Martin Baker MB2

[woljags]

yet another rare kit i've dusted off to build,this time just as a break from my other larger project,this kit is a vac form by Airframe dated from 1978

after checking what was in the kit[ie not a lot] i 1st of all i cleaned up and glued the fuselage together

next after rubbing down the mating edges the wings were glued together and then joined to the fuselage

next i gave it a coat of paint as a undercoat and left it to dry overnight

the plastic used is very poor and it will require a lot of filling once dry.

I will leave this now for a few days to harden off before filling and cutting out the cockpit to put in a little detail,i can't find much on the aircraft regarding interior detail so i will just put in the basics as you won't see much once the canopy is fitted

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very well done so far!

 

[woljags]

thanks very much,hopefully it will come out as well as some of yours

 

[Wildcat]

Good stuff. Your braver then me, I'd never attempt such a model!

 

[Wayne Little]

Good work mate, vacforms can be a real challenge....

 

[woljags]

after leaving over night to dry i cut out the cockpit area after eating my corn flakes

then after more filling

i made a small seat then and fitted the canopy

then another coat of undercoat before going off to work to build another larger project

 

[Wurger]

A lot of work has been done so far. I'm looking forward to the final product. Keep working on.

 

[woljags]

this about the only pic i can find on the aircraft,research says it is olive green all over,type a1 RAF roundels on top of wing and fuselage and type a underwings,does anyone know what type a roundals look like please

 

[Airframes]

Type 'A' roundels are the plain blue/white/red. The Type A1 are the same, but with the broad yellow outer ring.

 

[woljags]

undercarrage fitted along with prop made from pen tops

then painted in olive drab

once dry i will try to find some markings in my spares box

 

[Wurger]

this about the only pic i can find on the aircraft,research says it is olive green all over,type a1 RAF roundels on top of wing and fuselage and type a underwings,does anyone know what type a roundals look like please

Interesting.. I have Googled and found these.... most of very interesting images can be found here :

https://picasaweb.google.com/brainengineer0/MartinBakerAircraft#

 

[Wurger]

And the rest of pictures I have found via the net.

 

[woljags]

wow where did you find those pics,i'm not sure they are all of the MB2 though

 

[Wurger]

I've just used Google and voila..... Believing in captions of these shots it's MB-2. However. the first one seems to be the initial prototype. These next images show late and later variants of the plane.

BTW...in my opinion, it is a very nice subject for scratch building.

 

[Wurger]

Oh...you might be interested in this as well. But comparing the model to these pictures above I would say it is a little bit incorrect. A modeller made a few mistakes.As a result she is the "mixture" of all variants.

1/72 Merlin Martin Baker MB-2 by Keith Hudson

 

[woljags]

i like the rarer subjects or rare kits myself too,i do have some real jems hidden away including aircraft from germany/japan/italy/usa/france/russia/poland plus a few others,i also have quite a few ww1 and inter war fighter/bombers

 

[Wurger]

It sounds interesting. Which of Polish aircraft do you have in your stash?

 

[woljags]

the 1st one that comes to mind is a lws.czapla,but there are quite a few others,i will go through them and put on a list

 

[Wurger]

Yes ... Czapla the Polish recco plane. Of what scale?

 

[woljags]

all my aircraft are 1/72nd ,i started using this scale originally as i wanted some detail but was sort of space to store/display afterwards,my original collection of around 1000 rare and interesting kits were collected from about the age of 10-17,this was stolen while in store when i bought my 1st house,my second collection i collected from the ages of 30-45,this proved harder to do although this time round i knew what i wanted due to there being less kits out there and no local modeling shops