English Electric Canberra T.17 - W.I.P.
The box.
Taking a first look at plan and parts.
Here's a first warning: the instructions seem confusion in that they only show the front halves in assembling the cockpit. However, Step 1 clearly indicates the important note to first glue the respective parts together (left nose to left fuselage parts and right nose to right fuselage parts) before you close the whole things later on.
Here's a first warning: the instructions seem confusion in that they only show the front halves in assembling the cockpit. However, Step 1 clearly indicates the important note to first glue the respective parts together (left nose to left fuselage parts and right nose to right fuselage parts) before you close the whole things later on.
One of the issues that nees fixing is the inconsistencies of panel lines. Some are quite ok, while others are barely visible, so an overall rescribing of the model is needed.
Left front cockpit and fuselage glued and all rescribed.
Both halves rescribed and sanded.
Just a nice angle and trying the access door. Later on I decided to glue it closed.
Wing halfs rescribing
Cockpit parts
Dry fitting cockpit parts - there's some filling to be done
Added a bit of plastic card here and there to make it fit better.
At this stage I decide to not bother about what would not be visile (back seat) and paint these windows black from the inside.
At this stage I decide to not bother about what would not be visile (back seat) and paint these windows black from the inside.
All parts washed up and ready for paint.
Parts painted and glued in place. I stuffed the front end with lead.
Top look at the finished interior
Seat image
Make sure to drill out the wholes for the wing "spars" before you glue the fuselage halfs together. More sanding and a bit of filling to get these all nice.
After rescribing, glueing the wing halfs together. The fit is not nice and needed a lot of clamping down.
Halfs not the same size, more sanding.
Testing the landing gear positioning.
I inserted smoe rods to make sure the opening was nicely aligned with the front engine parts. As for the latter, make sure they align nicely before glueing.
Even then, there is still a gap. I used plastic card to fill these in.
Getting the rods in place for the wings
Test fitting, more test fitting and when you're done, test fit again.
Glueing the underside resin parts
Another interesting bit is the navigation lights (look online for reference photos). To make the correct shape, I used clear sprue and to create the form and sanded in shape. I then drilled inside for the light itself by using two different sizes of drill bits. Add the colour et voila. (note the plastic card on the inside to make it fit.
Top view to show the light "bulb"
Both sides done
Wing tip "bidons" are next. Used two component resin putty to make them fit correctly.
Did I mention dry fitting already? 🙂
Did I mention dry fitting already? 🙂
Use stretched sprue for the "line" the runs from front to top.
Wings completed. As you can see, I worked on and finished the wings before I glued them to the fuselage. It proved to be far more practical in terms of handling the parts while dry-fitting etc on the engines, nav lights and fuel tanks.
The fitting of the wings is also not good. Plastic card and 2k epoxy putty came to the rescue.
top view of progress, it starts to look like a Canberra.
Under side, same drill.
All glued in place
Close up of the joints and cleaning of sanding dust.
Canopy glass fulle sanded back.
Starts to look good, but the connection to the fuselage is not nice
More 2k epoxy putty to sort things out.
Templated masking tape is always a good idea
Black paint around the edges before the primer goes on.
Primer time.
Correcting the unavoidable mistakes.
Underside pre-shading blue and black colour.
Top side pre-shading brown and black
underside colour applied (H332 Mr Hobby Colour, Light Aircraft Grey)
Taping it all up
Base coat applied (H336 Mr Hobby Colour, Hemp)
Tops side shading
Removing the tape
Nice tight lines
also on the fuel tank
Gloss coat applied, decalling begins
Red tail
Decalling continues
More decalling
Starts to look good
Tail detail
Matt varnish applied and weathering underway
Front detail, antennas in place
Adding last bits and details
Wing tip details.
Done.
More images of the completed model are available here: English Electric Canberra T.17 | Album by guido.pm (1:48)
More images of the completed model are available here: English Electric Canberra T.17 | Album by guido.pm (1:48)
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10 21 April 2022, 20:05
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Images from when I built the Canberra.
This Classic Airframes is not a walk in the park, not for the faint hearted, nor beginners or impatient builders eager to get a result quickly. It will test your patience, skills and perseverance.
If you take it to the end though, you can add an impressive cold war jet (it's 48th scale!) into your display cabinet. Kept me busy for a good nine months.
