Love your delightful expressing of faults and frustrations while keeping it educational 08] Good you survived the experience. Cheers and happy thoughts from 🇩🇰
I really like the slide guitar music during the assembly. Sounds like a British electric blues band . Kind of like Foghat . Pro tip : I've been struttin' my stiff .
You persevered which is more than I would have done. If the kits were all easy you'd be short of material. It's entertaining to see how you get through all the trials and tribulations. Keep up the good work!
@@HarryHoudiniModels No worries, I had a few kits try to conquer me. Most had my blood under the paint and odd bits of broken scalpel blade embedded in them, but I got there!
True today but back when aircraft were first invented at the start of the 20th century, especially bi-planes, they used the nautical terms of port and starboard. So for this Bulldog I was correct.
I have just finished that kit it turned out well but I am glad to see the back of it. I find with bi-planes you have to plan ahead and dry fit everything before gluing and most of all have patience😆
They can be fiddly at the best of times, but I feel Airfix went out of their way to make this kit as difficult as possible just to get a high part count and try to wow the rivet counters.
I built a very old Airfix R.E.8 kit a few months ago. What fun that was trying to get the struts in place with tiny holes in the wings and the middle struts over the fuselage were too long so I had to make new ones. I nearly binned it at that point as the struts just would not stay in the correct positions, but I persevered and it ended up looking pretty good.
I always feel your best work is when you have to bring all your skills to the party. This build is certainly the case here. Perhaps Airfix had the new recruit on the design team as the others concentrated on the 1/24 Mk VIII Spitfire? Despite your frustration still a good series to watch and learn from, the less is more lesson is very valuable and one we should use more. Best wishes.
Yes I do like a challenge, but did not expect this much trouble with a new tool CAD model kit from Airfix. It has been quite a surprise and ordeal, nothing like the joy I usually get from every other Airfix kit I have made since the 1960’s.
Back onto the Quick kits from Airfix - you might be surprised! You seem to like to keep things simple but have a good result at the end. I have been involved in producing the instructions for the Me109F and P 51D Mustang in 1:72 scale for this range and they might be right up your street. Both a very nicely tooled, good surface detail, no extraneous interior detail and are a cinch to construct. They both build into very accurate and pleasing repros of the originals without all the faff of putting in stuff you don't need and are very well thought out for painting, for example, you can leave the props off whilst painting the fuselage scheme. They are affordable too, not Eduard class (loads-a-bits) but I think they do the job, nothing to lose giving them a go (no, I don't have shares in the company, but buying their kits will probably keep me employed a little longer!). Thanks a gain for your informative and entertaining channel, now subscribed!
Welcome aboard Mr Barnes. I am primarily a ship builder specialising mostly in old 60’s to 70’s Airfix kits, but now and then tackle an aircraft. So I was a bit out of my comfort zone with this Bulldog and quite annoyed with the misleading and vague instructions. Give me an old Aifix kit where you started with part number 1 then proceeded in order to the last part on the sprues, all from a big exploded instruction diagram, with text at the bottom describing each step and naming each part to help you understand what you were making.
@@HarryHoudiniModels The funny thing about Airfix is they are, I believe, trying to make their instructions more comprehensive and easy to understand. The problem is I think they are making them more complicated than they have to be, they seem to be more about the engineering of the model rather than ease of construction. I am working on a new instruction project, the details of which must remain secret for now, which has some very challenging construction which I am convinced will cause some issues with modellers when they get hold of it. Experience will definitely come into play here. I do try to give my input where I think they are going up a blind alley but the part numbers run in sequence with the construction order so it is difficult to go against what they have set out, ongoing battle I'm afraid! Good to hear your take on things, I personally think companies like Airfix etc would benefit from following guys like you to get an idea if they are going the right direction with their current system.
Hi Harry, just watched your video on the Bristol Bulldog. The small items on the top of the lower wings are generators. The one on the port wing provides electrical power for the radio transmitter, 1200 volts high tension and 10 volts low tension. The starboard wing generator provides 12 volt 500 watt power for the aircraft’s electrical systems. I have a small connection to the Bulldog, when the aircraft now at the RAF Museum at Hendon was restored to fly in the early sixties my father worked the the electrical restoration, sadly the aircraft crashed at Farnbough due to a double magneto failure. It was restored to static display condition during the late eighties and nineties for the museum. I’ve just started building two Bulldogs one for each of the RAF options in the kit. Looking forward to seeing the kit when painted and with decals.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Hi Harry, the airspeed thingamajig ( also known as the pitot tube ) is the small stub at the centre of the port leading edge interplane strut.
Fantastic video as always Harry! Love your perspective on building kits, it's refreshing and yet makes perfect sense. Why make it harder than it has to be? I quite liked the look of this kit but I've gone off it a bit now. Not just because of you Harry so don't feel guilty!!🤣 I've loved seeing and hearing your views on a new kit as opposed to a classic or vintage kit. Thanks for going through the stress of this one mate, I know it hasn't been loads of fun but I've really enjoyed this series. Take it easy mate. Bobby
@@HarryHoudiniModels It's all good mate. Sticking bits of plastic together brings me joy, as it obviously does to you! And watching you and listening to you sticking plastic together also brings me joy! 😁 Win win in my book! 👍
Had a great laugh with this title. I can’t tell you how many times I have stopped a build, put it aside, and tried at it on a later date. When all else fails, it’s a target vehicle on the firing range or the M-80 firework suppository time.🤣😂
I haven't bought this kit yet. Thanks for letting us know of the ups and downs. As i mentioned previously its a good model but as i can see its prooving to be very fidelly especially with the motor... Oh boy... The wing struts... Jesus... And then the rigging? Oh my lord! I would have preferred they made the engine in two pieces at the most. The top wing could have been a one piece and bottom wings the same. I have two Gloster Gladiators that have a similar engine situation and being also a bighplane will have similar process to go through. I haven't even attempted to build them yet and i have the Airfix Hawker Demon two of those also and a variety of WWI Albatrosses and Faulker and SE 5as including a large Trumpeter 1/28 scale and other too many to name. So the Bristol Bulldog ill have to think about it. But as you say it can be frustrating by the looks. To clean every silinder that looks like a real pain. Pardon this long comment. Looking forward to see it painted and completed. Thank you for the video.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Thanks for a most interesting video. A little tip, try pressing the cylinder halves into a ball of Blu Tack during the tricky gluing phase. This negates having them precariously gripped by tweezers.
Did think the Bulldog was a odd choice as the older and ' reasonable' smer model is readly available - would have gone for a Gauntlet which did service in WW2. I guess wingnut wings set the bar so high, others are trying to match, but over complicating a model might put off a new/average modeller - however being so detailed it probably reduces the need for after market products other than waterslide transfers. Great series of videos by the way.
I have to admit I was excited about this kit till i saw the over complications on construction and the thought of rigging it decision made not to buy it.
On the port/starboard, left/right point. On board a ship the port/starboard is always the ship, an aircraft on the ship do have left and right as they can be facing anyway on the ship. Stops the confusion
True today but back when aircraft were first invented at the start of the 20th century, especially bi-planes, they used the nautical terms of port and starboard. So for this Bulldog I was correct. Oh and aircraft can have gunners facing backward. So their left and right is different to a pilot facing forward. So Port and Starboard would need to be used for clear communication.
Is it fair to say: A nice model but the design/build is a curate's egg?🤔🤔 Hornby/Airfix do this kind of thing more and more of late. A good friend of mine is a CAD design engineer, cars, aeroplanes, you name it. He's noted an influx of new CAD jockeys from uni who don't know a thing about - nor care about - the subject matter. I ponder if it's the same at Hornby/Airfix? So often with model railways they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory 😲🙄🙄💔💔 Entertaining build and good hints and tips though✌️👍😊💜
I don’t have any noxious fumes because I use a filament 3D printer with harmless PLA and PETG. I was given a small resin 3D printer from Geeeeeetrch to review but even with a mask, eye protection, and restricting all the fumes to a well ventilated spare room at the back of my house, I became very ill. Resin printing is toxic and very messy. So I bought a Neptune 4 Pro 3D filament printer from Elegoo, which is the one I used to print the pilots. You can’t get as fine a detail print like resin, but I know some tricks to get down to 0.05mm layers and smooth surfaces, almost as good as resin. I was also given an SK1 core XY filament printer from Two Trees to review, and that was very good at first, but after 6 months use just kept breaking down and eventually died. It was hard getting support for the SK1 so it is still broken. My Elegoo Neptune printer is still going strong, so much so I have ordered another bigger 3D Neptune printer from Elegoo. I get local support from Elegoo with parts and filament sent to me in days from their Australian warehouse. So for me they are the best option.
@@HarryHoudiniModels It has fewer parts than the 1/48 but the assembly, particularly of the struts, is byzantine and fragile. I think in both cases you have to really want an example of the aircraft in question to suffer through it. However old the 1/72 Bulldog is, once you do suffer through and complete it the end result is an attractive little bird. I'd like to try the 1/72 Hawker Demon when I get over my bulldog trauma.
I built a few Airfix 1/72 biplanes back in my youth and always failed.Looked at this one and saw your frustrations.I’m afraid if I tried this kit I would end up strangling the wife,put the cat in the curry,get pissed and hang myself.Just kidding of course ,but thanks for the warning.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Just found an old Airfix Sopwith Camel 1/72 in my stash.Going to give it a go.Thx for the tips on assembling the struts,I have always thought my life was upside down.The cat is safe for now.
I gave up on mine entirely - binned it in frustration. It started with the cockpit interior as Harry says: due to their delicacy, removing the parts let alone cleaning them up and gluing them was bad enough. Then the wings' trailing edges drove me to distraction, on top the vagueness in areas of the instructions. I model for fun and relaxation, not to face challenges in kits that - arguably - a new-tool kit from a mainstream manufacturer should not be presenting. That was even before I got to the rigging. Some say Airfix make that as clear as anything, well, perhaps it's because I'm not a biplane modeller, but I'm in two minds over that. For all that I have still seen some great builds, but no no, not for me.
Forgot. Nice pilot. If i do buy this I'll just use the Airfix usual pilot unless i find an aftermarket version. I don't have a 3D printer wish i did but its out of my price range. I wander what type of rigging material you use? Thanks for the show.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
The new Airfix kits don’t come with pilots anymore. Well at least this one and a few other 1/48 Airfix kits I have acquired recently. For the rigging I was using Ezyline which is easy to attach, stretch and rig, being made from resin filament. However in the Australian heat it only took a few hot summers until the Ezyline evaporated away like the End Game by Thanos! So I am back to using fine waxed cotton thread or even thin brass wire, although I have had some success printing ratlines on my 3D printer, so will look at designing and testing rigging for this kit using the same technique.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Thanks for that information. I've built a 1/48 scale WWI Rowland and that's the first ever biplane I used invisible thread that comes in black and also a translucent white I bought from a material shop. I think it's nylon. I touch it up with some metallic Black gunze sangyo paint afterwards you can barely see it and it's very frastrating to use especially if eyes are bad like mine. You have to have good lighting to see. It's good to know how the latest kits fair out. I was nearly going to buy a while ago an early version of the bulldog I think it was a Monogram 1/48. It was second hand parts were all loose in box but I forgot all about it I missed out it sold.. As usual great to watch and see how good or what stress to expect with some kits.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Thanks
thanks Cos.. Super Thanks!
Love your delightful expressing of faults and frustrations while keeping it educational 08] Good you survived the experience. Cheers and happy thoughts from 🇩🇰
Thanks Thomas… I struggled through. The kit is quite nice once built, and after you wipe my blood and sweat off the plastic!
I really like the slide guitar music during the assembly. Sounds like a British electric blues band . Kind of like Foghat .
Pro tip : I've been struttin' my stiff .
It was a cool track Rom…. but did you notice I used the death march in the section for the motor hehe?
@@HarryHoudiniModels I knew it changed but didn't know what it was .
great advice about the struts ( I didn't know that ) - dry fit first
Glad it was helpful matey
You persevered which is more than I would have done. If the kits were all easy you'd be short of material. It's entertaining to see how you get through all the trials and tribulations. Keep up the good work!
I am too stubborn to quit… it’s built now… the pain is over LOL
@@HarryHoudiniModels No worries, I had a few kits try to conquer me. Most had my blood under the paint and odd bits of broken scalpel blade embedded in them, but I got there!
Love the video Harry that 3d printed pilot is amazing come on Harry we know you enjoy building looking good 😀
I may have played up the frustration a little for theatrical porpoises. But this kit is so un-Airfix!
The Bulldog Spirit Harry. Keep smiling through matey. All the best. 😀
I am smiling like a Cheshire Cat now that motor is done Bren
Harry, port and starboard for ships, left and right for planes!!
True today but back when aircraft were first invented at the start of the 20th century, especially bi-planes, they used the nautical terms of port and starboard. So for this Bulldog I was correct.
@@finlayfraser9952 Hi , we use port and starboard forward and aft in aviation.
I have just finished that kit it turned out well but I am glad to see the back of it. I find with bi-planes you have to plan ahead and dry fit everything before gluing and most of all have patience😆
They can be fiddly at the best of times, but I feel Airfix went out of their way to make this kit as difficult as possible just to get a high part count and try to wow the rivet counters.
I built a very old Airfix R.E.8 kit a few months ago. What fun that was trying to get the struts in place with tiny holes in the wings and the middle struts over the fuselage were too long so I had to make new ones. I nearly binned it at that point as the struts just would not stay in the correct positions, but I persevered and it ended up looking pretty good.
I always feel your best work is when you have to bring all your skills to the party. This build is certainly the case here. Perhaps Airfix had the new recruit on the design team as the others concentrated on the 1/24 Mk VIII Spitfire? Despite your frustration still a good series to watch and learn from, the less is more lesson is very valuable and one we should use more. Best wishes.
Yes I do like a challenge, but did not expect this much trouble with a new tool CAD model kit from Airfix. It has been quite a surprise and ordeal, nothing like the joy I usually get from every other Airfix kit I have made since the 1960’s.
Back onto the Quick kits from Airfix - you might be surprised! You seem to like to keep things simple but have a good result at the end. I have been involved in producing the instructions for the Me109F and P 51D Mustang in 1:72 scale for this range and they might be right up your street. Both a very nicely tooled, good surface detail, no extraneous interior detail and are a cinch to construct. They both build into very accurate and pleasing repros of the originals without all the faff of putting in stuff you don't need and are very well thought out for painting, for example, you can leave the props off whilst painting the fuselage scheme. They are affordable too, not Eduard class (loads-a-bits) but I think they do the job, nothing to lose giving them a go (no, I don't have shares in the company, but buying their kits will probably keep me employed a little longer!). Thanks a gain for your informative and entertaining channel, now subscribed!
Welcome aboard Mr Barnes. I am primarily a ship builder specialising mostly in old 60’s to 70’s Airfix kits, but now and then tackle an aircraft. So I was a bit out of my comfort zone with this Bulldog and quite annoyed with the misleading and vague instructions. Give me an old Aifix kit where you started with part number 1 then proceeded in order to the last part on the sprues, all from a big exploded instruction diagram, with text at the bottom describing each step and naming each part to help you understand what you were making.
@@HarryHoudiniModels The funny thing about Airfix is they are, I believe, trying to make their instructions more comprehensive and easy to understand. The problem is I think they are making them more complicated than they have to be, they seem to be more about the engineering of the model rather than ease of construction. I am working on a new instruction project, the details of which must remain secret for now, which has some very challenging construction which I am convinced will cause some issues with modellers when they get hold of it. Experience will definitely come into play here. I do try to give my input where I think they are going up a blind alley but the part numbers run in sequence with the construction order so it is difficult to go against what they have set out, ongoing battle I'm afraid! Good to hear your take on things, I personally think companies like Airfix etc would benefit from following guys like you to get an idea if they are going the right direction with their current system.
Bloody hell Harry I all ready got brain damage from my 3 marriages I think that kit would probably put in a mental hospital ha ha ha 😀
I am checking myself in now Robert!
Thanks Harry, interesting model.
Good on you matey.. back to ships in August. I need to regain what little is left of my sanity.
You got there in the end, Harry. Jeez, did that kit put up a fight, though!
Yes it was a feisty little bugga.
Hi Harry, just watched your video on the Bristol Bulldog. The small items on the top of the lower wings are generators. The one on the port wing provides electrical power for the radio transmitter, 1200 volts high tension and 10 volts low tension. The starboard wing generator provides 12 volt 500 watt power for the aircraft’s electrical systems. I have a small connection to the Bulldog, when the aircraft now at the RAF Museum at Hendon was restored to fly in the early sixties my father worked the the electrical restoration, sadly the aircraft crashed at Farnbough due to a double magneto failure. It was restored to static display condition during the late eighties and nineties for the museum. I’ve just started building two Bulldogs one for each of the RAF options in the kit.
Looking forward to seeing the kit when painted and with decals.
Thanks Kevin. So where is the air speed indicator thingamajig?
@@HarryHoudiniModels Hi Harry, the airspeed thingamajig ( also known as the pitot tube ) is the small stub at the centre of the port leading edge interplane strut.
Model kits that suck all the life out of you. A new channel from H.H . looking forward to it.
Ha Ha S.A.L.T.Y. Suck All Life Through You. Great idea Michael.
Cool....watched another Bristol aircraft video yesterday...Bristol built some interesting aircraft...❤
Thanks for watching Bill
Fantastic video as always Harry!
Love your perspective on building kits, it's refreshing and yet makes perfect sense. Why make it harder than it has to be? I quite liked the look of this kit but I've gone off it a bit now. Not just because of you Harry so don't feel guilty!!🤣
I've loved seeing and hearing your views on a new kit as opposed to a classic or vintage kit.
Thanks for going through the stress of this one mate, I know it hasn't been loads of fun but I've really enjoyed this series. Take it easy mate.
Bobby
It was so surprising Bobby, being an Airfix kit… although as I said in part 1, it is so very un-Airfix to me. Back to the Classic kits I think.
@@HarryHoudiniModels It's all good mate. Sticking bits of plastic together brings me joy, as it obviously does to you! And watching you and listening to you sticking plastic together also brings me joy! 😁 Win win in my book! 👍
The Airfix 1/72 scale Bulldog is looking better and better to me Harry. 😁 It would also be in the same scale as my other biplane models of the period.
I might get one just to have some fun.
@@HarryHoudiniModels 👍🏻
Hmm thankfully I like spitfires. Thanks Harry for your video as usual.
Stay with the Spitty Cos. Thanks for watching
Had a great laugh with this title. I can’t tell you how many times I have stopped a build, put it aside, and tried at it on a later date. When all else fails, it’s a target vehicle on the firing range or the M-80 firework suppository time.🤣😂
I have never binned a kit.. too stubborn. Although there was this Fiat I just gave back to the guy who asked me to build it for him.
Great video and thanks for warning me not to buy this kit. haha!
Sorry about that Steve… it is still a great model of the Bulldog. Just requires you to be drunk to build it!
@@HarryHoudiniModels Nothing to be sorry about, you did me a favour :)
I haven't bought this kit yet. Thanks for letting us know of the ups and downs. As i mentioned previously its a good model but as i can see its prooving to be very fidelly especially with the motor... Oh boy... The wing struts... Jesus... And then the rigging? Oh my lord! I would have preferred they made the engine in two pieces at the most. The top wing could have been a one piece and bottom wings the same. I have two Gloster Gladiators that have a similar engine situation and being also a bighplane will have similar process to go through. I haven't even attempted to build them yet and i have the Airfix Hawker Demon two of those also and a variety of WWI Albatrosses and Faulker and SE 5as including a large Trumpeter 1/28 scale and other too many to name. So the Bristol Bulldog ill have to think about it. But as you say it can be frustrating by the looks. To clean every silinder that looks like a real pain. Pardon this long comment. Looking forward to see it painted and completed. Thank you for the video.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
Good on you George, thanks for watching.
I love this kit. It looks really neat.
Available now from your local Airfix retailer
Thanks for a most interesting video. A little tip, try pressing the cylinder halves into a ball of Blu Tack during the tricky gluing phase. This negates having them precariously gripped by tweezers.
What a clever idea… thanks for that Michael :)
Harry you hit your pilot with your shrink ray. I think it's neat.
Yes that Martian ray gun has many uses :)
Harry , now that's fantastic. Sorry, airfix had all of those twists and turns for you. But the build looks great.
What doesn’t kill us makes us just a bit insaner!
Did think the Bulldog was a odd choice as the older and ' reasonable' smer model is readly available - would have gone for a Gauntlet which did service in WW2. I guess wingnut wings set the bar so high, others are trying to match, but over complicating a model might put off a new/average modeller - however being so detailed it probably reduces the need for after market products other than waterslide transfers. Great series of videos by the way.
Thanks for watching Barry
Feeding the algo for ya Harry.
Good on you matey
I have to admit I was excited about this kit till i saw the over complications on construction and the thought of rigging it decision made not to buy it.
It is very unAirfix… and I feel unnecessary over engineered. But some like that. Not me.
On the port/starboard, left/right point. On board a ship the port/starboard is always the ship, an aircraft on the ship do have left and right as they can be facing anyway on the ship. Stops the confusion
True today but back when aircraft were first invented at the start of the 20th century, especially bi-planes, they used the nautical terms of port and starboard. So for this Bulldog I was correct.
Oh and aircraft can have gunners facing backward. So their left and right is different to a pilot facing forward. So Port and Starboard would need to be used for clear communication.
Hehe, you even test-shot Douglas Bader
Ha ha yes I did ;)
Direct Pressure Generator
Yep, like an altimeter. Thank Monty
Is it fair to say: A nice model but the design/build is a curate's egg?🤔🤔
Hornby/Airfix do this kind of thing more and more of late.
A good friend of mine is a CAD design engineer, cars, aeroplanes, you name it. He's noted an influx of new CAD jockeys from uni who don't know a thing about - nor care about - the subject matter. I ponder if it's the same at Hornby/Airfix? So often with model railways they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory 😲🙄🙄💔💔
Entertaining build and good hints and tips though✌️👍😊💜
They should make the CAD and sprue designers build the model… then they would soon change their ways!
What printer do you use and how does one deal with the fumes
I don’t have any noxious fumes because I use a filament 3D printer with harmless PLA and PETG. I was given a small resin 3D printer from Geeeeeetrch to review but even with a mask, eye protection, and restricting all the fumes to a well ventilated spare room at the back of my house, I became very ill. Resin printing is toxic and very messy.
So I bought a Neptune 4 Pro 3D filament printer from Elegoo, which is the one I used to print the pilots. You can’t get as fine a detail print like resin, but I know some tricks to get down to 0.05mm layers and smooth surfaces, almost as good as resin.
I was also given an SK1 core XY filament printer from Two Trees to review, and that was very good at first, but after 6 months use just kept breaking down and eventually died. It was hard getting support for the SK1 so it is still broken.
My Elegoo Neptune printer is still going strong, so much so I have ordered another bigger 3D Neptune printer from Elegoo. I get local support from Elegoo with parts and filament sent to me in days from their Australian warehouse. So for me they are the best option.
Just guessing, but maybe the BP is a generator, or alternator. After all, even gas motors require electricity, for the spark plugs.
Makes sense Paul. Thanks for watching.
Barometric Pressure, BP. Altimeter.
Ah of course. Thanks Vaughan
Is D.P. Dual Purpose?
Nice try it has to do with the altimeter.. Someone else worked it out in comments D something Pressure
Barometric Pressure, BP. Altimeter apparently
Buttons, buttons, buttons.
Bloody Algorithm!
you are lucky it's just a bulldog and not a pitbull you would have completely lost the will to live
Or a cat!
I was trying to figure out why this built different than mine did, and then realized it's the 1/48 not the 1/72. The 1/72 Bulldog is nightmarish.
Strange? I have heard good things about the Airfix 1/72 Bulldog. But that is an old kit so a recent rebox may have worn out moulds.
@@HarryHoudiniModels It has fewer parts than the 1/48 but the assembly, particularly of the struts, is byzantine and fragile. I think in both cases you have to really want an example of the aircraft in question to suffer through it. However old the 1/72 Bulldog is, once you do suffer through and complete it the end result is an attractive little bird. I'd like to try the 1/72 Hawker Demon when I get over my bulldog trauma.
I built a few Airfix 1/72 biplanes back in my youth and always failed.Looked at this one and saw your frustrations.I’m afraid if I tried this kit I would end up strangling the wife,put the cat in the curry,get pissed and hang myself.Just kidding of course ,but thanks for the warning.
Curried cat is not all that good.. the fur gets caught in your teeth!
@@HarryHoudiniModels Just found an old Airfix Sopwith Camel 1/72 in my stash.Going to give it a go.Thx for the tips on assembling the struts,I have always thought my life was upside down.The cat is safe for now.
Ask me I know what DP is...
I did in the video… spill the beans dude!
Why the pilot obsession, unless it's being displayed flying.
No obsession.. I just like my aircraft in flight, so they require piloting :)
I gave up on mine entirely - binned it in frustration. It started with the cockpit interior as Harry says: due to their delicacy, removing the parts let alone cleaning them up and gluing them was bad enough. Then the wings' trailing edges drove me to distraction, on top the vagueness in areas of the instructions. I model for fun and relaxation, not to face challenges in kits that - arguably - a new-tool kit from a mainstream manufacturer should not be presenting. That was even before I got to the rigging. Some say Airfix make that as clear as anything, well, perhaps it's because I'm not a biplane modeller, but I'm in two minds over that. For all that I have still seen some great builds, but no no, not for me.
Not a kit for everyone… had I known I would have just got the Classic 1/72 kit instead :(
Forgot. Nice pilot. If i do buy this I'll just use the Airfix usual pilot unless i find an aftermarket version. I don't have a 3D printer wish i did but its out of my price range. I wander what type of rigging material you use? Thanks for the show.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️
The new Airfix kits don’t come with pilots anymore. Well at least this one and a few other 1/48 Airfix kits I have acquired recently. For the rigging I was using Ezyline which is easy to attach, stretch and rig, being made from resin filament. However in the Australian heat it only took a few hot summers until the Ezyline evaporated away like the End Game by Thanos! So I am back to using fine waxed cotton thread or even thin brass wire, although I have had some success printing ratlines on my 3D printer, so will look at designing and testing rigging for this kit using the same technique.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Thanks for that information. I've built a 1/48 scale WWI Rowland and that's the first ever biplane I used invisible thread that comes in black and also a translucent white I bought from a material shop. I think it's nylon. I touch it up with some metallic Black gunze sangyo paint afterwards you can barely see it and it's very frastrating to use especially if eyes are bad like mine. You have to have good lighting to see. It's good to know how the latest kits fair out. I was nearly going to buy a while ago an early version of the bulldog I think it was a Monogram 1/48. It was second hand parts were all loose in box but I forgot all about it I missed out it sold.. As usual great to watch and see how good or what stress to expect with some kits.👍🇭🇲🦘🐨✌️