A&AEE Argosy

[BritJet 1,854]

Mach 2 1/72 with homemade decals otherwise straight from the box






 

 

Steve

[Spitfire madman 313]

Wow very nice indeed

[BritJet 1,854]

Thanks, it was a lot easier to build than I expected as every MACH2 kit is supposed to be 'unbuildable'. It's a scheme I've wanted to do for years.

 

Steve

[canberraman 904]

A magnificent build of what can be a challenging kit. Very eye catching colour scheme too.

 

Mark

[Alpha Delta 210 4,147]

What a beauty!

[speedy 622]

I used to watch this in the circuit, must have taken 5 mins to get round.

 

Steve.

[dolphin38 776]

Great work, hard to believe its a Mach 2 kit, great colour scheme 

[cngaero 1,361]

That's a real stunner. 

[bentwaters81tfw 4,828]

Superb work. I plan to do the same when I get round to mine.

[AMB 413]

Very nice!  Now where do you put it? It's a big model!

[Spitfire31 1,954]

Thoroughly impressed, by the size and the ultra smooth finish!

 

Did I say that I was impressed?

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

[RMCS 4,095]

Lovley 

[bzn20 2,140]

Magic ! Well done . Loved the whistling wotsits at Brize with 115 Sqn around 1976 .

[kiwitrogg 1,333]

Stunning !! I've got a crun-n-custard one to build, but wish I'd gone for something with a cheat line like yours. The homemade decals look superb.

I'll always remember the one at Halton airfield that the sooties got to play with while we marshalled JPs around .

Excellent work, well done.

Cheers

Gaz

[72modeler 4,378]

This can't be a Mach 2 kit- it actually looks like the real airplane pictured on the box! I am impressed; I think this is one of the very nicest finished Mach 2 kits I can remember seeing! The Whistling T was a handsome (I think so, anyway!) and capable old hauler, and you have done her justice. Well done! Must weigh a kilo or so, though!

Mike

[petetasker 317]

Superb build - bet that takes up a bit of room in a display cabinet.

[John R 1,335]

Straight from the box/Mach 2 seems like some sort of oxymoron...Lovely job

[BritJet 1,854]

Thanks for the kind comments.

 

14 hours ago, canberraman said:

A magnificent build of what can be a challenging kit. Very eye catching colour scheme too.

 

Mark

 

12 hours ago, dolphin38 said:

Great work, hard to believe its a Mach 2 kit, great colour scheme 

 

10 hours ago, 72modeler said:

This can't be a Mach 2 kit- it actually looks like the real airplane pictured on the box! I am impressed; I think this is one of the very nicest finished Mach 2 kits I can remember seeing! The Whistling T was a handsome (I think so, anyway!) and capable old hauler, and you have done her justice. Well done! Must weigh a kilo or so, though!

Mike

I was expecting it to be a difficult build and whilst it didn't exactly fall together the amount of work needed wasn't to bad. It does need a lot of weight up front to get it to sit properly.

 

12 hours ago, speedy said:

I used to watch this in the circuit, must have taken 5 mins to get round.

 

Steve.

I only saw it once at a Middle Wallop air show in the 80s, shame it ended up as it did.

12 hours ago, bentwaters81tfw said:

Superb work. I plan to do the same when I get round to mine.

Let me know if you want me to send you the decal artwork to print your own.

 

10 hours ago, kiwitrogg said:

Stunning !! I've got a crun-n-custard one to build, but wish I'd gone for something with a cheat line like yours. The homemade decals look superb.

I'll always remember the one at Halton airfield that the sooties got to play with while we marshalled JPs around .

Excellent work, well done.

Cheers

Gaz

I found the kit cheatlines weren't right so re-drew them whilst doing the rest of the artwork so you're probably better off with the camo version. I went to a Halton open day in the mid-80s and there were several Argosies and loads of JPs - never managed to go back though.

 

11 hours ago, AMB said:

Very nice!  Now where do you put it? It's a big model!

 

52 minutes ago, petetasker said:

Superb build - bet that takes up a bit of room in a display cabinet.

It is big but hopefully I can minimise it's footprint by getting some smaller models under the wings......

 

Steve

[P.1127 122]

Very impressive. Thanks for sharing, 

P.

Edited August 10, 2019 by P.1127

[MarcNewitt 89]

Now that is impressive, very nicely done!

 

Marc

[goggsy 1,055]

Well, there’s something you don’t see every day. Superb job, well done.

[Troffa 695]

Great looking build- brings back good memories- My final board at Cosford before I was let loose on the rest of the RAF was an ILS channel select snag on an Argosy,

 

[chris57 183]

Brilliant build Steve. I've just finished Mach2's Britannia, or rather it's just finished me. You almost got a call as the kit comes without any cheat lines, but I had some Magna ones in the box. See you at Telford.

[djos 1,609]

BRAVO!

This is something we can not see every day, thank you for sharing

Best regards

Djordje

[Lord Riot 3,485]

Stunning work! I remember this aircraft coming into Woodford once, very exciting to see something so different. 

 

I bought this kit to make as this very same one, but after finding the civil cargo version relatively cheap I then realised the military ones have that hump over the cargo door, so I sold it. Never been able to find one for under £40 again since! 

Edited August 10, 2019 by Lord Riot