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Airfix 1/48 Lightning F.6 "QRA"


goon

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I love a Lightning - and I love the way you have posed your's to improve the 'Lightning Effect'.

 

I think you may be interested in this video of how to create jet engine effects.  Not mine, I found it on YouTube one day and thought I would love to give this a go one day.

 

 

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great work on the model, but my only criticism would be that the base is too short. A longer blurred base would make the jey look like it was travelling faster.

 

Great model though!

 

Andy

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Thanks for the further comments. Very cool effect in that video. (I agree about the length of the base Andy, but it didn't 'click' until I'd finished.)

 

Gareth

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Thanks for further comments.

 

I made the stand from an MDF base with Coastal Kits runway blur cut to size. There's a piece of perspex bar bent to a ] shape and screwed to a channel cut in the underside of the base.. (More of a U actually, but I only had a hair dryer and a very small vise so I was quite pleased with it!) There's two magnets (6mm diameter, if I remember rightly) mounted span wise in the stand, and the under side of the wing. It's very secure, but there's not enough 'leverage' length wise, so I had improvise a brass rod in the front of the perspex to support the leading edge. 

 

With hindsight it was obvious it wouldn't support almost the full length of a Lightning, and I should have had three magnets in a triangle, but I got carried on a wave of enthusiastic assumption! (It might well work with a model with less swept wings, or a lighter 1/72 model. 

 

Cheers,

Gareth

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