Airfix Stirling

[VC10]

Hi all,

I am going into hospital this week for surgery for sun related skin cancer (prognosis good) and I thought I would have a crack at building the Stirling while I'm convalescing. The Stirling is the one heavy bomber kit I never built in my Airfix youth. Anyway I was surfing the net and came across this build

http://www.drivefly.it./schede_soci/Vig ... Mk%20I.php

To give you a taste of what is there



Paul

[Garry Russell]

Hope things go well for you

The model is impressive, but that is a heavily modified part sratch built build. The in box kit is nothing like that

Are you going to try to do that??

[DaveB]

No.. that's detail above and beyond what Airfix give you

Good luck with the op Paul

ATB
DaveB

[VC10]

Well I hope I'm not convalescing that long.

If you are going the glue the two fuse' halves together I don't see the point of all that work. I'll just print those pictures off and say that what it is like inside

[DaveB]

An excellent idea

It is rather good though isn't it but as you say, with both halves glued together, you're gonna miss a great deal of that sort of detail. Hardly seems worth the effort.

ATB
DaveB

[Tomliner]

Best wishes for your op Paul.I'm sure you'll last a lot longer than many of the poor sods that had to fly in bomber command in WW2,bless them. EricT

[DarrenL]

I wonder if he uses something other than glue to hold the two halves in place, so that it can be opened up? Little magnets maybe?

[DaveB]

In the final shots.. it looks completely/permanently joined. Difficult to see how he'd get the join to look so smooth if it were a temp job

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

A few folk that detail to this standard cut away areas, but most do this then seal it up, losing most of it

There are a few large scale bombers likethe 1/48 models that have a pretty full interior built out of the box but it's all lost

[VC10]

Thanks for the good wishes.