Hi everyone.
She is finished, and what a kit she was.
Kit is completely OOB as we have no aftermarket available yet, I plan to build more shacks, as I have 2 more of these and a Revell one due soon.
I used Tamiya XF-2 for the white and a 50/50 mix of XF-82 ocean gray and XF-77 IJN gray with a couple of drops of X-4 blue to give it a hint of blue. I'm not a fan of using enamels and could not get hold of 44 pastel blue for the prop spinners so I mixed Tamiya X-14 sky blue with some white and used that as a substitute. Glossed in Tamiya X-22 clear and sealed in with X-35 semi gloss. I pretty much followed the build in the recent Airfix model magazine build of the kit.
My grandfather spent 25+ years in the Raf as a trained pilot, but due to there being to many pilots in the 50s, he found himself as a signaler, he spent 10 of those years on Shackletons, and this aircraft I build here, WR966 he few on many times. His log book is linked below.
WIP here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234990355-airfix-172-avro-shackleton-wip-finished/page-4
I finished this at midnight and took some snaps in the study, but the light doesn't give it much justice, I'll try and add some more photos in natural light in the morning, but these still look good.
Hope you like it
Added some more snaps today, brought a good size mirror to use as a display base and taking some photos.