bryanm Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I bought this on ebay earlier this year as 'part built' - it had been started but I guess the builder was expecting a 'shake and bake' and had given up. It wasn't too bad to complete, but although it was the second release with the injected canopy it was evidently an early CA mould and a way from the Gosling and Hornet, the other CA models I've completed. It still went together OK with the usual test fitting and some filler, although the fit was generally quite good. It's mostly from the box with just a stretched sprue antenna and the aerial mast moved to the canopy to suit this early production example. I'm still puzzled how this worked - presumably when the canopy was opened, the antenna went slack. I haven't found any photos of the early arrangement with the canopy open and on most photos the antenna is barely visible anyway. The decals looked nice on the sheet but some of them broke up easily, not least the fin flashes. I managed to piece together the bits and then touch them up with paint. One of the upper wing roundels totally disintegrated so they are from the spares box. There is a little silvering even after a good coat or three of Kleer. It's brush painted with Humbrol enamel. Whirlwinds are some of the few aircraft regularly parked with their flaps down, presumably because the flaps and radiators were linked and the Peregrine engines suffered from overheating. Even with the flaps up, the cooling vents in the upper wing surface didn't completely close so there's plenty of scope for scratch builders to work on this area. That's a bit beyond my skill! There's a photo of P6969 in the Warbird monograph looking very tatty and captioned that it was towards the end of 263 Squadron's use of the type, which was January 1944. In fact it was lost on 8 February 1941 in a combat with an Ar 196. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Looks lovely, great work, I have built one and it was quite a nice kit. You've done a cracking job there. All the best Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Nice build of a not so easy kit, I built one years ago as the Whirlwind is one of my favourites but it was not available in my preferred 1/32 scale, hopefully soon that will be rectified by SH. Cheers Dennis 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomthounaojam Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Just love it, one of my favorite aircraft of ww2 sad, due to engine problem didn't had a very long service. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Have always admired this aircraft ,only ever built the airfix version. Looking at your fine example i feel the urge to find one and have a bash Excellent model building. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAT69 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Very nicely done model! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff G Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Super job on a not so common model! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Very nice build.😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAAFAN Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Nicely done. I am fast becoming a fan of twin engined fighter aircraft of the WWII era. This is a fave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanm Posted January 1, 2021 Author Share Posted January 1, 2021 Thanks for the comments and 'likes'. The CA kit is well worth a shot if you have a bit of patience and want a 1/48 Whirlwind. Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAAFAN Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 1 hour ago, bryanm said: Thanks for the comments and 'likes'. The CA kit is well worth a shot if you have a bit of patience and want a 1/48 Whirlwind. Happy New Year! Happy New Year to you as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 That's very tasty 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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