Bryan Tucker (Tuck) has sent us an amazing article about how he took the old Airfix Sunderland and piled in detail with White Ensign''s detail sets. This Feature / Review is packed with photos of each stage of the build.

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Thanks!

WoW.... That really was nicely done

Oh wow! Very nice!

Very very nicely done Bryan, looks superb. I remember the Airfix Sunderland, I am amazed at what you have been able to do with it.
Mal

Thanks for all the kind words, everyone. I did forget one thing:

To thanks Mike Taylor for the review samples of the WEM detail sets! Thanks a ton Mike.

Again, thanks all!

Tuck

i thought the cockpit detail looked great, no wonder you didnt fix the canopy on. one question though, why did the front turret retract? did the real plane do this or is it some sort of gimmick?

A real blinder...
The old Airfix Sunderland is almost as old as I am...lol...and that's old.
In fact its the first BIG kit I ever made so what you've done is not only amazing but nostalgic too.

CheerPeter
:-)

A crew member could then stand in the bow to assis with mooring, etc.

Wonderful job Tuck! Great build...Mike T

The model looks great and the WEM brass makes the old Airfix kit complete. Some of the old tooling really needs to be refined in a new kit to make it match the qulaity of new kits.

My only quibble withthe model is teh choice of white for the centre of the rondels. Even someone, like Dundas Bednall, who would paint his Sunderland black would not have permitted an RAF airplane to be outfitted in RAAF rondels! The centre of the RAF's SEAC rondel was light blue, and to my knowledge no Sunderland of No. 230 squardon was ever made out to appear to be an Australian airplane. The light blue was chosen to distinguish the Brits from the Aussies.

Trying to match colours from black and white photos is a mugs game at best. The film used then did not reproduce all colours evenly.

Just remember. You painted the airplane black, but in the photographs in the article published on the net, it appeasrs to have a greenish tint. That would not encourage me to go and paint my model green (even if I could justify it on the basis of the pictures I saw in the article)!