Falklands/Malvinas War 30th Anniversary GB

Great updates Casper! the engine and cockpit looks awesome

Bish i was expect some poor detailed kit as a matchbox kit but actually the chinook relly detailed!

Heres a quick update on my chinook. These are the pics i should have put up last weekend. These photos show the kit prior to painting, after all the antenna's and the undercarrage had been fitted.

I've since painted the black underside and the grey on top. I will be adding the green this coming week. So hopefully another update next weekend.

Really nice work there. I like what you have done with the engine, and the cockpit looks stunning.

So more on the Airfix puzzle. Flashing galore on this kit, also ejector pin marks on almost every piece! We get spoilt building Tamiya, Dragon, Eduard and Trumpeter kits a lot of the time!

I decided to finish the engine parts off in Alclad lacquers. The black undercoat helps with creating depth in the detail of the parts.

Some more work done on the cockpit. Far from finished, possibly the most detailed office I've ever worked on.

Front view;

Front view with coaming;

Rear view and starboard sidewall;

Nearly finished the ejection seat just waiting for the harnesses to dry.

Cheers

So that's how the cheapskates at Airfix avoided retooling the fuselage... or charging $200 for it!

M/TB379

PS: It was a GR1 when it was first tooled!

Time to get out the mini saw.

Need to remove the cockpit. I think this kit was originally a GR.3. The instructions ask to hack this front section off and replace it with the FRS.1 version.

The tape help remove a clean area

Not quite a clean fit for the new piece but putty will help that

Cheers

Some lovely looking work there. I really like the look of the ejection seat. Are you soldering these items or just glueing.

Here's the IP, just a bit of touching up to do on the paint job but essentially it's there. It will look better once it's under the coaming with the HUD attached.

Cheers

Some more work on the brass...The ejection seat lower half

The coaming above the IP, the HUD assembly and the headrest of the ejection seat.

Cheers

As you can see the cockpit on this kit is pretty sparse.

There are two not-very-fitting-at-well plastic bits for the side wall that I just threw away.

I cut off the window sills and replaced them with the FP brass offerings. As you can see on the port side, just a plastic ridge.

So while the Flightpath set spices up the IP and some of the side consoles considerably, it completely fails to add anything else to the cockpit. So scratch time. As always with my approach to scratch, I like to simulate not replicate. I tried to do something that looked good to the eye and not worry too much about what was really inside this pit for real.

It's amazing how much of this will be seen on the final kit. Airfix could have done a little more perhaps. But it's amazing what can be done with some left over PE, resin, styrene cockpit shapes and wire.

Cheers

I know what you mean about those flightpath instrustions. I messed up a 72nd MiG 23 ladder because they confused me. But that was cheap to replace. For what you have, i think i would sudy them more than a few times.

I reckon you could stick a carrier inside that harrier.

LOL and probaly adding my wasp as nose weight

bsyamato - we could hide our 1/72 Harriers inside Casper's 1/24 Harrier!!!

Casper the Chihuahua

Well, it's not everyday you have a 1/24 scale kit in the stash (or under the bed) so I decided to bump the 1/72 Super Sabre and start the Harrier now. This kit will be in 3 builds, Airfix, Harrier and Falklands.

A lot of pieces, a lot not on sprues and not very well organised or numbered. I'm going to have to work out a filing system to keep track of the pieces.

I'm also adding this Flightpath upgrade set which includes resin wheels and ordinance and heaps of photo etch and white metal parts for the cockpits and engine and ladder etc.

This kit is a gift pack and has supplied some small pots of Humbrol paints so first things first some cataloguing and converting into Tamiya and Gunze from my collection.

I think I'll have to fill up the tub for this one as well to bath the parts

Cheers

i just say wow

I've never seen so much brass! There are sheets and sheets of the stuff in this Flightpath set. Instructions could be a lot better though. Half of it is diagrams, the other half is written instructions. it's complicated stuff let alone having to visualise it yourself.

Anyways, here is the IP with brass pieces and some pieces for the side consoles.

Cheers

Nice to see Dragon marking the event. I assume the Colnel Jones VC figure is one of those action figures rather than a kit.

I didn't notice the scale when you first posted. Now this should be interesting.

I have a few 72nd Flightpath sets, including Diorama and detail sets. they are rather nice.

Well, it's not everyday you have a 1/24 scale kit in the stash (or under the bed) so I decided to bump the 1/72 Super Sabre and start the Harrier now. This kit will be in 3 builds, Airfix, Harrier and Falklands.

A lot of pieces, a lot not on sprues and not very well organised or numbered. I'm going to have to work out a filing system to keep track of the pieces.

I'm also adding this Flightpath upgrade set which includes resin wheels and ordinance and heaps of photo etch and white metal parts for the cockpits and engine and ladder etc.

This kit is a gift pack and has supplied some small pots of Humbrol paints so first things first some cataloguing and converting into Tamiya and Gunze from my collection.

I think I'll have to fill up the tub for this one as well to bath the parts

Cheers

VanceCrozier

 

Casper the Chihuahua:

 

Hi Bish, crossovers OK? I'm doing the Airfix 1/24 FRS.1 Sea Harrier for the Airfix and Harrier GB. Though adding a third GB to this kit might be ok.

Cheers

 

 

1/24???? Sounds big enough to use for multiple group builds! Sounds fine to me so long as it's got a Falklands connection.

I'm just finishing off a B-17G for the NMFIII GB and then doing a 1/72 Super Sabre. I should be tackling the Harrier sometime in the next month or so.

Cheers

Great work on the interior Bish! I hadn´t much time to vist th GB but it´s nice to see that you are on the good track with your Chinook, I hope to build one smeday for my own Malvinas war collection.

I had no time either to work on my Learjet, but I belive I will post something next week, the engraved panel lines are almost done.

Best regards

Jere

Casper the Chihuahua

Hi Bish, crossovers OK? I'm doing the Airfix 1/24 FRS.1 Sea Harrier for the Airfix and Harrier GB. Though adding a third GB to this kit might be ok.

Cheers

1/24???? Sounds big enough to use for multiple group builds! Sounds fine to me so long as it's got a Falklands connection.

Casper, ye i believe thats ok. I think a couple of people have taken harriers from here and added it to that GB.

Hi Bish, crossovers OK? I'm doing the Airfix 1/24 FRS.1 Sea Harrier for the Airfix and Harrier GB. Though adding a third GB to this kit might be ok.

Cheers

Ye, they are all individual belts, took a couples of night to fit them all. And ye, the ramp will be down and the side door open. Now its all sealed up, its pretty dark inside, so you can't see that much. So rather glad i didn't go all out and add the quilting and other bits inside. There's just enough that it doesn't look empty. I am just getting all the antennas fitted. I had to do a bit of searching as the ones on the right side vary depending on aircraft. I finally managed to find one of BN's right side, so i can go ahead with that. Should be ready for paint by the end of the week.

Bish

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Bish - those are all individual belts as well? Lots going on inside! I assume you'll be leaving the rear ramp down...

Bish

I don't know who bought up the Matchbox molds, but its very possable it could be Italeri, so they may well be one and the same.

in some way could be lots of things are differents and  others seems really exacly, as the rororts basements and the back mounting rudder have same panels

probably italeri improved the moulds with also new pieces, panels are all engraved

Ye, those seats are eduar PE. I just used plastic rod for the support bar along the top.

I don't know who bought up the Matchbox molds, but its very possable it could be Italeri, so they may well be one and the same.

Bish

 But i spent most of that week getting the seats together and finally got them fitted at the start of this week.

 

What'd you use for the seats, PE? For my Chinook build, I scratch built them out of paper and paperclips. Your also looks a lot like the Italeri kit  Im building. Do you think they shared the moulds?