Vickers Valiant B.Mk2, 148 Sqn RAF 1965-68

[scautomoton]

Why and what were we not gluing something together yet? I must have missed the explanation

[Captain Canada]

Looking good !

[buzzbomb]

Looking on here too, in a passive mode, not sure I have seen the Airfix kit built as a blog.

Valiants are now in the "too big for display" bucket for me, still like the look of this build and has some tasty teasers for mods mentioned.

[Accidental Loggie]

Why and what were we not gluing something together yet? I must have missed the explanation

Stuart - it's the fuselage plug.  I wanted to keep some jeopardy in the thread....  All will be revealed shortly 😎

[Accidental Loggie]

The Plug, or "Wot I Did Wrong".  I stuck the fuselage plug together in isolation, which meant when I stuck the nose and rear fuselage to it, there was a definite mis-match between the diameter of the plug and the kit bits.
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This photo shows this problem well.  With a sense is impending doom about lots of PSR, my subconscious came to the rescue and suggested wrapping some very thin plasticard around it as a collar.  This has worked tolerably well, with only a modicum of filler needed to blend.
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In retrospect, I should have only cleaned up the plug bits, and them properly dry fitted them to nose and rear fuselage components.  I could then have used plasticard shims of the correct thickness to pack out the slighter narrower plug.  That would have save me a lot of time and faff, and would have been a better solution all round.

Ho hum!

[PR19_Kit]

It's surprising how many conversion kit's parts don't actually fit the model they're supposed to convert.

Makes you wonder if they ever did a test build............. 

[Old Wombat]

I think a lot of resin manufacturers, especially garage kit makers, fail to take in the shrinkage that occurs with many/most resins, or, if they do, they then forget that different resins can shrink different amounts if they use a different source of resin.

It may not be a lot but it can make a difference.

[Gondor]

I forgot to post the picture of how far mine had got in an earlier post, which I have now updated. Here it is again for those that don't want to scroll back.