Yes a kit isn't fully known until it is built. Next part is up at 10pm. Complete with spelling mistake.

@@Payne2view well I will not see the spelling mistooks with my Dyslexia 🙂 Will look tomorrow.

Thanks for that info.

Thanks. I hope you enjoy building your Hurricane one day.

Thanks for that. Hurricanes are/were great aircraft.

Thanks. Yes, I think Airfix make sure the designers have building experience these days. I know there are no perfect models but some kits have rather odd issues.

Thanks. The UC is a bit to fragile for me to start fettling for the sake of a degree or two off horizontal. Onwards to the last full model of the year.

Thanks for that.

Thanks. I'm still hoping that one day a kit manufacturer will tool one in 1:72 with a clear part for the target thingy in the nose.

Thanks. Its almost back to how it was. I've got Italeri kits but strangely they don't have a decal or any detail for the control panel.

@@Payne2view how odd!!

That "light" part is good at producing a sort of glow isn't it. I imagine the main problem with working on Gnats is all the bending down to reach them. ;-) I've probably said before but the last year the Reds displayed with Gnats, I had my first pleasure flight at St Athan and we had to wait for them to land.

@@Payne2view you didn't need to bend down as they were small but leggy.

Thanks. The putty line is probably out of scale but its the thought that counts. Its not that detailed a kit a little feature here or there helps the over all look.

Thanks. I tried the best I could.

Its the same "current kit" as when I made a darker red one a few years ago. Includes parts from that time too. It is from a "starter set" so only has one decal option. I think Airfix misses a trick by not including a few different serial numbers or an option for a different fuselage white flash. They'd sell more I think if they did that. It is not the previous Airfix kit from the 1960s/70s which was absolutely awful,

Oh and thanks for the complement.

Oh you never know what extras you may find 2nd hand. I hope you enjoy building the kit and thanks for watching the video.

Thanks. Only the Red Arrows Gnat and Jaguar rebuild to complete before the winter lull. Unless we get an "Indian Summer" before the cold dark days of late Autumn & Winter set in.

Thanks. Including the far east livery repair job, that's my third Hurricane of the year.

I hope you enjoy it but keep the work area ventilated. I'm sure the glue & dust from sanding is no good for any of us.

In as much as you can't scramble eggs without breaking them. I wouldn't want to land on those twice fixed undercarriage legs that's for sure.

Diolch.

Hope you enjoy building it. I bought it because of the P-51D which used to be on the UK Airshow circuit in that livery. Now re-painted as a red-tail called "Tall in the saddle" I think. I'm going to use the Airfix kit because the wing looks a little too curvy to me on the Hasegawa kit.

Thanks, yes, I'm glad the E-Z Line held together and it was just a matter of spot gluing the struts back.

Well, it makes a change doesn't it. In fact it has got more views than the previous three model videos. That's the advantage of being able to edit video now. No long shots of an empty bird table.

I'm not sure what bit that was but thanks.

@@Payne2view when you jumped forward in time.

The models were a 'bit clipped' before the model too. Ha ha.

All of them. Well some models were unrecoverable but: Red Arrows Gnat, SEPECAT Jaguar, Swedish Bulldog (when I can buy or make replacement inter-wing struts). Other than that I'm re-making a few kits but using some old parts from those that broke. Such as: Gulf War Tornado GR1 H. P. Hampden Harrier GR.7 Also got some quick repairs of the damaged Spitfires and Bristol M1.C from last week.

Thanks. I won't argue about the definition. I put it back together, so whatever doing that is called, that's what I did. I'm going to do a Red Arrows Gnat again, using some parts from the one I broke. Wheels, 1x undercarriage door, elevator tails, seats, controls & instrument panels.

Customers? I've got to direct them to the returns department.

Oh yes, a bit tricky. Especially since the front leg part almost always snaps, due to a thin connector between some sort of moulded-in actuator and the main leg. However, while looking through some old photos, I found one of a build of the previous Airfix Gnat (as a Red Arrow Gnat), which had what I could only describe as main UC based on not looking at a Gnat. The design had more in common with a Jet Provost.

I don't know if "in business" is the term but I'm definitely doing repairs of models I broke. Glad you like it so far.

Thanks.

I agree. Its an old kit though. Probably from the 1980s. Raised panel lines etc. Sadly I don't have this model anymore and not because of "the big smash". I can't remember why now. Sadder still, there is no F3 Tornado in 1:72 available from anyone (unless this kit is knocking around in a shop or 2nd hand stall somewhere). It is a very unrepresented type. Even the Airfix "GR4" kit was just an even older GR1 moulding with a few extra parts. For an aircraft used by at least 3 major NATO airforces, the lack of options in 1:72 is shocking. Only the Italeri & Revell kits from the 1990s as far as I know. The same is true for the Hawker Hunter, which makes even less sense. The only 1:72 Jaguars available lack a clear part for the nose. As for aircraft such as the Javalin, well not in 1:72. If someone wants a Canberra in 1:72 the only options are £30 or more and in less than brand new tooling.

I thought about it but didn't have the right sort of thing to use as a patch. I could have just painted them but I'd have had to do something to give the impression that there were gun ports underneath. Maybe I could have used a very very small round file perpendicular to the leading edge. I'd still have to find a way to mark where the holes were. Perhaps a spot of paint? If I build the other copy of the kit, I may try that.

Thanks 👍 Glad you liked it.

@@Payne2view always do,Robert.👍👍👍

Thanks. Not sure how much the kit cost. Somewhere between £8 and £12 probably. I bought 2 so it couldn't have been expensive.

Thanks. Its not too fancy but at least I can edit bits together now, that I did over a week or two. I've got a new build Mk.1 Hurricane from a Polish squadron nearly completed. That's probably next week's video. Then I've got to put a 1960s livery Gnat back together.

Thanks. I wouldn't go as far as calling it 'perfect' though. I had to bodge it a bit to make the wings level.

The girl or the clown type thing?

@@Payne2view the clown

Thanks Ken.

Thanks.

Yup.

Thanks. Its not a long term effort. I've kept some bits of those I can't restore, to use in any replacement kit I may get.

Good, thanks.

Thanks. Not sure about the paint. My hypothesis is damp or heat from my fingers, softening the paint? At first when it happened on the nose I thought of leaving it as "weathering" but it got worse. More like when the Valkyrie lost its paint by going too fast. Anyway I daubed some paint on and it looks okay without my glasses on.

Thanks for that complement.

Thanks mate. I'm glad I didn't bin it last year. Now a few little restoration jobs for a handful of other survivors. Then the big job to rebuild my orange & silver Gnat and the Gulf War Tornado.