In an unusual daring moment, I decided to give this one a try.
First impressions:
It is a big aircraft and a huge model in this scale. I have built two of the V-bombers, but they feel about half as big as the VC10. And they already claim too much shelf space..
It is an absolute dog of a kit, Mach2 style, with very coarse “detail” and inexact casting. I haven’t started even test fitting anything yet, but somehow, I’m not really worried. It might be nigh on impossible to build a perfect replica of the actual plane from this kit, but being the hamfisted cobbler I am, it’s actually providing me with the perfect excuse not to deliver something top notch but rather fiddle along, having a good time. And that’s a rather nice feeling, actually.
So I’m looking forward to getting on with it, but first some rudimentary interior painting. Not much will be seen through the thick and uneven transparencies, but whatever may be hinted should at least look reasonable.
I will most certainly not bother to attempt any major corrections to the kit, neither to the nose profile nor to anything else. It will most certainly bear enough resemblance to a VC10 to make me tick anyway. And - from reviews, it seems as if the wing layout doesn’t match neither the window arrangement nor the fuselage length for any real RAF bird, so I might have to write a backstory after all, actually making a whif out of an OOB build. Intriguing. I will have to read up better on the matter.
I suspect this’ll be another multi year project, and I’ve never been much for deadlines anyway (hence my absence from GB:s) but let’s see how things turn out. I think I’m about to have a good time!
