Tom builds a Shackleton
Posted: July 17th, 2012, 8:16 pm
One of the builds I signed myself up for this year is an Avro Shackleton. I've quietly been beavering away on the kit for the last week and thought it was a good idea to get a thread set up to keep everyone up to date with my (slow) progress.
I am starting from the Revell mid 90's re-box of the classic FROG kit:
There are no sprue shots as my kit was secondhand and a lot of parts had seperated from the sprues and were rattling about in the bag, when I bought the kit the first thing I did was to strip all of the parts and put them into sealable plastic bags to keep them safe.
A lot of you are familiar with the FROG Shackleton and the considerable effort the FROG toolmakers must have put in to create its incrediable surface detail that if mishandled will strip the skin off of your fingers , I bet you also know that the kit does have iffy fit in a couple of places and this detail just wont survive the sanding process, rather than go more insane trying to re-create it after a wet 'n' dry session I have opted to sand back the surface to leave a very faint impression of the '40000 rivets flying in close formation':
The wing on the right is straight from the box and the left has been sanded back.
But that was last weekend, this is where I am now:
The fuselage has been painted Tamiya NATO black throughout, all the glassware has had three coats of Klear and the fuselage glazing is installed, 20 grams of lead is in the nose (more will be needed in the nacelles) the fuselage is together and has had a hefty step filled and sanded smooth.
Currently I'm removing ejector pin marks from the mating surfaces in the tail assembly than getting them together.
Regards
Tom
I am starting from the Revell mid 90's re-box of the classic FROG kit:
There are no sprue shots as my kit was secondhand and a lot of parts had seperated from the sprues and were rattling about in the bag, when I bought the kit the first thing I did was to strip all of the parts and put them into sealable plastic bags to keep them safe.
A lot of you are familiar with the FROG Shackleton and the considerable effort the FROG toolmakers must have put in to create its incrediable surface detail that if mishandled will strip the skin off of your fingers , I bet you also know that the kit does have iffy fit in a couple of places and this detail just wont survive the sanding process, rather than go more insane trying to re-create it after a wet 'n' dry session I have opted to sand back the surface to leave a very faint impression of the '40000 rivets flying in close formation':
The wing on the right is straight from the box and the left has been sanded back.
But that was last weekend, this is where I am now:
The fuselage has been painted Tamiya NATO black throughout, all the glassware has had three coats of Klear and the fuselage glazing is installed, 20 grams of lead is in the nose (more will be needed in the nacelles) the fuselage is together and has had a hefty step filled and sanded smooth.
Currently I'm removing ejector pin marks from the mating surfaces in the tail assembly than getting them together.
Regards
Tom