Beany's Gulf Builds - a Jaguar and a Hawk (and a Bronco)

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Beany's Gulf Builds - a Jaguar and a Hawk (and a Bronco)

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I love the pink and the two tone brown desert schemes used in any conflict, so here are my first two contenders:

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This kit was a £12 purchase in the Kit Swap at Telford last year. There is a bit of water damage on the decal sheet, but I favour the weathered/distressed look anyway so they should look just fine.
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Another Kit Swap purchase from last year, £10 this time, is the 1/48th Pave Hawk
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I also have the Matchbox A-7E in Desert Storm marking and the Airfix Buccaneer of course (who hasn't?!).

I am also toying with getting DS decals for one of my 1:48 Hasegawa/Revell A-7Es and maybe even for my 1/48 Italeri Chinook.
Can't wait to get started.

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A nice pair of choices; will watch with interest
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Great choices. This should be good.

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This will be fun to watch.

The Jag is that the same kit that Airfix and Revell re-boxed?
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splash wrote:The Jag is that the same kit that Airfix and Revell re-boxed?
I didn't know Splash but according to Scalemates it looks like that is the case.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/122146- ... 8-jaguar-a;
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Nice choice! jags look great in the scheme.
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I saw this on eBay and again couldn't resist the two tone brown colour scheme. It is the Academy OV-10D Bronco. Less than a tenner so not bad I thought.
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Looks to be a nice little kit - I haven't a lot of experience of Academy kits so this one will be an interesting build.
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Work begins on the Jaguar - wings glued and all other assemblys that could be glued together - bombs, fuel tanks, undercarriage , seat etc.
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The gun inserts were not that great a fit so I decided to use correction fluid to fill the gap.
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The instructions say use Hu81 for interiors which is zinc chromate yellow, which having photos of the Jag at Cosford looks about right to me.
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No work on the Pave Hawk yet, but hoping to get time at the weekend to start on it.
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Going for a triple? Good luck with that, I hope the kits are slightly different coloured plastic or you could end up with some pretty weird looking models.
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How are we doing, Beany? Still focussed on the Jaguar?

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Hi Beany, anything happening here?

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Sorry, just had this week off work sick with a virus which totally knocked me for 6. I'll see if I can pull anything back over the weekend and I'm on leave all next week if I can blag a short extension?!
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Sorry you've been unwell. I'm OK with it if you need an small extension.

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John says we can have a few days extension. Do you think you can get the Jaguar done this week?

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dwomby wrote:John says we can have a few days extension. Do you think you can get the Jaguar done this week?

David
Sorry guys, I got a few minor bits done at the weekend but was still feeling pretty lousy. I have to finish this one in a workbench thread instead.

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No problem. Hope you feel better soon.

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