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Well, for my first foray into aircraft. I've bought this for £7.00View attachment 79220

Fingers crossed I haven't bitten off more than I can chew!

Cheers

Patrick
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A tip: Before applying the decals, make sure you have a good coat of gloss varnish to put them on. I didn't do that well enough with one of my planes and got silvering, due to minute air pockets on the surface of anything other than a very smooth one. You can re-varnish after adding decals, using a mat or semi-mat varnish.

Another tip. Aircraft fuselages come in two halves, and also wings (fancy that!) both of whose joins need to be invisible, that is, without a visible seam which looks bad. (Aircraft are very smoothly aerodynamic.) So, make sure that you use filler where necessary, and for the fuselage seams, fill with paste filler if necessary but always finish with (probably several) applications of a semi liquid filler such as Mr. Surfacer 500.

And another: Dry fit parts before gluing, to make sure that they fit before committing with glue.

I have learned this over the last 14 months.
 
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Thanks Steve! Trust me, I'll be doing this slowly & surely ;) armour I'm used to, but with aircraft you can't hide mistakes with lumps of mud!
 
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[="yak face, post: 202334, member: 10196"]Bargain Patrick !

Can't complain Tony! I have a cunning plan for this one ;)
 
I've built the tamiya MKII mozzy and if yours is as good as that one it's a fine kit , I did have a few probs with mine but it's nothing I couldn't handle and folks on here said it must have been a one off so enjoy :)
 
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I've built the tamiya MKII mozzy and if yours is as good as that one it's a fine kit , I did have a few probs with mine but it's nothing I couldn't handle and folks on here said it must have been a one off so enjoy :)
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It looks incredible in the box, I'd say it's probably one of the best looking kits I've seen in 1/72 the level of detail is enough for me without any PE or resin. If Airfix had thought of bringing out a new tool then I might have considered one but at the price I paid for both it was a no brainer. The Corsair is so far beyond the Fujimi, Heller and Hasegawa kits I have as well. (anybody want a Fujimi Corsair, it really is a dog)
 
Just picked up the Tamiya Mossie NF as well, it does look to be a good kit.
 
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It looks incredible in the box, I'd say it's probably one of the best looking kits I've seen in 1/72 the level of detail is enough for me without any PE or resin. If Airfix had thought of bringing out a new tool then I might have considered one but at the price I paid for both it was a no brainer. The Corsair is so far beyond the Fujimi, Heller and Hasegawa kits I have as well. (anybody want a Fujimi Corsair, it really is a dog)
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If it's anything like the 1/48 mozzy it will be great for detail , airfix have or are going to release 1/48 mozzy in new tool so I'd like to try that one and compare it to the tamiya one
 
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Here's what came in the post today

still waiting for 2 trains from Dapol and some sundries from Cornwall Model Boats to finish the mississippi stern wheeler. still there's enough there to last me a couple of days.
 
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Just bought this today, I was going to wait until I had finished the HMS Warspite, but I saw it and it said "Buy me". Who am I to refuse a plea like that!

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I also order the Hunter wooden deck, the Flyhawk upgrade kit, a compressor and a photo etch bending tool which arrived today.

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Nice one Graham.

I'll look forward to seeing that.

Ian M
 
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