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Hi All, this is another attempt at the model I built in about 1973. It was a Christmas present and I built it with tube glue and tried to brush paint it with Humbrol gloss white and light grey. Humbrol gloss white never covers when brush painted (not for me anyway) and it just looked rubbish. I wasn't in to jets at that time either. Let's face it, in 1973 WW2 was ten years closer to current history then than the Falklans War is to current history now. It didn't have British roundels or German crosses, and I had never even heard of the Vigilante. Of course there was no internet way back then so it would have been a bit of a challenge to get any decent data on the aircraft. Even the reference section of the local library probably wouldn't have had anything on this aircraft. There's another look back to the past - do you remember libraries? A few years ago I picked this up in the Kit Swap at Telford, in a plastic bag marked 'complete' and for the princely sum of £2.50. It had photocopied instructions and the decals were a little yellowed, but heck; it was only £2.50! I have an aftermarket decal set for it, but that is the only extra it is going to get. It will be wheels up and the raised panel lines will remain unmolested. In a nod to modernity it will get an airbrushed finish with more modern paints. If there was ever an aircraft that looks as though it was a nod to the paper darts we made in school this has to be it. I pushed the big pieces together as a dry fit and it looks like a Vigilante already. The glue will follow:
