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Digging deep into the stash for this one, I came up with this venerable Airfix AC-130H Hercules: This is a kit I’ve started in the past, a very, very long way in the past! I can remember working on this while I was still at secondary school, so I’d guess I’d have been around 15 or 16 when I first messed with it. I’ll be 41 next month, which means it’s been 25 years in the making so far. I’ve run this past Col and he’s happy that this is below the 25% mark: Unusually, I’ll be starting this build by stripping the existing Humbrol enamel paint off. While some of it looks alright, some of it really isn’t: Interestingly, I appear to have two sets of decals for this. I think the better condition one is the set from this kit and the other is probably one that a model-making friend of my grandparents gave me: While I’m trying to not go overboard on accuracy on this one (it’s most likely going to end up hung from the ceiling in my son’s room) the kit is definitely going to need some work. As you can see the line for the edge of the cockpit glazing is going to need refining. The starboard side is correct, the port side has a large amount of flash extending into the glazing area. Also, this is genuinely as close as the two halves of the nose will come to each other, which means more work there as well. Let’s not even go there with the raised panel lines, I think I’m just going to live with them or I’ll spend the entire GB just rescribing! Until next time James
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