Great story! I've really enjoyed hearing a handful of people's stories on this aircraft 😄

@@ModellingWeekly My brother and I made lots of Airfix kits, then one day our little sister, eight years younger, decided to see if they would fly down the stairs, Ggrrrrhhh. We managed to patch some of them up, but they were never the same.

My father worked on these too, but for the SAAF. He loves these aircraft.

Hello Bob, are you the same Bob Hodgson who used to go drinking on a Friday with Steve and George?

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Very glad you could clarify! Nobody else has had an answer :D

@@ModellingWeekly It is a dialectric panel for the doppler nav system, although it is on a rather large removable panel. The normal access hatch is to the rear of it, between it and the hook mounting. That was a much smaller losenge shaped hatch that you had to lift yourself into to do various maintenance, such as change the LOX bottle, check fin spar bolts, and various other things as well as giving access to various lectrickery, and giving ample room once fully inside for a quick nap. On the ground, it was left open before flight. As for Avionics tradesmen, they never liked getting their hands dirty ;)

Im very glad!

What a great story! I'm sure he'll love itl! It's great - this video has brought out a lot of great stories people have!

😂 thanks! You can blame the tooling back then....

Very glad you enjoyed it!

Very glad you like the result! :D

😄 thanks!!

Many thanks!

Thanks so much!

I really appreciate it! Thank you 😄 it is a very cool aircraft

You'll enjoy it! Glad you liked the build :D

Many thanks!

Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed :)

I appreciate it!

Thanks!

Aw, I appreciate it!

Very glad! 😃

Thanks! Love those old matchbox kits, how is it?

@@ModellingWeekly I actually have a few hundred kits still in boxes all 1/72 British from WW1 to now including the new Tempest 2 jet German only WW1 and WW2 Including the bomber from the movie Indiana Jones and Raiders of the lost ark Keep building

Thanks!

Interesting! Thanks for commenting :)

Thanks mate! The 48th bucc is a beautiful looking kit nonetheless, so best of luck with that mate and have fun with it!

Doppler

Many thanks for the info!

Thanks!!

Sounds interesting! Never seen one in SAAF colours!

@Dan Didnot on the underside, yeah i think so

@Dan Didnot the colours are Dark sea grey on yhe upper surfaces and PRU blue on the under surfaces google 24 sqn SAAF it should have more details

Many thanks! Luckily I'm making a canopy masking guide soon enough!

@@ModellingWeekly I look forward to it! Cheers!

Hi! Glad you found the video helpful. Here are answers to your questions: 1. Just normal liquid cement, as airbrushed layers are so thin it just goes straight through them. However, super glue is a good alternative if poly cement isn't working. 2. www.modelshade.com/paint-conversion-chart - online paint conversion table. Hope this helps! 3. Surprisingly airbrushing is actually very paint efficient, especially using Vallejo dropper bottles (no waste) - if you think about it, it makes a lot of sense - airbrushed paint layers are microns thick, whereas handbrushed layers are much thicker thus using more paint. As for cleaning, it's annoying but once you get into a rhythm it's fast and easy. Also helps to have an airbrush with good seals/passages (avoids leaking paint). 4. if you are referring to contact@modellingweekly.co.uk, that's very odd! It should be working fine...what leads you to believe it's faulty? Thanks very much again!

Thanks 😊 I'm afraid so in my case. I'd say the biggest problem was the join between the fuselage mid section and the tail section - there was quite a bit of deformity here, almost as if it was a molding error, but regardless they didn't really match up and I had to use quite a bit of filler

Yeah you need glue, I use a product called tamiya extra thin cement :)

I believe i used 71.053, dark sea grey, though not entirely sure, sorry

Funnily enough, I was reading about that today! Yep, definitely rotates. Pretty cool to be honest.

I use white spirit personally. Do you apply s varnish over the top of the Vallejo paint? It's quite weak when it comes to resistance to chemicals

@@ModellingWeekly For the tester, I didn't apply Vanish. I will try with Vanish on again. For white spirit , do you use AK white spirit or any brand specific? I think Abteilung is part of AK/MIG brand it works better with it's own thinner. When you clean up the wash, do you use dry paper/thin water damped paper or lightly thinner damped paper? Thanks

@@tommyli526 just normal white spirit

@@ModellingWeekly got a white spirit from screwfix, works really well over the varnish. Easy to clean. Thanks again

@@tommyli526 no problem, glad it worked out for you!

If you want to build a buccaneer, this is the best kit on the market. There's a few areas that need filling, but otherwise its a perfectly good kit. I'd say go ahead! :D

@@ModellingWeekly ok thanks for the suggestion. Plus the Buccaneer is close to me as I watched them at bruntingthorpe.

Admire it lol. I have a glass cabinet that I look at every day pretty much. Though the most enjoyment comes from building them of course!

Display em :) I have a couple of shelves but also I have one model which I select to sit on my desk

I don't believe so - I think this kit is solely for carrier based variants (ark royal and HMS eagle only, I'm afraid to say)

Hi! I just created a mixture using some oil paints, until I got the colour i wanted!

Hi! It was vallejo Metal color :)

Go for it! So long as I get the credit, feel free!

That would have been a pretty good guess - another commenter has let me know it's the main avionics hatch on the aircraft 👍🏻

🤣🤣 Very glad you enjoyed !

Humbrol varnish through an airbrush for you. I have alclad II now, should be better

@@ModellingWeekly Don't get me wront, still a very good looking build. Maybe the camera and the lighting pick up the orangepeel this bad. Despite my problems with some aspects of the kit I will definitely build it. The Buccaneer is a good looking ugly craft. It was strange how that varnish sprayed. Maybe it needs more pressure or dilution. Maybe you should try reflow the clearcote. After clearcoting somewhat clean the airbrush, and fill it with some thinner, and spray the whole clearcoted model with it. It reactivates the clearcote and helps it to level itself, and reduce the orangepeel on it. Most of the time this method is enough against the excessive orangepeel. It works almost every type of clearcote, maybe the "real acrylic" ones are the exception. But with laquers and enamels it works fine. By the way, I thin the enamels with laquer thinner mix, not with white spirit. For reflow it is definitely better. (I don't use "factory" thinners such as Mr. Color Levelling Thinner. I mix it myself from hardware store laquer thinner and IPA, with 1:2 mix, but probably it needs more IPA, and some Tamiya Paint Retarder Laquer Type. "Factory thinners" have a smell much more like IPA, my mix is almost entirely laquer thinner in smell. Those premixes use 1:8 or even higher mixing ratio toward IPA. More IPA means faster drying.) Or if you a bit overdedicated, you can sand and polish it. I did it with my Hobby Boss F9F-3 Panther (1/72), and it turned to be insane. Maybe it's overkill to do with an aircraft, but the result... I used Gunze paint (H-55) and polished it too. Well, I sprayed it in so thin layer that even the Tamiya Finish Polishing Compund removed it in some places. OK, repaint in those places, repolish. After that clearcote (Gunze GX-100 with 1:3 thinning), decals, clearcote. Sanding back the decal film steps and clearcoting again. And then the fun of full wet sanding (Tamiya 1500 and 2000 Sanding Sponges) and polishing with Tamiya Compunds (Fine and Finish). And now it is mirrorlike. Except the scratches... Totally unneccessary for an aircraft in my opinion, but it was fun. I love to experiment. The whole project started with the sanding of the plastic itself. Hobby Boss and Trumpeter kits have a gritty surface, and it's not really appealing, especially if you want to paint it gloss. For an armor kit it's not a problem, but for aircrafts it is.

It's very tight, but you can see into the exhaust from the rear...a little!

😅 I can't say I see what you mean, but I guess 'Buccaneer' has something to do with it? 😂

@@ModellingWeekly Correct :). I could have asked a technical question about the viscosity of the oil based wash but decided to keep it daft.

@@chestikov2011 😂😂

Um...the scheme is correct, it's exactly how it's displayed in the instructions. Also, if you search for reference pictures of Xt275, it displays the aircraft in this weird hybrid scheme. I agree that it's unusual, but it's perfectly accurate

​@@ModellingWeekly The roundels are correct for all RN and RAF aircraft prior to 1973 when the white was removed (except on RN phantoms for some reason)

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Sounds like a good idea!

I myself am from Ukraine and I like your channel.

@@romanbakal5534 I'm glad you enjoy the content :))