L/F - 1/72 Hobbycraft Dash 8

[AndrewDoppel]

Needed for an upcoming project. If you can help please email me at doppels@bigpond.com to negotiate a deal.

[scotty100368]

Email sent.

Scott.

[AndrewDoppel]

All sorted. Thanks again Scotty.

[VH-WAL]

All sorted. Thanks again Scotty.

Hi Andrew, now that you have it a few suggestions:

1. If the elevators are not already broken, they soon wil be, use thin wire to pin the halves together
2. The cabin windows are W-a-a-a-a-Y overscale, I fixed this by doing decal windows, fixing this goes a long way to making it look right.
3. The wings droop and look bad with the anhedral effect, I didnt realise until after I glued the wing halves together and glued them on the fuselage, I resorted to bending the wings outboard of the engines up under boiling water better but no cigar, if I was doing one again I would cut / shim whatever the wing just outboard of the engines and give a correct scale like dihedral tweak

The thing looks really good in the box, but....
enjoy..what livery you doing?

[hrtpaul]

Let's not forget the horrible propellor blades too Wally

[VH-WAL]

Let's not forget the horrible propellor blades too Wally

yeah but there was bugger all I could do about those:
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[hrtpaul]

They're probably the thing that bugs me the most about this kit. Having worked on em for 7 years it really sticks out to me. Lovely work on yours though mate. Love it

[F-27pax]

Yep, I made one of those with Qantas Link decals. Far from one of my finest hours. Those days I still insisted in trying to make windows on my 1/72 models, but I wouldn't make that mistake again.

Loved the Norfolk model. Norfolk is a new one on me. Norfolk Island? Where did you get the decals from? I'm tempted, but in 1/144.

Best

Leigh

[VH-WAL]

hi leigh, they were home made

norfolk cheat line small

short lived Norfolk Island Airliner

[F-27pax]

Thanks for this. It reminds me of a restrained East West scheme. I thought I might get right on to this but I discovered that the kit I have (Welsh Models) is a -300 and the Norfolk is a -100. I guess it wouldn't be difficult to do the conversion but I'll put that off to a rainy day and put this info in the 'Pending' file.

Leigh