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Hi all, I was sent one of these little beauties a while back to build for Airfix Model World and must say it was a real pleasure. I've built a lot of resin models now and must say that the mouldings here are probably the best resin I've come across with the representation of the fabric control surfaces sublime and attention to detail superb. The separately moulded engines and one piece wings made construction a breeze. Humbrol 3 Gloss Brunswick Green enamel was used to replicate that lovely scheme..... Brief history of G-ACSR The third Comet built, G-ACSR had been paid for by racing driver Bernard Rubin and was flown by Owen Cathcart-Jones and Ken Waller. They had to make a second unscheduled stop at Baghdad after they found that they had had a serious oil leak. They were forced to delay for repairs after which they caught up with the Mollisons at Karachi. They were the fourth aircraft to reach Melbourne in a time of 108h 13 min 45s. Cathcart-Jones and Waller promptly collected a film reel of the Australian stages of the race and set off to carry it back to Britain. Their return time of 13½ days set a new record. Following this G-ACSR was renamed Reine Astrid and flew the Christmas mail from Brussels to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo in 1934. It was then sold to the French government as F-ANPY and set a Croydon to Le-bourget record of 52 minutes on 5 July 1935 subsequently making several Paris to Casablanca and Paris to Algiers high-speed proving flights. Sadly she was destroyed in a hangar fire at Istres in 1940. The only part of the build that required a bit of close attention was shoehorning all that lovely PE and resin cockpit detail into the super narrow fuselage. I decided to go for G-ACSR in her green scheme as everybody and their aunt seems to go for Grosvenor House and I think gloss dark green suits the style of this sleek racing machine ,(shades of early Aston Martins in their BRG). The only things I added were the counterbalances on the tail planes and fin as these were missing from the kit. Definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the subject...and who couldn't love those sexy lines ! Cheers all and thanks for looking... Melchie....
