Richard's Revell Ex-Matchbox 1/72 Victor Resurfaces

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Hi Richard
A lot of time and effort needed to fill all the poor joins. Engines and wheel wells look much better for your scratched additions. When you joined the wing halves I don't think you had enough clamps - another two or three would have had it properly sorted :smiling5: Although your clamps are pretty colours :tongue-out3:
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Hi Richard
A lot of time and effort needed to fill all the poor joins. Engines and wheel wells look much better for your scratched additions. When you joined the wing halves I don't think you had enough clamps - another two or three would have had it properly sorted :smiling5: Although your clamps are pretty colours :tongue-out3:
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Well Jim, when you invest in old kits you need to be ready for plastic surgery...literally speaking. The scratch stuff were fun additions. Yes, always not enough clamps to do the job even colourful ones nipped from SWMBO's clothes line. :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Richard,
You are making a great job of this.

Thanks Paul, if only it didn't take 3 years to finally change it to the right colour so I can get on with the final decalling and weathering. :tongue-out3:

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I just came across the following on YouTube that I thought would be interesting for those reading this thread:

 

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Wow fantastic Jakko, thanks. I watched it twice before replying. :smiling6:

I was just about to add the little avionic aerials and protrusions especially the red nav lights on the top which sat off center to the left and the extra fin also on the top left and tiny one on either side of the bottom chin. I think there were two more large avionic fins along the belly offset to the right.

I had just made the drogue refuelling probes that are extended and pulled behind the Victor...the kit part is on the right.

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They were coated with white glue to simulate the plastic translucent covering...

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They should retract further in but I didn't want to loose all that effort in the scratch building.

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Thanks Paul, I am quite pleased with the nuts :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Here's more of the build...

If you remember the 80's fashion with their pumped up shoulder pads, well I wonder if it was influenced by these foils on each side of the wing leading edge. Another Captain Scarlet looking gizmology. I made these with plastic sheet using a paper template to get the curvature right.

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The full set of wing tips carefully attached ensuring correct angle of the gentle slope...no dehydral or enhydral to conform to.

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At this angle you can see why it was such and eligant and beautiful aircraft...just like the video says on the ground she looks like she's doing mach 1.

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The forward undercarriage bay recieved a little attention to detail of gizmology. If you notice that puttying is concentratted on the right fuselage half. I suspect that the edges may have curved in upon release of the molding process.

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The large dimple was filled and rescribed. The undercarriage bays were sprayed silver and a black wash applied.

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I added some stress plates on the wing which was not present on the kit with plastic strips. Also a vent next to the engine intake had to be addressed as it was an awkward untidy hole...
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I used about 1cm of plastic tubing, set it at the right angle, glued it, then sliced off the front leaving a 1mm lip and drilled to thin the lip of the vent.

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The sharp tip of the tail fin was achieved by chucking a thick rod into a pencil sharpener to roughly get the shape and then with a motor tool as a lathe sanded it down.

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You can just see the correction made to the mis-scribed panel when my guide accidentally slipped. This was quite a tricky area as even the raised lines were vague.

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The same was done to the tail tip.

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Overall the green spots show the amount of putty needed which shows the kit has quite a good fit for an old kit.

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Thanks for looking in. More to come soon.

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Richard
 

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Great work so far Richard. Turning this into an outstanding build....
 

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Hi Richard
.........by chucking a thick rod into a pencil sharpener to roughly get the shape
Another simple idea to add to my book of tips gleaned from your builds :thumb2:
As always very neat, well considered work.
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One problem with sharpening plastic in a pencil sharpener, is that it will probably leave a ridge on the plastic at the point where you stop turning it. (I’ve never tried it with polystyrene rod, but I used to own plastic pencils, and every time I sharpened them, I had to yank the pencil out of the sharpener to cut off the curl of plastic, leaving a bit of a scar on the pencil.)
 

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Great looking build Richard, top man for all the effort put in the scribing of the panel lines.:thumb2::thumb2:
 

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Thanks Fellas, good to have your comments.

Tim, after three years and getting enough courage to mask the decals for respraying...sorry it took so long.
Jim, forgot to mention to use one of those rotary sharpeners that use gears to shave off the tips. The best way to tackle a situation is not to rush straight into it but to take a step back and consider options.
Jakko, yes tried that and decided on the rotary ones. Have one in the office thats automatic. They cut round the pencil 360 degrees with sharp toothed cylindrical gears as oppose to shaving with a blade.
Fernando, the scribing was at first a daunting task but when approached one piece at a time before assembly on a flat surface, it wasn't too bad. :smiling2:

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Hi,
Cockpit canopies are always a challenge to assemble without crazing or leaving a significant step or gap at the joint...masking is another issue altogether.
My kit came with a pronounced step right at the nose of the cockpit edge. Also gaps of about 1mm at some points needed shims of plastic strip...

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To shield the canopy from the putty and vigorous sanding I blocked that with masking tape...

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When that was solved then I proceeded to properly mask the canopy view points individually.

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On top of this will be sprayed interior gray and then black and then primer to create the opaque frame for the canopy. It's always annoying to see transparency through a supposed solid frame. My regret was not to have cut out the circular port windows and replace with clear perspex as the kit apertures weren't really round.

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Hi, next was getting the angles of the flap right to add the extending arm supports. A lot of guess work here...

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Once satisfied it was off to the paint shop...

Cheers,
Richard
 
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Lovely - and clearly a lot of hard work.
The final article is great and the more so, since you had to re-do the paint job.
(This is an aspirational kit... but it all depends on accommodating the thing)
Great work.
 

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Hi Dave, thanks. Definitely not a shake and bake kit but builds into quite nice one. It seemed the only injection kit around for some time until Airfix introduced their much improved kit but I have yet to know first hand how it builds.
I'm really glad I re-did the paint job. It is now looking the part that it should be.

Cheers,
Richard
 

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Hi Richard.
Just had an enjoyable read through coupled with that video from Jakko. Always enjoy your attention to detail.
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Hi Richard.
Just had an enjoyable read through coupled with that video from Jakko. Always enjoy your attention to detail.
John .

Thanks John, wondered where abouts were you...busy with the SU76 I guess or keeping Steve off mischief... :smiling6:

Just read through this Richard, your doing a cracking job so far.

Hi Ian, good to have you looking in.

Now the flaps out of the paint shop...

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Streaked the silver with Tamiya smoke using the airbrush at different levels distances to the surface before masking and spraying the body colour on.

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These will be attached to grooves that were on the underside of the upper wing halves.

Next the horrendous colour mistake...don't know what got over me...meds? alcohol? :tongue-out3:

Cheers,
Richard
 
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