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Hello! Not including much info on this build, one of my fastest yet (17 days) and I'm very happy with it. WIP thread: anyway, without further ado, here she is, EE Lightning F.2A XN793 92Sqn. RAF Gütersloh, ~1972: Here she is with my other two lightnings! -
On Thursday night, with the upcoming long weekend, I had decided I could no longer hold back the urge to start another lightning. I'll be honest, not many photos of this one so far, been making excellent, fast progress the past few days. I digress, here's the few photos I do have of the build so far. As always, I started off by redoing the shockingly poorly detailed ejection seat. This is my finest work yet, I am very proud. I then threw the cockpit and engines together and got working on the painting. This afternoon she looked like this: And here she is next to my other two, with dry-fitted gear to make it more presentable. She still needs paint touch-ups in areas but this is definitely feeling like a speed build. Hopefully more updates soon.
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Hello! WIP Thread Without any further ado, here she is: XN781 of 19 Sqn. RAF Gütersloh, flown by Wing Commander R.K. Barcilon, late 1974. Here she is with XS921. I had a lot of fun with this model, unfortunately the decals silvered a bit but not much I could do about it. I will be building another lightning soon, most likely XN793.
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Salutations everyone, I'm back with another WIP thread where the model is actually already finished, I just enjoy sharing my processes. I started this one back in December, relatively quick build for my standards. The aircraft in Question is XN781 of 19 Sqn. RAF Gütersloh. From my reference images on the internets I had discovered a few flaws with the instructions, the gun ports were not gunmetal on this (or frankly most of these green lightnings), on neither panels, the one nearer the cockpit was green like the fuselage and the actual gun port was usually red or a highly chipped showing the gunmetal underneath. On the lower guns (or where they would be), there is a green bit sticking out which is also missing. (THESE PHOTOS ARE NOT MINE, I AM UNABLE TO GIVE CREDIT AS I CAN'T FIND THE SOURCE) I started with the seat. I really enjoy scratchbuilding onto them as they really lack detail. Closing up the fuselage and painting was a surprisingly fast process. Then the gear was painted (and dry-fitted) Then I lost motivation for a bit but in the past 2 days I finished her! I decided to go with green firestreaks as I had seen photos of Gütersloh lightnings with them (and they are much easier to paint than white). Here she is next to XS921, my other lightning (there will be more...) This one is a very short thread, next update will be the RFI Hope you enjoyed looking at it though!
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Hi all, On the now defunct sg-etuo website (spotter's goup RAF Gütersloh) I remember seeing a picture of an airborne Harrier GR.3 in a complete (wrap-around) winter camouflage, taken, if I remember correctly, May or July 1983. The camo pattern of this Harrier differed from the usual (say 1 Sqn) GR.3s in that the grey areas were painted over instead of green - resulting in a white - green pattern. Does anyone know of which aircraft I speak? I apparently never saved the image but I hope someone here has, or at least has a strong memory of the serial. Cheers!! Jay Edit: Solved! It was 1980, not 1983. See later post.
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Again, breaking own rules regards 2 models on the bench with time constraints (2 builds in the F16 STGB!) I am in with another Lightning.....I know there are a few around, in different scales and NMF, but I will build out of the box, depicting the 92Sqn DG over Aluminium finish. In my view you can never have too many cold war lightnings, its in my stash, so, im gonna build it! I have tended to build 1/48 since I returned to the hobby (I built a lovely Airfix 1/48 F6 in the Lightning STBG) but have started on some projects that need 1/72, so have started playing with fiddly bits again and re-engaged the carpet monster in that ongoing war over small parts! The Airfix starter kit is quite big and complex for a starter kit, with acrylic paints (never used may try!?) etc. Bit of a hiccup! Looks to me as if the ground crew are in the older style NBC suits. Any experts tell me if the missiles are live?
