E.E.Canberra B(I)8; Airfix 1:48 (A10102)

[Johni044]

Airfix 1:48 English Electric Canberra B(I)8 (A10102)
No. 16 Squadron, Laarbruch, Royal Air Force Germany 1972.
2015#3



After a protracted gestation period (started in 2009) finally managed to get the Canberra finished. Found her to be a pretty straight forward build with the following exceptions:

Weird panel engraving on the rudder filled and sanded.

Despite putting ballast in the front everywhere I could she ended up a tail sitter so reverted to the stand supplied with the kit.

The decal sheet provided looked good until I started to use it, they turned out to be both brittle with poor colour saturation in particular the yellow stencils. However with another 6 of these wee Canberras to build I’ve invested in the Model Alliance set MAS-489018 Canberra Stencil Set for future builds to be supplemented with frame specific markings in due course.

[Paul]

Nice work john, she's looks great

[Aliktren]

Lovely build, the cockpit is off centre, where they all like that ? -

[shortCummins]

alright you've got me intrigued, why six more?
great build by the way

rgds
John(shortCummins)

[chief5437]

Looks great! Another six on the way?! I hope you've got a big shelf, lol!

[UKguyInUSA]

Great job mate, and 6 more on the way! You love your Canberra's obviously! Good luck with the newer decals on the next builds!

Cheers

Martin

[Johni044]

Cheers guys, yep got another 6 1:48 Canberra's 1x B(I)8; 2xPR9; 2xB57 and a B2. In answer to the other question, yes on this version (and the PR9's which were derived from the B(I)8's have the cockpit offset to port.