DONE +++ Thai Navy Canadair SeaGuard (Maritime patrol Vickers Vanguard) @p.5

[Dizzyfugu]

Wings and stabilizers mounted to the fuselage. More fighting! 

[PR19_Kit]

The MAD boom has also been added preliminarily, scratched from the very thick sprues of the Airfix Vanguard kit.

'Waste not, want not' as my Nanna used to say, often!

[Dizzyfugu]

"Improvisation is the mother of invention", or something similar... 

Putty helps, too! 

[JayBee]

Dizzy take your time with it. Do not fight it. It will all come good in the end.
Heck I only took ten years to finish mine. 

Jim

[kerick]

"Improvisation is the mother of invention", or something similar... 

Putty helps, too! 

Laziness is the father......

[Dizzyfugu]

Dizzy take your time with it. Do not fight it. It will all come good in the end.
Heck I only took ten years to finish mine. 

Jim

Then it shall take ten days for me... 

So far, things move on slowly - this morning the Seaguard stood on its landing gear struts for the first time, and I found that I have to adjust the stance because the nose (with a new front gear well) rests a bit low on the ground. Looks like an aircraft, though, but not like a Vanguard anymore... "Stingray" would be another good name for it. 

[Gondor]

"Stingray" would be another good name for it. 

Does that mean its colour scheme is going to be similar to the Gerry Anderson W.A.S.P. force machine?

Gondor

[Dizzyfugu]

It will be rather decorative than with cammo intent - but the "Stingray" tag rather comes from new shapes.

BTW, did I mention that I fight with this shabby Airfix kit? I tried to insert the windscreen into the respective fuselage opening, and none of the three known spacial dimensions fits. It's horrible, I even considered fairing the whole thing over and paint some cockpit windows onto the front... 

[PR19_Kit]

BTW, did I mention that I fight with this shabby Airfix kit? I tried to insert the windscreen into the respective fuselage opening, and none of the three known spacial dimensions fits. It's horrible, I even considered fairing the whole thing over and paint some cockpit windows onto the front... 

And why not?

I may have some Vanguard decal windscreens and windows if you'd like some?

[rickshaw]

I note, Dizzy that this is one of your first threads which has no pictures in it.   We need pictures!   Where are they?  Mmmm?   

[Old Wombat]

That's because this is one form of Dizzy stealth build.


The other sort is where you don't even know he's building anything & the complete build & finished product suddenly appear out of nowhere.

[Dizzyfugu]

That's marketing, lack of information keeps the crowd guessing... Anyway, I document the build with pics but do not upload/post them at the moment.

BTW, I somehow managed to get the windscreen into the kit. Had to insert a 2mm styrene plug on one side of the screen, everything's not really pretty. But I keep on fighting with the thing, now I want results.

[Dizzyfugu]

Building more or less finished (added some more antennae for a purposeful look  ), but desaster struck immediately again when I tried to paint parts of the fuselage with rattle can enamals. Somehow, two paints reacted with each other, for a less than satisfactory finish. At least, no crackles in the lower layer, I will try to save what's there with sand paper and some dry painting. Hopefully. 

Sometimes, a project seems to be cursed. Wonder who's handling the voodoo puppet... 

[Old Wombat]

Not me! I'm on your side!

[Captain Canada]

Ouch. That sucks. This thing should have been done 4 days ago lol