Charlie

Polite British bloke who makes models and other stuff. 🇬🇧 - And yes I do drink tea. YouTube:

[Charlie @Charlie_2k17]

Lest we forget.

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All complete! All decals applied and weathering applied to and behind the exhaust nozzles. Not sure what to build next though…

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Finally returned to the P.1127 and fitted the landing gear, after a lot of faffing about due to getting all the wheels level with each other!

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Main assembly finished, all that’s left now is fitting the landing gear, a final coat of paint, decals and weathering.

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Started on another jet prototype, a Hawker P.1127. Quite a simple kit but an old tooling so lots of filling and sanding to be done!

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All complete! I’ve wanted to make a model of this aircraft for a while now so I’m quite chuffed to have finally done it.

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Construction and painting finished apart from the pitot tube. All that’s left now is a coat of varnish, the decals and trying to stop the landing gear from collapsing!

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Very almost finished! Grey painting complete and green started although I have run out of green paint so now on the hunt for some more!

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Canopy fitted and underside painted, as well as landing gear assembled to be fitted after painting the fuselage and upper wing surfaces.

[Charlie @Charlie_2k17]

Lest we forget.

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Wings were a far better fit but by no means perfect. Again plenty of filling and sanding required to get a good finish.

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Fuselage now assembled. Like with the Sabre; lots of filling and sanding required, especially around the tail plane which was a very rough fit.

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Started now on a Gloster E.28/39, Britain’s first jet aircraft. The kit didn’t come with any decals for the instrument panel so I tried my hand at painting it myself, as well as using a gloss clear-coat to portray the glass on the gauges.

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Sabre complete! Some of the decals broke up a bit but I managed to arrange them again. Quite an unusual paint scheme for this aircraft but I like it nonetheless.

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All painting completed, as well as the speed brakes extended. Just the decals and weathering left to do now.

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Camouflage half done - just the green coat to apply now, hopefully this is enough masking!

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Almost all construction complete, all that’s left now is the canopy and painting the camouflage.

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Main structure complete! Wings were far easier that the fuselage although by no means a simple fit, drop-tanks fitted and landing gear started, as well as the underside painted.

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Despite a lot of finagling, the two fuselage halves barely fit together so I had to use a generous amount of superglue to hold it in place and plenty of filler to smoothen the join.

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New model started, a Canadiar Sabre in RAF colours this time. Started this a few weeks ago to be honest but lost a bit of enthusiasm as this is a pretty poor tooling!