Downed Vickers Type 56 Victoria (former BSC 2017 entry)

[Hammers]

I aint gonna paint it. Just decals and some weathering.

[carlos marighela]

Looks bloody marvellous! Properly pranged.

[OSHIROmodels]

I aint gonna paint it. Just decals and some weathering.

Jolly good 

[Mason]

Brilliant!
You are really nailing the damaged effect and the work on the 'string bag' is amazing.
 

[Hammers]

Brilliant!
You are really nailing the damaged effect and the work on the 'string bag' is amazing.
 

Why thanks, glad you think I am on the right trail.

[Plynkes]

I approve, and am looking forward to seeing how it ends up.

[von Lucky]

Lovely stuff, I really feel for the model for some reason - completely irrational.

[Hammers]

Lovely stuff, I really feel for the model for some reason - completely irrational.

I know what you mean: its like a pretty bird found on the garden path with a clipped wing.

But think of it this way: it was born that way and has never known anything different.

[von Lucky]

Like Frankenstein's monster?

[Hammers]

Like Frankenstein's monster?

*Exactly* like Frankenstein’s monster!

[Dr Mathias]

This is turning out great, very impressive.

[Hammers]

Decals... I don't know what to say about decal. As I remember from my plastic kit days, when you've come to the putting on decals stage you felt a higher level of excitement. Now I just get frustrated. They slither arround and break.

The below are fairly authentic custom made recognition markings (although the aircraft marking 'Metatron' is my own invention) but I had to hand paint the much of the bullseye to restore the decal.







Okey, so a little progress! Next engines and fuel tanks...

[Plynkes]

"And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him."





I find the presence in ancient Rabbinic literature of a name that was obviously meant to be used in a Sci-Fi story about giant robots to be clear evidence of time travel.

This has seriously freaked me out, because I had just been reading about James Bruce discovering extant copies of the Book of Enoch in Ethiopia when I saw this.

[OSHIROmodels]

Decals... I don't know what to say about decal. As I remember from my plastic kit days, when you've come to the putting on decals stage you felt a higher level of excitement. Now I just get frustrated. They slither arround and break.

The below are fairly authentic custom made recognition markings (although the aircraft marking 'Metatron' is my own invention) but I had to hand paint the much of the bullseye to restore the decal.

I'm assuming you used microsol (or an equivalent)? How old are the decals and did you gloss varnish the surface before applying them or would that change the current surface too much?

[Hammers]

I'm assuming you used microsol (or an equivalent)? How old are the decals and did you gloss varnish the surface before applying them or would that change the current surface too much?

The sheets are brand new and I use Microset and Microsol. I think it is all about me being out of practice. The white decal sheet feels rather thick though(?)