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Compass A300-600

Postby F-27pax » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:05 am

Here are a couple of photos of my rendition of the Compass A.300-600. The fuselage is the Braz Models conversion parts, the rest is from the Revell Beluga kit (although mine came from the F-Rsin A300-600 kit in which is disposed of the new fuselage halves) and the decals are, as one would expect, from Hawkeye. The colours are from Tamiya Rattle cans.

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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby Graeme H » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:16 am

Looks nice Leigh
Was the FRsin fuselage no good?
Which Braz fuselage did you use, the resin one or the IM one?
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby RayS » Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:43 am

Looks great leigh, I have been slowly working on my FrankenA300 :D

Which colours did you sue for the greys?
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby F-27pax » Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:14 am

Thanks for your kind comments gents.

Graeme; I used the Braz Models conversion fuselage which is, I think, injection molded. The reason I used it is because the -600 is supposed to be slightly longer than the B4 but the F-Rsin fuselage is actually shorter than the Airfix A300. Even if the FRsin kit were to scale out more accurately it wouldn't look right for a -600 to be shorter than a B4.

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I chose the paint colours from Tamiya rattle cans using the colour patches on the Hawkeye decal sheet. The top colour is AS-8 US Navy blue and seems just right. The lower colour is AS-5 which is Luftwaffe Light Blue. To me it seems to have a tinge of green in it which makes it not quite right, although the match seemed perfect when I bought the can. If I were to do it again I'd pick a light grey and mix a little blue into it, perhaps even AS-8. We live and learn.
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby Camthalion » Sun Mar 03, 2019 11:44 am

looks great
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby tor lives » Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:15 pm

Lovely job Leigh!!!
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby Ansett A330 » Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:54 pm

F-27pax wrote:I used the Braz Models conversion fuselage which is, I think, injection molded. The reason I used it is because the -600 is supposed to be slightly longer than the B4 but the F-Rsin fuselage is actually shorter than the Airfix A300. Even if the FRsin kit were to scale out more accurately it wouldn't look right for a -600 to be shorter than a B4.


Very nice result.

Are you going to use the FRsin fuselage for anything or is it for sale or swop?
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Re: Compass A300-600

Postby F-27pax » Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:49 pm

Sorry, it never occurred to me that anybody would want it. It was too big for the spares box, so it went in the bin. I mush prefer the F-Rsin resin kits to their injection molded ones which are a lot of hard work.
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