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AlasdairGF
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So I bought The Boy a cheapie starter kit because I found them at Aldi before Xmas, and we finally got round to doing it. I was hoping he'd be able to do most of the build himself, but it proved a surprisingly tricky one. Reviews on other sites say it goes together reasonably easily, which gives me reason to doubt my abilities!
I found the fuselage a pain to get together, the cockpit ended up being quite off-kilter which made fitting the upper wing piece a bit of a mare too. Less said about my hash of the undercarriage the better - don't look too closely at the artificial horizon as you're lining up on the runway to take off...!
This is completely out of the box, with the exception of replacing the weird purpley-red paint that came in the starter kit (apparently Hu19 a glossy "Bright Red" - not in the pot you sent me, matey!) with one I already had (matt scarlet, Hu60). The colour was a great improvement, but that doesn't really cover the flaws in the rest of the model!
Still it was fun to do something with The Boy, but thing our next project will be something like a snap-together thing he can do entirely on his own (before I get to it with paints & weathering & custom decals or something...!!).
Enough jibber jabber - photos:
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And here's the co-builder in fetching red & white on his way to karate club...!
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I found the fuselage a pain to get together, the cockpit ended up being quite off-kilter which made fitting the upper wing piece a bit of a mare too. Less said about my hash of the undercarriage the better - don't look too closely at the artificial horizon as you're lining up on the runway to take off...!
This is completely out of the box, with the exception of replacing the weird purpley-red paint that came in the starter kit (apparently Hu19 a glossy "Bright Red" - not in the pot you sent me, matey!) with one I already had (matt scarlet, Hu60). The colour was a great improvement, but that doesn't really cover the flaws in the rest of the model!
Still it was fun to do something with The Boy, but thing our next project will be something like a snap-together thing he can do entirely on his own (before I get to it with paints & weathering & custom decals or something...!!).
Enough jibber jabber - photos:
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And here's the co-builder in fetching red & white on his way to karate club...!
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