Handley Page Halifax MkIII 1/48

[Guest]

Ok, here we go.....

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Tonight I've unpacked the kit and had a look around. Blimey it's big. There's going to be lots of work as there's plenty of flashing and reading other reviews of the kit it's going to to interesting to say the least. Got to be easier than a Viggen in splinter camo!!

There's a lot plane here, with resin bits, PE, and metal parts too (landing gear, pit pieces and some rather bent gun barrels!!). Made by Fonderie Miniatures.

Building the plane for a work colleague whose Grandfather flew in one and was shot down over France and ended up seeing out WWII as a PoW.

Anyway once i've started with the hammer and chisel i'll post my progress.

Cheers

Jer

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[Guest]

Jer thats a lot of plastic in that kit lol,looking forward to seeing it come together!. Nice that you have a story to go with it as well!

[Dave W]

Im interested in the Halifax so will be watching you build this as well.

[InFlames]

Good luck with the kit!

[Guest]

Ok, been "quite" a while since my original post and i have made significant progress since a delayed start, so i'll start posting pictures as from now....

As you can see the kit was full or flash and i spent many hours tidying up the pieces and hoovering up!!

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Testing the fitting of the cockpit to guage how badly it would all fit together and how much work i'd need to do to fix it!!!

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[Guest]

...........oophs!! forgot to add the all the cockpit detailing. Painted black a dry brushed for metallic feel. Dropped Klear into dial faces to current a glass effect.

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[papa 695]

Nice start looking very good Jer

[mossiepilot]

That's looking great Jer, a nice looking office mate.

Tony.

[Guest]

I did originally start the thread in April then got completely side tracked with other tasks (mainly provided by the Mrs) and by the fact i was frankly intimidated by the kit and what i'd read from other peoples builds!!!!! Anyway this has been a very challenging build but i have enjoyed it and as i'm now in the process of finishing her i thought i'd better start posting pictures (which i intend to do ever night)

So here's some more pictures.....

Here are the resin engines, i found them to be pretty good in detail and once housed i expected most of the engine would be hidden but i thought i'd try to do them justice and using Alcad aluminium and plenty of the great MIG burnt blue steel, smoke and rust i dusted them up and was pleased with the result.

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I keep all my bits in a box otherwise i'm under my desk trying to find where a piece has gone!

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Here is the start of the cockpit assembly......took other pic's but they've gone!?

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.........anyway the bits went together pretty well and I used CA glue instead of cement as i read of too many instances of melting the plastic.

Still can't find the pic's of the assembly (sneeky suspicision i've deleted them) i'll have to show how the completed "office" (liked the term Tony) fitted onto the fuselage.

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Had to heat bend the walls to attach better to the inside of the fuselage (cheers toaster) also added and maps box and spot light on the desk. Basically I just went CA mad and stuck everything to the port side of the fuselage to start to make the REALLY flimsy plastic more rigid.

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[Guest]

Jer I do not know if it is just my machine but your attachments are coming up with invalid.

Your previous attachments are fine just this recent one.

Laurie

[Dave W]

Looking good Jer.I can't view the attachments in your last post though.Pitty because this is a really interesting build.

[Guest]

No idea why attachments weren't showing. Edited and attached again, logged off and on and i can see them. Odd......

I have quite a few photos to upload, hope this was just a blip!!!

Going to go to the Yorkshire Air Museum to see the real thing when i've completed the kit (week or so away now......), probably would have been best to see it first!!!

[Guest]

Jer that office is looking fantastic! I'm surprised at the amount of flash you had to clean up,as much as these kits go for I would'nt have thought there would be any!

[Guest]

Looking great love all the bits in the office.

Sent from my GT-S5670 using Tapatalk 2

[Dave W]

Jer.I used to have a lot of trouble posting photos when i joined the forum.I found it very much a hit and miss afair.Then i discouvered the 'Tapatalk' app.Very easy to do it now.Posts large pictures and cost me £1.49 for unlimited uploads.