English Electric Canberra PR 9 Revell 1978 tool 2012 box

Roy McKay
Feel free to add this to the Matchbox GB!

Guy Rump
This is a Matchbox GB model sold under the Revell branding. I have made a start on this with the cockpit area for the pilot and navigator. Not very much detail but only the pilot will be seen once closed up. I must remember to put some weights into the front of the aircraft as this is known as a tail sitter otherwise! 🙂

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Guy Rump
Fuselage now together. 🙂

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Łukasz Gliński
Surprisingly Matchbox one has much more interior detail than Frog one 😄

Guy Rump
Wings and tail plane now on. A bit of filler used but not too bad a fit. 🙂

Hi Lukasz, I haven't seen the Frog version but this one does have a bit of interior detail but not much although, most of it you can't see. 👍

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Guy Rump
Canopy masked with masks and masking liquid. Now ready for primer and pre-shading. 🙂

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Guy Rump
Top of fuselage painted with Hataka BS381C 389 Hemp. 🙂

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Nicolas
Following

Guy Rump
Hataka Light aircraft grey added to the underside. 🙂

Welcome to the Canberra Nicolas, have a seat. 🙂 👍

Guy Rump
Black added to the tailplane fronts and to the nose. Gloss varnish applied and now have finished the decals for the top of the Canberra. There are a lot of stencils! Next will be the decals for the bottom. 🙂

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Guy Rump
Decals added to the bottom of the aircraft. Next will be the undercarriage. 🙂

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Guy Rump
Finally completed. Undercarriage added, aerial added and masking removed. Panel wash added to the lines where there are some. A satin coat of varnish added. 🙂

The Canberra PR.9 is a Photo-reconnaissance version based on B(I).8 with fuselage stretched to 68 ft (27.72 m), wingspan increased by 4 ft (1.22 m), and Avon R.A.27 (Avon 206) engines with 10,030 lbf (44.6 kN) of thrust. Had the offset canopy of the B(I).8 with a hinged nose to allow fitment of an ejection seat for the navigator. A total of 23 were built by Short Brothers & Harland.
The prototype PR.9 first flew on 8 July 1955; this being a converted PR.7.
The RAF, from 1972 continued to use the Canberra, employing them for reconnaissance (with squadrons equipped with PR.7s and PR.9s being based at RAF Wyton in the UK and RAF Luqa in Malta). The PR.9s were fitted with special long-range optical photography cameras, reportedly based on those used by the Lockheed U-2, to allow high-altitude photography of targets deep inside Eastern Europe while flying along the inner German border, as well as infrared linescan cameras for low-level night reconnaissance. The RAF used Canberras to search for hidden arms dumps using false colour photography during Operation Motorman in July 1972, when the British Army re-took Irish republican held "no go areas" in Belfast and Derry. Canberras were used for reconnaissance during the Bosnian War during the 1990s, where they were used to locate mass graves and during the Kosovo War in 1999.
The PR.9 variant remained in service with No. 39 (1 PRU) Squadron until July 2006 for strategic reconnaissance and photographic mapping, seeing service in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and up to June 2006, in Afghanistan. During a ceremony to mark the standing down of 39 (1 PRU) Squadron at RAF Marham on 28 July 2006, a flypast by a Canberra PR.9 on its last ever sortie was conducted.

Nicolas
Nice result Guy.👍

Andy Ball
Whoops, missed this one….cracking build there Guy. My sister's old boss flew them at Wyton.

Guy Rump
Many thanks Nicolas & Andy for your very kind comments, I greatly appreciate them. @Andy, a bit of a connection there, my dad PR serviced PR.9s in Cyprus & Bahrain in 1960/61 and 1964 respectively. In Cyprus he also used to fly as a flying photographer in PR.7s. That is a model I would really like to build. 👍

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Guy Rump
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Guy Rump
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