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Well Since I just finished one old kit, why not drag out another kit I haven't built since the mid-60's. This time though, there WILL be improvements. I hope. I present to everyone direct from the USNS Seaview... "drum roll" ....... The amazing, the fantastic, and the absolute outlandish beyond all doubt The Flying Sub. circa 1965 Last time I built this Johnson was in the White House. Lyndon....not Andrew , puuulese I'm old but not that old. Yet. And at that time I had also built the USNS Seaview.. Unfortunately, that was an Aurora kit and not germane to this GB. But I do have the great big 1/128 Seaview that one day I may get to. when I can figure a way to display it. But speaking of scale this kit says it's 1/160. Nope it ain't. My last build was 1/110 scale and that would make the wingspan of this craft to around 120ft and the pilot around 13ft tall. More like 1/60 scale. Now when I first built this I was disappointed that was no landing gear. And as such was a real pain to display. So this time, no, no landing gear, something better, a splashing water base. Hopefully giving the look of the old girl bursting from under the water and leaping skyward. Ehhh, that's the plan, we'll see. The only other thing I would have liked to have done is lighting everything up. Drawback is the one light kit I found was for the 1/32 kit. won't fit and at $90, out of my pocket book. But no matter, let's go back to the time when adventures await soaring around battling bad guys, and sea monsters, and of course a few aliens once the kit was built, not dry, mind you, just built patience was not in my creed then. So open the Bay doors and let's launch this sucker.- 28 replies
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I picke dup this kit at the Poole Vikings show a couple of weeks back as something different, ie its not a Gerry Anderson vehicle!!! I was pleasantly surprised at the size of the thing... I picked up the ParaGrafix PE set as well and my intention is to light the interior, so to start with masking the hexagonal panels in the floor Next was to decide where to put the batteries ans switch. On closer inspection of the lower hull half, I saw that there are panels ready for cutting out for the Undercarriage accessory set that is available for this kit, so I thought that cutting one of these out would be a good way of hiding batteries inside it From the underside This gives an idea of what the internal structure looks like One of the problems with the lighting on this model is likely to be light bleed as the plastic is yellow so will be a bit more transluscent than darker plastic, plus in particular for the floor its actually a transparency, so some extra masking has been undertaken... which when turned over reveals I picked up some reflective gaffer tape in Hobbycraft Similarly this is the upper hull half and turned over... Underside, with battery panel closed Battery penel open This is actually the battery panel that I originally built when I was planning to light the Garrett Showmans Engine earlier in the year - came in useful in the end! This is the inside Finally for now, here is the ParaGrafix PE set being added to the internal walls More to come...