Klu F-27 Troopship
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17 March 2019, 11:14
Klaas van der WielenNot only do you need a kitbash to build a Troopship, but there are some basic flaws in the Airfix kit, also for a Friendship. Still this kit is the best you can get in this scale. Luckily I like bashing!
18 March 2019, 19:23
Łukasz GlińskiFollowing while waiting for re-release of the ex-ESCI kit. Is ESCI tooling really worse than Airfix?
18 March 2019, 19:58
Klaas van der WielenLukasz: According to IPMS Netherlands the ESCI kit is a disaster. You recognize an F-27, but dimensions and shapes are tragically wrong. You'd be better of with an Airfix one.
19 March 2019, 15:03
Łukasz Gliński96th is very rare indeed. Of course I don't trust the auto-translators that much too and I meant English from the start 🙂
19 March 2019, 19:15
Łukasz GlińskiWhere, if I may ask? I have to check whether they ship to Poland anyway 🙂
I was hoping Italeri would correct the ESCI boxing, but I expect too much probably 🙁
19 March 2019, 19:36
Gordon SørensenGreat start, Klaas! My F-27 is progressing slowly. I like how you did the exhaust. I just hollowed the kit piece and painted black where it mounted on the nacelle.
19 March 2019, 19:40
Klaas van der WielenLukasz: I got mine from Kingkit.co.uk and another one from a Facebook group.
20 March 2019, 10:43
Klaas van der WielenThnx Gordon. I always want too many detail corrections and this kit needs a lot!! My progress is very slowly as well. Good luck with yours.
20 March 2019, 10:45
Erik LeijdensVery nice Klaas. Does the Troopship has a cargo door on the left side?
20 March 2019, 21:27
Klaas van der WielenA very large one. In it is a passengerdoor. The doors in the fuselage of the kit are at the wrong place and of the wrong size, so I sanded them smooth, as I did with the whole kit, because of the raised detailing.
So I'll have to engrave what I want engraved, like the doors. And put a rim above them, against the rain.
21 March 2019, 10:57
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I'm using the 1/72 Airfix Fokker Friendship as a basis for my F-27 300M Troopship.
It will be represented as the C-10, as it resides now at the Nationaal Militair Museum (Dutch Military Museum) at Soesterberg.
