1/72 Airfix Avro Vulcan 

by Suresh Patel

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This is my Avro Vulcan, I basically built it OOB. I did some research on the internet about the kit and was aware of fit problems, especially with the wing / fuselage area . Even so, I still managed to screw it up... I left the plane on the "Fix it later graveyard" for about a month. I picked it up again and saw it might be recoverable, "Bondo" came to the rescue, and I generously applied enough to cover my sins, and  then worked on the intakes, which looked smooth after filler in the seams, and 3 or 4 coats of white auto primer. The rest of the kit went well, I lost the entry door on the Vulcan but found cutting up the lower nose section of a junk 1/48 F-106 did well as a door. I applied 2 coats of white primer and 3 coats of white auto paint, I did not get the brilliant white, but rather a "bone china white" or a very slightly off white, which to me looked more appropriate. The decals were a nightmare, thank goodness I had a spare set of decals ( from another Vulcan which was demolished when my two cats decided to have a fight next to my models). They did not react well (the decals..not the cats!!) at all to any kind of setting solution, both Solvaset or MicroSol. Now all I have to do is make a Victor in the same scheme!

Suresh

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