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Trumpeter Vickers Wellington Mk.Ic 1/72

Started by John vd Biggelaar · 260 ≡ · ↻ 1 year ago

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John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@lis, thanks a lot Lis.
Bob Torres said 2 years ago:

John @johnb, nice progress on your Wellington. The interior work is amazing!
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@v1pro, thanks a lot Bob.
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

Right half of the fuselage is done and I did some dry fitting with the centre part.
The PE parts really did busy up the cockpit region.
The left half side does contain less parts so that should be finished in a shorter time.
I noticed that there are no bombbay doors, just one big cover.
Since I would like to build it with an open bombbay, some surgery will be required.
Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years ago:

The right half looks also superb, my friend @johnb! Looking forward to the bomb bay doors surgery!
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@fiveten, thanks Spiros.
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

Finally I'm calling the interior done.
Except for the turrets ofcourse which will be the next parts to be assembled.
Work was done on the left half side which was less work compared to the right side half.

Dry fitting both fuselage halves, till now, looks ok, have to see how it will turn out once the turrets are placed as well.
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Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years ago:

Well done finishing this wonderful interior, my friend @johnb! Great that fit of the fuselage halves looks promising.
It must have been "nice" to be in this purple-ish interior, at least it would be different from the "usual" greenish/greyish/blackish interiors 🙂
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@fiveten, thanks a lot Spiros.
It is difficult to find true evidence of the exact internal color used for the canvas, in most cases you read about this redd-ish/purple-ish color. But definitely different than the usual ones.
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:
Turrets and engines

Montex masks are used on the turret transparant parts.

The frontside turret contains a PE frame and seating elements as well.

The idea is to first paint the transparant parts black, which will be the internal color.

Recently Lis @lis asked when I wouldf be painting the turrets, currently my thoughts are to mount the turrets after the black painting and apply the camouflage color once all is mounted.
1. nose turret

2. tail turret
1. PE frame

2. PE seating
Some cleaning work on the engine parts has started as well.
capt. R said 2 years ago:

absolutely amazing effect!
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@lis, thanks a lot Lis.
Spiros Pendedekas said 2 years ago:

Looking wonderful, my friend @johnb!
Amazing detail for the scale!
Erik Gjørup said 2 years ago:

Oh yes, still impressed by those small PE parts - very nice work John!
John vd Biggelaar said 2 years ago:

@fiveten, thanks a lot Spiros. Even without the PE, Trumpeter included nice details as well for this smaller scale.

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