1/72 Ex-Frog Supermarine S6B

Gallery Article by Radim Schimmer on Aug 20 2003

 

The Supermarine S6B was the winner of the last Schneider Trophy in 1931. It was powered by 2300hp RollsRoyce R engine and achieved top speed of  547 km/h. 

This kit was produced as many other former Frog kits by some obscure Soviet toy company.  It was packed in soft box with terrible artwork, without type of aircraft mentioned anywhere in packing, with parts moulded in yellow plastic with lots of flash and with unusable decals. I bought it in one private sale for $1 and took it as a one weekend project. The fit was not as bad as I suspected, the most complicated part was attaching engine cover in front of windshield, that needed lot of filling and sanding.  Kit was brush painted with Aeromaster acrylic blue and Revell enamel silver, red and white. Serial number was printed using laser printer on clear decal film, No. I was cut from solid white decal. Rigging was done with stretched sprue. For glosscoating I used Future. No weathering – of course.  

Happy modelling   

Radim Schimmer    Brno, Czech Republic

      

Photos and text © by Radim Schimmer