SBS DH.88 Comet and Airfix DH.88 Comet 1:72 parallel build - the "unfair" competition :)

Started by Gábor Szabó · 19 · 8 years ago · 1/72, Airfix, Comet, golden age, macrobertson, SBS, WIP
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    Gábor Szabó said 8 years ago:

    Thank You! Now the SBS. The color is "brunswick" green, aka "british racing green" thats roughly equal with Tamiya X-5. I lighted it with some Park Green as the X-5 is a really deep color, almost too deep for a small 1:72 plane. As these planes were actually factory fresh examples no wear and tear can be seen on the photos so I better forget the post shadeing or any after-painting stuffs. I try to make something with the base color to add diversity (but not too much) to the final color. Here is my attempt: silver/white and grey primer and the first two light coats or green and the final color. In reality You can see slightly the differences because the base coats but the effect is very very light.

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    Gábor Szabó said 8 years ago:

    Nearly finish the SBS. The landing gears caused me some headscrathing biut after some (quite a few) try and error I can figured out what the heck the designer thought about this area - practically You have to assemble all together and after that You can put the landing gear into its place. Dry fit and several trial before gluing is essential here. The props didn't caused any problem at all. The cover over the front instrument panel is a quite small so i needed some filler there, but nut much. The decals behaved well with decal set-sol. They are not translucent at all, perfectly printed but thin and delicate so must be careful with them.

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    Bernd Müller said 8 years ago:

    That looks amazing !

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    Gábor Szabó said 8 years ago:

    Thank You Bernd! FinallyI finished the SBS. I added the the all tiny bits and I gave both kits a fair amount of Tamiya modeling vax just for sure. As You may see I added the tanks color caps (missing on both kits but not a big deal to correct). The SBS' tail fin and vertical stabilizers are so thin that I didn't dare to make the othervise so missing counterweights. More finished pics and group pics soon...

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