rtfoe
SMF Supporter
Hi, I have always been an Airfix fan till now even with its old tooled kits which I try to bring up to present standards. One such kit is the 1/72 RE8. I acquired this kit a while back and the tooling is even older than I am. I tackled it whenever the mojo suited and this build ebbed with the tide lasting three to four years...lost the blog in MM so can't remember. I will start with showing the completed build which I set in diorama and then work from the start...
Firstly the number of parts to the kit gave me the impression that I could do this over the weekend but never guessed how wrong I was.
I made sure the cockpit and turret openings aligned and cleaned them up with a motor tool.
I anticipated filling the aircraft with spare Lewis gun magazines and made them from tube and rod. I then proceeded to add framing, dashboard and magazine holder to the interior.
Seriously the kit cockpit was totally void of anything except for protrusions for the pilot figure to sit on so I made a seat with two part putty and mesh to simulate a wicker seat.
I made a false floorboard for both the pilot and gunner. The pilots was slightly elevated.
All these detail was basically eyeballed from reference pictures and were not accurate in scale and slightly exagerated.
Next comes the painting...
Cheers,
Richard
Firstly the number of parts to the kit gave me the impression that I could do this over the weekend but never guessed how wrong I was.
I made sure the cockpit and turret openings aligned and cleaned them up with a motor tool.
I anticipated filling the aircraft with spare Lewis gun magazines and made them from tube and rod. I then proceeded to add framing, dashboard and magazine holder to the interior.
Seriously the kit cockpit was totally void of anything except for protrusions for the pilot figure to sit on so I made a seat with two part putty and mesh to simulate a wicker seat.
I made a false floorboard for both the pilot and gunner. The pilots was slightly elevated.
All these detail was basically eyeballed from reference pictures and were not accurate in scale and slightly exagerated.
Next comes the painting...
Cheers,
Richard