I have started the build yesterday, placed some parts of sheet in one side of the fuselage to make it stiffer 🔧 .
This kit is in production since 1979 , and i build it in that time aged 14 ( sadly lost it 20 years ago, was a not so bad diorama project ) .
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The vacu kit will be completed with the original Matchbox 188 kit of that time .
Love a vacform build :thumbsup:
Good move adding some rigid formers at this stage
Who did that kit way back then? Was it Airmodel perhaps?
You are absolutely right, and they sell it still today .
https://www.airmodel.de/shopping_cart.php?language=de
I can remember how fragile the fuselage was at my first build, and i got some new experience collected the last years 😂 and i will ad some more pieces after sanding the fuselage .
There will be come some inventions around the engines and props, there was a mostly unknown prototype build in late Summer 1945 😉 .
Quote from: buzzbomb on April 11, 2025, 11:43:00 PMGood move adding some rigid formers at this stage
Yup, I never thought of that.
Only got a couple of vacforms left in the stash
I still have a few of their vacforms knocking about, they do quite interesting stuff.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2025, 11:08:07 AMI still have a few of their vacforms knocking about, they do quite interesting stuff.
Same here.. I have quite a box full.
This makes it out onto the bench every year or so. It is looked at and then the rational brain side says... no.. put it back ;D
(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/4/9/1/238491-13150-36-pristine.jpg)
So looking to live my Vacform building days vicariously through this build
Oh NO! :o
The Blackburn Blackburn, the leading contender in the World's UGLIEST Aeroplane competition! :banghead: :banghead:
.... he he that is realy not easy to watch. For me the 388 in her slim line version is at the other side of the contest, i have always thougt that it is a very beautiful plane :wub:
Quote from: killnoizer on April 12, 2025, 11:41:19 PMFor me the 388 in her slim line version is at the other side of the contest, i have always thougt that it is a very beautiful plane :wub:
It is indeed
I've gotta remember to keep an eye on this build :banghead:
This is going very slow.
Thank you very much for watching :thumbsup:
To much work in our business, broken bicycles and the Landy needs my time, parents and the garden....