E E Lightning F6
Airfix
- Subject:
English Electric Lightning F Mk.6
Royal Air Force (1918-now)
No. 5 Sqn. White AA/XR770
1987 Cold War - RAF Binbrook, Lincolnshire
BS381C:626 BS381C:627 BS381C:538 (Trim)- Scale:
- 1:48
- Status:
- On hold
- Started:
- April 23, 2016
The English Electric Lightning is a supersonic fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. It was designed, developed, and manufactured by English Electric, which was subsequently absorbed by the newly formed British Aircraft Corporation. It was then marketed as the BAC Lightning. The Lightning was the only all-British Mach 2 fighter aircraft. The Lightning was used by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF). Although it was the RAF's primary interceptor for more than two decades it was never required to attack another aircraft.
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23 April 2016, 14:24
Andrea MorrisI have decided to start this as a distraction from the nightmare Spitfire build!!!
24 April 2016, 14:59
Andrea MorrisGet it out of your stash and on to your bench, its Tamiya quality. I Joined together all the half/half parts and painted all interiors in only 4 hours!
24 April 2016, 22:43
Clifford KeeslerI will, right now I am having similar problems to you, with the Spit, only it is on my Kinetic A-6.
26 April 2016, 00:06
Andrea MorrisI read that you had a minor issue with the intakes, but what is the problem now?
26 April 2016, 00:18
Clifford KeeslerThere are small pieces that go on the inner wing leading edges near the root. They do not come close to fitting, will need quite a bit of putty. The left wing fit the fuselage quite well at the root, the right had a large gap, luckily some Vallejo acrylic putty took care of that, without massive sanding. It is just aggerevating, the kit wasn't cheap, but I feel it was poorly engenireed. But I will not be defeated. But if you decide to do an A-6 go for the Hobby Boss one. LOL.
26 April 2016, 00:30
Clifford KeeslerP.S. are you using the kit cockpit on your lighting. I got the Aires resin one for mine, because I could not find a PE set for it. After I bought the resin pit I found the PE set. I have only done one resin cockpit and that was the Cobra Vietnam cockpit on my Revell 1/32 AH-1G Cobra.
26 April 2016, 00:34
Andrea MorrisThe aftermarket items I have ordered for this are the pitot tube, wheels, ladder and this: modelhobbies.co.uk/s..6-48250-p-25035.html No cockpit tub!
26 April 2016, 01:04
Andrea MorrisThe cockpit is built up, ready for some paint. Smaller parts have been painted on the spru.
11 May 2016, 01:04
Clifford KeeslerKeep on trucking man. My A-6 is almost finished, I put up some new pictures today.
11 May 2016, 02:39
Andrea MorrisThis is also going to be put on hold until I catch up with other builds!
11 May 2016, 20:45