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Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
I think they were built by one of the museum staff. I'm not quite that good yet...
Tim
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Small update
I put the fuselage serials on the silver jets today and having got sidetracked while doing two of them, I now realise the serials aren't lined up with the roundel.
Edit : I stripped the offending items off... One with Pledge Multi surface wax which all have on as a coat of varnish, that worked somewhat better than white spirit on the other (cue rear fuselage re-spray)
Tim
I put the fuselage serials on the silver jets today and having got sidetracked while doing two of them, I now realise the serials aren't lined up with the roundel.
Edit : I stripped the offending items off... One with Pledge Multi surface wax which all have on as a coat of varnish, that worked somewhat better than white spirit on the other (cue rear fuselage re-spray)
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Evening
Small amount of progress, as I hate applying all the tiny decals, and thankfully Canberra's were not plastered in the things.
Getting there slowly.
Anyone else doing a Canberra?
Tim S
Small amount of progress, as I hate applying all the tiny decals, and thankfully Canberra's were not plastered in the things.
Getting there slowly.
Anyone else doing a Canberra?
Tim S
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Got your work cut out there Tim, but they're coming on really good.
Do love your T19 - must have another go at one - not sure where the 1/100 scale one I completed an age ago disappeared to.
Keep at 'em
Cheers
Keith(3Greens)
Do love your T19 - must have another go at one - not sure where the 1/100 scale one I completed an age ago disappeared to.
Keep at 'em
Cheers
Keith(3Greens)
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Cheers Keith
I left the walk/don't walk lines off the top of the wings and planned to add them after the dayglo. Oooops I have just spotted that they really should have gone on first
EDIT : I found a solution for the above, instead of using all decals. Paint them and use decals for the rest.
The biggest problem is that there is almost a lack of reference for these, if only we had digital in the 1960s
Tim
I left the walk/don't walk lines off the top of the wings and planned to add them after the dayglo. Oooops I have just spotted that they really should have gone on first
EDIT : I found a solution for the above, instead of using all decals. Paint them and use decals for the rest.
The biggest problem is that there is almost a lack of reference for these, if only we had digital in the 1960s
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
A shot from last night prior to painting walk/don't walk lines
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I will fill the remainder with the few bits of decals I have and having put a coat of pledge multi surface wax on, I discovered paint comes of easier if I have got it slightly wrong
Tim
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I will fill the remainder with the few bits of decals I have and having put a coat of pledge multi surface wax on, I discovered paint comes of easier if I have got it slightly wrong
Tim
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Keep it coming, bud
Best regards
Patrick
Best regards
Patrick
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Definitely coming along nicely there! Great job
Amateur modeller
Canon 7D2, 100-400mm IS L lense, Icom R6 and alot of luck!
Canon 7D2, 100-400mm IS L lense, Icom R6 and alot of luck!
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Thanks Steve
Some slight updates taken in sunshine
Not much progress with these, but rolled them out for some sun
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They ain't perfect but look a lot better than some previous builds
Tim
Some slight updates taken in sunshine
Not much progress with these, but rolled them out for some sun
........
They ain't perfect but look a lot better than some previous builds
Tim
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Hi Tim
Great builds of a great 'bird'
Well done in the sun
Cheers
Patrick
Great builds of a great 'bird'
Well done in the sun
Cheers
Patrick
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Ok, I have nearly finished them, its just down to the small little decals and the odd antennae etc, assuming I do leave them as they are. I was wondering if anyone has a photo of WD948 when it was R of 100 Sqn in the 1970s before it went back to 85 Sqn and a fiery end at Manston?
Apart from that its another coat of varnish and then I might attempt the weathering process.
Am nearly there, even if they ain't quite right.... Comments welcome
Tim
Apart from that its another coat of varnish and then I might attempt the weathering process.
Am nearly there, even if they ain't quite right.... Comments welcome
Tim
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Excellent Tim
Hard work has paid off - I'll have a search through files for WD948
cheers
Keith (3Greens)
Hard work has paid off - I'll have a search through files for WD948
cheers
Keith (3Greens)
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Hi Keith
Cheers that would be good, I might do a bit of a change on 948, as it was the oldest airworthy RAF Canberra till it went to the CTE at Manston.
WD955 then took the awards for that of course (for those of us that remember the days when there were plenty of Canberras at Wyton
I was too young to see them at Binbrook, Cottesmore, Marham and West Raynham
Tim
Cheers that would be good, I might do a bit of a change on 948, as it was the oldest airworthy RAF Canberra till it went to the CTE at Manston.
WD955 then took the awards for that of course (for those of us that remember the days when there were plenty of Canberras at Wyton
I was too young to see them at Binbrook, Cottesmore, Marham and West Raynham
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Go easy on the weathering. I was at West Raynham for ATC summer camp in 1975, I was struck at the time at how clean the Canberras were, especially the red & white T4s. Nice models.
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Thanks Sparts99
Indeed of all the photos I have seen of Canberras in service there were very few that got a bit grubby. And they were mainly the light aircraft grey jets it seems!
Tim
Indeed of all the photos I have seen of Canberras in service there were very few that got a bit grubby. And they were mainly the light aircraft grey jets it seems!
Tim
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Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
stunning build
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Hi Tim
They look really nice birds to me
Very best regards and well done
Patrick
They look really nice birds to me
Very best regards and well done
Patrick
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
As mentioned elsewhere in the modelling section several of these don't currently look so good....
Attempting to photograph these together with little space available
So project stalled till darker nights are back
Tim
Attempting to photograph these together with little space available
So project stalled till darker nights are back
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
I see Airfix are re-releasing the B.2 kit for 2016
So over the xmas holidays, I am going to have another look at the ones I damaged while trying to photograph them in the summer. And as I managed to find a couple of kits down in London, some of the above may not see the light of day again.
EDIT : After some long and hard thinking I am attempting to rectify the known faults of the Airfix kit. That does however mean I am going to need something to use for trials. Apart from some panel lines that are wrong, they have missing others and some bits are in the wrong place as well !
So you can consider this thread closed
Tim
So over the xmas holidays, I am going to have another look at the ones I damaged while trying to photograph them in the summer. And as I managed to find a couple of kits down in London, some of the above may not see the light of day again.
EDIT : After some long and hard thinking I am attempting to rectify the known faults of the Airfix kit. That does however mean I am going to need something to use for trials. Apart from some panel lines that are wrong, they have missing others and some bits are in the wrong place as well !
So you can consider this thread closed
Tim
Re: Canberras the new batch (UPDATED) V1
Summer update
Sorry Folks - The scrapman cometh!! Or rather the bin man does
Major clear out time and only the two above survive now WD948 intact, WJ640 less so. Two kits I attempted to modify... Less said the better!!
Someday I will start a new post when I get it a bit better at scribbing panel lines and corrective plastic surgery
T
Sorry Folks - The scrapman cometh!! Or rather the bin man does
Major clear out time and only the two above survive now WD948 intact, WJ640 less so. Two kits I attempted to modify... Less said the better!!
Someday I will start a new post when I get it a bit better at scribbing panel lines and corrective plastic surgery
T
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