Monsieur Deux Ponts

[Enzo the Magnificent]

 

Okay, the spelling is wrong.    

 

I've been wanting to build one of these for some time.  I feel the Bréguet Br.763 just looks so French. 

 

 

 

There is only one sprue for this kit, but it's quite a large one.

 

 

Although a simple kit, this is going to take a bit of work.  There are quite a few mould blemishes.  At one point it looks as though the mould has started to corrode.  But that's all part of the fun.  

 

There are numerous boxings of this kit, all with the same sprue.  There are alternative central fins and noses for the different versions, together with wingtip fuel tanks.  This one is going to be fun!

 

 

 

 

[Max Headroom]

Front row, popcorn 🍿 ready!

 

Trevor

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Although the main undercarriage is situated fairly forward, there is little change of this being a tail sitter.  There is plenty of room for ballast in that fuselage.  

 

The chunk of milliput fills in an odd gap in the part caused by mould damage.

 

 

Once the fuselage halves have been cemented together, a lot of work is required to remove the joint line.  There are no locating pins but it's not a great problem as the plastic is very thick.

 

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Welcome with an interesting choice. 

[exdraken]

Nice choice!

 

One gets to know something new every day!

[PeterB]

This should be interesting - saw one of these at Heathrow back in around 1964 I think - I believe that Air France called them "Provence" and the Air Force called them "Sahara", though that might just have been the freighter version. Actually, getting to Heathrow from Bradford was a long haul but a local coach firm (Wallace A*seholes as my late mother called them?) ran day trips sometimes and in my early teens I went either 2 or 3 times with a school friend/fellow aircraft modeller and I say 1964 because I believe we saw a Skyways York on the same trip and they were withdrawn that year I believe.

 

Pete

Edited August 2, 2021 by PeterB

[Enzo the Magnificent]

I mentioned earlier about mould damage.   The port wing uppersurface has a very ragged trailing edge.  Just inboard of the inboard nacelle bullet there is a very rough area which looks as though part of the mould has corroded away.  There are also a couple of areas on the forward parts of the nacelles which look like something has been dropped on to the mould, causing dents.   These will all need to be dealt with.

 

 

I built up the trailing edges with 10 thou plastic card.  This will make them very thick for the scale but hopefully I can sand them down.  The gear bay interiors were sprayed with aluminium car paint from a rattle can.

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Main components cemented together and then primed with grey car primer from a rattle can.  Once I can see what I'm dealing with, I can start to sort things.

 

 

There is a lot of sanding and filling required to deal with imperfections.  Quite a bit of rescribing as well!

 

But eventually I got to this...

 

 

 

As you can see from the wing roots, there is more filling ongoing. 

[PeterB]

Hi Enzo,

 

Are there any windows moulded or is it a case of decs only or paint it yourself?

 

Pete

[Enzo the Magnificent]

4 minutes ago, PeterB said:

Are there any windows moulded or is it a case of decs only or paint it yourself?

 

All the windows are provided on the decal sheet.  I think in this scale, that's a reasonable compromise.

[JOCKNEY]

Great stuff Enzo

 

It's a shame the tail is missing, can you make a new one ? 

 

Cheers Pat 

[Grandboof]

Great choice . And fast 

Martin H

[Wez]

Pleased to see you doing this one Enzo, good luck with it, you seem to be doing well so far in spite of what the kit has given you.

[Rob G]

Oh goody, a build of another of my stash captives. Always nice to let others make the mistakes first.

 

I'll follow along. 

[Jasonb13]

This is a great subject, I know nothing about it. Have to agree though, where's the tail?

[stevehnz]

37 minutes ago, Jasonb13 said:

This is a great subject, I know nothing about it. Have to agree though, where's the tail?

Out on the ends of the horizontal tail surfaces.

@JOCKNEY Pat is just being evil, take no notice.   They are the longer & shorter small flight surfaces above the horizontal tail planes in the sprue shot at the top. The tail planes have sockets for them on the ends.

I really should get one of these too. 

Steve.

[RidgeRunner]

On 8/3/2021 at 1:26 AM, JOCKNEY said:

Great stuff Enzo

 

It's a shame the tail is missing, can you make a new one ? 

 

Cheers Pat 

It looks all there too me, Pat 

[JOCKNEY]

1 hour ago, RidgeRunner said:

It looks all there too me, Pat 

 

Just teasing, @stevehnz knows me too well 

 

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Joking apart, there is a more substantial central tail for the earlier versions included on the sprue.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Moving on, the airframe has been cleaned up and primed.  I then crudely masked off the wings and tailplanes and sprayed the white with car primer from a rattle can.

 

[modelling minion]

Looking good Enzo, what a great looking aircraft.

[RidgeRunner]

Nice work, Enzo. It could only be French  ….. oops, I forgot about the Beverley! 

[JOCKNEY]

Hi @Enzo Matrix

Have you had a chance to make any more progress on this one ?

Cheers Pat

[Enzo the Magnificent]

A little.  I'm working out some issues with the natural metal finish.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

Okay, I've finally made some progress on this one.   The NMF areas were masked off and sprayed. 

 

I used AK Xtreme Metal colours.   I found that the Dark Aluminium paint was simply too dark and made too great a contrast, so the darker shade is a 50/50 mix of Aluminium and Dark Aluminium.

 

The colours used eventually were

 

AK479  Aluminium

AK480  Dark Aluminium

AK482  Duralumin

AK478  White Aluminium