Trumpeter Vickers Wellington Mk.Ic 1/72

Started by John vd Biggelaar · 260 · 2 years ago
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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    After the creation of this great topic by Lis @lis, I propossed to continue the Wellington within this group.

    I started the 1/72 Trumpeter Wellington two months ago in this topic,

    https://imodeler.com/groups/work-in-progress-aircraft/forum/topic/trumpeter-vickers-wellington-mk-ic-1-72/

    I will continue the build in this thread as it suites this topic well.

    Latest progress is done on the interior, still.

    The addition of the Eduard PE set does require quite a lot of extra work but it does look a lot more detailed.

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    capt. R said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Fantastic work! I love your thread!

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    Tom Cleaver said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    This is really looking good, @johnb.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Superb interior looks, my friend @johnb! Looking forward to follow your progress!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Thanks a lot all for those motivating words, @tcinla @fiveten @lis

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    Martin Trachsel said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Wonderful work!
    The wing structure is also a bit strong on the 1/48 Welli.
    Here a photo.

    1 attached image. Click to enlarge.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    @Matra, thanks a lot Trachel.
    Your Wellington looks excellent. From the picture the structure does not look obvious to my opinion.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Some more work done on the interior.

    The steering wheels are placed on the sticks, not that easy to get those PE parts in parallel with CA glue.

    Also the bomb area has received some painting, dark grey/black mixture and aluminum dry-brush.

    The inside of the fuselages have been painted with a reddish color.

    Found that this paint/coating was applied on the fabric. This material caused the fabric to shrink and tighten it around the geodetic frame. The frame will get a metalish color next.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    A masterpiece is slowly emerging, my friend @johnb!
    Looks are simply spectacular!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Thanks for those motivating words, Spiros @fiveten

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    David Kight said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Absolutely fabulous work you've accomplished there. One minor quibble, please refrain from saying "steering wheel" when you mean "control yoke..."

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    @davekight, thanks David. I appreciate your correction, was not sure about how to call it correctly.

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    David Kight said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    My pleasure, wouldn't want you to sound like a car modeler.

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    Stephen W Towle said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    Some strong impressive work in the gentleman's scale John. I've been working in 1/72nd scale on several projects and every time I pull out a magnifier I swallow my pride and make corrections. This scale is more like practicing surgery but, the results can be impressive when practiced by a artist. Lookin good.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 2 years, 7 months ago:

    @stephen-w-towle, thanks a lot Stephen. In the past, 1/72 was the main scale for me, also because of the price. At that time it worked well, but since I restarted the hobby it became clear that my eyes are definitely not comfortable with 1/72 anymore. Since this was a gift of my daughter I defintely wanted to give it a try.