SPA Modeler

Brilliant work on the Kingfisher! What a beautiful masterpiece! I started three 1/72 scale Seagulls and broke them every time when I tried to rig them. I am hoping to see yours completed!

Many thanks Mark,

let's see how the rigging goes...

- Kari

So I have started with the Seagull, actually the work has going pretty smoothly.

I'm very impressed of the kit, so well engineerd, even if the tooling is from 1969, more than 50 years old. This particular revisionis from the early 70's.

The cockpit is really basic, but that does not matter so much, the plastic of the canopy is rather thick, difficult to see anything clearly through.



I scratched an instrument panel, perhaps more because of the fact, that it needs to have an IP than it would be visible



I added some weight in the main float



Glued the struts into the upper wing, slowly and carefully, making sure they are in the correct angle etc





And here are all the main parts, ready to go to the paintbooth





But to demonstrate the quality of this old Hasegawa kit and it's excellent fit ( the upper wing and main floats are not glued nor have I added any blu tac or masking tape to keep them together ). The fit is just amazing!




As said, next step the paint booth!

- Kari

Much better than I would expect from such an early kit.

Exactly!

- Kari

It's looking great Kari!

Thanks Mike!

- Kari

Yes, I always thoroughly enjoyed building mine, what a blast they were until the rigging step. Seeing this getting done may motivate me to bring out my two broken ones and try to repair and rig them again.

Time to attack the main float and especially the red propeller warning line, after the float was primed and painted a silverish metallic finish.





Always an exciting moment removing the masking, is there any leakage visible.. so far so good..



Success!


- Kari

That looks nice!