I'm calling this finished:
The Airfix 1/48 Defiant is a good model, the assembly, especially of the turret is pretty tricky & needs a little easing here & there to fit. The open turret doors are a very tight fit & need no glue!. Some of the detail will never see the light of day again. If you build this with cockpit & turret closed, then the PE is really superfluous.
I can't remember a model where I have dropped so many bits, lost bits ( still haven't located my missing masks ) I seemed to have spent ages creeping round, looking for absconded parts - what is fitted now is the third control column, the first two vapourised...................
Thanks to Colin for overseeing this GB & thanks all for dropping by
Dave
The Airfix 1/48 Defiant is a good model, the assembly, especially of the turret is pretty tricky & needs a little easing here & there to fit. The open turret doors are a very tight fit & need no glue!. Some of the detail will never see the light of day again. If you build this with cockpit & turret closed, then the PE is really superfluous.
I can't remember a model where I have dropped so many bits, lost bits ( still haven't located my missing masks ) I seemed to have spent ages creeping round, looking for absconded parts - what is fitted now is the third control column, the first two vapourised...................
Thanks to Colin for overseeing this GB & thanks all for dropping by
Dave