Villiers Vindicator B1A (or B2 maybe..)

[PR19_Kit]

You're a stronger, more dedicated man than I.

No, I'm just crazy. 

[Old Wombat]

You're a stronger, more dedicated man than I.

No, I'm just crazy. 

It's good to know your strengths!

[PR19_Kit]

Considering that M'box were notorious for their 'Trench Digger' dug panel lines, it's odd that the guy must have taken the week off when they did the Victor. Almost the entire airframe has raised panel line detail, only a few trenches here and there. 

I've done with sanding one wing now and started on the PSR work prior to a massive panel line engraving session.

Ah, no, I've got to add the win extensions first........... 

[kerick]

Ah yes, the Matchbox ditch digger! I've avoided many Matchbox kits because of that.
Be strong and carry on!

[PR19_Kit]

Be strong and carry on!

I'm trying, but my arms are wearing out with all that sanding.....

[kerick]

Feel the burn!!!!!
A new form of body building.

[PR19_Kit]

Here's the Vindi's port wing, as yet un-lengthened or with its needed panel lines, but it's all PSR'd and had its re-enforcing strips added.

I've drawn up the wing extension and that's next, but maybe not till Monday now, other things will take up my time till then.

[The Wooksta!]

Matchbox apparently didn't do the Victor - they asked Airfix to do it.  Looking at the Matchbox sprues, they don't look like the ones youu get used to.

[PR19_Kit]

Matchbox apparently didn't do the Victor - they asked Airfix to do it.  Looking at the Matchbox sprues, they don't look like the ones youu get used to.

That could explain a lot. The raised panel lines on the Victor look remarkably like the ones on the Airfix Vulcan.

[PR19_Kit]

I'm starting to think that the 'Spackman Spiral', the method I used for filling in the gap between the two parts of the fuselage of the Vindi, wasn't such a good idea, not as I did it anyway.

The spiral 'planks' are too thick, and they tended to kink rather than bend around the spacer struts I used to get the length right. I've been filing the high spots of the 'Spiral' down for DAYS now, and my model bench is hip deep in white styrene dust as a result!

It's only just starting to look reasonable now, and it'll probably need an extra layer of a much thinner 'Spiral' before I start puttying, or Milliputting perhaps.

Meanwhile I've only got about 3-4 miles of panel line engraving on the wings and tail to do...... 

[Snowtrooper]

This is of course too late now, but how thick styrene sheets does your hobby shop sell? Cutting a few discs that have the cross-section of the other end of the join and few discs with the other, glue them together, glue the slab inbetween front and rear, fine-tune the shape? You could even cut indentations for lengthwise spars in the discs before gluing so that the join would stay aligned.

[PR19_Kit]

My 'hobby shop', or what passes for one, is over 20 miles away, and that's a significant distance in rural UK. And I suspect I have more styrene sheets in stock than they have............

I did look at doing the 'styrene stack' method at first, but the gap is well over an inch deep and would have needed 16 layers of even 60 thou stock, and goodness knows how many busted knife blades as well.

[The Wooksta!]

P38 is your friend!

[kerick]

I'm starting to think that the 'Spackman Spiral', the method I used for filling in the gap between the two parts of the fuselage of the Vindi, wasn't such a good idea, not as I did it anyway.

The spiral 'planks' are too thick, and they tended to kink rather than bend around the spacer struts I used to get the length right. I've been filing the high spots of the 'Spiral' down for DAYS now, and my model bench is hip deep in white styrene dust as a result!

It's only just starting to look reasonable now, and it'll probably need an extra layer of a much thinner 'Spiral' before I start puttying, or Milliputting perhaps.

Meanwhile I've only got about 3-4 miles of panel line engraving on the wings and tail to do...... 

Sounds like more struts might have been useful. I think I saw 4 or 5. Ten might have helped. Water under the bridge now. Lesson for next time.

[PR19_Kit]

Sounds like more struts might have been useful. I think I saw 4 or 5. Ten might have helped. Water under the bridge
now. Lesson for next time.

There's six actually, but it would have been difficult to get more in there due to the all the bumps and other mouldings inside the Valiant fuselage.

What I should have done was round off the edges of the struts too, that might have made things easier.