We should grabbed at least one

[Captain Canada]

Cool !

How are you going to build it, with the wheels in or out ? Mine will be sitting on the tarmac, so it'd be pretty frickin' cool if we could get a pic of the two of 'em !

Or maybe a good photoshop job, eh ?

 

[Ollie]

On the ramp, with the nose up, sleek looking and all.

Lemme get her first, eh!

 

[Captain Canada]

Just to 'wet' your appetite.........

[Spellbinder99]

Just wait till you try to glue the bugger together....OY!

Trust me, it is NOT a good fitting kit, so a well weathered camouflage scheme may be doing it a real service.

It is big though.

Cheers

Tony

[Captain Canada]

You know, I got that feeling as soon as I opened the box..........but after cutting up a few bits and test fitting them, they seem to go together allright. I was actually going to query here about building it, and what to look out for.

Pity I can't find that Concorde book I just bought. After the flood everything is packed away and I don't know where I put it !

 

[Davey B]

We should've plated over the windows, fitted cockpit ejector seats and F-119 engines, stripped out the cabin and fitted bomb racks.

How many Storm Shadow could THAT baby knock out at Mach 2?            

[Spellbinder99]

CC, the parts fit together side to side OK, it is the joint between the fuselage rear and middle, middle and front and the joint in the middle of the wing under the engines that blows goats.

To get anywhere near each other at the rear you have to squeeze one up and down and the other sideways then try to hold it there while the glue sets so the contours match. I recommend a set of screw clamps or such. The part of the fin on the middle fuselage is a different width and height to the main part.

The joint under the wings is partially covered by the engine nacelles, but you still have a couple of inches of badly matching surface to smooth and fill.

It is wonderfull to have a Concorde in this scale, but the designer that tooled the kit should be sodomised by an angry wild boar and then have "must do better!" tattooed on his hands as punishment....

The JMN's can worry about any innacuracies in the kit, I am just so mortified they could make a kit that fits so badly in this day and age. Ah well, I may start throwing handfulls of putty at this thing again one day, but for now it has been sin-binned.

Cheers

Tony

[Martin H]

The story goes that Heller used two factorys to make the concord Tooling, and neither could be bothered to talk to the other about it. Untill some poor git had to try and put one togeather to see how it fitted....so its not the fault of Airfix.........blame Heller. After all its a Heller kit in an Airfix box.

[Ollie]

I fear no evil for I have walked in the valley the Monogram P-80, ICM MiG-3 and much others!

And Toad, fuzzy bunny, stop teasing me will ya!

     

[Captain Canada]

And make sure you take the -250 and not the Focus when you pick it up at the post office.....the box is that BIG !

[Ollie]

'Got no -250, it's a 150.  And the guy will probably knock at the door...

 

[Captain Canada]

...and then curse you out for making himcarry such a big, heavy box !

 

[Ollie]

He's paid to do that, so I don't care, eh!

 

[Captain Canada]

Tony,
   What about that hinged nose joint ? It looks pretty complex, and I'm doubtful that it will work and still give a nice looking joint when in the raised position.

Ollie,
   What's the CC- number going to be ? 138 ?

[Ollie]

I'm using CC-200 for the bird, since it's a sleek number for a sleek plane!

And she'll be based at Uplands, with 400 Sqn.