Gloster Javelin FAW9

[qn30jEkPz7]

Buoyed by having a day more to finish than I had expected here is as I left it last night 

 

 

I gave the kit decals a go to see if they were at all salvageable but as @JOCKNEY correctly predicted...

 

Time to root through the spares and see if I can make them up

[AdrianMF]

Looking forward to seeing this in the gallery. Varnish over the transfers might help.

 

What aeroplane are you going to make out of all the flash?

 

Regards,

Adrian

[qn30jEkPz7]

7 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

What aeroplane are you going to make out of all the flash?

I’ve already set the tanks and missiles aside for reuse elsewhere. The flash I’m saving in A4 sized sections as 0.5mm styrene sheet

 

Any-hoo, she’s as finished as she’s likely to get today so off to the gallery

 

 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by LostCosmonauts

[JOCKNEY]

Congratulations @LostCosmonauts

Thats a Javelin and no mistake, great save on the decals, and delighted to see it finished

Cheers Pat 

[qn30jEkPz7]

25 minutes ago, JOCKNEY said:

great save on the decals

Thanks, there was a LOT of improvising this morning. Didn't have a wide enough set of red/white/blue tail stripes so those had to be done as discrete sections. The whole thing came very close to a test flight from an upstairs window (which hasn't happened since about 1981 when I was but a child and hadn't quite grasped the non-flying nature of some models)