hillstar

Hi, just finished this last sunday. It is the Revell Canberra B(I)8, build straight out of the box. It has almost no details, the cockpit is empty. I placed some weights inside, but it is still a tailsitter. But I finally built that kit, after having it on my stock for quite some years. The aircraft shown here represents a BAC Canberra B(I)8 from the No. 14 Squadron of the Royal Airforce Germany, based in Wildenrath around 1963. Here are some pictures, I hope you like it.

Very nice indeed!!!

Added myself as a follower to this incredible WIP

I really like the cockpit work that you are showing here. Also an interessting and not often seen helicopter.

It was already a nice aircraft in the long version. You really need to have a space issue if you destroy such a good looking one for becoming a shorter aircraft. Will stay with this WIP to see how it ends. Good work so far!

Amazing work, will stay with this for sure!

Very nice aircraft. Have one somewhere and after seeing yours, I might put it up the list a bit!

First post, but not the first Jet I think? Love it!!! Great paint job, and I agree, I would love to build jets that look half the way as good as yours

Very nice, the blue color is something different! I can imagine it was not very easy to paint the plane with this one color, most likely like painting white I can imagine.

Great Job, like the painting!

Brilliant! I love it. Great job. Thanks for showing

Nice work! Will stay tuned...

Great work, the dio looks good. Painting is also good. Thanks for showing

Love the F-16, looks very good!

Excellent work, love it

Hello, this is the last update before christmas. Top and Bottom are glued together. I added a support structure below the top plate, and like you can see in the picture, it is working. I also was able to add all the frame parts on Side 3 of the MLP. Looks good in my opinion and I hope you like it too. Took me longer than expected, but that is ok. Should not be a short term project and will be interrupted by some other things I guess. So it is time to wish all of you merry christmas.

Paint job is one of a kind! Can't believe those are not pictures from a real aircraft. Awesome!!!

Excellent Job, looked at your WIP and it is a great work...

Nice job, well done. Love the painting and the weathering!

Hello Everyone, Next steps have been made. The base plate has been done and I used some plastic pieces as spacers to align later on the walls for the blast chambers.. I used a set square to make sure everything is correctly setup in 90°... In the front is a little step, so I started to prepare everything for that. But there are also two vent holes, which I want to build prior to glue everything together. Also I checked how the top plate is aligning with the rest, and so far it looks pretty good. So maybe, between Christmas Tree and Christmas Market I will be able to finish the base construction. And I could not resist to see how it will look in the future. So I placed the booster rockets on the MLP. SWEET!!! Hope I can post an update soon. But if not, I wish all of you merry christmas and a happy new year.

Looks very clean, I like it. Good job and thanks for showing!

WOW, that is a really nice paint job on that Aircraft! LOVE IT!!!

Great paint job so far...

Nice idea with the "glue and role" trick! How thick was the plastic sheet that you have used?

Hello everyone, I want to share my newest project with you guys here. Inspired by the build of roma847 and some others I came up with the idea to build the Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission: Building MLP, Crawler, Space Shuttle and a Launch Tower, representing Discovery during STS-133 preparation. The ingredients: Space Shuttle with Booster from Revell MLP from Educraft (just as template) Crawler from Educraft (just as template) Launch Tower... Not sure yet! I haven't decided yet how to build the Launch Tower. Only decission made so far is to not use the one from Revell, due to the scale issues mentioned all over the internet. And of course because MLP and Crawler would look pretty strange next to the Revell Tower. Mission started: This shows you where I am at the moment. I bought a second Space Shuttle on Ebay to avoid opening the Revell Launch Tower one. The box was faded a lot, but the inside was in perfect condition. So I started right away with the Booster Rockets. most of the raised panel lines have been removed, as they are not present on the latest Shuttle missions. The Mailman brought me this on the 6th of december... A paperrole with the MLP and the Crawler model. This is the MLP. and this will be the crawler sometime in the future... I made some copies of the original paper drawings, so that I can cut out everything without destroying the original ones. Sounds a bit crazy, I know, and my wife told me already. But hey, you never know if you do not need the original drawings a bit later. And like I mentioned, the drawings will just be used as templates. My goal is to build it with plastic sheet, a lot of plastic sheet. So first thing was to order some, which has arrived already, but no pictures made from it (a lot of white plastic, so not very exciting). Next I started with the Blast Chamber of the MLP, to just start with something. Because I needed to wait a bit for the delivery of all the plastic sheets I also started with the Space Shuttle. So I opened the gap between those two "rudders" (not sure if this is the correct english word) Next step was to locate all the gaps. There are a lot of gaps, and not small ones. This is a view from the top... Looks the same on the bottom... You can basically look thru those wings! Solution??? PUTTY, a lot of it... Space Shuttle started the fight, I finished it! Next step will be a lot of sanding, as you might can imagine. In the meantime plastic sheet has arrived and I started with the MLP construction. At the moment there are only two huge plates with three holes in each of it, so not really something to show. Hope to be able to continue some of the work during Christmas break. I will try to post frequent updates, but as I am pretty busy with a lot of things, it could be that it take some time for updates. So sit back and relaxe.