint some old school RAF colours, green and black revell kits - noticed I've started on the tornadoes. WIP to come as well. Revell new mould.. Revell old mould: check out the amount of epoxy and normal putty. This one is definitely not for the starters

Hi everyone, I'm here with a wip for the Dambusters 70th anniversary GB. I know I know, so many 70th anniversary Lancasters going around. So I've decided to make mine a little special. I am going to build all the squadrons planes from 1943 to 2013, mostly in 1/72. Starting with the Lancasters. I used an old mould revell, and a new mould revell. (These were in my stash at the time i started 3 months ago.) I also used an Airfix gift set for the dam diorama. the old mould is a sea of rivets, while the new features crisp panel lines. cockpits also tell the difference in terms of detail and accuracy using a 1/32 GBU, i proceeded to make a 1/72 tallboy bomb. Double trouble!

layers of white basecoat and gaia white. countless layers. but some sanding of orange peel along the way nose grey and black masked engine exhausts finally, the base here is a preview of the finished trio and they are done! submitted them for my local aero-model competition, on display currently till the weekend. Will have more photos of the completed kits on the display case soon. also, you might find my f-16 next to the victor i will also post a few wip of the airfix tornado gr1 and hasegawa jaguar gr1 here soon.hope you guys have enjoyed the wip and may it be useful tricks for other modellers. thanks for the help that many of you were offering on the vulcan too!

next is update for valiant after sanding hell, the kit is primed in srufacer [

cheat codes for the intake seams, i make a cover from paper template then convert it to placard mask to spray white base painted blue, and added waves, using my hands as the rippler effect 4 pieces of black paper were rolled up and stuck into exhaust, no need to fill up seams! [

basecoat interior grey after preshading in grey, and layer of whitebasecoat,i hit the bottom with gaia gloss white masking templates from instruction scale up green then grey

i work on the base diorma. some styrofoam to beef up the cliff i used plaster and clay to shape up the island next, bomb bay details added and painted white followed by casting using rubbermould and epoxy, 21 bombs, though only 14 here as 7 are attached elsehwere bomb bay done bombs begin attaching [ enamel wash applied Next on the victor. the base was lined with wood formeca sheets last u see of the cockpit! canopy mounted and puttied

here with the updates of the wip. too busy to upload in the weekend.. Vulcan first. first preshading then dark sea grey on bottom this was followed by printing masking template in 1/72 from a vulcan reference book that i have, upscale it to 1/72 green first and with rolls of blutack masked then in medium grey [ this was followed by masking of the intake demarcation, to get at the white. the kit was wrapped like a bouquet

the 2nd update for today. the matchbox victor. all main wings were added to fuselage, corrseponding seams were putty and sanded or acetone the airbrake area took the most time, and some rescribing can be seen here fuel pods added and the individual stabilzers had to be smoothen out first. a huge step between the joints. this one also took muscle and guts the wings requried placard strips on the top portion after much sanding and a quick go of primer.. almost there and here is a sneak preview hehehe..

however after some epoxy and white putty, sanding and the cottonbud acetone method, i powered my way through the expanse of uneveness... bottom aux exhausts and intakes were added

also, work began on the tail end. the exahust area was painted black, and a exhaust fan was added on the outboard nacelles. Using 1/72 corsair wheels.lol. some random bits went into the observer/bombardier station. cant be seen anyway fueslage was mated together eventually. the seams and ill fit was horrendous, partly because i removed all the guide pins and the 2 halfs were sliding ack and forth now the tailcone gap was legendary.. a whole 1.5mm difference the top of the cone was good, partially to sacrfice the bottom intake seams after much fitting and forcing.. fill this!! tail exhaust vent was also horrible but sanding down was fast set to work immediately on the gaps, steps and seams here is the lower tailcone, i used combination of placard, epoxy and white putty same done for the intake lips fuselage uneveness was brought to nothingness via pure elbow strength the easier bit to relax was to lay down piping inside the bombabay next the wings and vert tail were brought togehter.. seams were normal, but the length of those seams was abnormal

put up the internals for the Valiant. an inflight stand mount, using a 1/72 f-15 exhaust cone. It is not some new fancy photon cannon mounted internaly. added structural reinforcement plates to the fuselage, to help in joining them later.. this kit has no guide pins, and it is warped beyond belief. look at ARC galleries, leslie choy has a nice description there. meantime, war on the intakes begin i stuck some epoxy putty into the gaps and use a macdonalds tea spoon, wet with water, and went in to smooth the intakes. the bomb bay was scratchbuild by my dad, using placard and ruler andcareful measured cutting the next step was WAR ON THE INTAKES. after several rounds of puttying and sanding smooth with putty, i bring out my ultimate weapon in dealing with intake seams... the thick gooey undiluted metal tin paint is perfect for flowing within the intakes and drying into a hard, mildly flexible skin.. Weee!!!! masked off the intakes and poured it in! intakes when dry, were mounted.. check out the seam .. more filling.