rodenlee Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Hi all Here's my refurbished Airfix 1/48 Lightning F.6 It spent many years as an overall NMF model but it looked too "toylike" for my taste so I gave it a camo treatment. Most of the bits went back together okay- though the canopy was a bugger to model closed... I'm not certain the dummy red tops were this colour but can't find many images to be certain- any advice is welcome! I'll do a NMF Lightning at some stage once I've improved doing that sort of finish. Cheers Shaun 21 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Lovely looking Lightning , nice work ! Wulfman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy400 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Great model of a fantastic aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulaero Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Great re work of my Favourite Aircraft form my favourite station !! At this time the Red to Acquisition rounds would have been LAG with Dark Green tail fins and often dark green bases to where the main fins would be. Would have a glass seeker head which would appear to be black. There was a great variety of finished in later years so pick one you like !! Should be lots of pictures on the internet if you search on bac Lightning F6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlet Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Nice Lightning.👍 Just one observation, the ventral strakes have been fitted the wrong way round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingTiger435 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Love to see a good lightning. But yes, Scarlet is right the ventral strakes are the wrong way round, great though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Tindall Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Looks very nice to me! Have one of these in my stash, but as beginner getting some practice on some other kits before I attempt to build this one😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodenlee Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 42 minutes ago, Scarlet said: Nice Lightning.👍 Just one observation, the ventral strakes have been fitted the wrong way round. Hi Scarlet Thanks very much for that...that's what results from a failing memory and not looking at old instructions. Further mod on the way! Cheers Shaun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Looks good to my eye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerotechi Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 Fantastic looking lightning to be. I’ve mot many in the camo scheme on here. With regards the strakes I think the airfix instructions are wrong in saying silver edge. The ones I’ve looked at are rubber edges with a small leading edge metal strip to stop erosion of the rubber. (If you wanted to adjust whilst they’re turned around) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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