Richard's Revell Ex-Matchbox 1/72 Victor Resurfaces

[Guest]

I'm looking for a Wilderbeast...don't know who makes them.

Do you mean a Vickers Vildebeest?



There are a couple of choices for that: https://www.scalemates.com/search.ph...l&q=Vildebeest

[rtfoe]

Lovely job ,Richard.
Not my era but its always good to follow your thought processes and techniques.
I always think the provision of ejector seats for only the pilots is very indicative of the class system in the UK at the time....!
Maybe the charitable explanation is that the pilots keep the plane flying to allow the rest of the crew to evacuate, then eject at the last possible moment?

Thanks Neil, :tears-of-joy: I believe the procedure was to have the crew exit from the side door that has blast shields on both sides and then the pilots eject. The bombedier exits on his own somewhere else.

Do you mean a Vickers Vildebeest?



There are a couple of choices for that: https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=All&q=Vildebeest

Thanks Jakko for the info. Will be checking it out to see if any are available especially the Azurs kit. Nice to have one of these on the Malayan campaign.

I think I'll be finishing this before the trip to Australia.
In a months time I'll be down under tasting the hot weather but according to my sister, the forecast is milder but who knows. Definitely visiting Hobby Co at QVB and upstairs to the Elite Military Miniatures figure shop just to oggle at painted figures by the St Petersburg painters....can't afford them. Wonder if anyone knows of other hobby shops in Sydney in the area of Quakers Hill. I know there's an artshop at Castle Hill and on the way for DIY my Sis says I'll die in Bunnings. :smiling2:

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Here is more progress on the Victor...

First I added gizmology to the wheel well just to make it look busy with plastic strips and wire for piping.

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Looked the part but not accurate once closed up...

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The Matchbox Victor engine intakes had a reputation of being the archilles heel for the kit. I wasn't going to let that get in the way. On dry fitting I decided that two part putty was going to solve it, the reason was it was easy to build up and smoothen and it does not shrink which negates accessive sanding and it can be painted while it is curing.

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But to make it easier I made sure that all the slats were sanded to match the top and bottom halves. Then I painted the interior

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Glued and clamped the wing halves together...

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Talk about overkill :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:...

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The result turned out ok...

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Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Meanwhile Matchbox at times do give some interior...bits of it that are not too bad so I used them as is. One of them is the landing flaps. They did however needed extra plastic strips as I was going to pose them fully open.

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Puttied and sanded...later actuator arms were added. I'll show that process later.

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The other interior were the tail airbrakes...

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I added the wall so you don't see end of the tail.


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The struts were quite delicate at the attachments and I tried as much to avoid breaking them...thankfully everything aligned. I didn't glue the covers to help with painting.

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Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Now we move onto...slapping the parts together and adding the green stuff

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You can see that every joit needed some amount of putty and sanding. The awkward tail inlet interior joint also was puttied as it was visible.

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Assembling the tail section was critical to get alignment right. The wing roots were a tight fit but still had a thin gap to be filled.

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Dimples on a child is cute but not on a kit...they were everywhere...

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Very noticeable step at the nose just in front of the cockpit....

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Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
A lot of time and effort needed to fill all the poor joins. Engines and wheel wells look much better for your scratched additions. When you joined the wing halves I don't think you had enough clamps - another two or three would have had it properly sorted :smiling5: Although your clamps are pretty colours :tongue-out3:
Jim

[scottie3158]

Richard,
You are making a great job of this.

[rtfoe]

Hi Richard
A lot of time and effort needed to fill all the poor joins. Engines and wheel wells look much better for your scratched additions. When you joined the wing halves I don't think you had enough clamps - another two or three would have had it properly sorted :smiling5: Although your clamps are pretty colours :tongue-out3:
Jim

Well Jim, when you invest in old kits you need to be ready for plastic surgery...literally speaking. The scratch stuff were fun additions. Yes, always not enough clamps to do the job even colourful ones nipped from SWMBO's clothes line. :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Richard,
You are making a great job of this.

Thanks Paul, if only it didn't take 3 years to finally change it to the right colour so I can get on with the final decalling and weathering. :tongue-out3:

Cheers,
Richard

[Guest]

I just came across the following on YouTube that I thought would be interesting for those reading this thread:

[rtfoe]

Wow fantastic Jakko, thanks. I watched it twice before replying. :smiling6:

I was just about to add the little avionic aerials and protrusions especially the red nav lights on the top which sat off center to the left and the extra fin also on the top left and tiny one on either side of the bottom chin. I think there were two more large avionic fins along the belly offset to the right.

I had just made the drogue refuelling probes that are extended and pulled behind the Victor...the kit part is on the right.

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They were coated with white glue to simulate the plastic translucent covering...

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They should retract further in but I didn't want to loose all that effort in the scratch building.

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Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

The drogues look the nuts my friend.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Paul, I am quite pleased with the nuts :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy:

Here's more of the build...

If you remember the 80's fashion with their pumped up shoulder pads, well I wonder if it was influenced by these foils on each side of the wing leading edge. Another Captain Scarlet looking gizmology. I made these with plastic sheet using a paper template to get the curvature right.

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The full set of wing tips carefully attached ensuring correct angle of the gentle slope...no dehydral or enhydral to conform to.

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At this angle you can see why it was such and eligant and beautiful aircraft...just like the video says on the ground she looks like she's doing mach 1.

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The forward undercarriage bay recieved a little attention to detail of gizmology. If you notice that puttying is concentratted on the right fuselage half. I suspect that the edges may have curved in upon release of the molding process.

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The large dimple was filled and rescribed. The undercarriage bays were sprayed silver and a black wash applied.

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Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

I added some stress plates on the wing which was not present on the kit with plastic strips. Also a vent next to the engine intake had to be addressed as it was an awkward untidy hole...
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I used about 1cm of plastic tubing, set it at the right angle, glued it, then sliced off the front leaving a 1mm lip and drilled to thin the lip of the vent.

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The sharp tip of the tail fin was achieved by chucking a thick rod into a pencil sharpener to roughly get the shape and then with a motor tool as a lathe sanded it down.

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You can just see the correction made to the mis-scribed panel when my guide accidentally slipped. This was quite a tricky area as even the raised lines were vague.

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The same was done to the tail tip.

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Overall the green spots show the amount of putty needed which shows the kit has quite a good fit for an old kit.

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Thanks for looking in. More to come soon.

Cheers,
Richard

[Tim Marlow]

Great work so far Richard. Turning this into an outstanding build....

[Jim R]

Hi Richard

.........by chucking a thick rod into a pencil sharpener to roughly get the shape

Another simple idea to add to my book of tips gleaned from your builds :thumb2:
As always very neat, well considered work.
Jim