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Contrail HP 42.
Is that kit still available?
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
You can find it on the bay but are a bit pricey.I lucked out and traded a few car kits for another HP42 as well as the KC97.
Oh wow, that looks fantastic! I'll definitely will look into it. I've never made a vacuform kit before. Matter of fact, I've never seen nor touched any type of vacuform. Thank you for the information.
Toshi
On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell
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That reminds me of a Contrails Blackburn Iris I have in the stash.
That kit probably wouldn't be the place to start, Toshi but Philo did a heck of a job
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Contrail kits are pretty much top of the heap as far as vac forms go!
Wow, that's fantastic Philo! Vac-form kits scare me- but you did an amazing job on a complex aircraft!
"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen
Thank you!I wonder if my build log is still in the archies?
There is a company called Sanger (www.sangereng.com.uk) in the UK that has a vacuform 1/48 scale B-47 for sale. It costs 67 pounds. It looks pretty cool.
Your comments and questions are always welcome.
philo426 Contrail kits are pretty much top of the heap as far as vac forms go!
edit: Changed to http://www.sangereng.co.uk/
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Hi ;
As far as Vac-U-Form kits go that looks awesome .Try the Dornier D O - X In wood at 1/24 scale ! Lotsa fun there . T.B.
Well no flash as the parts are molded into plastic sheets and you put a new #11 blade in the handle and score along the parts. Then you flex the plastic and the parts cleanly break out of the surface.I tape sandpaper to a piece of glass and sand the parts in a figure eight pattern so that they join up properlyAny cement used for plastic models can be used,and normal putty is used to deal with seams.
HI
I wouldn't call them difficult....but different.
Take you time in planning....cutting out parts. Some kits,such as rareplanes, have bulkheads and the like. With others you makes these yourself. But I find them to be fun and a change of pace. More challenging than injection molded kits,but easier than a scratch build. There are some books out there on the topic.
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