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Finally finished this one, think it's taken around 6 months working on and off between house moves and work. I know the stigma around this kit, but it's been one of my favourite builds. Kit of firsts for me, first full photo etch cockpit, using filler, using a gloss coat, vacform canopy and an enamel wash... need a lot more practice with the wash though. Airfix 1/48 Buccanner S2/S2C kit used Pavla ejection seats Airwaves photo etch cockpit Kit World decals Areoclub canopy Scratch build bomb bay Sprayed with Tamiya acrylics Humbrol enamel black wash Humbrol gloss varnish brushed on Kit came without any clear parts, so no nav lights or screen between the navigator and pilot. Work in progress below Picture time
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Hi everybody; this is going to be my first Airfix kit ever (odd, ain't it?). Since I know close to nothing about Harriers, I decided to crack on with this build hoping to find out more about them, so any kind of help here is really appreciated Here are some preliminary pics: boxart Sprues: Transparents: There's a very annoying mould line on the opening canopy that needs to be dealth with Subject I intend to reproduce: Decals, printed by Cartograph, so they should behave properly I'm going to take this easy, so don't expect quick progresses for the moment, also because I have another build on going for the Vignette GB. Ciao
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First one for the 2017..... Airfix 1/72 12hp Standard Utility ATB Sean
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Hi all! It's been ages since I've put anything up on BM, the stresses of moving house and starting a PhD have limited my modelling to the bare essentials of getting builds done. Anyway, here's my most recent effort, a commission build for my mum's 60th birthday. She's not much of an aircraft fan, but has always had a soft spot for the DC-3, so when she asked me to make her a model someday, I chose this: a DC-3 in civil marks as operated by Dan-Air London in the 1950s-1960s. The kit is the new Airfix: irritatingly the civil boxing wasn't even due to come out until after mum's birthday, so I had to convert the military C-47 kit. This entailed filling all the moulded metal detail on bulkheads etc, covering the ribs and stringers inside the fuselage with plasticard (fun to cut around the windows!) and scratchbuild 16 pairs of airline seats, complete with seatbelts, from plasticard and foil. I also added throttle and mixture levers to the instrument panel, and represented the quilted soundproofing so often seen in 1950s cockpits with scored foil. Decals are S&M decals modified to represent my chosen subject, G-AMSU. The number of windows on the fuselage stripe decals was wrong for G-AMSU (an ex-C-47 with cargo doors retained) and the spacing wasn't quite right either, so I painted the stripes instead, and just used the tail decals, serials and fuselage stripes. The interior colour scheme is largely guesswork: I only had one very tiny B&W photo to go on! I ended up copying the seat colour from a very poor quality colour shot of a Dan-Air Airspeed Ambassador. Hope you like her. Mum certainly did!
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This is my take on this quite basic kit: I followed the Harrier SIG notes as far as my skill allowed, and they proved to be an invaluable resource for detailing this model. -Thanks I had a lot of fun building and detailing this kit. Edit: Some detail shots starting with the cockpit: scratched front gear bay: airbrake and exhausts: