It does make a nice representation of the Channel Crosser.
My friends Andrew and Keith stated that after all these years of scratchbuilding and deep modifications and adaptations, I finally entered the mysteries of kit building.
The step-by-step process is described in the post that immediately precedes this one.
Wonderful! looks very much like a copy of the ancient "Brifaut" kit of the Channel crosser.
ReplyDeleteWow, gracias Dieguito, I wasn't familiar with the brand and spent a good time looking online at their old kits. I saw a couple going for $100! Yes, the have a resemblance, also with the old Pyro and Entex.
ReplyDeleteDiego, there are some interesting similarities -a few parts seem identical-, but it is a different kit, see here:
ReplyDeletehttp://fighters.forumactif.com/t36428-bleriot-xi-brifaut
Indeed... sometimes it's fun to see how different kit manufacturers copy and re-use earlier designs, and how some small quirk of the kit gets transferred to each new mold, even if that's not a real feature of the prototype. One example that comes to mind is the odd wingroots seen on the Esci Albatros D.III, exaggerated after some small extrusions on the Revell molds, and never seen on the real aircraft!
DeleteYes, and a contemporary outcome of that are those kits made exclusively of flash :-)
DeleteHello Gabriel: Nice as always; Have you seen the 1/72 kits of the Bleriot from Blue Rider - vacuform - or Choroszy Modelbud - resin?, Any comments?. Armando.
ReplyDeleteHola Armando
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with them. For what I can read on the Net the Blue Rider is depicted as having the flying surfaces vacuformed and the rest as photoetched and white metal parts. Choroszy's offer is of course resin with photoetched details. Both seem to represent military versions, which I do not model. It would be interesting to see photos of the Blue Rider kit contents.
I also have a Bleriot XI two-seater vacuform kit, by a French manufacturer... it's a poorly molded kit, little resembling the actual airplane, that directs you to make the rear fuselage out of sticks or cutting strips of the backing sheet.
DeleteAh, I see, the dreaded "kit for you to sratchbuild your own kit" school of kit-making...
Deleteoh dear...
Hello Gabriel:
ReplyDeleteI had the Blue Rider kit - as you has suggested it is entirely photo-etch which had a certain 2 dimensional quality to it that didn't appeal to me much so I passed it on.....
Beautiful as always , Gabriel.
Best,Keith