Highly detailed Airfix Short Stirling build

[FourWheelDrift]

I was forwarded this link just now and thought you would appreciate the detail and effort gone into this.

Lots of photos, click to make bigger - http://www.drivefly.it./schede_soci/Vignocchi%20An...

[davepoth]

Wow. Just wow. I'm DEFINITELY never posting pictures of the last model I made.

[Eric Mc]

Impresseive, but about 90% of all that work is completely hidden from view once the two fuselage halves are joined together.

The Airfix Stirling is a very old kit though and to turn it into a modern materpiece takes a LOT of work.

It's one of those projects I have awaiting as I have one of these sitting in the "to do" pile.

[dr_gn]

Looks like a rush job to me: he's missed the instrument panel wiring off.

[perdu]

I love it

but I can't help thinking "why" when as Eric says you canny see it on completion

But he has remarkable ability and great skills, so I take off my hat to the guy. A far better model maker than I ever was.
If I was to really critcise I would doubt the benefit of shading behind the stringers and the like, but what he saw he put in, you simply can't knock it.

A masterpiece

I hadn't realised that Airfix kits have dispensed with bloody black plastic, after my Typhoon build I would condemn ALL moulders of 'blacky dark' models to the eternal flames of hell

Grey is far mo' user friendly to my old eyes

[The real Apache]

Wish I could see it

[The real Apache]

Seen it, my god, that is truly humbling skill, an awsome choice of aircraft too. There's something mystical about the Stirling, a massive machine with incredible presence......I wish at least one had survived

[Eric Mc]

At lesast some of a Stirling may re-emerge from various bits and pieces and newly manufactured sections,.


http://www.stirlingproject.co.uk/titleFrame.html

[dr_gn]

Eric Mc said:

At lesast some of a Stirling may re-emerge from various bits and pieces and newly manufactured sections,.


http://www.stirlingproject.co.uk/titleFrame.html

I found the wreck of a Stirling in the Peaks about 10 years ago:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8050359@N07/266872838...

(not my photos).

The tyre and wheel were absolutely huge. I think the Stirling Project have removed all the juicy bits now (by helicopter) for their restoration.

[Evangelion]

Link above doesn't do anything, try this one instead:

http://www.stirlingproject.co.uk/

[Eric Mc]

Evangelion said:

Link above doesn't do anything, try this one instead:

http://www.stirlingproject.co.uk/

Aye, that's better

[PaulG40]

Amazing work!

I remember doing similar attention to detail, shading, the works on a Subaru Impreza WRC model, although you could see thorugh the windows so wasn't too bad. lol. Must dig it out of the loft some time.

[Skodaku]

FourWheelDrift said:

I was forwarded this link just now and thought you would appreciate the detail and effort gone into this.

Lots of photos, click to make bigger - http://www.drivefly.it./schede_soci/Vignocchi%20An...

Under the seat platform is what looks like a miniature white Jabba the Hut figure. Interesting. Stunning build, though. Well done.

[cardigankid]

Just unbelievable. I wish I could read Italian. Though the Stirling is an old kit my recollection is that it is a good one. Fits together well and not covered in bolt heads. I have one in the garage but I haven't looked at it since 1976. I am sure it is black plastic.

[Ben Magoo]

dr_gn said:

Looks like a rush job to me: he's missed the instrument panel wiring off.

Lol glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that!

In all honesty though I don't know if I could bring myself to put the two halves together after all that work! I'd want some way of showing it off?

[dr_gn]

cardigankid said:

Just unbelievable. I wish I could read Italian. Though the Stirling is an old kit my recollection is that it is a good one. Fits together well and not covered in bolt heads. I have one in the garage but I haven't looked at it since 1976. I am sure it is black plastic.

Black plastic, plus you get an RAF tractor and three or four bomb trolleys into the bargain.

[Eric Mc]

I think the current rendition of the kit is in the more normal grey plastic.