This is my Airfix Skyvan in the markings of the Sultan of Oman's Air Force (SoAF) from the early 70s.
For some unknown reason I really like to build these old molded models, maybe because I have to struggle a bit with them along the way, and also because there is so much room for improvement as well.
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First I did a lot of scratch building
in the cockpit and cargo space, but not a lot is visible on the finished model. After the model was put together, I went on to the painting, decaling and weathering, and that was the biggest challenge of this build. I wanted the bird to look sun bleached and dusty, the way I have seen on pictures of the real thing.
I brush painted the bird with Xtracrylics, mixed with retarder, flow improver and future. After that went on the
really old decals, that almost fell apart and had yellowed a great deal over the years. I weathered the whole thing with coats of future mixed with tiny amounts of sand color and after that I went to work with lots pastels.
The last steps was fitting of the
antennas made from plastic card and stretched sprue, the making of a rough air strip for display stand and a quick build 1/76 Land Rover.
All in all a far from perfect, but very enjoyable build, and that's what it's all about to me.
Happy modeling.
Drakendk
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