Hey Tosh,if you want to have some fun,build a vac form like this one!

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Contrail HP 42.

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Is that kit still available?

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You can find it on the bay but are a bit pricey.I lucked out and traded a few car kits for another HP42 as well as the KC97.

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Oh wow, that looks fantastic! I’ll definitely will look into it. I’ve never made a vacuform kit before. Matter of fact, I’ve never seen nor touched any type of vacuform. Thank you for the information.

Toshi

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That reminds me of a Contrails Blackburn Iris I have in the stash.

That kit probably wouldn’t be the place to start, Toshi but Philo did a heck of a job

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Contrail kits are pretty much top of the heap as far as vac forms go!

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Wow, that’s fantastic Philo! Vac-form kits scare me- but you did an amazing job on a complex aircraft!

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Thank you!I wonder if my build log is still in the archies?

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There is a company called Sanger (www.sangereng.com.uk) in the UK that has a vacuform 1/48 scale B-47 for sale. It costs 67 pounds. It looks pretty cool.

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How difficult are vacuform kits to build. It looks like there is a lot of flash to remove. Did you use plastic cement to glue the model together?

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edit: Changed to http://www.sangereng.co.uk/

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Hi ;

As far as Vac-U-Form kits go that looks awesome .Try the Dornier D O - X In wood at 1/24 scale ! Lotsa fun there . T.B.

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Well no flash as the parts are molded into plastic sheets and you put a new #11 blade in the handle and score along the parts. Then you flex the plastic and the parts cleanly break out of the surface.I tape sandpaper to a piece of glass and sand the parts in a figure eight pattern so that they join up properlyAny cement used for plastic models can be used,and normal putty is used to deal with seams.

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HI

I wouldn’t call them difficult…but different.

Take you time in planning…cutting out parts. Some kits,such as rareplanes, have bulkheads and the like. With others you makes these yourself. But I find them to be fun and a change of pace. More challenging than injection molded kits,but easier than a scratch build. There are some books out there on the topic.