cardiff guy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Fought me all the way Sword's Lightning T.5 Regards Glenn. 34 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Looks good and a nice line up. What were your problems with the kit? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestFan Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Looks like u won though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Vader Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Sweet, hope mine turns out that good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottC Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Nice build Glenn And you can never have too many Lightnings :-) ScottC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudi Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Looks great...is that the new 1/48 kit? What problems did you have? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolphin38 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Looks like it was worth the fight, nice work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selwyn Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Lovely finish on that! Just a point, put some wings on the missiles, live missiles were never flown without them fitted! Selwyn 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphfan Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I feel your pain Glenn !! You have done a lovely job on a tricky kit. Mine is on final approach, just made a new pitot from ally tubing and need to finish a bit of detailing to the canopy and it will be RFI. It's a game of two halves? Some parts are really nice (resin) and some parts are not. Panel lines that disappear, some are spurious as well? How did you get on with the decals. I used an Extradecal sheet for XS 458 in Dark Sea Grey. The stencil decals from the kit were lovely but difficult to move once applied. You have a great collection of Frightenings, I hope to increase mine soon with an Airfix F6. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Fox Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Looks great what were the issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 turned out lovely! limited run kits are not the easiest generally, but seems that you did very well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG058 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Great build! I'm tempted to get one, would you recommend it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 End result still looks great. I have a few Sword kits and not expecting an easy build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdonnell Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Hello,Glenn - The build may have been frightening but you've produced a beautiful looking 'Lightning'.All the best,Paul. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 The red tops have the brown and yellow bands donating a live missile but there's no wings fitted like the drill and acquisition missiles fitted in day to day flying. Like these. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 I'd say you won that fight in fine style. Nice line-up as well 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Superb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedy Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Would you do another one though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan B Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Looks like it was worth the fight. Well done for finishing it, I know a few people who haven't . Duncan B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiff guy Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 (edited) Thank you for the kind remarks. In fairness most of the fight was down to me. I decided to replace the the shock cone and add some intake trunking. I had just got the Airfix Lightning f.2 so had a redundant trumpeter kit, the Trumpeter parts were not a good fit. The spine looked a little short so I added a 2mm plug. The only other difficulty was fitting the cockpit which took some sanding to fit. Added to that the Humbrol dk.sea grey must have gone off and took ages to cure even after several coats of clear varnish decals wanted to silver. Would I make another yes I have already bought one It is a typical short run kit and with care a decent model can be made. Regards Glenn. Edited January 18, 2016 by cardiff guy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triumphfan Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Just realised your model is the 1/72 scale version. I have the 1/48 scale kit, yours looks better Glenn. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FZ6 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Nice Lightning I have this kit and really need to finish it off at some point. Regards, Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meatbox8 Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Definitely worth all the effort. A terrific looking Lightning and a great line up with the others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted January 19, 2016 Share Posted January 19, 2016 Really nice Lightning, great job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted January 20, 2016 Share Posted January 20, 2016 looks great, but no what you mean ref the kit as building one at the moment and certainly is not a quick build, for a modern kit I was a bit disappointed by the left release pins that are quite large in places and trying get some parts to match up , and had to use plasticard in places for reinforcement.... but despite the issues you have done a great job... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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