RNLI Shannon Class.

My little helper. Finished. 

Will be using photos found on the web as reference for some of the details on the life boat, as Airfix have the cabin all orange this may be to cut down on difficulty and paints required as this is a starter kit. 

 

 

Starting to paint the hull 

Deck done in humbrol 27 but appears to dark. Seats done in Tamiya XF-85. 

 

 

 

Masking ready for the black. 

Masking up took about an hour total.  

Did white primer and so far 2 coats of orange. 

 

Found it easier to paint the valves and pipes before fitting parts B19 & B20. 

 

Painted internal and then fitted the windows. 

Windows push into the holes. The front ones I have a gap around the glass at the bottom. 

Dry fitting need to work on getting the gap between the top and the deck smaller. 

Dry fitting 

Looking at photos can see the bar on each side are different colors. Port white. Also picked out I think it is a life raft? 

Looking at photos can see the bar on each side are different colors. Starboard blue.. 

Also painted the deck Revell 76. Kept the internals so hopefully they stand out when put together. 

Decals 11 and 14 the white lines broke up when I soaked them in warm water. Don’t know if anyone else has had this issue. 

This one broke up into about 8 pieces. 

 

 

Managed to put all the bits on, and the other dual colour strips. 

 

The rear of the vessel. 

The extra Decals you can buy. 

Base in midnight blue with decal. 

Decals for Hasting RNLI boat used. 

Another decal added. 

Picked out some details and painted.  

 

Cabin now fixed to hull. 

Have fitted more decals s I think these would be difficult once the railings are on. Can see where the white strips are broken. If my hands were steadier I would try painting the strips. 

 

 

Drilled C25 as the photos I looked at shows this to be a clamp of some sort. 

Railings Broken. 

Glued broken part together 

Another Broken part 

 

Started to put railings on. But found 3 of them already broken and had to glue together. One of the broken bits was still in the bag. 

 

 

Window fitted 

 

 

Finished  

 

 

 

 

Can see the anchor fitted although it is not shown being fitted in any of the steps.  

 

I found this to be a nice build although there were issues with the decals, broken parts and instructions I wouldn’t of called this a starter kit though more a gift set. May get a second one to do the white hull version and to use some more of the extra decals. Also if I get a second one I can see if I was unlucky with the issues with the decals and broken parts.