Just when you thought it was safe....

In an earlier posting, you may have seen me blathering on about the rewards of building an older kit, the silk purse and the sow's ear etc. Well, I may have met my match here.

I recently took on a custom build in the form of the Airfix Buccaneer in 1/48 scale. It was one of their earlier releases in this scale that was to save the company from going under back in the nineties. I believe the original tooling was by Occidental of Spain. They were notable for a Texan/Harvard and a Spitfire Mk.IX, in pink plastic! A nice novelty. Anyway, the Airfix-Occidental union went on to spawn the Buccaneer and history was made.

The fuselage parts with integral engines fairings are a horizontal split, which is a good thing, but not easy to get together. After some pushing, shoving, shaving, bending and cursing, it was done. And this is just the beginning! Rinse, lather, repeat with the jet intakes, the exhausts, the cockpit tub and the tail fin.


And this is where I am up to. The photos log the travails all modellers will recognise. I'm getting there and it's going to be a lovely model, but it's a slow process. More on this project as it comes together. There's only one winner - I just hope it will be me!