Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion **FINISHED**
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Looking sweet.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Looking very nice James. Good to see you cracking on with this beastie.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
I´d be dying to unmask that canopy!
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Looking really good James, and I'm with Stamford, unmask, unmask!
Really looking forward to the finished model, you've put a shed-load of work into this.
Zee
Really looking forward to the finished model, you've put a shed-load of work into this.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Pushing on and I've completed the decaling and added a final coat of Klear. The additional black demarcations and cream formation strips were cut from various bit of other decals. I've taken the masking off to sate the baying pack of fellow modellers
Next job is to paint the radome.
Next job is to paint the radome.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
It's coming on great.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Very tasty James.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Very, very nice.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
Looks amazing James
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
That is looking very special James, one of your best from where I am sitting.
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion
I've been following your model build with interest mainly as a Javelin enthusiast. I have all important books on the Javelin and I was in the RAF during the whole of the Javelin's service(as humble groundcrew ). I was on 64 and 60 Sqn in Singapore at the end of the Javelin's life. You have done a superb job of a difficult conversion - much easier to do a 1,4 or 5. Just one little point as you are obviously a perfectionist, the little bumps on the rear of the cockpit were only found on the T3 - nitpicking I know but I tend to do that with Javelins
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Thanks Clive, your timing is impeccable as I've just finished. I think the pips are going to have to stay. It's been quite hard finding good clear pics of Javelins and there is quite some variation in aerial fit and I've found errors in the two profiles I have for this aircraft and plans have been misleading. I've only found one B&W pic of this aircraft, here: http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1044473/;
OK so what's been done since last post. Well the nose got sprayed matt/statin black - I cut a small hole in a plastic bag, put the kit in the the bag and poked the nose through the hole and masked it off. Added the blade aerial under the port intake and 3 whip aerials to the tailplane. The undercarriage locates very positively with the correct forward rake on the main legs. The nose leg give the correct nose up stance of the Javelin. For once the undercarriage doors were easy to add, some of these being the PE replacements. White lining added to the canopy using decal paper which really lifts the model. For once the undercarriage doors were easy to add
I'm pretty pleased with it even though I could have done a better job of blending the cockpit join in and it's really nice to have what is, if not unique, quite a rare bird as far as models go. A big thank you to OldTonto without who this build couldn't have happened, T-21 for additional refs and for everyone whose been watching and offering encouragement for the last 6 months!
OK so what's been done since last post. Well the nose got sprayed matt/statin black - I cut a small hole in a plastic bag, put the kit in the the bag and poked the nose through the hole and masked it off. Added the blade aerial under the port intake and 3 whip aerials to the tailplane. The undercarriage locates very positively with the correct forward rake on the main legs. The nose leg give the correct nose up stance of the Javelin. For once the undercarriage doors were easy to add, some of these being the PE replacements. White lining added to the canopy using decal paper which really lifts the model. For once the undercarriage doors were easy to add
I'm pretty pleased with it even though I could have done a better job of blending the cockpit join in and it's really nice to have what is, if not unique, quite a rare bird as far as models go. A big thank you to OldTonto without who this build couldn't have happened, T-21 for additional refs and for everyone whose been watching and offering encouragement for the last 6 months!
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion **FINISHED**
That looks fantastic the white lines on the canopy make all the difference.
Cheers for sharing your build with us.
Regards Splash
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Re: Heller 1/72 Javelin FAW6 conversion **FINISHED**
Very very nice, James.
Now find a safe place to display it, out of the reach of little fingers . . .
regards,
Martin
Now find a safe place to display it, out of the reach of little fingers . . .
regards,
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