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Squadron, HMS Ark Royal, 1956
This
model is the ASW GANNET FAIREY Mk.1/4 in 1/48 scale of the
Classic Airframe.
The
model is composed of part that are thick but
very workable, and finish up with panels all with recessed panel lines that are fine and
realistic, and pieces in resins, as part of the cockpits, the vain
carts, etc.
Naturally
this not a model for beginners and requires a lot of attention to reach a
good result.
How
to be seen from the pictures, the cockpits have had problems, neither the
closing of the two hulls of the fuselages, but in the union of the anterior
part, in resins, that fitted well a few with the part remainder of the fuselage.
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I
have resolved the problem with my drill, and a fed up good deal of, and to the
end he has gone all to place.
The
only thing that has left me a perplexed, has been the quality of the instrument panels
where waited me that were carried out in photoengraving, instead of
the simple panels of the kit in plastics, but patience!!!
For
painting as usual I painted the entire airplane in Flat Black, and
waited a day for the drying, then started with the Sky color from Humbrol,
panel for panel, and subsequently being more far by the model have sprinkled to
conform the all.
Same
does with the color extra Dark Sea Gray always of the Humbrol, naturally cleared
with some Flat White drop.
After
this I have applied two coats of shiny transparent varnish to prepare the way for the decals and then eliminate the annoying
"Silvering"!!!
The
top quality decals, are a finely crafted product by Cartograf and permit the
possibility to realize four Gannet, and exactly an English, and is what I
have chosen, a German, an Indonesian and finally an Australian.
Soften
with the Mr. Mark Softer from Gunze, a dry time has given other two hands of
shiny transparent varnish in way to seal it all.
And
to the end I applied in an irregular manner the transparent opaque varnish but
applied it in a very thin manner in a way to realizing a glazed but irregular finish. Busolini
Massimo
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