airscale Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 How do I have been hard at my P51 and a few years ago a good family friend who I grew up with in Singapore when my father was in Transport Command with her husband had asked me if I would make a model for him. Of all the aircraft he had flown, he had all but a Transmeridian Air Cargo CL44 Freighter. My dad and he both flew them after RAF service in a divergent list of airliners, exec jets & freighters. At the time I researched it and found Welsh Models make a 1/144 kit and 26 decals did the markings so I got hold of them both.. ..then it sat in a cupboard until this weekend - as I am waiting for masks for my P51 I was at a loose end, ans as it was due to be a Christmas present, I thought why not - surely it can't take long to make a simple desktop model.. ..here's the box.. ..and one-piece resin wings & a bag of other goodeies with the decals.. ..the fuselage is vacformed, so this was marked & cut out.. ..assembled, filled and with a mounting spigot being added for the wings.. ..it needed a fair bit of priming & sorting - partly due to my cavalier assembly, and partly due to raised doors and trench panel lines.. - the hinge blisters were also added.. ..I later added brass tubes for the exhaust pipes to the wings... ..main assembly complete.. it needed LOTS of filler to blend the flying & control surfaces.. ..a final prime of mr surfacer.. ..a coat of alclad chrome.. ..masking for the darker metal areas of the engine nacelles.. ..the nose tip was masked & painted, and the tips of the nacelles dipped in a lid of paint.. ..props painted and decal strips added for de-icers.. ..that was Saturday, this morning I added the decals and glosscoated the fuselage... ..and thats it - a model in a weekend and I also get to surprise some folks very close to me TTFN Peter mustang1989, kkarlsen, Trak-Tor and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmthamade Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Geez, in a weekend!! I can't get the box open in that time!! Nice build, thoughtful gift. Don Out2gtcha and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Yep! Real nice but yeah.........cant get s box fully opened in a week, let alone a finished model! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mustang1989 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 Man there aint no way.....no way..... I could finish a model that fast and make it look that good!! Superb work at an incredible speed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 5 hours ago, dmthamade said: Geez, in a weekend!! I can't get the box open in that time!! Nice build, thoughtful gift. Don Oh, I could get the box open Then spend the weekend doing 'research' on aero websites/Flight magazine/ordering books/ordering AM.... That's a lovely build Peter Richard LSP_K2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I agree with all of the above. What I can get done in a weekend, is almost negligible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted December 1, 2019 Share Posted December 1, 2019 I managed to make dinner over the weekend and you did a whole kit start to finish. Wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Wow! Impressed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 Likey, likely...........home alone alll weekend by any chance. Lovely work Peter. Regards. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted December 6, 2019 Share Posted December 6, 2019 Very nice. Reminds me of the Britannia . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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