Aaron Skinner

This is looking great! And on the upside you got both fuselage halves in the box. Several years ago, before Lindberg ended up under the Round 2 banner, FSM received a review sample of the kit. I was going to put it together for a humor build (whole other story) but when I opened the still-sealed-in-plastic kit, there were two left fuselage halves and no right half. 

 

I feel bad since there's some guy out there with two right halves...  

Phil: The Betty looks great! And the Avenger is coming along great. 

It's just with me there's enough stuff to go wrong in painting etc without starting with a bad kit to start with. My hats off to you for getting this done. 

One side done at least!

Yes Gamera ,It would be nice to build a well engineered kit.Phils summer an d early fall featured old and or crappy kits!First the poor fittng P'38  then the 262 then the paper Titanic Beaufighter and the crappy  Avenger!Have to build a Hasegawa or Tamiya kit just to decompress!

Primer applied

The primer helps! Looking good now!

Yep next up :flat white followed bythe gray  Atlantic cammo.

philo426

 

Hi,

Your build is looking great.  I do have one question though about the wing fold cut.  In looking at these pictures on the internet it appears that the the forward wing section is cut at an angle, with the upper surface being broader than the lower one.  In the picture that you have posted its hard to see if your cut shows a similar angle.

Pat

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Video

Sure hope I did it right!hard to fix now!

Atlantic cammo applied

Nice! The Atlantic ASW scheme is very attractive.

Thanks!

I have to remove some over spray on the turret wuth alcohol and a Qtip.

Decals take a long time to release from the backkbg paper.

Engine is cool

I cut an oval out of .10 sheet styrene that fit the back of the cowling and glued plates to it to form deployed  cowl flaps.It is removable should I decide to add photo eteched cowl flaps in the future .

That's a neat trick, Phil. I think I'll put that one in the file for later.

Yes !worked well!

Great progress, Phil!  I like the Atlantic ASW scheme, too.  Who says this is a crappy kit!

Yes if this kit was tooled with modern CNC technology and had an upgraded engine and interior it would be a gem!