Built for the SAAF/Africa
Group Build here on ARC. Kit is made by Heller and is based on the Bobcat
kit that was kicking around a few years back. As it was the bobcat kit, it
had a lot of moveable parts plus the cockpit glazing was atrocious. During
construction, I had to use a good bit of filler around wing root join, engines
and the nose area. There was also a good amount of swearing added in and
Ii have lost count the number of times the kit was taking flying lessons.
A lot of gaps needed filling in on fuselage join as well. The cockpit is
extremely basic to say the least with no instrument panel as such so I
modified one I had that came out of an old B707 that was scrapped. I painted the
interior a dark green to try and hide lack of detail inside cockpit. I refused
to use the glazing that came with the kit and instead opted to use Humbrol
clearfix which seems to have worked okay. For the colours I relied on the
help of fellow modellers and of course our SAAF books we have. Model was
brush painted. SAAF markings came from a generic SAAF sheet that
Biltongbabe has in her stash. All in all a challenging build and one I
won't repeat for a good while (until another transall
scheme shows up!!).
Stephen
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