Recently i unfreezed this little british fliyng boat freezed from this cristhmass
here where actually i worked on, the engines controls wardrobe
...so takin advantage of few minutes of relax, starting to post some resume: ..long resume... about 12 pages of thumbnails in my photobucket account
Box and sprues
the kit includes a PE sheet and , a piece of micro rope and a nice illustrated book about the sunderland.. obliviously
some surface and pieces detail, panel lines are a few deep but i like as only brushes will paint this boat with wings , so i can exagerate with layers withouth lost panels
A rapid test fitting, side floats and fliyng surfaces already assembled between respective subassemblies
At the next resume
Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
oooh, cant wait to see ya work your magic!
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
Friggin' SWEET! This will be the first one I have actually seen built after all the hoopla when it first came out and then all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the surface detail.
It's up to you how much money you want to spend and how many new words you want to create "correcting" something.
Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
Sign me up, too! I got this one at Hobby Lobby with the coupon. Someday........
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
Very nice! I've seen a few builds of this in the magazines. Can't wait to see what you do with it!!
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
Is this a part of your large flying boat collection? Have found that Trumpeter Be-6 yet? Does it really exist?
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
How long you been working on this one mate? I seem to remember seeing this on more than one forum, unless you started again?
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Re: Short Sunderland MK.I Italeri 1/72
Announced only :( I fear the only way is to build my old veb plasticart kit to have a be-6..BorgR3mc0 wrote:Is this a part of your large flying boat collection? Have found that Trumpeter Be-6 yet? Does it really exist?
The Sunderland need few more stretch to close halves, for now just a resume.. Lots of resumes I have post.. Condor, badger, bear, shin meywa, do-24t, ju-290.. Just to remember the largest
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Look forward to seeing this one done, always a favourite of mine built the Airfix one many times as a kid, now the Mk3 is out I may just pick one up, how bad are the panel lines I remember this one getting slated for having trenches?
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I think the large appareance of panel lines are not so bad, but it's easy to fill with stretched sprues and green cap tamiya, then rescribesteve scan wrote:Look forward to seeing this one done, always a favourite of mine built the Airfix one many times as a kid, now the Mk3 is out I may just pick one up, how bad are the panel lines I remember this one getting slated for having trenches?
here some comparation with B-17 academy for panel lines
So, more resume:
Some istant subassemblies to reduce the number of pieces and cleaning parts
the tail trail with PE parts
The planes comes with lots of windows .. on the ceiling too
Modify starts from engines cowling, a thinning of back areas
Cutting lots of stripes from plastic sheets, if get ready stripes from evergreen probably could spent more euros for plastic than the kit
Filling with structures tail areas, some are in double layer to improve the thickness. Before these works i fill some sink mark and sanded inner surfaces
The wings root zone need some extra filling with plastic surplus and milliput putty and tamiya and dremel tool to refine
and start to filling remains areas
First missing bulkead added . Eye-meter used to take measures
I'll scratch all missing deck's floors and bulkheads. Between the first and second floor the crew need two ladders.. the tail ladder scratchin
Drill the holes for these operators front steps
Adding details to bombs/torpedo side doors.. i know few things will be vivible from out when the plane finished but i like to scratch inner details
bombs trails and pilots seats with PE parts added
At the next with more