Revell's 1/72 Avro Shackleton AEW (Full Build)
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- Hi everyone thanks for looking, just a quick query about this particular Grey Lady. I read in a book, don't laugh, that WL795 was called Rosalie and not Zebedee as in the Revell kit. Zebedee was said to be WL967 and grounded in 1974 and converted to a ground trainer known as Dodo?
Baring the confusing info above, I think WL795 was converted back from an AEW.2 to an MR2 and placed outside RAF St Mawgan. Last I read was the MOD, some time ago in 2015, had it up for sale?
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So I tried to leave more than one thumbs up for the video however it wouldn’t let me 😁
Beautiful model and a great build.
One of my favorites to rewatch.
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Awesome, thank you😎
When I was about sixteen (1966), my older sister asked me what I wanted for a Christmas present. I said I wanted the Shackleton model made by 'Frog'. When she got to the shop, she told the salesman she wanted a model for her brother. When he asked which one, she forgot the 'Shackleton' bit and just asked for a 'Frog'.
Miraculously. the correct information got through in the end.
Pretty good kit in its day.
Holy cow! I remember Frog kits! That's a blast from the past.
Built a Frog Shackleton. Loved the idea of a Four Engine piston bomber/patrol aircraft operating until the early 90's.
As a teenager we used to go on holiday near RAF St. Mawgan in Cornwall, where Shackletons were based until the Nimrods came along - fantastic planes that made an even better noise! Fantastic model, love it.
Stunning. The attention to detail is amazing and I like the fact that you narrate your builds. Lots of other modellers put a music soundtrack on them which makes it a bit impersonal.
YES! with this words it is 1000 times better, sorry for my poor english with i try to explain! Best sounding english for my ears and so well to understand and learn from =))
Mick Jagger said: it is the singer Not the song =))
That's one of the loveliest model aircraft I've ever seen. She's a beauty!
I love hard work. I can watch it for hours. Lovely result.
Great build Greg. Love the reserved weathering you went with and the colours. Your videos move along nicely…
The “Bomb bay doors” sounds like a great Indian restaurant. Going to order a Jalfrezi tonight …..
I hope you kept it in the end. It looked great. I'm learning a lot from watching your channel, cheers 🍻
That is a lovely looking aeroplane 👍
Wow! Beautiful Shak, Greg.
I hate you , nothing personal , but you show me the amateur nature of my efforts ! Brilliant way to spend 33 minutes , and the end effect is wonderful.
Thanks mate 👍
Lovely stuff. It’s a beautiful build. I really like the subtle weathering which really concentrates you on the flawless finish. It all comes together into something stunning 👍
It's absolutely smashing Greg. I was on 8 Sqn in 1976, my first posting as an LAC Rigger. On Doomwatch, we had 12 of these wing tip to wingtip on the line at Lossie. Lovely Job and a great video.
Thanks Ed
Klasse! Super realistisch und perfekt ausgearbeitet.👍
My compliments Sir, the attention to detail here is fantastic. Thank you for sharing !
Always a pleasure to watch you work, and listen to your sardonic comments 😃 My Dad was stationed in Aden in the mid 60s where many Shackletons were stationed dealing with the rebels, so very nice to see this beast come together. 👍
YES love the coments too! Greg let me feel as sitting next and glue together together =))
Amazing results as always. Great job 👏🏻
Beautiful, as usual. The complex shapes of this bird are unmatched. What a beast
great job! You make it look so easy building kits!
Really great build Greg. You gotta love the Shack and I think Revell have done a decent job. Thank you for sharing your build. 👍
Lovely looking Shackleton Gregg.
Really enjoy your style of presentation and sense of humour !
YES =)
Thougt why i stuck so to his videos? Know nothing about pkanes... YES you got it! Even something went wrong he keeps calm and this spechial humor give the salt to the soup like his weathering to the plane? =)
@@erikarolf2504 He definitely a different approach from other modelling channels and I look forward to them.
I like the channel Gary’s Stuff too. He does it nearly full time but I’m guessing Gary is retired now and can do that 😊
All the best to you Sir.
Ian
I know that I wrote many comments last days below Your videos, but I must make another one. I must learn most of Your techniques, which appears great. Your models are one of the best I've ever seen on TH-cam. All the best for You! ;)
If I can encourage or get people in model making with some of these videos. I've done my job. And you can comment as many times as you like, good or bad, it all counts, thanks 👍
Stunning build mate. Thank you.
Great build and I really liked your weathering technique. Really well done and explained.
Cheers 👍
Very interesting subject 👍.
Your build turned out great 🏆.
Beautiful work . . .
Very nice job and well presented. You make it look so easy ..I have been after doing this kit for some time . after seeing your build .I may just follow your lead ...thanks for sharing ...
One of my favorite airplanes, masterfully done!
Lovely job. Like the way you finished off parts before assembling the whole thing.
Another great build , very impressive 😍👏👍
That's a beautiful build and the paint is a joy!
Thank you
Tremendous work again.. your attention to detail and execution of techniques is second to none. Thankyou for sharing your talents. Take care
Nice work Greg, looks great.
Just found your channel and binged watch all your videos! Love your style of modelling and the way you present them to us veiwers. Youve inspired me to get back to the hobby, thank you!
Cheers Stuart 👍
Wow!! I wish I could do even half of what you did on my models.
The camera angle in the opening. Looks like your trying to escape a spider on the floor.
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Hi Greg another great build I've got this in my stash & looks the part great colours and nice light weathering makes the finish spot on many thank for sharing stay safe jon
Thanks Jon
Caught your comment on the masking fluid. Try putting a small piece of tape underneath. Makes removing it much easier. Nice build Greg, catch you on the next one.
Excellent build. Thank you.
Wow, Greg... I really like this one. The wash you used looks like it worked really well. The color scheme is great, and the markings add just the right amount of color.
Well done, and great video!
Thank you! Cheers!
In the 70s, I shared a flat with a guy who did Quality Control for Revell in Potters Bar: paid to make model kits all day!
He used to bring home the plastic 'overflow' (whatever) from the machines, multicoloured irregular plastic sculptures , very arty.
Jon Price, are you out there?!
That is a real beauty Greg thank you very much for dragging it out the stash why we don't have one in flying condition is beyond me . A real treat thanks again . Regards Gav.
Yes it's all about money like most things in life. Isn't there a couple of ground running Shackletons, one in Gatwick and Coventry? Bruntingthorpe used to be a great day out, but I think that's gone by the way now 😥
Stunning build 👏👍
Great Build thanks for posting !
A great job, looks superb 👌
Looking very chilled in the opening shot there Greg. 😂
Great build and technique with the wingtip lights.
Awesome as usual mate. I’ve got this one and the Revell MR 3 in the stash.. if mines turn out even half as good as this I’ll be over the moon! 😂
Not weathering too much, nore adding artificial contrast, is a good and honest thing.
Beautifull kit once displayed.
Didactic and calm video as usual.
Good job Greg!
Thank you 👍
Brilliant job, I like that 👌
Stirling work, eight props and twenty thousand rivets in close formation. 👍
Another great build!
Nice build m8..I'm just old enough to see one of these fly in Scotland.
A Well done job . Looks great . Saw one of these in real life it was a mighty plane.
Very nice build. 👍🏼
Great build Greg 😎👍
Thank you my friend 👍
Very impressive result Greg. A bit of double sided tape on the modeling mat is great for preventing the loss of very small parts, such as the navigation lights, prior to assembly.
Good idea👍
Stunning as usual 👍👍👍👍
A very great job.... Compliments! 🤩
Thank you! 😃
Looks like a Shakleton to me too Greg. Very nice.
Your Shack turned out beautifully.
Hi Greg, that was a absolutely outstanding build, it's a pity there were some fit or part issues, I think these days of kit manufacturing this should not be the case, keep safe and well mate, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia
Thank you Les
Outstanding work Sir! I wish someone made this in 1/48...
You and me both!
I think you have really got this model right and a good video and build. I remember seeing Shackleton's at air displays many years ago and being told they were named after Magic Roundabout characters. I think one I saw was called Mr Rusty - not a good name for an aircraft - more like Mr Corroded. The last two I saw were about 20 years ago at the museum at the end of the runway at Gatwick, one was capable of ground running.
Even though we can't see these fantastic planes in the air anymore, it's great to see them kept in ground running condition. For now anyway.
Great work no doubt 🍻 Cheers from North Carolina
Cheers Bryan
Wonderful build. Thank you so much for sharing. Loved how all the surface detail came to life with the panel wash. Superb. I like to build old Frog and Airfix kits, and I find that Tamiya Extra Thin sometimes fogs the clear parts. Does anyone else experience this or have any advice? Once again thank for the superb work you show us here.
Canopies dipped in Johnsons Pledge/Klear helps prevent fogging with superglue sometimes. But I've personally never had trouble with Tamiya Extra thin 👍
Great Art Work! No Pilots? With clear head ;-)
A great build the clear 262!
THANK YOU
Amazing work man, wish I could make my models look like this! Subbed.
Thank you
'de-bagged' meant something very different in my day, and nobody complimented me on my surface detail
Brilliant, as usual. 👍
Great build, saw one of these beasts fly over my house when I was a wee boy, in my youthful ignorance thought it was a B24, It was only years later I found out the truth!
As we used to say in the RAF re the Shackleton; 20,000 rivets flying in loose formation ….😂
Very nice looks superb
Nice one Greg, I've got this kit and really looking forward to building it, a few years ago I got a commission job to build one of these planes but these kits were not available so I had to convert an old Frog MK3 into an AEW2 Oh boy what job that was! (Side note, The plane is in the manchester science museum and the model with the pilot)
Blimey, I had the old Frog kit and for its age, late '60s, wasn't a bad kit. To convert that into an AEW is some task 👍
@@GregsModels Hi Greg, I have a link for you if want to see some photos of my model . HMP. (hand made products) Models ( Uncle Anton Fester)
@@unclefester9857 Amazing work, you'd never guess that's the old Frog kit 👍
Couldn't agree more, there is nothing worse than glue on your shiny bits 😊
Great build. Pity there was no bomb bay content with the kit. Revell kits always seem to be seen as a lower level than competitors but this looks like a very good kit. 👍
Would be interesting to build the Airfix Shackleton for comparison.
TY for the post. I subscribed.
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Finally got this kit a few months back nice details but more flash than Gordon!!!! On the plus side I did get two sets of glazing
Splendida realizzazione!
Saw a Shackleton flying at Duxford and a wreck one at Nicosia Airport
I had this very patch,8 screws to 4 blow job's from 8sqdn when they were stationed at Lossiemouth back in 84.
I have some of the original stickers, very yellow now, that said something slightly different then. They were produced in 1979.
Love it! 🥰😍😎
Another stunner.
Thanks Andy
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice!
I debated for a while if I wanted this kit or the one from Airfix...
Finally I went for the MR2. Airfix, that is...
The radar dome gives this one a lot of character, though.
And it's looking good despite the accuracy rumors. :-)
Not so sure about the question in the thumbnail... You have to show us the other one too! ;-)
It's all very debatable 😁
Bravo , très belle maquette ...
Merci 👍
Fantastic
Excellent.......!
There was a Shackleton at Long Marston airfield.
I built the airfix kit and wish I'd masked the prop tips. I used the décals but got severe case of can't be arsed itis and didn't bother doing them all. It's hanging up and looks great other than my son always points them out. Might have to do something about it one day... He's now building a Revell Top Gun F14 which is kit-shithousery on the Tamiya Sea Harrier level. They've got a bloody cheek charging £30odd quid for it...
Yes there are some very dodgy expensive kits out there, been stung myself a few times, I never learn.
Nice !
One of my all time favorite planes!
Awesome build and a wonderful result. Did the kit contains any of the weapons carried by this aircraft?
None that I can remember.
great build Greg.
I noticed the bomb bay is very similar to that of the Lancaster?
A family trait maybe?
It looks like a Shackleton to me and yes its another great model Greg, I used to like watching them fly when I was in the ATC back in the early 80's, it was a great aircraft and another of the RAF workhorses.
Like you with this model I'm getting a little frustrated trying to convert a Revell 1.48 USAF B24D into an RAF Coastal Command Liberator Mk 3a.
What would you recommend to do with the raised panel lines in the model?
I'm building it as a tribute to my great uncle who was 224sqn's Bombing Leader during WW2. Serving as an Observer with RAF Coastal Command and he lost his life in a flying accident on 30.10.1942. When their a/c hit a barrage balloon whilst attempting an emergency landing near Plymouth.
That sounds like a nightmare, I've only ever had to rescribe a few kits, then add the rivet detail afterwards, using Rosie the Riveter tools. The first thing I'd do is sand the surface detail off. The raised lines usually leave a light mark on the plastic surface, usually, to help guide. If that doesn't work I'd pen the panel lines in using the raised ones as a guide. Once the rescribing has been complete all the pen work must be sanded off; otherwise it will show through the final paint job. Then use Dymo adhesive tape, which comes in blue or black, as a hard edge for the scribing tool. I use Tamiya's Plastic Scriber II, but that's just a personal choice. Hope this helps.
Thanks Greg, I've been trying to build this for ages. Im using enamel paints that I have here, do you know if Tamiya enamel thinners will work with Humbrol enamel paint? I havent been able to find any Humbrol thinners here during the current NZ lockdown?
@@pjb5757 I don't know. Flory models did a vid on mixing various paints with thinners some time ago. If not try some paint and the thinners in a small pot and see what reaction you get, remembering that different ratios will sometimes get different reactions.
Another great build 😎, what grit sanding sponge do you use to prep for decals please?
It's a very very well worn foamed backed 600 grit. But please experiment with this technique as its so easy to burn through the paint.
@@GregsModels thank you
Nice work Greg ! she's beautiful .I remember building one of these , I think it was Revell , and it was covered in huge rivets ( you could have used it for a sanding stick .), so was a mess to paint and even worse to decal . Is this a new mold ??
Yes, new Revell moulds.
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Hi Greg, great model build. I have recently purchased the Airfix version. I haven’t built a model with such detail such as panel wash and oil staining, so this will be a first for me but it’s a project I’m planning on using to escape to my garage with and escape the kids. I just wondered if there was a reason for not adding a final varnish sealant? Would this interfere with the oil wash and panel grease effect that you built up or was it just personal choice in the end? Much appreciated. Jim.
I can't remember now, but usually, I seal the decals and paint in first with either satin or gloss varnish. Then the weathering is added on top; this isn't sealed in. Hope this helps.