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Ansaldo Brescia racer, modified Ansaldo SVA-5 Pegasus 1/72 kit


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9 hours ago, Britman said:

Never be afraid of a Pegasus"kit" as I believe them to be good honest products if one wants that odd or unobtainable subject.

I agree, Keith, if only based on this example for now. It's quite workable, especially considering it's from 1989!

I shall take out from the Hidden Hoard the other ones I believe I have and give them a closer look.

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The divots for the former location of the struts were filled and sanded, but now the rib detail has to be restored. Two pieces of tape and later on putty are applied, then sanded down. The joint at the center of the wing panels is treated the same way:

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The strut fairings (a bit of sanding down seems to be needed) on the wings, and some fuselage structure:

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I am getting a lot of these messages as I change pages here at BM.

Anyone else?:

 

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Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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18 hours ago, Moa said:

Assembled, to be painted. The disk will be the dial of the instrument:

 

There really needs to be a "WOW!" button, like simply doesn't cut the mustard! Superb, mind-boggling modelling.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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5 hours ago, bigbadbadge said:

You know you have done an excellent job when you have impressed the domestic authorities!!!

Indeed! :rofl:

4 hours ago, 2996 Victor said:

 

There really needs to be a "WOW!" button, like simply doesn't cut the mustard! Superb, mind-boggling modelling.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

Appreciated, Mark. Not quite as good as your praise would have it, but entertaining.

Cheers

4 hours ago, Vesa Jussila said:

Nice work again. Once again possibility to learn from master.

Thanks.

The Schmaster :P:rofl:

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Continuing with the conversation regarding Pegasus kits, I finally found two that were in the dungeons. I bought them with the intention of course to convert them to civil versions. The Tutor is, as you can see, a very nice kit, especially considering its age (it was released in the 80's).

Some possible schemes:

http://www.na3t.org/air/photo/AB01154

 

https://www.aviationphotocompany.com/p729893148/h181D3A30#h181d3a30

 

 

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Contents:

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Very nice detail, better actually that many kits released much later in time:

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White metal parts:

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But the Junkers D-1 was a bit of a disappointment. I wanted to convert it to a Junkers J-10, a post-war civil version, which is, as I quickly realized, not really possible from a practical point of view:

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We can see that in spite of valiant efforts, the surface is not really good:

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Trailing edge too thick -can't be corrected as the wing is one piece and sanding would erase the corrugations:

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Leading edge messy, undefined and very difficult to correct:

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So it is one win and one lose, but I am glad I bought the Tutor, as I found some gorgeous civil variants of it on the Net.

 

Besides, Matías Hagen from Argentina is giving the finishing touches at his spectacular, extremely well detailed and well-cast 1/72 kits of the Tutor successors, the Avro 631 and 643. The standards of these kits are the highest, as it is the case with Matías kits.

 

https://www.facebook.com/72topiaScaleModelKits/?ref=page_internal

 

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