Handley Page Halifax

Dave Flitton Hmmm, this might be an interesting ride.

Tim Mansfield [img1]

James Jones Actually 10 (yes TEN) bagged bagged kits - purchased as Revell - (Modelcraft, Matchbox) one set of instructions and no decals but hey 50 bucks

Pierre-Christian Baudru Nice project !

Soeren . Im in

Christian Bruer Thank you Piere-Christian and Soeren for your kind interest. Of the three RAF heavies the Halifax is my all time favourite. The project is just an idea, but time will tell

Cheers, Christian

J W With extras for conversion to a "Halford"

Dirk Heyer To built a Halifax in scale 48 is one thing, but to built a FM kit another one! Chapeau, its a clean and perfect built made out of an undoubtly primitive and rough kit. The result proves a huge amount of patience and endurance.
Top!

Rob van Dodewaard Thank you mates besides patience and endurance it also took a lot headache pils

Thomas Bischoff Thank you Rob, judging from your comments I think I wait with a Halifax until Tamiya brings one out

Rob van Dodewaard It may be worth the wait. I am still hoping that some one is doing a 1/48 Sirling

Clifford Keesler I love it great job.

arne vd burg A piece of art Rob

Rob van Dodewaard Thanks mates

Ulf Petersen Great model, congrats Rob!

Calvin Gifford Got a deal on 3 bagged kits.

Shahriar Khalvati very nice

John Irwing Going to make an attempt at this much maligned kit. Don't have the funds or energy to get aftermarket corrections - sorry!

Roy McKay Hey, just enjoy it, that's the main thing! I did the Matchbox one from the Revell box a few years back (even more maligned!) and it looks ok in the display cabinet. Best of luck and keep us posted!

Helerson Maciel Exceptional!
Nice work on the interior.
Tracking.

Jose Miguel Rodriguez Beautiful work in the interior

Holger Kranich Hmmm, yummie!

Albi Hitz Thanks mates!
Its my 2nd try (4-mot) in 1/72 ...
Its different but fun at all.

Kelly Wellington Oh...those hydraulic extenders are exhibiting some unusual curvature for such equipment....heh.

Bill Gilman Using the amazing Scalemates database, I was able to check the origin of Revell 04394. It's the Matchbox kit, which is a good thing if you're fussy about your wing nacelles.

Duncan Cook Bill, 10 years ago I wasn't even on registered on scalemates.

Kelly Wellington Well...The engines, props and undercarriage are all attached now. I've some gap filling to do, but otherwise, I'm looking at masking and priming PDQ.

babak chalangi looking good kelly

babak chalangi how are u dealing with bomb bay doors ?

Kelly Wellington First, closed, not open.

I assembled as directed, starting at the port side and working toward the starboard side. I got all four pieces glued into place before I realized that piece number three, the starboard bottom panel bowed upwards and in to the bomb bay.

*sigh*

After cogitating from some long while, I finally inserted the tip of a fine Xacto knife between the bottom panel and the side panel at the point of the apex of the bow of the bottom panel and levered it up into the position where I thought it should be. I then applied copious quanities of 'clear-part glue' to between the panels, while the Xacto knife remained in place, with its handle taped to the starboard wheel. After the clear glue (the kind for 'making' glass windows) dried, I untaped the Xacto handle and extracted the blade. I'll have to do a bit of sanding along that panel line on the bomb bay doors, but it doesn't look too bad at all and it no longer bows up into the bay itself.

I have a picture of the knife in place, but I haven't uploded it yet.

Kelly Wellington Now uploaded. I've started sanding on the excess glue and it comes off just fine. I'm okay with the results, but I'm not a detail perfectionist.

Zimmermaniac woow, the new Revell box...what's your opinion bout it ??

Kelly Wellington I haven't opened it yet.

Wilfried Bogaerts Beware, this is NOT the new Revell Halifax, this is the Matchbox mould. The new Revell kit of the Halifax is Handley Page Halifax B Mk.I/II - GRII (Revell 04670, 1:72)

Kelly Wellington Well, it's not like I would have known the difference. But then, I didn't even know that there was a new Revell kit.

Kelly Wellington Okay...I've got 'whites'. A couple of them. But have I got the 'right white'? Well, anywhere near the 'right white'? I dithered with this on the D0-24, too, and finally decided on a 'light gray', which looks great. But, then, when I got the Dutch decals, I found that they used a 'milk white', with a tint of yellow to give it that 'butterfat cast'.

I'm leaning towards non-spec white, but I have to admit that I haven't even checked the MM line of military colors to see if they've 'lined it out', as it were.

Kelly Wellington Okay...Now I'm disgruntled. I'm dealing with the undercarriage, since it is my intent to assemble as 'wheels down'. The back bracing for the wheels down position, presumably the hydraulic equipment to push the wheels down and into place, are quite thin and very fragile pieces. And they placed the sprue attachments for these pieces ON the tiny insert tabs. AND they molded them in two separate pieces which need to be glued together. I've broken, and reglued while still on the sprue, one of these fragile pieces. The tabs do not fit nicely into the well-defined holes on the gear holding the rotating tyres, thanks to the excess plastic of the sprue attachments. Trimming that excess off promises more broken pieces. I'm a bit flummoxed as to how I'm expected to assemble this....

Wilfried Bogaerts Keep goin' Dakota Roo !!

Kelly Wellington Got it. With a bit of gaposis and unnatural curvature of 'steel bar'.

Holger Kranich So i hope you like scratch build new panelines! Or you just build oob and have an eye on a very good paintjob!

babak chalangi Holger and Burkhard thank you for your information the kit just got here and did some over all look it seems to be a good one (finally )
and Holger it's seems the model have depth panel lines

Holger Kranich By the way, eduard has a good masking-set for the canopy!

babak chalangi thanks Aghis i dont like to blow my own horn but i think yes i am very popular in my home town and my country !

babak chalangi holger my friend Unfortunately eduard parts are very hard to come by in iran and they are mostly for Iranian aircrafts i have to all the work by hand .

Holger Kranich So have fun, assembling it!!! Looking forward, seeing pix!

babak chalangi AHA i fined a picture of kit's part
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babak chalangi this one have to w8 need to finish my own 1/48 typhoon (revell kit )