Rick's Airfix 1/72 English Electric Lightning F6

[PhilJ]

I like where your going with this one Rick, I'm now watching the thread

[papa 695]

Some nice work Rick

[takeslousyphotos]

Very nice Rick ........ This is looking good mate.

[flyjoe180]

Looking good Rick.

[BrianT]

I'm in. This is one of my favourite aircraft I saw this at Biggin in the early 60's and remeber it vividly to this day

[rickoshea52]

Buttoned up the fuselage tonight and added the resin engine kit and had a play around with the scratch built one that I made just to see if something could work. The compartment on the right hand side behind the cockpit has a scratch made back panel and will have some LRU's and other bits added in due course.

[PhilJ]

Looking like a decent fit Rick, that scratch work looks spot on mate.


Phil

[papa 695]

That is looking very good with some great alterations Rick

[rickoshea52]

I've had a go at replicating the other engine on this model using evergreen plastic tube, strip and lead wire. I had to make a bulkhead for the aft wall of the engine bay, when filled and sanded back this will have a bit of detail added.


The avionics compartment has also been filled with some plastic rod etc.

[rickoshea52]

Ohhh I like this I thought that the new mould was going to be good from Airfix but your doing a cutaway with engine showing now that's perked me up on attention. The cuts seem to be very good ( was the plastic soft enough) Airfix new plastics seem to be not as brittle as older Airfix kits ( my opinion )
I'm in on this


Robert

The plastic is fairly soft and has a degree of pliability to it. This has a drawback though as any burrs around filed edges can be tricky to smooth out.

[Robert1968]

Loving this detail on this build and your executing with pure genius


Regards


Robert

[papa 695]

Your putting some great work into this Rick and it's paying off very nicely.

[rickoshea52]

Wings on and the scratch built engine fitted with some plasticard added to the rear bulkhead to represent stiffeners. When dry the engine will get some touching in with paint. I'm not concerned about the yawning gap between the engine and fuselage as I only intend for the exposed section to be seen from "ground level".

[papa 695]

Great work there Rick some very nice scratch building

[Guest]

Lot's of great work going into this.