A4 Skyhawks. 1/72 Airfix. His and hers build.

Started by Simon Whitney · 4 · 10 years ago
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    Simon Whitney said 10 years, 6 months ago:

    Well we started these at the beginning of the year my beloved wife and I.
    She has built a couple of kits and decided that she wanted to build these little jets.
    New tooling the said, oh great, yes things looked clean and well thought out.



    But boy, the fun was just to about to begin.
    The dry fit show a warpage in the fuselage that would make the USS Enterprise blush.

    The wing fit could be fun?
    Anyhow we have been able to do some bits to the build.
    To make it easy for her we are following the instructions for the paint call outs .
    With whats been done it should not take to long to get them together enough for first priming soon.
    The my wife will learn more on how to mask.
    Until then
    Cheers.

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    George Williams said 10 years, 6 months ago:

    I remember building the original Airfix Skyhawk about a million years ago, I aways thought it a very good looking aircraft. So you have your own little group build going on, it will be interesting to see. I can't see that there's a choice of numbers on the decal sheet, so maybe you will have to obtain some aftermarket ones?

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    Simon Whitney said 10 years, 6 months ago:

    No such thing George, using time lapse photo`s no one will notice SSSSHHHHHH.

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    neil foster said 10 years, 6 months ago:

    Heyup Simes I love these little scooters,I too built the original moulding donkeys years ago when I was nobbut a lad in the 70's, now some mornings I feel like I'm in my 70's, they still look good though. N.