This is more a review of the kit than the glorifying of my model, I have to admit it is one of the worst I have ever made...  But never mind:

Yet again, I submit an airfix model, even though I hate them...  I was suprised that no-one else had submitted this kit, its very common here in England, but, with most Airfix kits, is very badly made.  When a model this big is badly made, you know you are going to have some big gaps, and I did.  The largest gap I measured was on the bottom of the fuselage, and was more than a quarter of an inch!  Several tubes of filler later, and with most of the raised panel lines gone, I decided that this plane would never amount to anything, and was going on top of my wardrobe, where no-one could see it, I had nowhere else to display it anyway.  I hand painted it (big mistake), which took a very long time, and you may be able to see that the whitish colour of the top half of the model changes quite a lot from one end to another.  The most annoying thing about the model was that in the instructions it never told you to put any kind of weight in the model, so now it leans backwards all the time.  You can see in the pictures I have a bible stuck under the back end of the model!

  There was no cockpit at all in here, and I decided not to build one as it would be very hard to see in through the glass anyway.  I didn't add any weathering, I was very tired by this time......So I went to bed.

Shaun