theplasticsurgeon Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 This kit: 271 Squadron RAF, this aircraft crashed at Betheniville during the Battle of France. 46 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 A new model (for me anyway) and what a very nice presentation👏 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Looking good, for a Bombay that is .. Such a nice clean build , well done 👍 cheers, Jan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftScience Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Some of your nicest work to date. What did you think of the kit? How was the build? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 On 5/1/2020 at 8:01 PM, SoftScience said: Some of your nicest work to date. What did you think of the kit? How was the build? Thanks for this and the other compliments. How was the build? Well - I built this kit for Ian, a regular visitor to Jet Age. But it's not really my interest area. The kit: Cleanly moulded parts. Three injection moulded sprues, plus transparencies. Then resin engines, and some etched brass details. What I didn't really notice was - no location points. The whole model is a series of butt joints. The only concession being a wing-spar. Typical of low-volume kits, this one has NO part-number tags on the sprues - constant reference back to the sprue-maps, always on a different page. Tiresome! Construction soon showed that all the radio compartment detail would be concealed, so I omited everything but the seat. It also revealed that this kit has no location markers to assist fitting it together. All the cockpit floors needed trimming for the fuselage to fit properly. As did the wingspar for the wings to fit. The nose and tail compartments have ammo-drums all over the place! And the location pimple lost in the interior paint. I just glued them anywhere. The part for wing landing lights got pushed through the aperture and lost, replace with a piece of credit-card. I'm convinced that the parts for the tails, their struts, and the undercarriage are all mis-numbered. The resin engines are a particularly vague fit. The props have a very short shaft to locate them to the engine. I drilled that out, replacing with 1.5mm copper cable. My props are removeable - and spin! Completed earlier today, and I'm very glad. It's not been my favourite project, I'll stick to mainstream where I can. I am very pleased with the result, and can't wait to give it back to Ian, when Jet Age re-opens. Edited, After Jet Age re-opened. Ian visited on my first day's duty, so I gave him the completed model. Very grateful, and blown away with the finished model - so a satisfying result. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftScience Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Ian will be very happy. Sounds like a total pain in the butt. The kit, not Ian. Though I wouldn't know abd what is jet age, anyway ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Given your description of the kit build, I'm surprised but also very pleased to see you persisted with the build because the build is great, and as with all great builds, there's no evidence of the struggles you had getting the job done. You can be justifiably proud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 14 minutes ago, SoftScience said: abd what is jet age, anyway ? A local aviation museum, at which I am a volunteer. https://jetagemuseum.org/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Very nice job Tim on a 'challenging' kit. Well done that man! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 That is very nice. I've always liked the Bombay and the Harrow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adey m Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) The best Bombay build I have seen anywhere , and having first hand experience of Valom kits I know exactly what you went through to achieve that fabulous model, lucky Ian. regards, adey Edited May 2, 2020 by adey m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob85 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Brave man! Really nice finish on that, very impressive especially after seeing other build it! Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangor Lad Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 (edited) Great build of what sounded like quite challenging kit. Love it! Edited May 2, 2020 by Bangor Lad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickydicky210 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Very nice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Putty Animal Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Brilliant job, I absolutely love it. I think the Bombay is a gorgeous aircraft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tbolt Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 That is very nicely done, love it. Very well done Quick tip - turn off the date stamp from the images on your camera, always looks horrible on photos and there's no need for it as the EXIF data contains the date info. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplasticsurgeon Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 2 hours ago, adey m said: The best Bombay build I have seen anywhere so far, and having first hand experience of Valom kits I know exactly what you went through to achieve that fabulous model, lucky Ian. regards, adey Thanks Adey, That means so much to me - as do all the complimentary comments. I was looking thru your Harrow thread yesterday - very similar aircraft and kits. Wishing you a great result for that one. I've also got a Valom Albermarle, which I'm in no hurry to start. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin W Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Great job with this Tim. The extra effort on these limited run kits can only really be appreciated by those who have built them. This has come out really well. Certainly it looks better than the malnourished one on the box top. I visited the Jet Age museum last summer on holiday. A great museum and well worth visiting. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 Very nice! It's great to see one of these built up as nicely as you've done it. The weathering looks nice and subtle. Alex T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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