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This started as the very old Contrail Avro Tudor vacform and I added scratchbuilt nacelles for the jet engines, the main wheels are block-treaded Lancaster resin items from CMK and I created home made decals. Lots of work over the last year and whilst I'm pleased it's finished I am happy with it - despite the large size! Steve
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Hello all, here is my choice for this Group Build, the Short Singapore III flying boat. The kit is ancient. It has a wonderful instruction guide, I will post that in the next couple of days. I have taken advantage of our hosts offer to let us prep Vacforms, so I have cut the major parts out and sanded them down (that took about 10 days), I did try to repair a very thin section on the planing surface where the plastic cracked whilst I was sanding it out, but I have made things worse. I will try to fix it properly when the build gets underway. Surprisingly, the cockpit glazing has not yellowed, but it has no framing lines on it, so that will be fun. I managed to get some white metal props and exhausts from John Aero, along with a build guide from one of the old magazines, and the Allied Wings book by Phil Listemann as references. I will paint this (if things work out) in one of the schemes in the book (but not aluminium), but I will probably use markings from a Stranraer which I don't need. Failing that, I do have some generic codes that I could use to mark it with the right codes, albeit in the wrong font. The only other bits I will use will be three Lewis guns (from the same Stranraer) so they will be injection parts. It is probably in excess of twenty years since I did a vacform, I hope I remember what to do! I will put more pre-build pics up soon. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the projects. All the best, Ray
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