Lancfan's Spanish Dove ***Finished***

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Lancfan's Spanish Dove ***Finished***

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Just marking my place for Saturday.

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Here is the box shot and the picture of the sealed bag of bits ready for later today.
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The bag was unpacked and the sprues washed.
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To begin I pre-painted and then assembled the cockpit and followed that by joining together the fuselage halves and also the basic wing halves.
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That didn't take long! The cockpit looks nice!
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Great start.

I better make a start on mine!
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Looking good so far David.
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Nice choice of subject. I like the post War Spanish schemes. Look forward to seeing some progress. How has the fit been so far??
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Thanks iggie, Daren, gmg, Gadfly. The fit has been very good so far Gadfly apart from the canopy which was slightly too long and needed a little careful adjustment to properly fit onto the fuselage, I'll post a catchup post tomorrow.

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Good to hear David.

Special Hobby kits can be a bit variable at times so good to know this one is ok...
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The basic airframe was assembled ready for painting, because the detail is so fine on this model I will airbrush the model rather than use the hairy stick.
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Of the three choices supplied on the kit decal sheet I picked the blue machine '71 + 11' formally based at Tenerife and used in the 1958 Ifni War. This blue is an oddity as it was apparently a Peugeot automotive colour, exactly which Peugeot colour this was is not clear and googling for images of these cars from that period did not really help- in the end I compared the colours I had in stock to images of the aircraft marked as '71 + 9' at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in the US along with a period image of one of these blue machines and picked Revell Aqua 56 Blue.
The airbrushed airframe ready for decals.
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Crikey that's a nice blue!
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The decals came next, I was worried that the decals would allow the blue to show through or even worse turn the yellow green so I applied white roundels to prevent this from happening- as it turned out the kit roundels were fine when applied to the model and it was a waste of time but it is better to be safe than sorry as they say so no harm was done.
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Looks very smart, David. I wish I had one of these kits to wash out the taste of that Pegasus one I built. Same a/c I believe but yours is more accurate.
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It is again on sale in this boxing gmg so you should be able to get one if you so wish.
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With the addition of the ordnance, propeller and a few odds and ends along with a little airbrushed weathering the model is now complete.
Hispano HA1112 M-1L Buchon C4K-12 "71 + 11" "Checa" 71 Sqn, 7 Fighter Group, Los Rodeos Airfield, Tenerife, Canary Islands, 1958.
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