This is the 2019 Revell boxing of the Cyber Hobby kit and as such has raised panel lines, shallow undercarriage bays,sink holes and knock out points. The upper fuselage has the door markings for the Mk.1's navigator position with the 'bulged' door of the Mk.2 on one of the sprues. Interestingly (?) this is not shown in the instructions and there are no locating holes. The etch brass one in the after market set I have does not allow for the bulge so isn't being used. Also of note is that the navigators side window doesn't fit so this has been left off with Kristal Klear to be used later. Lots of weight has been put in the forward body to hopefully prevent tail-sitting. With the nose cone and tail booms then attached a lot of sanding/filling/sanding was done before a coat of primer showed where more work was needed. I've fitted the nosewheel and main legs to try and keep the body off the workbench as best as.

More or less completed in 'website downtime' this time the undersurfaces etc. are gloss white. Initially I used Tamiya's white but it didn't like the primer so I applied Halford's Appliance White over it. A coat of Klear before the kit decals which did not want to behave. They had a carrier film that needed trimming and gripped once on so even with care there were wrinkles/tears (not tears but nearly though nautical language prevailed). As with parts not being shown in the correct place the same applied to decal placement so there was a lot of double checking. The kit decals are for an a/c from 800B Flight/Sqdn which were the tankers allowing Buccaneers to take off fully loaded to be topped up with fuel once airborne. Four drop tanks are supplied but no re-fuelling pod so I thought I was going to have to get one from FreightDog at some point until I found a photograph of 116 with Sidewinder AAMs on the outer panels and the spares box was raided accordingly. Exhaust stains were brushed Vallejo Smoke and weathering powders were used to stain the fuselage undersides as Scimitars were known to leak a lot, with drip trays sometimes being used. One builder says "It looks like a Scimitar, it's painted like a Scimitar but dimension wise it's not!", wilst another gives the dimensions as ok. Anyway it's completed and hasjoined the rest of my HMS Eagle cache. Not an easy kit but I'm happy with the end result and that's what matters.

What glasses do you have? I'm off to get my eyes tested next week and could do with some like yours if you can work in such a small scale!!!

No deck vehicles are supplied with the kit, attempt to scratch build the odd forklift truck.
Made from plastic card and some etched brass railings.

No, I am not that fast, this was built during the off time with the website.

Next it will be HMS invincible from Dragon Models, again 1:700 scale.
This is a full hull kit and so I water-lined it.
I used the tape to protect the top part whilst scribing sawing and so on.

Looks nice.

Great work, I like the Wasps. I remember going onto Fearless along with Tracy and our children when she docked off Scarborough.

A great looking diorama well done.

This was produced for Hannants by MPM and as such has many faults expected of a short run kit. Moulded in a softish grey plaastic with faint panel lines, knock out point in awkward places, mould seams down the fuselage sides but the worst fault is that the two fuselage halves differ in ength by about 2mm. This definitely a dry fit/check, repeat as many times as necessary kit. I found it easier to cut and fit the intake plates not using the kit instructions which are vague in the position of many items. The exhaust nozzles were also fitted from the inside, again contrary to kit instructions. With the cockpit, nosewheel bay and Bulkhead with the intake fans fitted weight was put in the nose and behind the bulkhead before the two fuselage halves were joined. Followed by filling and sanding. The same applied to the wings with the wing fences causing a few problems and the tailplanes have to be fitted with dihedral but are not machined for such.