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English Electric Cork Mk. III

The kit used in this build is a second release of the still quite new on the market company – Lukgraph. This is a 1:72 scale model kit of the British prototype flying boat. It's an impresive kit, with the wingspan of 36cm and consists of almost 250 parts.

The model was build only with the parts provided in the box, except the rigging of course. All parts were casted in resin and suplemented by the photo-etched details. The fuselage planking was hand painted, masking one by one with the paper tape. As you see the final result was absolutely worth all this effort and patience. For painting Jacek has used different acrylics for mahogany and Revell 99 enamel for simulating silver dope. Although the authors is a very experienced modeller the building proces of this kit took him together about 2 months.

Some of the "in progress" photos can be found in the News Report which we have published on Aeroscale when this model kit was still in the prototype stage. You can find it HERE as the model presented in this article was build from the first castings of the kit.