1/72 Airfix R.A.F. BE2c

[Danh4]

This is a really nice kit which goes together very easily for such a spindly biplane.  I borrowed some techniques that I've seen on the forums to replicate the translucent nature of the clear-doped wings and I'm happy with how that turned out. 

Markings are for a 16 Squadron machine which carried the legend "St. Catherines Ontario" on the forward fuselage.  I made decals for that and the tail code on my laser printer, the roundels are from the kit.

I rigged the control runs with EZ-Line and the rest of the rigging was done with Nitinol wire.  I kept track of how much went into it this time and was amazed to find that I fully used 55" of wire!











Hope you like the old bus!

-Dan

[IanB]

Very nice! You've captured the translucent look perfectly, one of the best builds of this kit I've seen to date.

Ian

[Des]

Extremely well done Dan, the overall finish on this model is excellent and the translucent effect on the top wing is superb, you also did a great job with the rigging, you have a model to be very proud of.

Des.

[Nigel Jackson]

A lovely piece of work, Dan. Well done!

Best wishes
Nigel

[Gisbod]

Very nice Dan,

That's a beautiful job in a small scale! Rigging, painting all excellent..

Guy

[Manni]

This is absolute outstanding, the complete build and paint job is done simply perfect. Thank you for showing this beauty.
Manni

[Juan]

A mini masterpiece, lovely touches all-around.

[PrzemoL]

Very nice. It is truly a lovely kit, which can be built into an attractive model. And yours is attractive. Congratulations!

[pepperman42]

Great work!!

Steve

[Borsos]

Whoof ! It's all said before. Wonderful!
Borsos

[lcarroll]

Wow Dan, hard to believe it's 1:72 Scale with that superb finish and detail! Remarkably well done, a model to be proud of.
Cheers,
Lance

[lone modeller]

I have read many times that this is a good kit: you have turned it into a mini-masterpiece. Brilliant.

Stephen.

[Danh4]

Thank you all for the kind words!  The kit really does deserve much of the credit though and I was amazed right up to the end at how well it went together. 

For instance- I added the windscreens as the last step and when I cut them off the sprues I was a bit disappointed at how thick and heavy the bottoms of them were.  I figured I was in for some tedious sanding and polishing but when test-fitting them to see what would need to be removed I discovered that they fit INTO the cockpit coaming openings rather than on top of the coaming like I thought.  Brilliant Airfix!

Another thing I really appreciated- all of the interplane struts were attached to the sprue runners by their ends, with room enough between them to clean up the mold lines and that made painting them all super easy while still attached to the sprue, something I rarely do. 

-Dan

[steveb]

Very nice! I echo all of the previous comments, most notably the wing translucency. No matter how nice the a kit is, it takes talent to make into what you did.

Steve

[GAJouette]

 Dan,
Outstanding project my friend.Even more awesome reading she's 1/72 scale. Very very impressive! Congratulations and Well Done.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette