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It was hard to find the inspiration needed to finish these after the build got stale.
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This is the old Grumman Widgeon from Airfix. Why do I always return to old bad kits? The engine cowlings are to narrow so I added 0,4 mm plastic card between the halves. |
| To balance the fault with the narrow engines the windscreen is too wide. |
| One kit had parts missing so I made a mould for the engine and float halves so that I could cast new parts. One propeller was also missing so I am trying to convert and DH Heron prop. I didn't get the spinner pointy enough, so I think that I will try to sand down the original propeller to match the new one. It seems to be the easiest route. |
| First coat of paint is on. Time to mask for the next colour. |
| One hour of masking and I'm just halfway. |
| I don't know if it meditative or just boring. And this is just the first plane. |
| Second coat of paint is on. At least on one of the planes. |
| The second one I dropped while painting. It made a flat drop landing on the belly. Floats and tail wheel broke off, but it could have been worse. The blue is more on the green side than the picture show. |
| Masking tape removed, and I'm revealed to find only minor things to repair. No large disasters. |
| Decals in place. These planes were used by Swedish newspapers. Dagens Nyheter, a morning paper and Expressen an evening paper used the blue and silver one while Stockholmstidningen (morning paper) and Aftonbladet (evening paper) had a red and white one. |
| The decals were a little hard and didn't go down in the recesses even with the aid of Microsol. |
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The text VIKING wasn't included on the sheet, so I masked and painted it. Almost done. |
| Looking at pictures of the real plane made me wonder about the yellow letter on the top. I had only black and white pictures, but I could see no difference in shade between the silver fuselage and the letters, so I decided to change them. |
| I need to do something about the landing gear on this one as one side seem to be longer than the other. |
| I had the same issue with the letters on this one, so I changed them to white instead. |
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I managed to break the landing gear on this one, so I had to rebuild it so this one stands straight. It only took three years to build these simple kits. 
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| Stockholm September 26, 2017 |  |
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