Matchbox Lightning F6

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Matchbox Lightning F6

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Matchbox's old Lightning finally complete and bound for Sig table at Telford. This one came from the blackbox era and came with some nice markings for 5 Sqn but I decided to go with an 11 Sqn bird that was at the Jubilee airshow at RAF Finningley , my local base in 1977.
No upgrades to the kit other than a set of old Model Decals. I didn't have any spare canopy chop markings and didn't want to risk making a mess painting them. They are so prominent and it looks a bit bare without but heyho.


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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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Well tidy Lightning,well tidy indeed.
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celt wrote:Well tidy Lightning,well tidy indeed.
+1 from me. I like that very much.

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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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If you can get hold of some yellow stripe decal, you could use that for the canopy seals. As you say, they are very prominent on the real thing.
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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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Always good to see a well made and finished Lightning, especially an old Matchbox kit.
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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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that is a lovely camo you've done on the lightning,raised panel lines look good under it and shows what nice models can still be made out of the older generation kits
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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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That looks absolutely spot on!
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That looks really nice. Very good result. I've been taking other actions with my old ones.

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A few more here. The old Matchbox kits really lend themselves to this treatment. It got my stash of unbuilt models down a bit, too.
I still have some to do in the proper colours.
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Excellent. The old kit still makes a very good looking Lightning.

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That is a really great build of this classic kit, Shane and you've got it spot on as far as I'm concerned fella. I look forward to seeing it and you at Telford.
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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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Thanks all, it's good to get one off the bench after a bit of a lay off period.
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Very nicely done mate!
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An outstanding result - love it
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Re: Matchbox Lightning F6

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Nice Lightning!

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Superb!
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