Trumpeter's 1/32 English Electric Lightning F.2A/F.6 (part three of three)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2020
- Just a couple of paragraphs about this build. Leaving the resin issues aside for a moment this Trumpeter kit goes together very well, regardless of the very many accuracy issues here and there, one being the scoop around the rear end. As far as the resin pieces go the penny didn't drop until the dry fit of the intake assembly to the fuselage. If I'd had the time again, I'd have used the kit's parts for the nose U/C.
And just one last thought; we all know about the inaccuracies of some kits these days but in the same breath we should be thankful that Trumpeter has released these subjects in this scale, no one else will! - Навчання та стиль
What an awesome model, superbly built. Your painting techniques are an inspiration. Thank you for three great videos.
I love the honesty of this video. A few things haven't worked out, you've had some mishaps, things have broken off, you've had to do the odd work around and yet the end result is still an absolutely stunning model.
2nd that
Fabulous finish sir. Attention to detail, patience (being tested to the limit!) and supreme skill, fantastic combination. Thank you.
Immaculate result. The metal finish looks so real, especially with all the different colour panels. Perfect subject matter, I love cold war RAF jets.
As soon as I saw that stand, I thought “not sure how stable that will be” Still horrified to hear you describe what followed though.
An excellent build and finish, but watching the problems you encountered, I’m glad I sold mine . Looking forward to seeing what’s next. Love your channel Greg
Magnificent Greg. I was lucky enough to know a former Lightning pilot who flew out of RAF Binbrook in the early '70s. He was a good friend and passed away last year aged only 70. He didn't care to talk about it that much - we had other things to talk about beside aviation - but he always had a part of a Red Top missile he kept from a live firing exercise on his desk at work.
Ah what a wonderful model of a truly lost era. Thank you.
I was bought up around an airbase (in Australia), and when I was a 6-7 year old, play time was often running around the base where the Sabres, Mirages and Phantoms would gather. Occasionally a BAC Lightning would turn up for airshows too.
The thin aluminium skin - dented, and gleaming in the sun highly polished.
The beautiful smell of Kerosene, and as you climbed up in the cockpit and played with the pilot's helmet - the smell of kero and brylcream. Everyone's Dad wore brylcream, and their hats on the hall stands always smelled the same.
When they took to the Sky, the F-111C with afterburners on was always a crowd favorite ... but for me the shriek of a Mirage rocking past was the best (they always looked on the edge of being out of control) ... until the Lightning took to the sky. There is literally no sound on earth like the roar of those twin Rolls Royce Avons stacked on top of each other. The ground shook, dogs and cats would run and hide, and mothers would hold their young children closer.
BAC had managed to bottle up pure insanity, and render it in shiny metal, as if to make a lasting statement that the British Empire had reached its absolute peak of Britishness, and the world would never be quite this excellent ever again.
I've seen all sorts of aircraft flying, but my one regret is not seeing/hearing a Lightning in the sky. My dad worked on them in Malta. The closest I got to one was working at Warton on Eurofighter, a static one displayed on the airfield, XS928 if memory serves me right.
Excellent build mate! Your one of the best modellers I’ve seen in a while, keep up the good work!
Thank you
Greg you made a cracking job of her and you had grief all the way to the end but again look at the ladder you could display that on its own right . Thanks again for giving us your time marra its appreciated ! Regards Gav.
It tested my patience Gav, something I have very little of lately, something to do with getting older. Never mind 55 next month. Stay safe mate.
Wow. I swear that model needs to be in a contest. The quality and realism are awesome
Very nice of you to say.
Absolutely stunning build.
Hi Greg a great build with the Lightening, I do li,e some of the older jets like this one, perhaps one in the grey/green scheme next, take care and keep safe.
Stunning! My favourite aircraft by one of the best modelers on UA-cam......what's not to like?......gravity in this particular case!. Glad you salvaged it Greg, beautiful work as always.
I’m with Jason...you’re one of the best modelers on UA-cam! Outstanding work my friend.
@@seanerk5kt9 And you are in the same league my friend. That Harrier was a piece of work! The det cord work on the canopy alone was award winning!
Greg, that was awesome! I live about 5 minutes away from Wattisham and remember the 56 Sqn Phantoms, but not quite old enough to remember their Lightning’s! Although was old enough to see the end of 5 and 11 Sqn, the last serving Lightning’s at Binbrook.
Wow. What a ride, I can honestly say after all the trouble with this kit I'd have probably given up. Thanks for perservering and she looked excellent in the end, despite the issues! You have way more patience than I!
stunning work
Stunning work Greg. The Aires parts didn’t fit good but you worked around that like the skilled craftsman you are.
Great build. Amazing natural metal finish.
The quality of your paintwork is incredible!
Fantastic build Greg nice bit of scratch building on the ladder It adds that little extra to a beautifully built and painted kit
An absolutely superb result.
Great looking Lightning, congrats!!
Beautiful work!
I admire your serenity following the Lighting going for a tumble. It looked good to me regardless.
Amazing build. Had the pleasure of seeing one of these take off. What a noise ! Vertical at the end of the runway.
Class! Love the access ladder 👏🏻
*So shiny, so aluminum! Awesome paint work on this big kit! 👍👏👏👏*
Wonderful work, Greg 👍👊 But having the fueltanks above the wings looks crazy.
Bravo bravo bravo. Outstanding sir. As ever.
Don't worry about weight on the nose gear. Almost all the weight is on the mains unless you REALLY overweight the nose. If you add just enough lead to keep it from being a tail-sitter, there's almost no load on the nose gear.
Fantastic final result mate, absolutely stunning build! Can not tell it had a fall! Hope mine ends up at least half as good in the end!
It'll be nice to see the lightning in those later markings.
Beautiful build Greg
Well done, I like your work. You've inspired Me to keep on with my 48 Sword T-Bird
Terrific!!! Well done
Excellent Build!Love it!👍
WHAT A BEAUTY!!!!
This kit looks absolutely beautiful I thought 1/48 was the biggest one but this being 1/32 I need it. Great job on this kit hopefully one day I will be able to get a kit finished with this standard you do yours Greg absolutely amazing work.
Beautiful. Great stuff.
Looks brilliant mate 🇬🇧👍🏻
Really great set of video's really enjoyed your tips and skills
Thank you 👍
That's a lovely build, I really like the effect of the variations in the tones on the metal skin. I've been there and got the tee shirt on breaking a model almost before finishing it. The pitot tube got caught in my shirt as I left my bench and dragged the model off onto the floor where it exploded into bits - most annoying.
Beautiful models!! Best regards
Oh thankfully your model survived its "Maiden flight" to the floor, mine didn't! my !/32 scale tornado was in the same position being photographed and did the same thing (oops same mistake) and did not survive the impact, consigned to the bin before total completion, "Bugger, won't be doing that again". loverly lighting, your effort is well rewarding and a credit to you, thank you for sharing this journey to the final display.
Looking good. Thanks for sharing
What a nice job, read a lot of negative comments about this kit, but you proved them wrong. Thank you for posting the build.
Magnificent `Lightning ` Greg 👏
Another great model, one of my favorite aircraft of all time. I first saw one of these at the Finningley Air show in the mid to late 60s, the sound it made was scary but brilliant. I love the ladder you custom made, it really finishes it off. Shame it fell off the table, I can only imagine the colour of the air.
It's one thing I'm sad to say, I've never seen a Lightning in the air 😟
Stunning result. The patience of a saint, it seems. An unfortunate end, but onto the next one! Amazing. According to a book I have access to in my squadron archive, white is the upper outer colour for 56SQN’s flashes, not red. Ref: Squadron histories RFC, RNAS & RAF 1912-59, by Peter Lewis. Printed 1959.
great job greg and a well deserved sub.
Absolutely fantastic, nmf simply spot on 😍👌👏👍
Beautiful job! These were one heck of a plane and you’ve done it justice. Be nice to see a Phantom to go with the old-school interceptor theme.
Back in the day I’d just mostly completed the Italieri DC-3 Spooky but hadn’t got around to adding the small bits. Took it to the club and a 10 year old picked it up and fumble dropped it flat on the floor from kid-height. It was remarkably unscathed and we were both relieved. It went on to win a competition.
A big scaled Phantom; FGR2? Sounds like a plan.
Beautiful.
this is so lovely ! I can remember the aerobatic team - imagine thet now . Awesome is an overused word unless applied to the Lightning
Great comeback Greg Elizabeth Taylor would have been proud !!!! What a great build very Very nice great paint job and the ladder just adds that wow to a great build really enjoyed your build as always great work down to earth stay safe wonder what's next! Cheers jon
Its a Secret for now.
Fantastic 👍🏻
So, I had read a model review about this kit well before watching your videos. The guy that had done the build and the review, swore up and down about the inaccuracies about this kit, how much modifying he had to do, how much of a nightmare this kit was to get right. Turned me right off from the kit, altogether. Trumpeter should be doing better for the price their customers pay for the kit. All in all, you did a fantastic job. She did turn out great. Very nice scratch build on the crew ladder, great touch to add to the model.
It's a beautiful model beautifully executed but I wouldn't be able to bring myself to fit those hidious over wing fuel tanks .
Really nice build. Amazing ladder! Worth the effort, I think. There is terrific surface detail on the kit. Would love to see you have a go at one of Trumpeters big Russian bombers, Backfire or Blinder.
The Blinder would be an interesting build
Was it the Greeks who had the philosophy of stoicism? I guess the youngsters call it chill. I'm not sure I would have handled that little upset as calmly as you seemed to. I'm sitting here quarantined with covid (not too severe - rather unpleasant but I'll survive) and viewing that bit was actually painful but the end result is magnificent. The boarding ladder is superb and completely makes the presentation, and altering the hood framing was a radical improvement. Mad skills brother!
Thank you John. The kit is full of inaccuracies, and I only went so far, but I'm thankful Trumpeter brings these great subjects in large scales. Get well soon
@@GregsModels I've built a few Trumpeter offerings in the 1/72 armour niche and thoroughly enjoyed them! Thanks again, slowly recovering!
Thank you for sharing. ☆☆☆☆☆
Could you tell us how you apply your washes on cockpit parts and u/c parts? Your results are so smooth on those, love it! Maybe make a short video on this?
It's a dark brown oil wash applied then wiped off with a cloth. The U/C bays are the same but with an acrylic off-yellow (mix) added around the latches and hydraulic areas. I must show the technique in a later video.
Thanks for that. Looking forward to see your next build! 👍🏻
Liquid mask is great for that type of chipping! Use the same method as sponge chipping use the same sponge with the humbrol liquid mask is best to use for it I've tried a few in my time àlways the pink humbrol stuff works best for realistic chips from paint to bare metal and even rusts!
Greg, I have heard of the shelf of doom, now you have added the table top of doom. Terrific result, lovely metallic finish - don't know how you can immediately box your finished kits up, I would want it on display.
I must sell them all someday, running out of space.
@@GregsModels think of the hangers...the office,runway,the airshows...
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How were the drop tanks dropped? The Jaguar had drop tanks like this. Was there a real advantage to them? Seems like they'd need to go into a dive to drop the tanks. Anyone know?
Nice build. Shame about the ending but these things happen. Onward!
Life's full of hiccups.👍
Excellent work and what a shame it decided ri fly...
What glue did you use at final assembly so you dont get any marks
Also the ballast shoots where did you get them from?
I used a mixture; superglue rear tails and radome, PVA glue for the tanks, refuelling probe, redtops and ladders. The ballast is Deluxe Liquid Gravity, its OK.
@@GregsModels cheers buddy
Why didn't you put it on a big mirror?
This is Ace.
Is that cone really radar? I'd always (ignorantly, perhaps) assumed it was a thing to slow down the air coming in so that the air enters the engines subsonic even when the plane is going greater than Mach 1. Something like the ramps on the intakes for Concorde's engines.
Update: It seems that it serves both purposes. Wikipedia says: "...The shock cone was fibreglass, necessary because the shock cone also served as a radar radome..."
Beautiful build Greg! Out of interest what glue do you use to assemble that doesn't ruin the paint?
For the final assembly, superglue and PVA glue as much as I can.
@@GregsModels thanks for the reply! Never thought of superglue. Always seem to end up with a naff paint job using conventional model glues
Not many planes look so great after a crash landing.
Given the inexplicable clumsiness I experience in trying to produce a decent model, I'm heartened to find out that even those of us with the expertise I fear I don't have are still plagued by accidental dropping of components, if not the whole model. Sorry it happened to you, but it's made me feel less like an idiot.
It's my sausage fingers.
I understand being so far into a kit that you must finish it but it sounds like it was a real slog. Nice job though!
Thank you, I hate not finishing a kit I have to see it thought regardless of the results.
Greg........... Why are you trying to fool us...........?
You show us pictures of a real Lightning and then pretend it is a scale model.
You can fool other people, but not me, buddy. I mean.... look at all those details. The end result...........
Look at the cockpit, the ejection seat.
Nah........... It is a real aircraft.
Yeah.... I'm sure......
100% sure.
Well...99%.
If only it could fly! Something we will never see in our skies again, unfortunately.
@@GregsModels Some 40, 45 years ago, many types of aircraft flew over. Some very low, others quite high, going through the sound barrier. It gave a sudden and quite intense bang ! Almost rattled the window glass out....
Some flew over my house, at less than 1000 ft. That was the first time I saw the typical tail of the Fouga Magister. Easy to recognize.
The MOST impressive airplane, winner by a million miles, was the F-4 Phantom........ It was beyond loud. It was like an erupting volcano, flying over..... Scary loud. As it fly away, I could see the two exhausts get bigger and brighter. Intense yellow, vibrating.
Intense and deep rumble, which could be heard even at a large distance.
I think the Lightning must have been something similar (?!).
The F-104 Starfighters could also easily be recognized: loud and fast. Now you see it, now you don't. Because of their small wings, they always have to fly fast. More manoeuvrable than most people think. It could change direction quite fast. Especially, when it went up. Like a rocket. It never slowed down.... Not as manoeuvrable as an F-16; clearly far more nimble than an F-104.
To this day, I am still amazed none of the F-4's managed to knock out a few windows, although sometimes, they did get close............
My mother hated those things.
For the last 20 years or so, NONE of these types of aircraft have been seen over my town. Alas.