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The Zero looks really good...and severely weathered! :grin:
The Rebel Defiant is a great idea! ...but would a Merlin III provide enough grunt to break free of an Imperial tractor beam? :???:

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Loving the Zero Al, especially the paint wear on the wings; that looks bang on!
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Nice work on the Zero Al. When you make a comeback you do it with a bang mate 8-)
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Streuth Alan that looks close to being finished ;-) will look impressive when displayed.
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The BIG comeback :lol:
Looks like a sizeable project :twisted:
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Just been through restoring the PB links with the magic work-around!!

And here is a picture of the Zero that I was posting about earlier as a WIP. It was completed and is seen here at Farnborough Modelfast last September buzzing the Revell Modelling SIG table in pursuit of my Revell 1/32 P-38J Lightning

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Gool Air force Zero,

I am doing a naval version of airfix's zero and watching TORA TORA TORA
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That's some very well-done paint-chipping, Al!

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On the bench today is A05128 1/48 B.P. Defiant Mk.I which I am doing as a Star Wars Rebel Alliance machine with R2D2 in the back seat/turret. This is based on the Clavework Graphic image which I am trying to reproduce, but with some limitations.
I have printed some decals which I made by just copying the appropriate images from Google searches into a Word document and printing straight on to clear (not white) Inkject Decal Paper.

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I wasn't sure how to represent the interior - certainly not Hu78, so I tried to adopt a vague Steam Punk look by using blue and copper. I like how it came out. Most won't be seen as I will convert a 1/48 jet age pilot (from the Airfix 1/48 E.E. Lightning or Javelin or something, I can't remember which) into one of Mr. Skywalkers contemporaries.

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The R2 resin figure was very kindly made for me by Rob in Holland. The pilot figure will need most of the flight suit detail filed of and I am hoping the painting in the orange and white etc. will suffice to make him look the part. The actual Star Wars figure was left over when my son gave me all of his old toys to dispose of when he moved out - as if I was going to do that! Unfortunately he is more of a large 1/72 than a small 1/48 so couldn't be used directly, but the uniform colour scheme will be copied across.

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The image suggests this is a Griffon engined machine with accomodating blisters on top of the cowling. These I have tried to reproduce by crash moulding a pair from an Academy 1/48 Spitfire Mk. IXVe. They were not a perfect fit onto the Defiant and will need some filler but I think they look reasonable.
I have fashioned a pair of cannons for each wing from two gauges of brass tube and turned down the ends of the larger tubes a tad by putting them in a drill and holding them against a modelling file while rotating - which seemed as good a method as any.

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Guns are now fitted and will need fairing in with a smidgen of filler. They are perfectly in line but the photo has distorted them a little!

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The spinner is undercoated in Gloss Black ready for spraying Silver later.

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I tried out some of my homemade decals tonight - not a great success but lessons learned so not a complete waste of time. Scrape these off and try again with much more Microsol and Microset next time.

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This has got to be among the top Defiant conversions of all time!

Great stuff, that R2 unit really looks the business.

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Cool an R2-D2!
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Excellent conversion Al; I'm a big fan of the Claveworks artwork, especially the Fantasy F1 stuff
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This is certainly one of the most interesting Defiants I've seen, Al! Kudos for the homemade decals, such efforts never fail to gain my interest.
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iggie wrote:Excellent conversion Al; I'm a big fan of the Claveworks artwork, especially the Fantasy F1 stuff
Thanks iggie. You may well recognise another of my WIPs in that case... (I have the decals already - God bless the slot car community!)

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