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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

oooh, cant wait to see ya work your magic!

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.

Sign me up, too! I got this one at Hobby Lobby with the coupon. Someday........

Very nice! I've seen a few builds of this in the magazines. Can't wait to see what you do with it!!

Is this a part of your large flying boat collection? Have found that Trumpeter Be-6 yet? Does it really exist?

How long you been working on this one mate? I seem to remember seeing this on more than one forum, unless you started again?

BorgR3mc0 wrote:Is this a part of your large flying boat collection? Have found that Trumpeter Be-6 yet? Does it really exist?

Announced only :( I fear the only way is to build my old veb plasticart kit to have a be-6..
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
And last night a friend bring me the roden's zeppelin staaken

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?

steve 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?

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 rescribe

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