Swiftly and with style?
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Is it the new briliant design by Airfix?
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Reinforcements have arrived, luckily it was a twin-pack 🙂
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Cause I had to go for the full one (Still it's a bit smaller than original)
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Port side was easy-peasy
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Starboard required some additional corrections.
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But I announce it done.
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Aaaaaand back on track.
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Minor fixes needed
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Sprayed and sealed
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Stencils part I...
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and II.
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Time for markings.
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They adhere and react to MicroSol very well.
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And the topside is done 🙂
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Almost there, but the original pitot didn't look good enough for me
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Kristal Klear for the other transparencies.
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The last thing - the gaugy agent on top.
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And it's done!
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评论
14 16 February 2020, 16:01
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Welcome Maciej. I managed to fix the hole behind the cockpit, later on it turned out the price was too low front of the cockpit, including the gunsight.
16 February 2020, 21:04
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Have to put this on hold. Somehow I reached the FUBAR state with the canopy, need a vacu replacement. Thus I need to wait till my next shopping in the Netherlands. Still wondering how I have made that hole... 🙁
23 February 2020, 14:08
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Reinforcements have arrived - vacu canopy is there. Finished spraying underside today, love that colour! 🙂
25 June 2020, 21:04
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Sprayed (nose fix was necessary), sealed, stencilled and marked.
To be continued after the summer break...
24 July 2020, 21:35
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You should get one too, very nice kit if you avoid breaking the canopy😉
Airfix made my day once they released it 🙂
26 July 2020, 18:31
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Dry-fitting as far as I remember, but penetration glue solved the problem 🙂
27 July 2020, 13:37
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I completely missed this one, but it sure looks nice! Apart from the first canopy... oops. If you don't mind me asking, what did you do, sanded it with a dremel?
29 July 2020, 13:10
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Well, at first I thought it's scratched and tried polishing it. First using some polishing cloths, then switched to my Lidl-branded-dremel-like tool. It turned however it was perforated already 🙁
29 July 2020, 18:39
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Łukasz, you can try to request a spare here. For now maybe there is some problem due to the current pandemic, but you could try 😉
airfix.com/uk-en/contact
29 July 2020, 18:49
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Thx for the hint, I did try it, but the answer was "we have run out of this part"
29 July 2020, 19:27
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Ah the Swift. This is what happens when you leave a Hunter and an Attacker in the same hangar unsupervised 😄 Nice job too.
22 August 2020, 16:58
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Super nice build and great finish! Your photos are always very good BTW, I really like the natural light setting. A question, did you use your own masking tape for the camo, or some precut masking templates? Very clean and crisp lines.
23 August 2020, 13:29
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Many thanks for your comments mates, makes me wanna build more lovely new-Airfix kits.
@Thomas: I didn't use any templates, just some blutack and masking tape.
23 August 2020, 15:55
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Very nice model and very nice pics, Łukasz. I like specially pic number 36. Congrats!
How you have solved the canopy problem?
23 August 2020, 17:56
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Ah the result is more than nice and absolutely convincing...👍
Always found this 50's RAF birds very appealing....
BTW Waiting til today for the Canopy replacement fo my Lightning...
23 August 2020, 18:08
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I know that feeling 😄 I can fully recommend this kit once you start thinking of building it.
23 August 2020, 18:58