While
delving around in boxes in the shed of our new house (we have moved yet
again – but this time just round the corner) I came across a part
finished Special Hobby Hornet F1. I had spent a bit of time trying to get
this disaster out of my memory bank. Anything that could go wrong did –
I lost parts, made a hash of joining the wings to the fuselage and then to
cap it all off the paint job (you know the one – silver with all those
pretty red markings) was awful. However something stopped me from throwing
the darn thing away, and a week or so ago when I found it I wondered
whether it could be rescued. I still had the rest of the other markings,
and having read in the ARC forums that oven cleaner was pretty good for
getting rid of old paint I rolled up my sleeves and here is the result
barely two weeks later. It is in the markings of 65 Squadron RAF, based at
Linton-on-Ouse in 1946. This time I used Tamiya acrylics for the paint
job, and some watercolours to dirty her up. Frankly I was surprised how
well she scrubbed up, as long as you don’t look too closely
J.
Simon
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