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Friday, 7 March 2025

Fifty years in the making!

Back when we were young I somehow talked my sister in to sharing in my hobby of making model aircraft and she made around a dozen. Some years later when we each left home most of her kits ended up in my spares box. One of the models was a RA5C Vigilante but it was partially painted and unfinished. I also had one of these which got damaged and at one point I started to rebuild it knicking a few bits from my sister's kit but I painted it badly, broke it again and chucked all the bits in a box where they sat for many years. Recently I dug it out to see if it could be resurrected. Basically my kit was pretty awful but my sister's was kind of OK so I rebuilt that and sacrificed mine where bits were missing. Not perfect, especially the transparencies but not too bad. So, around 50 years down the line my sister's Vigilante is complete at last!

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