Avro 504

Well that was good fun! 

It came as a surprise to me that AV Roe’s Avro 504 was the most numerous aircraft flown by the RFC during WWI, a fact I learned after recently being gifted  book on the history of Avro by a good cycling friend of mine. As it then goes, I just had to build one of these famed aircraft and this opportunity only arose when a good scale modelling pal of mine gifted me a 1973 Airfix kit of the same!

I had to go for some new decals from Hannants and although overpriced, PRINT SCALE LTD - scale model store UK were the only offering available. What a mistake.. they were truly awful, no historical reference to the options, totally the wrong scale and fractured on application. A note to never buy this make again. 

I also had a go at rigging. Having previously dismissed AMMO of MIG Jimenez NL’s useless product, I’ve since just used stretched sprue but not that long ago acquired a reel of AK-Interactive rigging which turned out to be sublime. No snagging and it pulls off the reel time after time, no problem. It was only my own lack of time that prevented me from doing a complete job, but feel the little I’ve added gives an impression of there being rigging there 😆

So, this is finished as an unknown WWI Avro 504K in honour of all those RFC flyers of the time and of AV Roe’s amazing aircraft.