Mr wimpy gets airborne

[Ruskin Air Services]

OK now after some weathering:

 

 

[PeterB]

Looks good - I said you would finish before me, not that it matters!

 

Cheers

 

Pete

[modelling minion]

Looks excellent, looks even better now that you have weathered her.

A first rate build and paint job on Airfix's classic kit.

Very well done.

Edited August 6, 2020 by modelling minion

[Ozzy]

Fantastic build

[Dansk]

Very nice

[PeterB]

Hi,

 

That is a nice build. You may have seen from my version that at some point Airfix seem to have revamped the turrets. Mine was I believe a 1982 boxing whilst yours seems to be a 1975 one - can you tell from my pics of the early and late nose turret if yours also has been modifed as I am wondering when they actually made the change? Difficult to tell but yours does look like it may also be the later modified version. You seem to have done a tidier job on your turrets than I did with mine - getting the guns in the rear one with the barrels correctly staggered was a real pain.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

Edited August 8, 2020 by PeterB

[Ruskin Air Services]

On 8/8/2020 at 9:40 PM, PeterB said:

Hi,

 

That is a nice build. You may have seen from my version that at some point Airfix seem to have revamped the turrets. Mine was I believe a 1982 boxing whilst yours seems to be a 1975 one - can you tell from my pics of the early and late nose turret if yours also has been modifed as I am wondering when they actually made the change? Difficult to tell but yours does look like it may also be the later modified version. You seem to have done a tidier job on your turrets than I did with mine - getting the guns in the rear one with the barrels correctly staggered was a real pain.

 

Cheers

 

Pete

I went with a pair of .303s in the rear turret instead of the quad .303s as some whimpy's had that configuration, I may change it at some point.