Buccaneer S.2C

[cph64]

A trip to Zak's to pick up some pilot figures resulted in me coming away with the Airfix Buccaneer S.2C from the Don Pryde collection, consisting of 140 parts over 5 blue/grey sprues and one clear. As with a few in the collection the model had been started including the use of the Eduard Zoom set for the kit along with which I found some resin ejector seats, make unknown CMK, Pavla? and a decal sheet from Model Decal giving various FAA markings including for the S.2C. These are seen along with the kit decals. The 16 page instruction booklet covers 84 build stages with seperate sheets for the marking options and the stencils. So it's time to see where Don got to and to progress.

[zak]

A bargain! (Maybe?)

[Bob C]

This will be another nice one.

Bob c

[zak]

Looks like Tamiya tape here, so it should be ok. The one I was doing was good old decorators masking tape!

[Bigkev]

Don obviously progressed, or was yours started during an economy measure?

[chriswil42]

That will keep you busy Chris.

[cph64]

All the Zoom etch added to the cockpit except for one panel where I had to use the kit decal as Don had marked on the plans that he'd lost it!|! Weight has been added ready for closing up. I've cut the wings where indicated as I intend to do this as a wing-fold build and started the centre/wheel/engine bays area. One of the bulkhead parts was broken but as it's within the belly then the gap won't be seen, there's some tight fits in this area so paint was removed from all mating surfaces.

[cph64]

Fuselage closed up, exhausts and fairings fitted followed by the cockpit tub, intakes then tail and fittings. Some of the tolerances were tight so I had to scrape away some of Don's enamel paint and do a bit of sanding and dry fitting before resorting to glue. There's still some more filling and sanding to do before undercoating. I plan to do the folded wing sections seperately. All done on return from today's Play Day. I must have got 'warmed up' there.

[chriswil42]

A fair bit of progress there Chris.

[MSea]

You could say he was flying along - hohhoho

[chriswil42]

You could say he was flying along - hohhoho

One could.

[cph64]

After 3 weeks of handling Norwegian birds it's good to be back at the bench and working on this again. I'd wanted to have the airbrakes open but as others have discovered not all the bits are there from Don's part builds so they had to be closed!! Next up were the slipper tanks which comprise of three pieces and an online search showed where lines should and shouldn't be. There are after market resin replacements without the join lines but hey, ho. The folded wings were temporarily attached then it was out with the primer for the body, tanks and other parts which have to be fitted.

[zak]

Good to see you back.

[chriswil42]

Good to see you back.

Ditto.

[Bigkev]

Hi Chris,
welcome back to the website, you have been missed.
Still nice to hear your still dealing with 'Birds', both the feathered variety and the 'metal winged' ones.
Watching your build with interest.
Bigkev