Barry's XB-43 Anigrand 1/72 resin FINISHED

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Great work so far.
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Main gear was a bit tricky to get set right, but transparencies went on with no problems

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Tricky under cart by the look. She's a weird looking beastie all right.

Looking forward to the paint.

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That is a freaky looking canopy arrangement. :???:
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Well, I'm certainly not going to get this done on time, but it shouldn't run over by more than a couple of days. There have been issues.....

This is that part of the gear well cover that attaches to one of the l/g struts: Anigrand interpretation on the left, mine on the right.

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And finally, some color added. :)
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Good work, Barry.
Is that a long slice of tube used for the u/c door?

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no, it's made from four strips of plastic. 2x20 thou pieces for the center and 2x10 thou for the 'wings'. The cross section is a W shape
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Presumably you were meant to mill out the doors from the lump of resin. The painted airframe looks very nice. The clean wings make it look almost like a glider.
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Glad to wrap this one up. Finish is Alclad and Model Master gloss Gull Grey. The only kit decal I used was the serial on the tail...wingwalks are pieced together decal stripes.



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Excellent!
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Lovely model of an unusual aircraft.
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Beautiful !!!
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