canberra kid Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 2 hours ago, 71chally said: Cracking work as usual John! BTW are they B.2 wing skin diagrams in your last shot, I don't think that I've seen them before. Thanks James, it is James, very useful it is too! I've scaled it up to 1/48 so I can measure directly to the kit. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted April 14, 2018 Author Share Posted April 14, 2018 I've done the last of the work on the wings, first job was to reshape the tips to take the Airfix Navigation lights, these are far better than the two part CA item. Next was to reduce the height of the wing speed brakes, these stand far too proud. Back to the fuselage, CA have indicated the position of the gap under the tailplanes that allows them to move down for pitch control, on the real aircraft this is a gap so I decided to open it up. After marking with a pencil I drilled a hole then it was out with the piercing saw, and bit of tidying up with a file and it's sorted! John 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 14, 2018 Share Posted April 14, 2018 Consummate Canberrying as always John. Sorry for the loss of your friend but a fitting way to celebrate his memory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 On 4/14/2018 at 7:07 PM, TheBaron said: Consummate Canberrying as always John. Sorry for the loss of your friend but a fitting way to celebrate his memory. Thanks mate, sorry for the big delay! I have been working away at her but I've had no time to post. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Nice work so far! Håkan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 So what have I been doing? I've started to work on the cockpit. The CA kit comes with a nice resin bomb sight head, unfortunately this isn't needed for the TT.18, so off to the spares box it goes! As you can see from the above photo I'm intending to replace the same part with part of the Airfix kit., this part needed modifying too so it would more closely represent the reale area in the nose. I also cut out the bomb aimers couch from the B(I)8 to add to the nose. I've done a bit of dry brushing on the cockpit I've now turned to the wheels, I've used the Airfix B.2 wheels as they are by far and away the best ones around, as they come but they could still be improved with a bit work. One of the things that needs doing is to open up the spokes. More soon! John 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Looking good! Nice looking tires! A bit of work opening them up though. Håkan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Cockpit and wheels impeccable. Always enjoy each instalment here John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Nice to see you back with this one John Great work on the cockpit and wheel/tyres Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob Lyttle Posted May 20, 2018 Share Posted May 20, 2018 Hi John, I had a chance to look inside the Canberra cockpit/front fuselage at Tangmere a few weeks ago. So I've got some idea of what you're modelling here. Good going! I could see why the yanks tore it out and started again with the B57 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 19 hours ago, Azgaron said: Looking good! Nice looking tires! A bit of work opening them up though. Håkan Thanks Håkan, It wasn't too bad really, I drilled them first the cut the extra plastic away with the point on a new scalpel. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 11 hours ago, TheBaron said: Cockpit and wheels impeccable. Always enjoy each instalment here John. Thanks Tony, I must take a hour or three to catch up on your magnum opus! John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 11 hours ago, Hamden said: Nice to see you back with this one John Great work on the cockpit and wheel/tyres Roger Thanks Roger, I'm having a mojo hiatus at the moment, everything feels much more work than it should be, but I will press on! John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted May 20, 2018 Author Share Posted May 20, 2018 1 hour ago, rob Lyttle said: Hi John, I had a chance to look inside the Canberra cockpit/front fuselage at Tangmere a few weeks ago. So I've got some idea of what you're modelling here. Good going! I could see why the yanks tore it out and started again with the B57 Thanks Rob, it is a bit of a typical british lash up, the early B.2's were very simple and quite spaten affairs, but as time went by and the roll's got more complex more and more kit squesd in it got quite messy, Uncle Sam doesn't like messy! The B.57A was much tidier my big grudge is the deletion on the overhead windows, it was to save weight I know, but it must have been even more claustrophobic for the GIB. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 Any news of this fantastic build? Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 7 hours ago, Hamden said: Any news of this fantastic build? Roger Hi Roger Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been doing a bit of work on her but I've had to switch production for an urgent Nimrod production, at the moment I'm doing something which I try very hard to avoid and that's doing more than one build at a time, I've actually got four on the go of which only one is for me! John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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