Airfix 1:72 Blackburn Buccaneer S.2C

[colin m]

Nice build there is one of these sitting outside a local garge on the road to lossie not as tidy as your its a bit more weatheredOk so no an exact replica but close

Brilliant, that's probably what he thought when he bought the Bucc'. A few years later, I wonder if he's having second thoughts.

[colin m]

Hi Colin
Looking good. Glad you could sort the seat fit easily. I quite like the canopy open as it shows the cockpit off. That's some ornament for a garage forecourt :smiling:
Jim

Indeed, I think the canopy will be open.

[colin m]

Given the name of the filling station I see why they’d want to put a jet fighter next to it, but it still looks very odd to see that standing by the side of the road. Mind you, typing that made me remember that some years ago, someone living just outside the next village over from where I live, had a helicopter in the front garden, and I also know a house with an FV 433 Abbot in the garden.

I've seen the nose section of a Canberra stored at the side of a normal everyday house, on a normal everyday housing estate. Nothing normal about having a slice of nuclear bomber next to your house.

[Guest]

It could have been the nose from a reconnaissance variant In any case most people seeing it probably won’t even recognise it as a piece of an aircraft, never mind from a nuclear bomber. Not so much chance of that with that Buccaneer next to the filling station, though.

[stillp]

I used to commute past a house in Cirencester that had a Gannet in the garden! Very sad to see that wing fold mechanism exposed to the weather. I believe it's now at White Waltham.
Yes, here: http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Airframe...p?Serial=84554

Pete

[boatman]

WELL when I was on holl down south nr Christchurch I had a heck of a shock when I was drivein round a corner right in the middle of the rd stood a sea vixen an had to drive around it but still a shock I don't know if its still there though any body else seen that ?
chris

[JR]

Colin .
Very smart work .
While we're talking about odd things outside garages and houses, there was an allotment in Stamford with a tail gunners turret used as a mini greenhouse.
Gone now as houses built on it, wonder where that went ?

[colin m]

Colin .
Very smart work .
While we're talking about odd things outside garages and houses, there was an allotment in Stamford with a tail gunners turret used as a mini greenhouse.
Gone now as houses built on it, wonder where that went ?

Hopefully it was used in the restoration of the real thing, however, it probably ended up as land fill.

Now you've all got me thinking, I'm nearly sure there used to be an aircraft on top of a building somewhere around Stoke on Trent. That's it, I'm off to find the thing.

[colin m]

It could have been the nose from a reconnaissance variant

It probably was. But for comedy value, I preferred to tell the neighbours it was a nuclear bomber. Oh the look on their faces, will stay with me forever.

[stillp]

While we're talking about odd things outside garages and houses, there was an allotment in Stamford with a tail gunners turret used as a mini greenhouse.

There's a length of Lancaster fuselage at Newark Air Museum, that was used as a garden shed for a few decades! I think there's a gun turret in the park in Melton Mowbray.
Pete

[simontie]

Brilliant, that's probably what he thought when he bought the Bucc'. A few years later, I wonder if he's having second thoughts.

just slightly further along the coast (burghead) we used to have a Shackleton engine in a tractor frame the old guy who had it only fired it up once must have been something else, long gone now.... id love a Shackleton planted in my garden but not sure she will let me

[colin m]

I found it, somewhere near Longton (I think) in Stoke on Trent. I believe it lives on the roof there as the colours of the JP are the same as a local team, football or rugby I don't know.


Anyway, I've also done a bit of work on my own little Buccaneer. Finally, I'm ready for a bit of priming. The shinny bits are painted and many other tiny bits are ready for painting.


Air intakes and exhausts will be painted off the model and added later, it's just easier this way. Once attached, they will need to be 'blown in' but with this MRP paint, I don't think that will be a problem.
One reason it's taken me so long to get to this stage is, I'm a bit tight, and or lazy. If I can prime as much as possible in one go, I will. It also means I only have to clean the Ab once - lazy !



Like a number of jet aircraft I've built, I find black primer really suits them. Again, I'm nearly tempted to stop here.



So, getting ready for some colour, it's quite nice to be building an Airfix kit, when you have an Airfix colour chart. Even when you are using another brand of paint.


That's all for now. Hopefully, tomorrow night, I might get some paint on.

[rtfoe]

Progress is looking good Colin, I know what you mean by the procrastination. Mine is basically moving onto the next stage of build and masking. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[papa 695]

Very nice work so far Colin.

[colin m]

A bit more. It's actually painted. I've made it a bit 'patchy' just to avoid 'single colour syndrome'


The intakes and exhausts were painted separately. I did make an effort to make them fit before painting, in hind sight, I should have made more of an effort !
However, the really nice thing about this MRP paint is it blends in so easily so a quick touch up once fitted was not going to be a problem.


However, how did I miss this ? I only spotted whilst spraying the airbrake, oh well.


Result. Intakes and exhaust fitted and blended in. That shiny bit of metal at the front of the intake was the reason for painting them off the model.

As airbrakes go, that's a monster, but cleverly, it also helps reduce the length of the aircraft to help with stowage on board a carrier.