It s a beast and I'm very glad they are on our side! Cheers Randy!

Thanks Ken, might not be doing another too quickly...

Says the man doing PE on a 1/700 carrier!!! I think you might be right marra, to be fair if it weren't for doing it for the channel I might have put this to one side... Have a good one!

I just remember something similar on a B747 flight sim, I always had to crank the rudder bars back 'cos I'm a tall chap...

I do love a Lynx in general - I think one of the greatest and most unsung airframes this country has produced. I just don't know much about them on a day-to-day level and I didn't much enjoy making the kit! Good to hear from someone who really knows what they are talking about!!!

@@garys_stuff My pleasure. And I totally agree with you, This airframe is sooo underrated historically. It was an absolute work horse during the Falklands war, flying many many hours without missing a beat (well my cab did lol). It's durability was also a great reflection on the quality of the engineers who maintained them.

Many thanks!

Thanks! 😃 Had to spruce up to be on Sprue Talk!

The majority of the parts were unpainted. They have been given a gentle coat of primer which I find useful in checking seam levels and so on. I do a lot of dry fitting. I sand over joints where I think the primer might affect the fit (which is pretty rare). I just couldn't get this thing to go together right. That's all. Part of the problem was getting the outer shell of the fuselage to marry up with the cockpit and cabin that had been built earlier, and I'm not sure dry fitting would have helped.Likewise the nose and windshield parts. I'm always open to the possibility that I've done things wrong - as you'll hear in my summary in this video - but I do want to make sure people don't grab one of these kits thinking it'll be easy because it isn't.

Exactly what I think - I'll show you how I got on but I'm not pretending it's the best or only way to do things. Everyone finds their own way of working.

​@@garys_stuff Exactly!

The SL4 comes from all sorts of thing, not just the fit! It is a fiddly little thing to put together and there's a lot of plastic left over at the end from all the different versions. Good thing our council recycle PS here!

@@garys_stuff : Well, a year later, and I'm in the middle of building it.....!! Yes, it really does seem to be a skill level 4 because parts just refuse to fit! And as you say, there are a lot of very fiddly little parts with comparatively massive sprue-gates and lugs which make them tricky to remove! The overall detail looks very good; nice and tiny rivets sticking out all over it, etc, but the main fuselage parts in my kit just refused to close-up above the cockpit and forward cabin area (internal ejector pin marks removed before hand), so I've had to resort to about a 1mm thick line of filler in that gap! 😞 Many of the locating pins and lugs are poorly shaped and so require careful re-shaping before they'll fit into the opening... In short, you can tell it's an older tooling from when Airfix were making huge jumps in quality, but still hadn't achieved the quality we know today - this certainly isn't anything close to the recent 1/48 Sea King; that was a complex kit, but not because of fit issues; it was a very straight forward, well designed/fitting kit; almost Tamiya-like in engineering! 😉 This Lynx is nice, but yes, a challenge getting the bits to fit together!! I'm sure it'll look lovely under paint and decals........ Your's certainly does! 😉

Thanks - yes, not too far to go...

I think they did this in the Anson, maybe its better researched/modelled than the Lynx?

Many thanks! I'm not a competition builder, never will be, but I love making kits like I did when I was six or seven so that's how I still approach it. Thanks for the kind remarks Michael!

That's all I can try to do!

Quite a few teas and several coffees....

No, the decals are not photo etched, they are printed by Cartograf, one of the best companies in the business.

@@garys_stuff indeed they are

Can't really help with tanks as armour isn't my thing (yet), I'm liking the Lancaster I'm building right now - the Dambuster version - and the Wellington is a very nice kit indeed. If you fancy 1/48 the Anson is an absolute peach - my favourite kit of 2022.

I think it depends on how heavy you are with the paint! I've not encountered any problems but often my pre-painted pieces are sprayed or quite thinly coated.

It is recommened to have a bare plastic surface to have the best bond with Tamiya Thin, but it will glue with paint, especially on smaller parts. So, it depends, imo.

​@@overdosegaming4288 Whatever works. Super glue doesn't need access to bare plastic but if you're not having problems with Tamiya it's likely because you work so hard to fit the parts together properly without undue strain.

I must say that some of the more recent ones have been really good, but go back more than about 5 years and there's some definite, challenges shall we say?

OK, my bad. Never flew one so didn't know it was that different to the helicopters I have been in. Thanks for the correction.

@@garys_stuff you’re welcome if you want to talk lynx I am happy to help I’ve been an engineer on mk3,7,8 and 9a

Next is the Airfix Dambuster Lanc, then I’ve got kits from Hobby Boss, Eduard, MiniArt and ICM on the way as well as Airfix…

Seems odd to do it in transparent. Airfix don't do PE because it would bring the age recommendation up to 14+ apparently, so they tell us, but this piece is a bit odd. Maybe an empty frame would be better, in case one buys a PE set as well?

@@garys_stuff Sounds like a plan, and something for after market to look at. Possibly use the original Airfix parts as formers to bend the flat photo etch around if it's not already the right shape?

Years ago Heller released a 1/35 modern tank kit with the engine cover mesh simulated with a decal on a clear piece. Nope -- doesn't work.

I know, it's a worry but I think the angle of the roof beam behind the cockpit might have been tiny bit out so it made the halves difficult to join simply.

Oh, and a Sword, an Academy and a Gaspatch. But also Airfix.

Would be nice to have a crew standing next to it.

In the last six months I’ve made kits by ICM, Italeri, Revell, Hobby 2000 (ex-Hasegawa), Gecko and Arma Hobby… I am aware of the breadth of manufacturers as you would notice from Monday Matters.