Showing posts with label Canberra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canberra. Show all posts
Saturday, August 18, 2012

SS Canberra launches

›
Finally, after a quite a battle, SS Canberra has sailed off to her new owner. You can read of my troubles with this aged Airfix kit else...
1 comment:
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Deluxe Materials Solid Water

›
If you want to do a job properly, you have to collect the right tools. Deluxe Materials have a reputation for producing quality product an...
Monday, July 23, 2012

GP Polyester Resin

›
Casting around for something to fill the swimming pools on the Canberra, I thought I had a suitable clear cast resin - Tiranti's ...
2 comments:
Friday, July 20, 2012

Unusual transfers

›
Or: Don't posh people play a lot of tennis ? The Canberra transfer (decal for American readers) sheet is covered with tennis courts ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Portholes and red oxide

›
Looking at the photos of Canberra, under the waterline she is painted with the traditional red anti fouling paint. Airfix think this is topp...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

Canberra Funnels

›
Another "Did anyone from Airfix look at this ship before making a kit" moment arrives with the funnels. I thought I just had to st...
2 comments:
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Bow thruster

›
At the front end of the Canberra, there is a blanked out hole. On both sides of the hull. In real life it's a bow thruster - an auxil...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Decks on. Boats in. Handrails up.

›
Aboard the Canberra I've finished gluing and clamping the decks into position. Apart from a little bit of touching up, we are there. ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Deck clamping

›
Over on the Canberra, I'm putting the pre-painted decks in place. The kit is showing its age again with some bizarre break lines betw...
1 comment:
Thursday, June 07, 2012

Model boat presentation

›
My plan for the Canberra involved proper presentation. This model wasn't going to sit on the plastic stand that Airfix intended, tha...
1 comment:
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Bridge ahoy !

›
Canberra's bridge now has green decks. It's also been fitted together - with more than a bit of fiddling to get the parts to fit pro...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Airfix gets it wrong

›
This Canberra kit takes a lot of painting. Much fiddly pre-painting before I get to the fun bits of sticking things together. I've been ...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Terrible part fit !

›
Blimey, you can tell the Airfix Canberra kit was introduced back in the 1960's - the parts fit together just like a kit from the era. No...
1 comment:
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Man the lifeboats !

›
Before any assembly can happen on the Canberra, it needs to be painted. The days when I waved the brush over a model after construction are ...
6 comments:
Monday, April 30, 2012

SS Canberra

›
SS Canberra from the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland and l...