Airfix RA-5C Vigilante

Holger Kranich
Nice start Burkhard!
And a Vigi is not often seen on the bench of a modeller!
But in my opinion, its a beautiful aircraft!

Burkhard D Autor
Slow but steady progress. Intake loft lines corrected, wings mated. Now filling and sanding. Upper wing seams are okay, but lower seams need a bit of work. Spray coat revealed that all the sink holes on the wings (all over the place) are now gone and the re-engraving the leading edge flaps turned out nicely, phew!

Marc Schimmler
It's looking like an aircraft now .... quite surprising when you see where you started from ...

Burkhard D Autor
Filling and sanding largely done - it was quite an orgy. First coat of primer to check for blemishes, just a few areas left that need some rework. 🙂

Marc Schimmler
Next week it will be finished ..... 🙂

Burkhard D Autor
Mostly on biz travel for next two weeks... 🙁

Marc Schimmler
Some haveto take all the pains.

Luc B
tuned in 🙂

FlyingCircus
langsam wird sie ja

Burkhard D Autor
Pre-shading today, scratched intake ramps and afterburner cans are ready. 🙂

Marc Schimmler
The beast is developing. 🙂

Philip De Keyser
Great project and I'm looking forward to this build 👍

Burkhard D Autor
Base coat is on, white coat is next. 🙂

John Thomas
Very nice work, It's amazing what can be done with an older kit.

Holger Kranich
Yeah Burkhard, its taking shape!🙂 Head on!!!

Burkhard D Autor
Basic livery is on, now on to the metal areas like the wing leading edge and the exhaust area.

Marc Schimmler
Ah, the final countdown .....

Burkhard D Autor
In the end, UHU-Tac worked as you suggested. Lower pressure and more thinner did the trick, even with the Aztek.

Dave Flitton
Looking really good!!

Burkhard D Autor
Thank you! 🙂

David Lengyel
Wow, that's one really big bird!

Dirk Heyer
Cool.... seldom seen model.
I`ll stay tuned.

Bill Gilman
Excellent work, Burkhard! There's nothing more rewarding in modelling than making an excellent model out of an old "unbuildable" kit. It looks really great! 👍

Burkhard D Autor
Almost finished. Ran into trouble with the decals. Airfix decals turned out to be out of register, with color printed off the decal film. Superscale decals were so brittle they turned into a mosaic the very moment they got into contact with water. I took the kit to the club meeting nevertheless. One chap brought a bottle of Microscale Liquid Decal Film along, which solved almost all my issues except for two decals ruined in my first attempts. Thanks to ebay, replacements are in the mail - from the US. The upside of globalization! 🙂
Will have more images soon.

Choppa Nutta
haha so thats where you got your clue from ! 😄

David Lengyel
Looks great so far. That's what I call a piece of sculpting right there.

Marc Schimmler
What is not visible here is what a beast of aircraft this machine is .... great work!

Choppa Nutta
...... and to think that it operated from an aircraft carrier !!

Holger Kranich
Congrats Burkhard! This was a long build but in the end it looks very rewarding!😄!!

Christian Bruer
Reminds me my dad build one for 40 years ago. I sat next to him looking for his progress and try to learn something about modelmaking. Ah Burkhard, well done and as Dirk replied a seldom seen model. Cheers, Christian

Burkhard D Autor
Christian, it was the same for me. My first model, built with my dad about 40 years ago! Started my career. 🙂

Christian Bruer
A Cheer for our dad's! 🙂

Burkhard D Autor
Small stencil decals arrived and added.