Hallam Vac 1/72nd - Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer - in progress

Here is the continuation of the Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer build, in this post the Hallam Vac vintage kit.

For the Valom kit build and reference material on the type, please go to the head post here:

https://wingsofintent.blogspot.com/2025/07/scottish-aviation-twin-pioneer-valom.html

I will re-post here for the sake of practicality some of what I posted on the head post:

A much, much older kit in vacuum-formed plastic of good gauge, with fair white metal parts -considering the age-, with decals (mine were missing) but no interior other than a cabin floor and a cockpit bulkhead. The surface detail is much simplified or not present (for example the corrugated areas of the rudders are not molded, and will have to be created, together with the whole cockpit and -if desired- cabin). For this kit I purchased an aftermarket set of resin seats (not the ones Valom offers in this case), and the rest will be either fabricated or scrounged from the spares bin. Two airfoiled lengths are provided, one (wider) for the landing gear legs and another for the wing struts. Decals will need to be created once I decide which livery to use. This vac kit offers the possibility of relatively easily opening the cabin door and (perhaps) separate and deploy the flaps. It all depends on the workload/time the build in general build may require, as I may not live forever as I once thought.

Bagged vintage kit (1987):

The white metal parts, fair given the age of the kit. Notice the cuffed props...

...as the original:

 

The surfaces have some detail, nice and even engraved, but are missing the corrugations on the rudders:

No interior whatsoever is provided, just a bulkhead and a the cabin floor. The airfoiled extruded plastic is for the LG legs and struts. My sample is missing several of those, here is a photo from the Net showing how many they should be (plus the decals missing in my bag):

The kit bag had a hole and maybe they fell, or a modeler needed them for another project. In any case, luckily I still have remnants of my Contrail stock:

The cockpit transparency fortunately aged very well (the yellowing belongs to the tape):

So, we star now to gather what is useful for the build. Resin seats were ordered online from a German source. The pilots' seats were scratchbuilt:

Found on the spares bin two white metal control wheels that are a good match:

To be continued...