Great build Garry, Thank You for sharing. I think I stick with the Academy one at this time. Here in the States cheapest price is $44, and the Academy is $12 (retired with a fixed income so I have to save my lupins) 😁 Hope you have a great week, Cheers, Tony
Nice work! Our local fire fighting force in California called "Cal Fire" uses the Bronco for their spotter plane. In the summer we see this thing buzzing around when ever there is a fire started somewhere.
Hello gary!watching your workflow is quite relaxing.the canopy gives a good look into the cockpit.the fit looks flawless.keep it up gary.cusoon. With sticky greetings from a good friend in sprues.christian
I made the Airfix Bronco many moons ago.Sure a lot of work would be needed to bring it along this kit.The amount of detail in today model is beyond belief.Well done this kit looks great,next to a Birdog and a O-2 a nice Nam trio.
Im currently in the middle of the build of this model kit and i can attest it is an excellent model. The only problem is the landing gear legs are so fiddily very tiny pieces so someone with worsoning eyesight is was a challenge to get them together. I got there in the end though . Now, i want to build another one!
Have the old Hawk 1/48 scale kit. The landing gear look too fiddly for me, but the 1/48 scale kit with raised rivets looks promising. Really like your form & content with this channel. keep up the good work!
Thanks Rob, my first 'proper' go at pre-shading and I can see why people do it. Really enjoyed this one. It's a technique I can use for kits with raised panel lines too, which is nice!
Lovely looking kit Gary, had me holding my breath when you were doing the undercarriage assembly 😅so well done also nice to see you doing some spraying haven't tried pre-shading a model yet but your other weathering tip work off the Sea Venom and worked well so l'll have a go 👍
I think you are right that it is downscaled 48-scale kit and it shows. In places, it has waaay too many parts and the build is much too complicated when compared to a typical 72-scale kit. This is especially visible in cockpit. In 48 scale, it makes sense to mould each panel separate, since you can add more details this way. In 72 scale, it looks unnecessary and part fit is somewhat crude. Still, looks like you can build quite a nice little airplane from ICM kit . I wonder how it compares to Academy kit which is the most available where I live.
Great video! 🙌 One tiny detail with the Bronco, not sure if the ICM kit considers it, is that the propellers rotate in oposite directions, let's say upper blades going towards the cockpit, so the pieces of the propeller should be like a mirrored image of the other.
@@garys_stuff I made an older (and less detailed) Academy 1/72 Bronco, and the propellers are different. I have to say that I got lucky because didn't check that until I saw a documentary couple of weeks after the model was finished. No Murphy's law for once 😂
Nice kit but why do you prime everything before you glue it together. I find it difficult to glue painted parts together as the paint stops the glue from sticking and filling and sanding is a pain too
I don't have any issues with things not sticking because of primer. I use quite a light coat. I find it really useful when I'm checking seams- a light sanding shows up where there are issues but also very clearly which is the lower side. It's also useful for painting on the frame as I often do for smaller parts.
I built this kit a couple of months ago, and I had the same issues for weight in the nose! Maybe some aftermarket provider can come up with a fix? Great video.
I don't know if something more compact - like a fishing weight or liquid gravity - would be better. Even flattened the shot still has some space between them.
@@garys_stuff... are you limited to tin or antimony fishing weights in Britain? Due to environmental concerns? Here in the U.S. we still have the more dense lead weights available for fishing and modeling.
@@Chilly_Billy I have no idea not being an angler myself. It wouldn't surprise me, I know companies here are replacing lead shot with bismuth for shotgun cartridges.
What a lovely model. I might be tempted to do one in a what-if British Army Air Corps scheme.
Great build Garry, Thank You for sharing. I think I stick with the Academy one at this time. Here in the States cheapest price is $44, and the Academy is $12 (retired with a fixed income so I have to save my lupins) 😁 Hope you have a great week, Cheers, Tony
The Eastern European manufacturers can make some beautiful kits, but boy, they are expensive.
Think I saw one for $32; that's still too much for a 1/72 Bronco.
Nice work!
Our local fire fighting force in California called "Cal Fire" uses the Bronco for their spotter plane. In the summer we see this thing buzzing around when ever there is a fire started somewhere.
Hi Gary, the Bronco turned out perfectly, congratulations on a great job, bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia 👍👍👍👍
Thanks Les!
Nicely done 👍🏻
Hello gary!watching your workflow is quite relaxing.the canopy gives a good look into the cockpit.the fit looks flawless.keep it up gary.cusoon.
With sticky greetings from a good friend in sprues.christian
Took me a while to finish this video, but I like the end result and I'm impressed with the level of detail in this smaller scale kit.
Good to see it looks as good as the 1/48 well done Gary one to show at your club night marra . Regards Gav.
Might well do - it'll look cool next to the Zerbe Air Sedan!
I made the Airfix Bronco many moons ago.Sure a lot of work would be needed to bring it along this kit.The amount of detail in today model is beyond belief.Well done this kit looks great,next to a Birdog and a O-2 a nice Nam trio.
A nice build Gary. I really like the look of that. I think I’m going to have to add it to my list!
Icm are magnificent. Fantastic build Gary
Thanks Paul, plenty more of their stuff to come...
Hang the instructions, I like you Welcome to my world.
Im currently in the middle of the build of this model kit and i can attest it is an excellent model. The only problem is the landing gear legs are so fiddily very tiny pieces so someone with worsoning eyesight is was a challenge to get them together. I got there in the end though . Now, i want to build another one!
Have the old Hawk 1/48 scale kit. The landing gear look too fiddly for me, but the 1/48 scale kit with raised rivets looks promising. Really like your form & content with this channel. keep up the good work!
Nice one Gary, looks a very interesting kit, now on my want list, thank you
Great job Gary and good to see you airbrushing and what a superb finish. Well done my friend.
Thanks Rob, my first 'proper' go at pre-shading and I can see why people do it. Really enjoyed this one. It's a technique I can use for kits with raised panel lines too, which is nice!
Gary, could you have trimmed off the pitot and replaced it with a needle?
Everything else looked lovely.
Bravo!
That would have been a very good solution Randy!
Looks like ICM has really come through with a great 1/72. This is always good to know for future purchases. Great job on the kit Gary.
Thanks Will!
Just made one of thin sheet cardboard, a very simple aircraft, only 2 days to make.
Ooh this is a long one Garry...going to watch in work later.👍👍👍👍
That's what work is for, right? Good man.
Well done Gary, I thought the landing gear was faffy enough in their 1/48 kit, 1/72 must have been very tricky!
Lovely looking kit Gary, had me holding my breath when you were doing the undercarriage assembly 😅so well done also nice to see you doing some spraying haven't tried pre-shading a model yet but your other weathering tip work off the Sea Venom and worked well so l'll have a go 👍
It was the first time I tried full-on pre-shading and I did enjoy it. I think it'll be a blessing with a kit with raised panel lines!
I think you are right that it is downscaled 48-scale kit and it shows. In places, it has waaay too many parts and the build is much too complicated when compared to a typical 72-scale kit. This is especially visible in cockpit. In 48 scale, it makes sense to mould each panel separate, since you can add more details this way. In 72 scale, it looks unnecessary and part fit is somewhat crude.
Still, looks like you can build quite a nice little airplane from ICM kit . I wonder how it compares to Academy kit which is the most available where I live.
Great video! 🙌 One tiny detail with the Bronco, not sure if the ICM kit considers it, is that the propellers rotate in oposite directions, let's say upper blades going towards the cockpit, so the pieces of the propeller should be like a mirrored image of the other.
Can't say I noticed on the instructions - I'm sure they would have thought of that....?
@@garys_stuff I made an older (and less detailed) Academy 1/72 Bronco, and the propellers are different. I have to say that I got lucky because didn't check that until I saw a documentary couple of weeks after the model was finished. No Murphy's law for once 😂
Exquisite pre and post shading Gary! Lovely job. What primer do you use?
Thanks Adrian! I use Jenolite acrylic for plastic (not the scratch filling kind though!)
@@garys_stuff thank you - really appreciate the reply and not tried that primer - will give it a go. Thanks Gary
Nice kit but why do you prime everything before you glue it together. I find it difficult to glue painted parts together as the paint stops the glue from sticking and filling and sanding is a pain too
I don't have any issues with things not sticking because of primer. I use quite a light coat. I find it really useful when I'm checking seams- a light sanding shows up where there are issues but also very clearly which is the lower side. It's also useful for painting on the frame as I often do for smaller parts.
I bought my plane ready for the equinox group build , it’s a frog Westland Wallace from 1968
Nice! That'll be an interesting build.
I built this kit a couple of months ago, and I had the same issues for weight in the nose! Maybe some aftermarket provider can come up with a fix? Great video.
I don't know if something more compact - like a fishing weight or liquid gravity - would be better. Even flattened the shot still has some space between them.
@@garys_stuff I was thinking of something like what Tamiya did with their Uhu. They had the the whole cockpit tub in metal.
@@edwardlong189 the Hobby Boss Me-262 I did had a similar thing, part of the nose was metal to act as a nose weight.
@@garys_stuff... are you limited to tin or antimony fishing weights in Britain? Due to environmental concerns? Here in the U.S. we still have the more dense lead weights available for fishing and modeling.
@@Chilly_Billy I have no idea not being an angler myself. It wouldn't surprise me, I know companies here are replacing lead shot with bismuth for shotgun cartridges.
The pilot in the front must have long legs . Thx for the great build
My pleasure!