Lancfan's Desert Buccaneer ***Finished***

This is a historical subject GB for any kit, any scale, any variant, any markings of a participant in the Desert Storm campaign, 17 January to 28 February 1991.
Runs 30 January through 28 February and your host is dwomby.
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Lancfan's Desert Buccaneer ***Finished***

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My kit for this GB will be the Airfix Buccaneer S.2 using the Kitsworld decal sheet KW172135.
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Welcome. Nice choice.

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Will be watching this one as I have plans to do Jaws myself someday.
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Good choice the Bucc's looked good in sand.
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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splash wrote:Good choice the Bucc's looked good in sand.
So did the Iraqi Air Force!!! :lol:
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Any progress to report, David? Which nose art do you plan to use?

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Just started work on the Buccaneer today David, I am going to build XV863 'sea witch'- first pictures TF.

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I have not been able to give this build a blow by blow account so far so this is what has occured in the past week. The build began with the usual sprue wash, the sprues are shown after this and are ready to go.
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The first step was to correct the air intakes of the Airfix kit which lose their shape on the inner faces and I have corrected this with filler before assembly.
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The air intakes were then painted and the compressor faces, part 9 was painted and fitted to the lower fuselage, when this had dried five steel nuts were glued down behind part 9 as noseweight, part 10 was also fitted at this stage.
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The undersized kit cockpit tub was removed from the upper fuselage half.
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A new plastic card cockpit floor and divider was fitted to the lower half and the front seat was fitted.
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Interesting alterations David, I'm doing mine OOB for expediency so will be watching your more detailed efforts keenly!
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Are you absolutely sure you have enough noseweight in there? :-)

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dwomby wrote:Are you absolutely sure you have enough noseweight in there? :-)

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I was wondering that, but was too polite to ask..... :ha: :-D
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Missed this somehow. Another Bucc in the same GB, well happy now :-D
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dwomby wrote:Are you absolutely sure you have enough noseweight in there? :-)

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Because the weight is behind the cockpit and therefore so much closer to the mainwheels it needed more weight to be sure of keeping the tail off the ground- better safe than sorry.

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lancfan wrote:
dwomby wrote:Are you absolutely sure you have enough noseweight in there? :-)

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Because the weight is behind the cockpit and therefore so much closer to the mainwheels it needed more weight to be sure of keeping the tail off the ground- better safe than sorry.

David.
OK. I get it now - less effective the close it is to the pivot point. I knew high school physics would be useful one day! Any more progress?

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Working on the cockpit interior ATM, busy over the weekend with housework/taking the car in for a new track rod end on Saturday and Huddersfield on Sunday. Pictures/report on the build soon.

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