I woke up this morning fully intending to start on my next project, a VF-1 Hi-Viz schemed Tomcat, but as I got into the office and started to clear the bench to cut some fresh sprue, I decided instead to add another bomber to my fleet. A few months back I picked up two Canberras off TOR, one Airfix and the other a Classic Airframes. I heard that though a better result can be obtained from the C.A. kit, it can be a chore to get right, so I decided to go with the Airfix this time. TOR had included some aftermarket resin in the sale, namely the bomb bay and wing tip bombs, but after looking at the bomb bay, I decided i could get a much better result out of the kit bomb bay with the addition of some sprue and three pieces of the resin parts from the aftermarket kit. Take resin bomb bay was warped, full of bubbles and had so much excess casting on it, My belt sander would need replacing by the end of it. Don't get me wrong. I gave it ago and got a could coating of resin dust on me, but I just knew it was going to be more work than it was worth.
So I added some pipes, bomb racks and extra detail to the side rails.
And after adding some flat black, its already looking much better than the resin one. I'll paint up the bomb racks, pipes and wire as I go to the next phase.
Cockpit was next. Not much to show here yet as its all black. But that will make the detail 'pop' more through that big bubble canopy I think.
Assembled the wings next. Even though you can pose the flaps down and the air breaks open, all the photos I have seen with the Canberras on the ground have the flaps, ailerons and breaks were up or closed. so thats how I have set them.
After dinner, I'll probably pop back in and do some more work on the cockpit, but it's moving along much faster than I expected.
