This is an older work that I have had knocking around in the aircraft gallery.Being a bone idle git, well to be honest I have quite a few projects coming to an end, so I am for a change very busy.Getting nowhere fast.So with any luck a few more posts in the pipeline.
I love these Revell bi plane kits a hell of a lot.They are cheap and simple to build.I really like the cheap bit being a skin flint.
For a novice plane builder like myself having only 30 or so bits is a bonus.The only thing is flash on these kits, but a quick go with the craft knife and job done.
The rigging is a bit of a cheat.I used florist wire which is a bit like using iron girders on it.Its better than nothing, but I am plucking up the courage to try real rigging,drilling and thread the works.
The camo scheme was straight off the box,but I have seen other schemes for Ottoman planes that look great,which is handy because I have another one in the stash.It is a light brown colour for desert ops with a large white square and a small black square in the centre for identification, so a quick conversion job on the decals should be quite simple.
The decals were a pain in the arse.The fusalge stripes were the hardest to get straight, I managed to break the bloody thing and had to hand paint them to jion them up.The wing decals went on like a dream, a good dose of microsolve laid them flat.
The other thing that I am chuffed with on this build was the propeller.I managed to get a good wood grain on the prop.I used Vallejo wood glaze on it and it seemed to do the trick with a coat of varnish.
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGES FOR A LARGER VIEW AND ANY COMMENTS MORE THAN WELCOME.
Cheers for looking, Rich.
7 comments:
Funnily enough I find this one of the harder of the Stringbags to rig..getting 4 lines over the upper strut is a bit of a pain.
Nice looking kite.
Cheers
paul
Yeah, nice kit, I have the ICM one of these, which was an okay build too
Nice work. Simple but effective.
Nick
Clean work, well done
Good work
Those "wires" make the model
I hate WW1 aircraft construction. No matter how you wired it it still looks great.
When are we making the T55?
You make another great work !!! Compliments my friend
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