Short Sunderland Mk.III

colin 2611 · Sep 19, 2015

Hi people just compleated this Airfix 1/72 model Short Sunderland Mk III, the markings are for a aircraft

of 423 Sqn Royal Canadian Air Force based at Castle Archdale, Northern Ireland, 1943 - 44, for North

Atlantic patrol duties.

The Sunderland was a welcome sight for meny a shot down air crew, over the sea, and was used

increasingly as the war continued against U-boats.

I had a good look around a full size Sunderland on my last trip to the Imperial War Museum at Duxford

unfortunately no longer flying.

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dougie · Sep 19, 2015

Beautiful clean build and paint job. Great work

geegad · Sep 19, 2015

Stunning looking build and paint job

noble · Sep 19, 2015

That's a cracker.

Scott

demon · Sep 19, 2015

Very nice build of a classic

Caledonia · Sep 19, 2015

Nice clean build Colin. Brings back memories of my youth, when I saved about a months pocket money for this model way back in 1959 approx. and paid the Princely sum of 10/6d.

zuludog · Sep 19, 2015

Well done, that's a nice standard of finish

What paints did you use?

Are those the Airfix kit decals?

monica · Sep 19, 2015

looks superb build,looks great,very well done,

papa 695 · Sep 20, 2015

Great work Colin. I did this kit a bit ago and know what you had to do to get it looking so good top job

Doug Hughes · Sep 20, 2015

Lovely build and paintwork, Colin, on a truly venerable kit. Nice rigging on the struts, too. I too can remember when it was 10/6d. Incidentally, how many other things are there that were first made 50+ years ago, and are still being produced virtually unchanged today. I can think of the great guitars of the 50s (Stratocaster, Telecaster, Les Paul), but not much else.

tr1ckey66 · Sep 20, 2015

What a beautiful looking plane and model. Superb work on a stunning aircraft certainly deserving the 'Great Build' tag.

Cheers

Paul

Laurie · Sep 20, 2015

Very nice Colin. Been thinking of adding this to my ambitions.

The Sunderland appeared in the film Yangste Incident. This was the true happening of HMS Amythest caught up in the Chinese civil war. The Sunderland lands along side The Amythest. Filmed on the Medway. Some great shots.

I think there is still a Sunderland in the Southampton Air Museum. You can crawl all over the aircraft.

Nice model Colin some very nice paintwork.

Laurie

colin m · Sep 22, 2015

Now that's a blast from the past. It was probably about 35 years ago I built the Airfix Sunderland. It's a very clean build.

Steve Brodie · Sep 23, 2015

Very |Neat

tanktrack · Sep 23, 2015

love it I have 1 in my stash , I got it in Dublin last year for 8 euros , well finished maybe I will dig mine out after some armour it would be a change

steve scan · Sep 24, 2015

Lovely Colin always liked the old Airfix one, great to see.

flyjoe180 · Sep 24, 2015

Nicely done Colin. It's a very old kit, you've made a good clean job of finishing it. Great build.

ojays · Sep 24, 2015

Lovely clean paint and build, always thought this not to be a very good kit to build.

However you have definitely got this just right.

Short Sunderland Mk.III

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