T Bolt
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User Name: T Bolt
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Airfix Short Stirling BI/III
Scale: 1/72nd.
Accessories: Crystal Clear glassing. Scratch building in the cockpit area.
I've liked the look of the Stirling since I was a kid and saw a picture of it in the first WWII air warfare book ever I had, so my second entry in this group build is the old Airfix Stirling kit that's been around quite a while. Mine has been in my stash for 13 years and it had been around a long time when I bought it back then. I've taken it down many times to look into it trying to work up the courage to start it only to chicken out when seeing all those rivets and sink marks. So now I'm finally going to do it, saving all the rivets I can while still attempting to make the poorly fitting seams and sink marks disappear. (yea right
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I will be using the kit decals and building it pretty much out of the box except for the squadron canopy turret vac set and some scratch building in the cockpit. The bomb bay and crew door will be closed.
Here are some pictures of what came in the box and the vac canopy set. A whole lot of parts and quite a few are off the sprues, but I'm pretty sure it's all there. I've fitted up the main parts quite a few times over the years on false starts, but that's as far as it ever got.
Name: Glenn
Category: Advanced
Kit: Airfix Short Stirling BI/III
Scale: 1/72nd.
Accessories: Crystal Clear glassing. Scratch building in the cockpit area.
I've liked the look of the Stirling since I was a kid and saw a picture of it in the first WWII air warfare book ever I had, so my second entry in this group build is the old Airfix Stirling kit that's been around quite a while. Mine has been in my stash for 13 years and it had been around a long time when I bought it back then. I've taken it down many times to look into it trying to work up the courage to start it only to chicken out when seeing all those rivets and sink marks. So now I'm finally going to do it, saving all the rivets I can while still attempting to make the poorly fitting seams and sink marks disappear. (yea right
)I will be using the kit decals and building it pretty much out of the box except for the squadron canopy turret vac set and some scratch building in the cockpit. The bomb bay and crew door will be closed.
Here are some pictures of what came in the box and the vac canopy set. A whole lot of parts and quite a few are off the sprues, but I'm pretty sure it's all there. I've fitted up the main parts quite a few times over the years on false starts, but that's as far as it ever got.
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