2wheels Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Haven't posted any builds in a long time, but going to try and make an effort this year. This is the Anigrand 1/144 Short Sperrin dressed up in anti-flash white representing the aircraft as they may have appeared if production had started and they'd reached the RAF The kit is nice enough but as with the other two Sperrin kits available there are some accuracy issues. However the Anigrand kit actually maybe makes it look a better looking aircraft, or maybe I'm just liking it too much now. In retrospect I would change the wheels which are reminiscent of matchbox/hotwheels cars from the 70's. 1/144 isn't a scale I'd normally tackle and it was a bit of a fight to finish for various non kit quality related reasons (I managed to drop it once)... which didn't help the modelling mojo. Anyway, on to some pictures, and hope you find it interesting 58 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 I have one of these in the stash waiting to be built, but I have never seen one completed before. Your handiwork and finishing is exceptional and the model is presented beautifully. I really do like that. Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytareh Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 That is ice cool!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wavodavo Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Very nice. I'm hoping to do the S&M models with 2 MR versions and 2 bomber versions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansReggelsen Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 What a joy to behold - the plane really looks like a crisscross of pre- and post WW2 engineering! And you model in that setting is just the right way to show it off! I like it! Cheers Hans J 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stever219 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 That's a neat little vignette but I do wish you'd not given it the panel line wash treatment: even control surface gaps would be less easy to see on the real jet at a distance that would render it an equivalent size to your model. It's nice to see a Sperrin in a scheme that it could or should have worn. Are the figures and Land Rover N gauge railway accessories? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Simply splendid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2wheels Posted March 5, 2017 Author Share Posted March 5, 2017 20 minutes ago, stever219 said: That's a neat little vignette but I do wish you'd not given it the panel line wash treatment: even control surface gaps would be less easy to see on the real jet at a distance that would render it an equivalent size to your model. It's nice to see a Sperrin in a scheme that it could or should have worn. Are the figures and Land Rover N gauge railway accessories? Completely hear what your saying but it just looked like a big white blob to me when it was just in the white. Hence the lines which I know are far from scale. The Landrover is N guage (I think) so not accurately to scale, but the figures are Preiser 1/144 airfield/aircrew 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 A cracking 'What if', and I love the base as well, Cheers John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnT Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Very nice modelling. I fully understand the panel lines dilemma. Personally I don't like them at all in most scales except the largest or on particular aircraft where the join is frighteningly obvious on the real article. I think you called it right though on the Sperrin. I bet more than a few aircrew felt that prayers had been answered when the Valiant, Vulcan and Victor were found to be successful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Great build and very cool subject 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 I love your restrained paintwork on this 2w. Really lovely work. Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 Nice model of an unusual subject. I didn't realise how big it was ,,I always imagined for some reason that it was just a bit bigger than a Canberra 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vh-bob Posted March 5, 2017 Share Posted March 5, 2017 I don' know if it's the fact that have some sympathy for these prototype aircraft that didn't quite make it or the impact that the Sperrin had on me when it featured as a cutaway drawing in the center pages of "Eagle" comic all those years ago. I always thought that the fin shape had a look similar to some French bomber designs of the day. Most un "jet like". Now that Valom are doing a B-45, what about a 1/72 Sperrin ? Well Done Tony, Trev. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanm Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Very nice - a whale of a bomber! I've always thought it looked as though it should have been a flying boat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 17 hours ago, HansReggelsen said: What a joy to behold - the plane really looks like a crisscross of pre- and post WW2 engineering! And you model in that setting is just the right way to show it off! I like it! Cheers Hans J What he said. It has that 40's - 50's feel of design on the cutting edge. It does look more like a transport aircraft than a bomber though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 That's cracking work, looks awesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAG058 Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 A very nice build! This is an aircraft I am not familiar with, it' looks interesting though, I'll need to read up about it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 If Shorts ever got round to a jet Sunderland/Seaford... Lovely build and finish, great result. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Womby Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 Fantastic finish on that Sperrin and I love the whatif interpretation and diorama. Ace! David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted March 6, 2017 Share Posted March 6, 2017 I have the S&M Sperrin and it is nice to see a model of the Sperrin completed, and very nicely done too. 1/144 does present personal question on how far to emblem ish a model but I like the look of yours. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 very nice work and cracking little scene.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin W Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 It's not easy to get a white model to look good in a picture so 10 /10 for the finish. A great little model. I agree 1/72 would be great but having waited 60 years for the Victor we might be waiting a while for a Sperrin. Colin W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shatters Posted March 7, 2017 Share Posted March 7, 2017 I only found out about the Sperrin the other week while reading a book about the vulcan, and now here it is in model form. Looks brilliant too. Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajmm Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Missed this - what an outstanding build of this kit. Stunning work all round. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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