Today
I want to to show you my
Chipmunk. Itīs an old Airfix Kit. The first flight of this aircraft
was in the year 1946. In 1948 the Royal Air Force started to use it for
pilot training. About 1300 planes were built. Many of them are still
flying with civilian markings today.
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Airfix made this
1:72 Kit in (I think) the seventies. Itīs a pretty small kit with about
21 parts. The cockpit interior is very simple. Just two pilots are
filling this "black hole". I did not use them because they are
not looking very realistic. So I decided to spray it black all over to
reduce the view. For painting this model, I used
colours from model master and xtracrylics. Because of the age of the kit,
I couldnīt use the original decals any more. Gladly I found an modeldecal
print with markings for a chipmunk. The decals were easy to use with set
& sol. More Pictures can be seen on our Club Homepage www.ffmc.de
Johannes
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