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Stormin Normin
Norm Sheppard (Stormin Normin)
US

KoPro DH88 Comet

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I am building the Green version. 
 

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There is a nice cockpit inside, but it is difficult to see! 
 

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No locating pins or tabs on the model except for the tailplanes, and they were not made well. 
 

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I made the mass balances with piano wire and a drop of glue. 
 

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Drill holes carefully to install your own pins for the wings. 
 

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Take your time and locate the holes for the wing pins. 
 

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Install a scratchbuilt plastic dowel. 
 

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It makes the wing installation much stronger and easy to align. 
 

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Engine nacelles in place. They don't fit very well, should have spent more time on them. 
 

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First coat of white primer. 
 

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Test spray with the British Racing Green. 
 

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Finished with the green. Starting to look good. 
 

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Next will be a gloss topcoat.  
 

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I found the green to be a little too dark so I lightened it a little and sprayed a second coat. 
 

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I also added some CMK resin nav lights, there were none in the kit. 
 

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Canopy frame and wheels finished thanks to Peewit masks. They work very well. 
 

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Now the gloss coat is on, decals will be next. 
 

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Decals went on very well today. They are thin and a bit tricky. Also the letters should be white, but they are supplied in silver.  
 

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The wheels are in place! 
 

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The wheel doors installed. Also a view of my scratchbuilt pitot tube. 
 

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Found some very nice Union Jack decals online. The kit flags were no good at all. 
 

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Close up of the scratchbuilt pitot tube, made with stretched sprue. 
 

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Since this kit comes with a fairly nice cockpit, I posed the canopy open. 
 

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The lettering should be white but the kit decals are silver. Might have to build another now! 
 

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She has quite a profile.  
 

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Soon, a green full size replica will be flying in England. 
 

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Now, 53 years after I built the red Frog kit, I have all three of the Comets together. 
 

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A trio of sleek and fast historical racers. Very soon, we may see three full size a/c flying together! 
 

Hozzászólások

1 9 May 2020, 23:04
Jay Dubya
Looks like this kit is not a lot better than the awful Airfix one. That said, good job so far Norm.
29 May 2020, 05:11
Norm Sheppard
It will make a nicer looking Comet in the end but it is easily 4 times the work. The decals are wrong too. Instead of white markings they are printed in silver.
29 May 2020, 22:37
Oleg Smilyk
Lovely progress,lovely plane!
1 June 2020, 18:20
Norm Sheppard
Thanks, Oleg.
1 June 2020, 18:51
Cuajete
Good news... another Comet!!
And it's having a very good result.
1 June 2020, 19:12
Norm Sheppard
It is such a graceful aircraft.
1 June 2020, 20:18
wilky
Just had to Google this aircraft to confirm my knowledge of it.
Only three made and sold for a discount price of 5000 pounds.
Commissioned just to win the race to Australia.
Then there were another two built later on with one being a Mail version for France
Thankfully two still survive.
Black Magic was lost for forty years.
It's currently being restored.
Maybe the green one is still out there somewhere
2 June 2020, 01:17
Jay Dubya
Small point of historical fact Willy, but the actual winner of the air race, albeit on handicap, was in fact a KLM DC-2:
aarg.com.au/douglas-dc-2.html
And that was after getting lost in the middle of the night near Albury (requiring the whole town's street lights to flash in Morse Code: A-L-B-U-R-Y).
2 June 2020, 05:44
wilky
Wilky, not Willy
I did know that I just forgot to write it in there
2 June 2020, 05:49
Jay Dubya
Sorry Wilky - I'm bravely going to blame my phone's spell checker!
2 June 2020, 05:59
Jay Dubya
@Norm - sorry for hijacking your thread for a bit.
@Wilky - not sure if you've seen the Movietone film of the race, but the acceptance speech is hilarious.
qz.com/india/1565273..-in-a-1934-air-race/
There is also some great footage of the various competitors and their planes.
2 June 2020, 06:06
wilky
Yes, I've seen a movie at the State Library and have a YouTube video of it on my channel.
You must write Willy too much
2 June 2020, 06:20

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Building the Green Comet that raced in 1934.

28 képek
1:72
Befejezve
1:72 de Havilland DH-88 Comet (Kovozávody Prostějov KPM0099)1:72 de Havilland DH-88 Comet (Peewit M72144)
De Havilland FB.588 Comet
GB MacRobertson Air Race
G-ACSR/19
Október 1934 MacRobertson Air Race - England to Australia (Result: 4)
British Racing Green
 

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