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B-1 "Excalibur" (Academy 1/260)


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Hello,

 

I've recently finished Academy's 1/260 B-1 "Excalibur". It's a simple and relatively old kit. My aim with this build was just to test the "black base" technique. Accuracy was not an objective. The kit resembles a B-1 but there are some inaccuracies, like the nose pitot tube. The camouflage was delimited by hand using rolls of blu-tak, which took a lot of time. It was based on photographs, so it isn't especially accurate either. Painting of the aircraft was done by airbrush, using Gunze acrylics over Alclad Black Primer and Microfiller. Only the exhausts were painted by paintbrush. The stand was painted Alcald Steel.

 

The WIP is here.

 

So, without further ado, here are the pictures of the build.

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Thanks for looking.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, John_W said:

Very nice. Some of these "Box Scale" kits build up realy well.

Thanks John. It's an easy kit to build.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

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5 minutes ago, CedB said:

Very nice Jaime - your usual attention to detail gave the usual great result! :)

 

Thank you very much Ced! Very kind as usual :)

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Kushan_Farsight said:

Nice work! How big does this work out to be then at 1/260?

Thanks! It's about 17 cm long, with a wingspan of about 14 cm. Same wingspan of a Spitfire Mk I in 1/72 but a bit longer.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

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28 minutes ago, PlaStix said:

Very nicely done Jaime!! :worthy:

Kind regards,

Stix 

Hi Stix! Thank you very much!

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

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