Fairey Battle Mk. I

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January 17, 2018
As ussually first step is rescribing of all panel lines. Here its overdone, but my experiences with brush painting are that after several layers the lines soften a lot.
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January 17, 2018
Here are all the resin parts. They are high detailed and in high number, this is my second go on the resin interior and I dont like it. I managed to cut out the main parts and made a lot of mess, damaging the one sidewall of pilot cockpit.
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January 24, 2018
To leave the gunner canopy open you need to cut the canopy to separate parts. I never belived I could do this, but result is quite OK, just one little crack appeared.
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January 28, 2018
The assembly of landing gear bay is in directions quite confusing and some research is needed to find out how it actually should be. I spent some time sorting out, how to proceed the build to make it right, since no alignment bits are present here.
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January 28, 2018
The cockpit resin parts in color. I hate to paint the instrument panel manually.
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February 1, 2018
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February 3, 2018
Wings with landing gear. I managed to glue it a bit off axis (had to be straight to the ground), but with wheels it will look fine.
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February 3, 2018
Finally the interior is in, the front part went easy, but the rear was bad, had to sand down the sidewalls to minimum.
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February 4, 2018
The seatbelts on rear seat are from Ju-52, hope its not a crime.
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February 5, 2018
Added landing lights to wings, carburator intake and tailplanes.
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February 5, 2018
First layer of black primer by Ammo Mig.
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February 6, 2018
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February 7, 2018
There is camo under canopy as well, so painting first.
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February 8, 2018
This is a canopy after my attempt to fix the additional framing of pilots compartment.
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February 11, 2018
This is how you end up following the instructions, pilot is sunk deep inside. I am not going to fix this, but I wish I forseen this duting dry fitting.
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February 11, 2018
With wheels it finally starts to get the right shape.
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19 17 January 2018, 23:36

Alec K
Great start! I always wanted to do the Battle in 1/72, but thought that the Airfix kit was the only game in town. Very interested in how this goes together, and how accurate it is. Maybe Special Hobby will do with this kit as they did with the Barracuda 👍

18 January 2018, 15:31

Cuajete
Following.

24 January 2018, 20:44

Łukasz Gliński
I have that kit, wondering how hard it is to assemble. Will follow 🙂

30 January 2018, 10:10

Gordon Sørensen
Great looking cockpit, Petr! Haven't done a lot of resin myself, so always interesting to see how it goes together.

3 February 2018, 01:47

Dave Flitton
Watching!! As I understood the reviews of this kit, the canopy has a problem with the number of frames.

5 February 2018, 22:41

Łukasz Gliński
Could you provide some more details Dave? There's only a single review attached here on scalemates and it doesn't mention that.

6 February 2018, 07:51

Petr Lehnert 著者
Well I am aware of the canopy problem, there should't be so much frames over the pilots compartment, you can see it on my photo of the canopy. It seems sanding and polishing should fix it.

6 February 2018, 14:04

Lost_Erik
Good progress. I like the look of your build.

11 February 2018, 03:40

Lost_Erik
Looking good with so much masking accomplished.

19 February 2018, 06:07

Lost_Erik
Oh yeah!

25 February 2018, 00:33

Guy Rump
Great build of this unusual aircraft 👍

16 November 2021, 17:29

Alex Rodionov
Nice bulid of the rare bomber. 👍

16 November 2021, 18:46

Cuajete
Well done. Congrats!

16 November 2021, 19:04

Mark
Very nice. 👍

16 November 2021, 19:17

Łukasz Gliński
Outstanding result, that was very challenging build.
Many thanks for the hints and comments, that would be v.helpful once any of us becomes brave enough to follow your path 🙂

16 November 2021, 19:54

Alec K
Now if only SH would re-release (I did hear they are planning to).

19 November 2021, 12:38

Łukasz Gliński
Wow! I have a feeling Airfix overslept this topic 😉

19 November 2021, 13:41

Cuajete
I agree with Łukasz. I hope to Airfix release a Battle's new tool and a Javelin in this scale.

19 November 2021, 18:47