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Vic Balshaw
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Thanks Kevin and your more than welcome.
**** DONE: 1/48 Jaguar GR3A - Your Favorite Aircraft of All Time GB
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Catch22
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Looks great so far Vic!
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Vic Balshaw
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Thanks Cory, hope to start making better progress in the next few days.
N4521U
Colonel
9 days now Vic.......... Isn't it time to make another post???????
You must have a seious build taking you away from your cat......
You must have a seious build taking you away from your cat......
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Vic Balshaw
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No worries mate, life's just getting in the way at the moment though I do look at the mess each morning, but just walk on by!!
N4521U
Colonel
Sounds like the name of a song!
But...... how can you do that?
But...... how can you do that?
you'll get your chance soon Vic....
Lucky13
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Saaaweeet!
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
It's been a long time folks but today I actually got round to parking my A$$ at the workbench.
First up a bit about the kit, it's an Airfix………………..need I say more. Well maybe I should as this kit though a number of years old is made in a form of plastic that is very soft and sponge like. It marks very easily and by the same token I would say it would also go out of shape easily. On joining the two halves together it was very noticeable that the very edge of each half was turned inwards leaving a distinct trough along the join, so filling was the order of the day. This I did and then for six or more weeks this hunk of plastic just sat and stared at me.
A couple of days ago I set to and started to clean the filler up. I also took the pointy bits off from the tail fin as they ain't supposed to be there on this build. There was also a spur of uneven plastic at the rear base of the tail fin supposedly representing the fuel vent pipe, this also came off and was replaced with a proper bit of piping.
I was also not impressed with the heat exchange ducting on the spine just behind the cockpit. Again it was just a bit of shaped plastic blanked off at both ends. Simple stuff to fix and maybe I'm expecting too much but one would have thought something better could have been provided.
Next up I decided to attack the Chaff Dispensers' at the back end. Again what was provide was just a couple of blanked off bits of shaped plastic to be fitted. To be honest, I've never seen anything different on any other kit, but a little bit of time and the use of some scrap bits of grating and we have something looking better even though it isn't quite right. However, having assembled and photographed the dispensers in pace I see that I've put one bit of grating upside down. Damn!!!
Again, continuing on with detail I next turned to the secondary air intake doors which on the kit are moulded plastic. I wanted to go one better and have them slightly open and at first I thought, just score around the three sides, bend the plastic a little and "vuala" it would be done. However the plastic is quite thick here so I decided to whip the doors out do a bit of thinning with the file and replace them with scrap white card and open.
Now for the gun ports, again a couple of moulded bits which because of the sponginess of the plastic are a poor fit, but before tackling the fit I wanted to drill out the gun port and insert a barrel and also drill out the gas vents. The one I have done still needs to be cleaned up and the bit of brass sticking out is just to give you an idea. More work on this is still required.
It's the little details like this that will hopefully give the finished model just that little bit more realism.
First up a bit about the kit, it's an Airfix………………..need I say more. Well maybe I should as this kit though a number of years old is made in a form of plastic that is very soft and sponge like. It marks very easily and by the same token I would say it would also go out of shape easily. On joining the two halves together it was very noticeable that the very edge of each half was turned inwards leaving a distinct trough along the join, so filling was the order of the day. This I did and then for six or more weeks this hunk of plastic just sat and stared at me.
A couple of days ago I set to and started to clean the filler up. I also took the pointy bits off from the tail fin as they ain't supposed to be there on this build. There was also a spur of uneven plastic at the rear base of the tail fin supposedly representing the fuel vent pipe, this also came off and was replaced with a proper bit of piping.
I was also not impressed with the heat exchange ducting on the spine just behind the cockpit. Again it was just a bit of shaped plastic blanked off at both ends. Simple stuff to fix and maybe I'm expecting too much but one would have thought something better could have been provided.
Next up I decided to attack the Chaff Dispensers' at the back end. Again what was provide was just a couple of blanked off bits of shaped plastic to be fitted. To be honest, I've never seen anything different on any other kit, but a little bit of time and the use of some scrap bits of grating and we have something looking better even though it isn't quite right. However, having assembled and photographed the dispensers in pace I see that I've put one bit of grating upside down. Damn!!!
Again, continuing on with detail I next turned to the secondary air intake doors which on the kit are moulded plastic. I wanted to go one better and have them slightly open and at first I thought, just score around the three sides, bend the plastic a little and "vuala" it would be done. However the plastic is quite thick here so I decided to whip the doors out do a bit of thinning with the file and replace them with scrap white card and open.
Now for the gun ports, again a couple of moulded bits which because of the sponginess of the plastic are a poor fit, but before tackling the fit I wanted to drill out the gun port and insert a barrel and also drill out the gas vents. The one I have done still needs to be cleaned up and the bit of brass sticking out is just to give you an idea. More work on this is still required.
It's the little details like this that will hopefully give the finished model just that little bit more realism.
Excellent Vic, worth the wait!
T Bolt
Colonel
Beautiful work there Vic!
N4521U
Colonel
Good to see you're back on it mate.
Great things there.
Great things there.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Great stuff Vic. Certainly looks like the kit is softly moulded, and doesn't seem to stand up to the old Esci kit for detail quality. But your additions will sure make a difference, looking forward to more.
nice work Vic
, Awesome Work 
Looking good so far Vic!
meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
Sometimes you need some plastic mocking you, it makes you do better things than you might have.
It is looking very good!
It is looking very good!
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
Thank you gentlemen, your all to kind.
Nothing for today though, I kind of got sidetracked by the ear lobe to go look at lots of trees on a couple of hillside. An arboretum being planted following the devastating bush fires in our city in 2003. It was actually quite a pleasant day out.
Nothing for today though, I kind of got sidetracked by the ear lobe to go look at lots of trees on a couple of hillside. An arboretum being planted following the devastating bush fires in our city in 2003. It was actually quite a pleasant day out.
A4K
Brigadier General
Great work Vic! Glad you're getting back into her!
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