After seeing one of these buzz the beach at Malaga a couple of years back I got intrigued and found one at a show . I never got round to building it though and ended up moving it on via ebay. It was the Revell boxing of this , and that was in yellow plastic too! This kit is based on the older 1980 Heller cl215 with the radial engines , the kit was updated with new Turboprop engines , new wingtips and finlets for the tailplanes but i think the fuselage remained the same which probably accounts for the rivets .
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Yup, and that is without the nose cone on and the forward discharge hopper installed.
Rick H.Comment
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Nice interior Steve, hope the brittle plastic doesn’t give any troubles during construction of the bigger parts :thumb2:Comment
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Hi Fernando, the plastic does not react very well to Tamiya cement. I've been using Plastic Weld (which is really 'hot') and superglue.
It seems to be holding together so far
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Quick update as I now have something resembling an aeroplane.
It's worse than it looks in the picture, there will be a bit to be done before I can add engines and the last few bits before priming.
I'm optimistic that the kit can be bashed into shape, not so sure about the decals.
Cheers
SteveComment
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Looks like you've already started with the filler Steve. How bad is it?Comment
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It's variable.
For example, the fin and horizontal stabilisers fit very well, but the wing centre section doesn't. The fuselage went together reasonably well, with the exception of the part that makes up the front of the hull. The white plastic parts come on a separate sprue, are in a different plastic, and are a bit approximate too.
Overall it is not really bad, I've seen far worse, but it's not great either, just very...average.
It would also be easy to compound the issues without careful dry fitting, trial and error etc. Some major parts could be fitted badly without you trying too hard to do so.
If the kit is forty years old there's not much to complain about. I'm guessing it was engineered without any sort of CAD!
The decals are a worry. If worse comes to worse I can spray the red and white markings, walkways, etc. but some of the lettering will get left off. Honestly, I'm not dying for authenticity! I was given this kit with a 'see what you can make of that' instruction, so I have carte blanche to do what I like.
Cheers
SteveComment
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According to Scalemates , this particular boxing dates from 2011 so the decals will be nine years old at the most Steve. Mind you Heller decals have always been a bit strange, they perform well enough but are usually VERY matt and seem to suffer from very yellow carrier film ,even when fairly new . What do these ones look like ?Comment
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Yellow film should not be a problem here
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The only ones I've used (some of) are the IP decals. They were extremely thick and not particularly adhesive. They weren't yellowed. The ones for the exterior come in very large parts and I'm not sure how well they will work over the raised detail, albeit somewhat reduced by my sanding. I'll give them a go anyway.Comment
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This is now something grey and free from Heller.
The primer has revealed one or five things that need attention, but I'm hoping that tomorrow I can convert this into something white and free with a second coat of primer. I'm not worried about losing surface detail, it might even be a bonus!
After that I'll make it yellow and red. I'm not sure that the colours will be exact, it really depends which yellow and red paints I can dig out of my collection!
Cheers
SteveComment
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Thing always look better with a slap of primer. Not that it looked bad before, it's just that yellow, it was a bit offensive to the eyes.Comment
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Well, this is remarkable.
Last night I sprayed a coat of grey primer, and this afternoon I followed it with a coat of white primer. I don't flood the model with paint, these are just primer coats.
Imagine my surprise when, following the white coat, the model looked like this.
That yellow refuses to die!
It's a good job that most of the model will eventually be finished in...errr...YELLOW.
Cheers
SteveComment
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