KoPro DH88 Comet

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May 10, 2020
I am building the Green version.
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May 10, 2020
There is a nice cockpit inside, but it is difficult to see!
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May 10, 2020
No locating pins or tabs on the model except for the tailplanes, and they were not made well.
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May 10, 2020
I made the mass balances with piano wire and a drop of glue.
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May 10, 2020
Drill holes carefully to install your own pins for the wings.
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May 10, 2020
Take your time and locate the holes for the wing pins.
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May 10, 2020
Install a scratchbuilt plastic dowel.
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May 10, 2020
It makes the wing installation much stronger and easy to align.
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May 28, 2020
Engine nacelles in place. They don't fit very well, should have spent more time on them.
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May 28, 2020
First coat of white primer.
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May 28, 2020
Test spray with the British Racing Green.
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May 28, 2020
Finished with the green. Starting to look good.
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May 28, 2020
Next will be a gloss topcoat.
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June 1, 2020
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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June 1, 2020
I also added some CMK resin nav lights, there were none in the kit.
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June 1, 2020
Canopy frame and wheels finished thanks to Peewit masks. They work very well.
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June 1, 2020
Now the gloss coat is on, decals will be next.
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June 1, 2020
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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June 1, 2020
The wheels are in place!
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June 1, 2020
The wheel doors installed. Also a view of my scratchbuilt pitot tube.
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June 1, 2020
Found some very nice Union Jack decals online. The kit flags were no good at all.
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June 1, 2020
Close up of the scratchbuilt pitot tube, made with stretched sprue.
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June 3, 2020
Since this kit comes with a fairly nice cockpit, I posed the canopy open.
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June 3, 2020
The lettering should be white but the kit decals are silver. Might have to build another now!
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June 3, 2020
She has quite a profile.
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June 3, 2020
Soon, a green full size replica will be flying in England.
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June 3, 2020
Now, 53 years after I built the red Frog kit, I have all three of the Comets together.
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June 3, 2020
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.

KoPro DH88 Comet G-ACSR

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Október 1934 MacRobertson Air Race - England to Australia (Result: 4)
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