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The big one! Part of my 'Trying To Build All The Model Kit Presents My Dad Bought Me' mission build. I bought this kit for my dad at the Yeovilton Model Show a LONG time ago (must have been about 2010 or even earlier). He never got round to starting it and he gifted it back to me just before Christmas to build it. That triggered a kind of guilty conscience for all the models he bought for me over the years which still linger in the loft, neglected and unbuilt. Since he won't be around for too much longer I made it my mission to get them all built as soon as possible so he can at least see them built. There's about ten to build, and as my current build rate is three or four a year, this requires a bit of commitment on my part! This going to pose a challenge to photograph in my current 60x60cm light box! I'll have to improvise! It's surprisingly uncomplicated out of the box, with relatively few sprues for such a monster kit. Well that won't do! I'll have to make it as overly complex as possible... First, add not one but TWO Eduard Big Ed sets... Then mix in the L'Arsenal hangar deck and other 3D-printed accessories... This is a selection of the 140-odd parts in the set! Might as well add a full air wing, or close to it... How about adding all the decals for the entire Air Wing.... ...and might as well add the corrected ship decals because the Trumpeter ones are very strange! That should be alright for starters, but i have a pile of additional 3D-printed hangar accessories, crew figures and various mounted weapons, fittings, LED lighting and other gubbins to add. Should make for quite a massive project! The plan is to mount her on a sea diorama sailing in company with HMS Euryalus, the Ikara Leander I've nearly finished over here... Wish me luck, or berate me for my overreaching ambition, either way, IT'S ON! Ask me about the BOHICA story if you haven't heard it, it's a triumph of disgruntled enlisted ranks putting one over the CO! All the best, Alan- 114 replies
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