PhantomBigStu Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 (edited) Airfix Sunderland, Italeri decals that flown here from NZ. White Ensign PE Aerials from the USA. Edited September 12, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Welcome aboard Stu... Always room for Sunderland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 13 hours ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Always room for Sunderland. Perhaps another building? Big fella...Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mancunian airman Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Looking forward to seeing this built . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Great subject Stu,.... overall Foliage Green I take it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 1 minute ago, tonyot said: Great subject Stu,.... overall Foliage Green I take it? Nah, doing the top one in the TSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 20 minutes ago, PhantomBigStu said: Nah, doing the top one in the TSS Nice one,... I like that one better anyway! Hard to see,.... I take it that it is 10 Sqn RAAF based in the UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted January 27, 2021 Author Share Posted January 27, 2021 31 minutes ago, tonyot said: Nice one,... I like that one better anyway! Hard to see,.... I take it that it is 10 Sqn RAAF based in the UK? Indeed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyGair Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 Be nice to see this, nearly pulled my Italeri one from the stash to do this scheme but decided if I do a 'big 'un' it'll be a 462 Sqn Halifax courtesy of Revell, Xtradecal and AML resin bits. Good luck. Davey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted February 17, 2021 Share Posted February 17, 2021 Hi Stu First of all a confession. Sunderland were based up here in Oban so I'm all in as far as this build is concerned ! Best of luck Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted February 17, 2021 Author Share Posted February 17, 2021 (edited) Cheers Pat, had hoped to be all in on it but wanted to finish my Shackleton, which seems to be bit cursed, though it’s also blessed as despite suffered what seemed like two horrific accidents the damage was fairly trivial. It will be decal ready for the third time tommorow so hopefully not too long before I can focus on this. Also can possibly go one better, they built Sunderland local to me. Edited February 17, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark.au Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Looking forward to following this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted March 5, 2021 Author Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) Underway finally. Really could have started it before in hindsight Edited March 5, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Go Stu Go ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted March 6, 2021 Author Share Posted March 6, 2021 Not much painting and assembling do so its all together now. # 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 The Sunderland was always a favourite of mine, loved building it as a youngster. It looks a good scheme on this aircraft. I will keep watching! All the best, Ray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Delayed a while as lost a couple of the portholes, dunno if its accurate to have the doors up and the bomb racks out but oh well too late now. Also got another Aussie project, going to repaint a diecast sea fury in the RAAF blue scheme, should be a simple job aside from the painting the spinner in situ. Edited March 9, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDSModeller Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 11 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said: dunno if its accurate to have the doors up and the bomb racks out Hi Stu, Being true and honest, I wouldn't loos sleep over it Technically speaking if the trollies are out, the doors should be down, as there are electrical cables/cords connecting for power as this photo below, that if the doors came back up the cables/cords would be damaged However ........ In his book "They Shall Not Pass Unseen" Ivan Southall a Sunderland Pilot in the RAAF, who served with 10 Squadron, tells of a Sunderland "U" (Captained by Mouton from memory) that had just straddled and sent a U Boat/crew to meet Davy Jones with 7 Depth Charges- 1 remaining on trollies to keep just in case on the way home they see another U Boat. Sure enough they spot one - however when going to release the Depth Charge, nothing happened The Previous U Boat, had put up some resistance and a round had damaged the area where the Bomb Trollies went through the door - Bad Day Reason for story, tell em your Sunderland suffered similar and the Crew (which can be done) put the doors up by hand to keep the draught out Though if you put the bombs on, I've got nada Looking good, I know people knock the Airfix Kit, but they still look very much like a Sunderland Look forward to more Regards Alan 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted March 27, 2021 Author Share Posted March 27, 2021 Finally going to start sanding. Sea fury is decal ready though typhoon has to wait as the ocean grey is running out and colour shifted 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Much sanding later though still a few areas to address underside is getting there 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 (edited) Not happy, finished the areas of concern and decided to fully sand it with fine paper and repaint it. Those coats are absolute insert expletive of choice and will have to strip it back to plastic or sacrifice the remaining raised panel lines and rivets to sand it out 😡 Edited April 3, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 (edited) Disaster avoided, in the process of sanding it with 320 grit, hasn’t effected the raised detail but got the awful sky paint sorted. Realised the sky should be only on the lower fuselage so going to sand the top, paint the dark camoflage and then repaint carefully the sky underneath, probably will use the Revell Aqua I have instead of the dodgy Humbrol Edited April 5, 2021 by PhantomBigStu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDSModeller Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 2 hours ago, PhantomBigStu said: Disaster avoided, in the process of sanding it with 320 grit, hasn’t effected the raised detail but got the awful sky paint sorted. Glad you got it sorted Stu - the pains of being a modeller eh Looking good, look forward to seeing your model with the rest of her War paint on Regards Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomBigStu Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 On 4/5/2021 at 9:57 PM, LDSModeller said: Glad you got it sorted Stu - the pains of being a modeller eh Looking good, look forward to seeing your model with the rest of her War paint on Regards Alan Cheers, here’s an in progress shot, will post again once the tops done 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 That is starting to look the goods Stu, another one I have in the stash to have a go at. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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