Lancfan's Transatlantic Bomber

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Lancfan's Transatlantic Bomber

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This will be my victim for this GB, the Trailblazers boxing of the original Frog Vickers Vimy.
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Work will begin later this afternoon, before then I need to dig out the plans and work out the rigging layout. The first job will be to drill a lot of holes!

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That's one of the frogs kits that I have always fancied, I look forward to watching you build.

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Drilling lots of little holes indeed. Lots of tiny little holes. Hope you have a good supply of spare bits!
I'm looking forward to seeing this come together!
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Nice! I have one in the deep stash, a score from an IPMS show a few years ago. Looking forward to you performing your usual magic on this outing.
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Still drilling tiny holes, nothing to show as yet.

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dollar19 wrote: Hope you have a good supply of spare bits!
I wish you hadn't said that ! a new supply is due to arrive on Monday so drilling can re-commence then.
In the meantime I am now working on the cockpit and fuselage, pictures will follow later today.

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Oh dear..... i hope I didn't jinx you!
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Looking forward to seeing this one. Just a thought but posing this next to a model of the transatlantic F4 would be sweet.

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If only I could get the Modeldecal sheet that contained it Greg.

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Just found a current decal sheet with that very aeroplane so this is possible when Airfix release the FGR.2 Phantom.
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/CAM72042;

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Looking forward to seeing the finished product on this one. :D
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Until I collect my new stock of drills I have slightly detailed and then fitted the cockpit and glued the fuselage halves together.
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Nice progress David. Following closely.

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Coming along very nicely. I've heard it's a beast of a kit too. Good luck for the next bits.
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That's really looking good. Sorry about bad luck with the drill bits. I think karma came my way for that.
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